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You're Google. In a tech environment where Uber is literally falling about because of anti-diversity issues, you have employees and the public beating down your
by basseq 9y ago
You're Google. In a tech environment where Uber is literally falling about because of anti-diversity issues, you have employees and the public beating down your doors because one guy wrote a memo.
Let's enumerate your options:
1. Support him and try to foster a dialog. Untenable: everyone's riled up, you can't be seen to support a sexist white male, and "let's talk about it" is naive.
2. Do nothing. Probably the worst option, as it makes you look spineless and wil piss both sides off.
3. Reprimand him. What does that buy you? You still piss off the alt-right, and the left thinks you're "forgiving" it by letting him off with a slap on the wrist.
4. Fire him. Literally all you can do. The left is happy. The right expects it. It optimizes happiness, shows decisive action, appeases the status quo.
There really isn't an option once it got this far.
- nunez 9y agoMeaning that they knew he would sue, they knew he had a case, they know they might lose and they're more than fine with paying him to make the problem go away because a few grand in his pocket is a lot less than a long-term depreession in your monthly average user rate (i.e. potentially less ad engagement)