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Re:Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher by kenjackson on Friday December 04, 2020 @12:38PM (#25305277)
I've seen way worse emails. Doesn't seem like a fireable offense to me. At least I've seen people not fired for worse and never seen anyone fired for something similar (or less).

As someone I saw post on Twitter relate to this... the best way to discriminate is to have rules, but apply them discriminately. So you can always point to the rule, but it really only applies to certain people.

Re:Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher by whimsicalism on Friday December 04, 2020 @01:01PM (#25305580)
> he best way to discriminate is to have rules, but apply them discriminately. So you can always point to the rule, but it really only applies to certain people.

And HN falls for it every single time.

Oh yeah, we totally didn't fire this Googler for the unionization push, it was because he looked at one of his bosses' publicly available calendar.