[SolaceQuantum]

This is covering a full document of 45 google employees' claims of sexually/racially motivated abuse, toxic workplace experiences, and retaliatory behavior upon attempting to report such. Here is the link to the full document: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6427199-Examples-Ret...

[seph-reed]

I was speaking with some friends about this recently, and how it seems a lot like the uncanny valley effect. Relatively, Google has made a lot of effort to not be racist/sexist. They're working towards not being those things (though still evil for other reasons), but somewhere in between the start and finish is this uncanny valley where scandals are super likely to happen.

My friends and I all had different theories on why it's so prone to scandals, but we could agree that:

1. it still wasn't fully equal

2. it was equal to empower people to retaliate against the inequalities

3. there's a good chance some people were patting theme-selves on the back without fully achieving the goal

When we were talking about it, it was in the context of Meow Wolf. But it also seems to scale to a lot of West Coast politics.

[nabnob]

Google has mostly focused on hiring more diverse candidates, and investing in bootcamp type projects. These initiatives help Google by increasing the pool of workers from which they hire, so they can look progressive while saving money.

Now, actually fighting misogyny and racism within the company has the potential to affect their bottom line, because it involves holding people in power accountable. If they have a staff engineer or VP who's accused of sexual assault, firing him or putting him on leave could impact productivity.

[gowld]

Yes. At a normal crappy company, this isn't news. But at a company you hold to a higher standard (for whatever reason - perhaps its PR, perhaps because they are leaders, perhaps because they are rich enough to be challenged to be better), it's news.