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> Timnit wrote that if we didn’t meet these demands, she would leave Google and work on an end date. We accept and respect her decision to resign from Google.

> Timnit wrote that if we didn’t meet these demands, she would leave Google and work on an end date. We accept and respect her decision to resign from Google. This means the date of her leaving was not set in stone, ie both parties would agree to the date or a date when she would leave. She had a vacation coming up and they would discuss it when she returned from vacation. >According to Ms Gebru, Google replied: "We respect your decision to leave Google... and we are accepting your resignation. >"However, we believe the end of your employment should happen faster than your email reflects because certain aspects of the email you sent last night to non-management employees in the brain group reflect behaviour that is inconsistent with the expectations of a Google manager." She was fired, not on account of the content of her paper, but the way she expressed her feelings to her colleagues, which wasn't an exhortation for them lay down their tools, but because laying down their tools made no different as their work was ignored.

remote_phone 6y ago
She was not fired. She offered to resign if her demands were not met. The only difference is that the timeline was not of her choosing. She knew exactly what she was gambling for when she wrote those words. Why would Google want someone around who doesn’t want to work at Google? Better to accept their resignation and let them go immediately. It happens all the time. I once gave 2 weeks notice and my boss said I might as well leave immediately since there was no point in hanging around (I was consulting and on the bench). It happens.
- vfclists 6y ago
  If they decided the date of the "resignation" without informing her then they fired her. That is pretty obvious. And it wasn't because of her demands concerning the paper, it was on account of the way they interpreted of an email she sent to her colleagues.

remote_phone 6y ago

She was not fired. She offered to resign if her demands were not met. The only difference is that the timeline was not of her choosing. She knew exactly what she was gambling for when she wrote those words. Why would Google want someone around who doesn’t want to work at Google? Better to accept their resignation and let them go immediately. It happens all the time. I once gave 2 weeks notice and my boss said I might as well leave immediately since there was no point in hanging around (I was consulting and on the bench). It happens.

vfclists 6y ago
If they decided the date of the "resignation" without informing her then they fired her. That is pretty obvious. And it wasn't because of her demands concerning the paper, it was on account of the way they interpreted of an email she sent to her colleagues.