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Has he set Google up for this blowup or do Americans just usually have complaints to federal regulators written and ready to send? Before being fired, Mr. Damo
by blfr 9y ago
Has he set Google up for this blowup or do Americans just usually have complaints to federal regulators written and ready to send?
Before being fired, Mr. Damore said, he had submitted a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board claiming that Google’s upper management was “misrepresenting and shaming me in order to silence my complaints.” He added that it was “illegal to retaliate” against an N.L.R.B. charge.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/business/google-women-engineer-fired-memo.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/business/google-women-eng...
- chippy 9y agoI imagine that there are lawyers who are ready and willing to send something at short notice. Not so much ambulance chasers as SV drama chasers, perhaps!
- biggerfisch 9y agoIt doesn't take long to write a complaint, and if he was sharing these views in a smaller circle for some time, he may well already have dealt with "upper management" in some fashion that he deemed worthy of a complaint
- umanwizard 9y agoI'm sure a competent lawyer who deals with employment law could put one of those together in half an hour -- we don't know for sure that he did it himself.
- 19guid 9y agoI think it's more likely that there's a history here that we're not aware of. His complaint suggests he's been arguing with Google's management for some time, and that this memo was the last straw.
- pktgen 9y agoIt only takes a few minutes to file a NLRB charge. The charge form only requires a brief summary of the allegations (a few sentences, at most) and specifically tells you not to include any evidence (you provide that later, during or after meeting with a Board agent).