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Re:Google Protest Leader Leaves by medecau on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @10:37AM (#20450449)
Maybe read the article?

> Google soon nixed the board.

> Whittaker said her Google manager told her to "abandon [her] work on AI ethics" and blocked a request to transfer internally.

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Re:Google Protest Leader Leaves by cobookman on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @10:44AM (#20450512)
She asked to be moved to RMI. No hiring manager in RMI wanted her on their team, and she didn't complete the ladder transfer process.

Instead demanding a forced transfer.

Could be wrong here, but that's how it was presented internally by Meredith herself.

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Re:Google Protest Leader Leaves by cobookman on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @05:46PM (#20454199)
Sry. Source was from a blind thread. Not an internal thread. Mixed the two up

https://us.teamblind.com/s/5YFH3CqL

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Re:Google Protest Leader Leaves by dmix on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @10:44AM (#20450516)
I’m surprised Google’e executives would direct their managers to prevent what their employees are doing politically in their spare time...
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Re:Google Protest Leader Leaves by bougalou on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @07:29PM (#20454896)
They weren't. Meredith was employed full time at Google and using all of that time to work on AI Now. It was her work time.
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