That’s not a resignation the way California understands it. If she said “I am resigning NOW unless you do X” that WOULD count as a resignation. Let’s think of

That’s not a resignation the way California understands it. If she said “I am resigning NOW unless you do X” that WOULD count as a resignation. Let’s think of a hypothetical. A student says “I’m going to quit eventually in order to attend classes” and the manager says “I accept your resignation, you are fired”. This generally seems more like a firing because somebody was going to resign, more than it seems like a resignation no? In the Gebru case, Gebru didn’t express WHEN she was going to resign, and that’s google’s issue. Maybe Gebru was, for all Google knew, threatening to quit in a month or a year or in 10 years. Gebru never actually made the time of her proposed resignation clear. As such, the law doesn’t consider to actually have made a legally binding resignation.