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Re:Google employees are free to speak up, except on antitrust by shadowgovt on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @10:13PM (#24784098)
Damore's main mistake was doubling and then tripling down. Had he clarified that he did not understand that his memo could create a hostile work environment, there might have been some leeway for the company to retain him.

He made it quite plain that he thought he'd done nothing wrong. At that point, Google is either retaining one employee or facing a class action lawsuit risk. And he wasn't nearly 10x enough to justify retaining him. ;)

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Re:Google employees are free to speak up, except on antitrust by jmpman on Thursday October 15, 2020 @11:36AM (#24789698)
If Damore has published his memo externally to Google, and didn’t identify his employer, should he have been punished?
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Re:Google employees are free to speak up, except on antitrust by shadowgovt on Thursday October 15, 2020 @11:53AM (#24789935)
Should he is a moral question that I'm not interested in arguing on HN, but I doubt he practically would have been. Especially if he'd done so anonymously, obviously.

He also probably could have avoided being fired if he apologized and clarified that he did not realize that his musings on the subject could create a hostile work environment. He instead chose to double down that he'd done nothing wrong.

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