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Re:We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google by remote_phone on Saturday December 05, 2020 @10:34AM (#25315270)
She was not fired. She offered to resign if her demands were not met.

The only difference is that the timeline was not of her choosing. She knew exactly what she was gambling for when she wrote those words. Why would Google want someone around who doesn’t want to work at Google? Better to accept their resignation and let them go immediately. It happens all the time. I once gave 2 weeks notice and my boss said I might as well leave immediately since there was no point in hanging around (I was consulting and on the bench). It happens.

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Re:We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google by vfclists on Monday December 07, 2020 @12:24AM (#25329549)
If they decided the date of the "resignation" without informing her then they fired her. That is pretty obvious.

And it wasn't because of her demands concerning the paper, it was on account of the way they interpreted of an email she sent to her colleagues.

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