Re:Sundar Pichai Should Resign as Google’s C.E.O
by Tasboo on Friday August 11, 2017 @12:03PM
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Damore can claim he was protecting the company, but if the effect of what he said in his memo is causing the opposite of that, then it can be a fire-able offense, regardless of what he said he was trying to do.
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Re:Sundar Pichai Should Resign as Google’s C.E.O
by Amezarak on Friday August 11, 2017 @12:06PM
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It's not about whether Damore was trying to protect the company, it's about whether Damore was communicating with his coworkers about ways to improve working conditions. It is illegal to fire someone for doing so. Damore presents several ideas about improving working conditions, claiming this would also increase diversity. If I was paranoid I'd say he wrote the memo with the possibility of being illegally fired in mind, because it appears to have been written carefully with that angle in mind.