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Re:Google VP told employees to stop using the word “family” ... by writepub on Saturday January 19, 2019 @03:30AM (#18945982)
Disagreeing with something doesn't entitle employees to storm out of meetings, unless there was intentional malice. While family doesn't necessitate children to be a part of it, neither is the implication that a "high probability exists that families have children", offensive enough to storm out, act out, throw a fit, etc.

At what point will Google realize that every tantrum doesn't deserve a corporate change, some just necessitate the employees to "grow-up" enough to live in a world that's not a 100% ideal.

FYI googling "family definition" returns "a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household". How genuine can this outage really be?

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Re:Google VP told employees to stop using the word “family” ... by lern_too_spel on Saturday January 19, 2019 @03:40AM (#18946011)
The article made it sound like the complaint was about the use of "family friendly" at a company-wide meeting. I don't know how it would even be possible to storm out of such a meeting, when any meeting with more than 100 people will have people coming and going completely unnoticed. It sounds like sensational journalism from The Daily Caller.
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