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Re:James Damore and three others end Google suit by cassalian on Saturday May 09, 2020 @08:45AM (#23124270)
> Damore committed the ultimate sin in the corporate world- he caused a huge PR mess.

I agree with you; however Damore is only partly to blame... IMO the leaker of the memo is just as responsible for the PR mess as Damore is for writing the memo in the first place (no leak = no PR mess) (no memo = no PR mess) (memo + no leak = no PR mess).

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Re:James Damore and three others end Google suit by CydeWeys on Saturday May 09, 2020 @09:23AM (#23124497)
It was already a huge mess internally even before it got leaked. Internal relations matter a lot too.

I think he would have gotten fired even without the leak.

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Re:James Damore and three others end Google suit by username90 on Saturday May 09, 2020 @12:39PM (#23126166)
> I think he would have gotten fired even without the leak.

I don't think so, it had to go all the way up to Sundar before he got fired, Sundar wouldn't have taken a break from his vacation if it wasn't a PR mess. Internal messes happens all the time at Google and they almost never end with someone getting fired.

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Re:James Damore and three others end Google suit by CydeWeys on Saturday May 09, 2020 @02:25PM (#23127174)
People get fired over internal issues all the time, you just don't hear about it because they don't make the news. The people involved make the rational decision to not go public, because if they did, it could easily cause them to never be able to work in the industry again. No one wants to hire a malcontent.
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Re:James Damore and three others end Google suit by bastardoperator on Saturday May 09, 2020 @11:06AM (#23125256)
"Say It Forget It, Write It Regret It". He's the root cause of all of his his pain and the pr issue. All the leaker did was speed up an inevitable process.
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