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Google cancels all-hands meeting due to employee worries of online harassment
- azurezyq 9y agoI just want to fk recode 100 times for circulating real engineer names.
- WatchDog 9y agoShame about the doxing(on either side of the discussion) but I'm not sure why it precipitates cancelling the meeting
- creyslz 9y agoProbably to keep employees who ask live questions from being harassed.
- Sacho 9y agoWere they...unaware this could happen? Was James Damore not harassed over his internal memo?
- mentat 9y agoAngry mobs are something that cannot be controlled. There's been a lot of talk about emboldening but it seems many believe that it's ok to normalize mobs since it will be their mob that wins. That... is not guaranteed.
- throwaway12124 9y agoIt does seem like a pretext. My guess is that the execs realized that they have a bigger sh*tstorm--both internally and externally--than they realized on their hands, and want some more time to think and to let things die down. Probably smart, actually.
- jshevek 9y agoYes, it is a pretext. And one in which the SJWs at Google paint other people as "the ones preventing them from being able to speak". Meanwhile, Google leadership & SJWs are the ones creating an environment hostile to other's opinions - as evidenced by the smear campaign and the firing.
- pottersbasilisk 9y agoIts a nice excuse. 50% of googlers disagree with the firing of damore. This will be a shitstorm for google internally and out.
- dionian 9y agoyeah funny how the ceo's response was like "most of you agreed and the rest said we didnt go far enough" or something to that effect. suuure.... completely delusional and/or disingenuous.
- mwnivek 9y agoEarlier post of same article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14985001 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14985001
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- peakai 9y agoIt seems llike the proper response to this controversy would be to use some of their cash to fund a internal group to research and replicate some of the studies mentioned in the original google memo, to refute and possibly further the understanding for some kind of practical knowledge gain, instead of A) firing the employee bringing up some concerns and b) holding meetings about why the issue needed to be a point of contention (doubling down) in the organization
- nilkn 9y agoI don't think Google is capable of doing meaningful research on this, because I don't get the sense that they'd accept any results that don't refute the memo. Google would have a vested interest in the research having a pre-decided outcome.
- notruthallowed 9y agoTo refute the studies? Quite a presumption - just because your moral compass tells you the world must be one way doesn't mean it is. Men and women are different, what a shocker!
- Hasknewbie 9y agoI can't help but notice the deep irony that this doxxing is happening at Google, home of Eric "privacy is a privilege, not a right" Schmidt. Remember that guy, Eric "If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place" Schmidt? This really sucks for the employees currently involved in this story, but at the corporate level, Google made their bed on that particular point. So remember people: "privacy is dead" and "anonymity is too dangerous" according to Google, except when it suits them that it shouldn't be.
- notruthallowed 9y agoWhy does google reject science?