Definitely! The terms of her resignation are unclear.

If you give an employer an ultimatum and they don't want to give in to your demands then is that giving notice or quitting on the spot or something else? Should her managers/google legal have waited for her to tell them when exactly she was going to leave?

> Should her managers/google legal have waited for her to tell them when exactly she was going to leave?

Yes, if they wanted her to resign they should have waited for her to resign rather than fire her. If they fired her, seems odd to call it a resignation.

> Timnit wrote that if we didn’t meet these demands, she would leave Google and work on an end date. We accept and respect her decision to resign from Google.

As an employee, I agree, it is twisted to call it a resignation.

As an employer, of course that's exactly what they'd do with any employee who says "I quit, I'll tell you exactly when" and then proceeds to blast out a disruptive email.

This seems to fit neatly under "play stupid games, win stupid prizes".