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> He was fired because many employees refused to work with him. How can you employ someone who can't communicate with his coworkers? No, Google is huge, they c

> He was fired because many employees refused to work with him. How can you employ someone who can't communicate with his coworkers? No, Google is huge, they could have put that guy in another team or whatever. He was fired because someone leaked his memo and the press managed to make it bad PR for google. He was fired for PR reasons nothing more, in an era that was all about "girls in tech" in a patronizing fashion.

colinmhayes 5y ago
Teams have to work with each other. If he needs help from someone who is disgusted by his manifesto google has a problem.
- throw_m239339 5y ago
  > If he needs help from someone who is disgusted by his manifesto google has a problem. This is mostly a cultural issue. Being professional is being able to work with people you fundamentally disagree with from a political perspective. But maybe Google shouldn't be a space where people discuss wedge issues to begin with, or write memos about anything on the matter.
  - colinmhayes 5y ago
    Sure, but the fact still remains. There absolutely are people who would behave this way within google, so google's choices are fire hundreds or maybe thousands of people or fire him. It was an easy choice.
    - username90 5y ago
      People who publicly talked about views far more extreme views than Damore are still working at Google. People can work with each other even if they don't like their views, the only reason Damore was fired was because he was dumb enough to write his thoughts in an easily shareable format rather than just a string of chat messages.
- wonderwonder 5y ago
  seems to be a good reason to remove discussions of politics, race, gender from work and focus exclusively on the product. Most people have at least one closely held belief that would alienate others. If everyone stops working with everyone they disagree with the company dies. Coinbase had the right idea.

colinmhayes 5y ago

Teams have to work with each other. If he needs help from someone who is disgusted by his manifesto google has a problem.

throw_m239339 5y ago
> If he needs help from someone who is disgusted by his manifesto google has a problem. This is mostly a cultural issue. Being professional is being able to work with people you fundamentally disagree with from a political perspective. But maybe Google shouldn't be a space where people discuss wedge issues to begin with, or write memos about anything on the matter.
- colinmhayes 5y ago
  Sure, but the fact still remains. There absolutely are people who would behave this way within google, so google's choices are fire hundreds or maybe thousands of people or fire him. It was an easy choice.
  - username90 5y ago
    People who publicly talked about views far more extreme views than Damore are still working at Google. People can work with each other even if they don't like their views, the only reason Damore was fired was because he was dumb enough to write his thoughts in an easily shareable format rather than just a string of chat messages.
wonderwonder 5y ago
seems to be a good reason to remove discussions of politics, race, gender from work and focus exclusively on the product. Most people have at least one closely held belief that would alienate others. If everyone stops working with everyone they disagree with the company dies. Coinbase had the right idea.