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Re:Google engineer fired over anti-diversity memo files labo... by coldtea on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @08:51AM (#14968117)
>Wasn't that his plan from the start?

No, his "plan" was to have a discussion.

>He probably played it well

So, not only assuming ulterior motives, but taking them for certain too...

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Re:Google engineer fired over anti-diversity memo files labo... by lazyjones on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @08:56AM (#14968181)
> No, his "plan" was to have a discussion.

Well, he is an excellent Chess player @ 2300 ELO. He might have had a complex plan. Which might just have been to put up the memo while Google was being investigated, not necessarily to benefit from getting fired.

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Re:Google engineer fired over anti-diversity memo files labo... by return0 on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @09:01AM (#14968257)
That could be the case. He certainly is a smart person and would have known that this was bound to be the course of things.
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