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by rsj_hn
1846 days ago
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He was using company resources to respond to a company request for him to provide feedback to a company event. When the company asks you "tell me what you think about the content of our diversity training, we promise your response is confidential and we are interested in hearing what you have to say", and you respond with an evidence based argument that the diversity training is incorrect, then this is a very different situation from the head of diversity making public comments on a blog. Remember Damore was a non-management developer. If you are going to fire people for their views, which is what apparently Google has no problem doing, then the Damore situation is much less justifiable than this situation and the person with the offending views was not even fired. |
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The memo was initially sent to Diversity Training, then after a non-response, Damore himself circulated to a wider internal audience.
According to Google [2], he was fired because portions of his memo were found to be a violation of Google's Code of Conduct, specifically "each Googler to do their utmost to create a workplace culture that is free of harassment, intimidation, bias and unlawful discrimination."
But again, this all misses the point--a 2007 blog post when you were not an employee is much different than sending a memo internally while on the clock.
1: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/16/james-dam...
2: https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/diversity/note-empl...