Many Google employees disagree with the firing of the memo writer

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WolfpackN64 said:

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.

Reading the memo, agree or not with it, it was a thought out, well documented, well written memo. It was not some hate filled, sloppy, expletive email attacking anyone. Its goal, as it said many times in the memo, was to create a discussion and address some issues within the company that this one employee believes are present. I imagine every employer in the world wishes they had employees that would bring issues they believe are present in the workplace to their attention versus just going home/bar and bitching about it. Or worse, blasting it on social media for all the world to see.

Once again, one needs to reiterate that it was an INTERNAL memo. If anyone should be fired it should be the one who leaked it to the public. They are the ones that, memo true of workplace or not, gave Google bad publicity.