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How is the Damore lawsuit embarrassing to Google? From my perspective it's really only embarrassing for him.

• nappy-doo 9y ago
  read 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 ago
  He'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 ago
  It'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.