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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by threeseed on Monday January 08, 2018 @02:04PM (#16099073)
No that just isn't how life does or should work.

You make mistakes in an industry and you own the impacts to your reputation. He has done serious harm to the work of so many by his actions and absolutely deserves to own the consequences.

And let's be serious here he has zero chance of winning against Google.

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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by TheRealPomax on Monday January 08, 2018 @02:10PM (#16099160)
You seem unfamiliar with the power of litigation. The case won't be about "him being fired", but about showing there is any pattern for bias in Google with respects to the three stated criteria. And if they can show that bias exists, then still without making this about him, specifically, the court can be asked to apply punitive measures against google (which their client "happens to benefit from, being part of the group that Google has demonstrated bias against").

Initial filing for a court case is crucial for establishing what we're actually sueing over, and this will be an interesting one, because the chances of his legal team winning this one are definitely non-zero.

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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by threeseed on Monday January 08, 2018 @02:15PM (#16099208)
Explain to me where Google asks when you are hired whether you are white, male or conservative. I have worked for a dozen Fortune 500 sized companies now and not once has it ever come up. He wasn't fired for any of those aspects anyway. He was fired because he chose to act in an unprofessional manner.
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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by yazaddaruvala on Monday January 08, 2018 @02:54PM (#16099750)
Regardless of our personal feelings about the matter, the sad fact is, it might be as simple as the lawyers finding female Googlers who have public statements remotely anti-male who were not fired.

I am not a lawyer but that, while trivial, might be enough for a court to rule against Google.

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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by MollyR on Monday January 08, 2018 @03:12PM (#16099940)
That and also There was also google managers talking about having personal blacklists on twitter.

It's why I think this google will settle with Damore for a very high amount, because discovery will not be good for them.

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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by 5ilv3r on Monday January 08, 2018 @03:13PM (#16099965)
Ethnicity and gender are on their job application form.
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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by threeseed on Monday January 08, 2018 @03:23PM (#16100086)
No it isn't. Try applying for a job:

https://www.google.com/about/careers

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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by 5ilv3r on Monday January 08, 2018 @03:30PM (#16100161)
I did, it asked me. Was I being given a "personalized" application perhaps?
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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by rhapsodic on Monday January 08, 2018 @03:04PM (#16099877)
> And let's be serious here he has zero chance of winning against Google.

Don't be so sure of that. Federal law prohibits firing an employee who is trying to improve working conditions. And that's what he is claiming he was doing with his memo.

And there are a number female SJW Google employees who have made really vicious, public, anti-male statements and no one batted an eyelash. So I think his claim of gender-based discrimination is quite supportable.

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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by skmurphy on Monday January 08, 2018 @08:55PM (#16102833)
In a jury trial there are few certainties. The other questions are who else joins the class and what gets discovered.
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