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Re:The Google memo isn’t sexist or anti-diversity, it’s science by weddpros on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @11:10AM (#14969830)
The problem is Google fired this guy for distributing WRONG information. Wrong is the important word here.

If the information is right, it completely changes the case, and the guy was fired for Wrong reasons.

I hope he'll sue and win his job back (yes, I think Google needs this guy more than ever).

Re:The Google memo isn’t sexist or anti-diversity, it’s science by dTal on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @11:37AM (#14970239)
Nah, he was fired for drawing negative attention to Google. Whether he was right or not is irrelevant; if you publicly criticise the company you work for, on a "controversial" topic, getting fired is the expected outcome.
Re:The Google memo isn’t sexist or anti-diversity, it’s science by jazzyk on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @02:02PM (#14971897)
Google has been doing an excellent job drawing (the wrong kind of) attention to themselves, thank you very much.

High-visibility lawsuits have been brewing already:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/08/google-wo...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/07/google-pa...

Re:The Google memo isn’t sexist or anti-diversity, it’s science by weddpros on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @06:13PM (#14974214)
An internal memo isn't really the same as "publicly criticizing the company".
Re:The Google memo isn’t sexist or anti-diversity, it’s science by zz9815 on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @02:17PM (#14972075)
You are assuming above that the guy that wrote the memo leaked it to the press. I suspect that we all write memos for our work places that could get us fired IF WE LEAKED IT to the press. However, I have seen no mention that the memo author was in fact the person that LEAKED IT. When will Google fire that person or persons?
Re:The Google memo isn’t sexist or anti-diversity, it’s science by Chris2048 on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @11:21AM (#14970009)
He should be the new D&I person. At least he has something more substantial to offer than doublespeak.