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More like, you support the decision, but your immediate boss doesn't, so they start looking for reasons to get rid of you that don't have any official connectio
by dx87 6y ago
More like, you support the decision, but your immediate boss doesn't, so they start looking for reasons to get rid of you that don't have any official connection to your stance. I remember a while back seeing leaked documents from Google where some managers shared an unofficial blacklist of employees to never promote and try to get rid of because of their political views.
- tehwebguy 6y agoEvery non-union employee in every state other than Montana has this potential problem. The difference is in smaller companies the unspoken rules are often spoken out loud and the employees don’t make Google money.
- dschuler 6y agoHow does Montana deal with that problem differently?
- chinesempire 6y agoIs that true? Why do people call it "the land of the free" then?
- eat_veggies 6y agoWhy are we conjuring hypothetical situations in which you are oppressed, instead of condemning the concrete case where Jeff Dean looked for flimsy reasons to get rid of Timnit Gebru?
- dontblink 6y agoCA is an at will state. He can fire her for no reason if he wishes, let alone a "flimsy" one.
- vacheron 6y agoHow is this a flimsy reason? Trying to paint this decision as an example of oppression is either ignorant or dishonest. Her actions would have gotten almost anyone fired from any company. If the accounts from ex/current-Googlers are true about her being difficult to work with and creating an uncomfortable work environment I would have expected Timnit to have been terminated long ago.