Re:Reflecting on 18 Years at Google
by lurker919 on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @07:16PM
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Exactly. What a coincidence that the one person (apart from the public CEO) that he points out is a black woman who's been at google for 2.5 years. So has everyone else he'd worked with the other 15 years been perfect? Is she solely responsible for google's organizational malfunction? You can see HN comments analyzing her linkedin and dismissing her professional achievements - definitely feels like this is veering into defamation territory. This rant is juvenile and subconsciously biased.
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Re:Reflecting on 18 Years at Google
by andromeduck on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @07:43PM
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She's their boss.
I'm staying out of all of this, but i'll opine on the legal side - defamation requires statements of fact and not opinions.
To the degree his rant deals with facts - like claiming someone did or did not do a thing, that's at least possibly actionable.
But the opinions are not actionable as defamation.
So for example:
"bob murdered someone" - actionable
"i don't like bob" - not actionable.
Depending on what gets said, etc, it may be actionable as something other than defamation.
Re:Reflecting on 18 Years at Google
by Vt71fcAqt7 on Thursday November 23, 2023 @08:45AM
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So you think he left a (very) well paying job, working on a project that he created and has been building for nine years, one that he is now working on for no pay, just because a black woman became his manager? I dare say you are subconsciously biased, perhaps consciously biased. Subconsciously biased in that you won't even allow yourself to consider the possibilty that a black woman could be a bad manager, so bad that it would cause a prolific engineer like Ian to leave, and consciously biased in that you then actively jump to resolve your subconscious bias' flaw with reality with racism.