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Since Google didn't like it they should have fired him.



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That's actually very depressing it's only half...



JUST half!?



Cubedramirez said:
That's actually very depressing it's only half...

 

Mystro-Sama said:
JUST half!?

Google has over 70k employees, only 440 of them participated in this particular survey. It' probably my fault for not paraphrasing the title correctly, I'll work on it.



This is ridiculous, and google should apologize to him as well as rehire him.

Maybe the reason it was just over 50% of the 440 of them there was because some people were scared to speak out? Or maybe the political bias really is that bad...



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Dark_Lord_2008 said:
An employer does not need to state reasons for firing an employee. Business is just business and it is just capitalism. Google is a business and it is a capitalist system. The employees making noise, should remain silent or else they can be fired for being disruptive.

Well, this just isn't true in America. Even in "at-will" state, you still need some merit or cause to avoid litigation.



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This recent strain of anti-intellectualism by these regressives are just baffling to me. The guy's memo was based completely on science.. but no, burn him at the stake for going against the narrative! And even if the memo stated things that are untrue, it absolutely did not warrent his firing. Free speech is hanging be a thread at this point. Regressives are officially the modern day version of the evangelical bible thumping book burners. Our society is going insane.



 

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The funny thing is I listened to an Audible lecture on the Great Courses on human psychology where the lecturer more or less said the same things as the memo lol.



 

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DarthMetalliCube said:

This recent strain of anti-intellectualism by these regressives are just baffling to me. The guy's memo was based completely on science.. but no, burn him at the stake for going against the narrative! And even if the memo stated things that are untrue, it absolutely did not warrent his firing. Free speech is hanging be a thread at this point. Regressives are officially the modern day version of the evangelical bible thumping book burners. Our society is going insane.

As someone quite firlmy on the left side of the politcal spectrum, I can say Google's descision to oust one person over an internal memo that wasn't even that harsh is just ludicrous. And there are many things to be said about Mr. Demore's memo (I don't fully agree, and many of his points are very semi-scientific), but this kind of "progressive geasture" by Google is just a tad too overblown to be sincere.



Dark_Lord_2008 said:
An employer does not need to state reasons for firing an employee. Business is just business and it is just capitalism. Google is a business and it is a capitalist system. The employees making noise, should remain silent or else they can be fired for being disruptive.

For someone who loves capitalism so much you sure have a hard time to grasp the concept of a contract.



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