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by bonyen 2789 days ago
Time to bust out the popcorn!

James Damore was fired because his memo created a “hostile work environment”, but organizing a walkout with 1500 employees has the support of Pichai, the CEO?

And these same employees want blood from Brin and Schmidt, who are essentially among Pichai’s bosses? Things could get very ugly, very quickly.

The inmates are running the asylum.

1 comments

It seems you got downvoted. But there is heavy sensoring attempt behind these. IDK why, people are not willing to talk?
Many people today seems to not talk anymore, they just fight for whatever agenda they have. My impression is many do it because they fear it will not end well. In the "best" case they just wasted their time on some meaningless talk, in worst case, someone tricks them into abandoning their important agenda, while in the other worst case they must admit they were wrong the whole time.

In my country there was a political movement some years ago which did this for a longer time, bringing those arguments for not talking with the press or other people. Since then I observed similar reactions with other crowds too. I think today, people have become so talkative about anything, that we see now a movement back into the opposite direction. At the end, not talking is simpler, faster. A downvote takes a second, talking it out can go on for minutes, hours, days and days..

Talking is only an option when both sides agree to it. Since that's observably not the case here, talking isn't an option.