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There are so many allegations of wrongdoing that have nothing to do with her main complaint (unpaid wages and mistreatment) that I wonder if this is a tactic to
by Isamu 9y ago
There are so many allegations of wrongdoing that have nothing to do with her main complaint (unpaid wages and mistreatment) that I wonder if this is a tactic to get him to settle quickly, in order to get her to shut up.
- dawhizkid 9y agoYes...it's like the Damore lawsuit...designed for maximal embarrassment with goal of quick settlement.
- cantrip 9y agoHow is the Damore lawsuit embarrassing to Google? From my perspective it's really only embarrassing for him.
- nappy-doo 9y agoread the class action filing. It's incredibly damning to Google. (Full disclosure, I'm a Xoogler, who left a couple of months before Damore. I am good friends with many of the people categorized as hostile in the filing.)
- dawhizkid 9y agoHe's definitely trying to embarrass Google. This is a company that prides itself on how it treats its employees and Damore is trying to embarrass the company by arguing that it doesn't treat certain classes of employees well at all with screenshots/emails/statements. Internally I'm sure execs/legal/HR are wondering whether conversations about the lawsuit internally will create rifts that damage working relationships between employees and the long term effects when it comes to recruiting.
- geofft 9y agoIt's not embarrassing in the sense of showing things that are objectively and rationally bad, but it's embarrassing in the sense of showing things that Google would rather not have public (internal social-media posts by individual employees, with names attached, that almost certainly reflect personal views and not the company's marching orders, and are written with the level of casualness you'd expect from social-media posts in a non-public forum). It seems to me that a good part of the the purpose of including that many screenshots in the lawsuit is to make the relevant individual employees uncomfortable.
- giarc 9y agoI think an issue is that she obviously was listening very closely for a very long time. There are a lot of very detailed conversations with names and specifics that go back awhile. A regular nanny probably wouldn't be listening to phone conversations and committing to memory the names and things said by your employer.
- lafar6502 9y agoOr she knew she might need the information later.
- bgirard 9y agoParticularly committing to memory the license plates of visitors.
- Audible_logic 9y agoIf she was aware of his legal situation and he was the terrible employer she claims, it seems feasible to me.
- giarc 9y agoI'd say it's quite unethical to remain an employee simply to gain leverage for a lawsuit down the road.
- roflc0ptic 9y agoWhat ethical rule do you see that breaking?
- misiti3780 9y agohere is a better question: why the hell did a guy that supposedly made at least 120MM from google alone not pay his nanny's salary?