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.

If anything, it's funny that the most prominent big data company in the world can't even stop internal memo's from going public, let alone have a decent response to it instead of this overblown, dramatic scene they made out of it.

So you're saying it's ok to discriminate based on race or sex?

Oh please, don't turn this into that debate? That's topic hijacking.

I haven't read the memo. I have read a few quotes. I should read the memo because the characterizations that I've read about it seems a lot more severe than the actual quotes I've read. But the quotes might not be giving the full gist of the memo while the characterizations do. Don't know yet.

But from what I can tell so far the guy was kinda right about why there aren't as many women in tech, because they aren't drawn to those kind of jobs as much as men are. The characterizations of the memo said he was saying that women actually biologically are worse at the jobs, rather than just not being as drawn to those jobs. If it was the former then the author obviously should be fired, that's not the kind of person anyone should have to work with, but if it is the latter then he was just saying what is pretty obvious.

Though I got the feeling he was also saying that means there should be no diversity effort and its cool and even good if tech workers in America just stay mostly white men. And he seemed to be basically crying because he doesn't work in a field that agrees with his political persuasion and that diversity efforts should be focused specifically on him, the white male conservative.

So from what I can tell so far without actually reading it, he said some obvious things that some people have overreacted to, perhaps implied or said some sexist stupid things for which he was deservedly fired if he did indeed write those things, and basically just wrote the memo in order to complain and cry about the fact that people at Google aren't all a bunch of right wing crazies and they actually believe in having a company where more than just white men work.

I'd say the guy is kind of a complaining loser, the reaction though was possibly quite over the top, but he probably did deserve to be fired because he decided to make himself publicly (within the company) make himself a toxic worker, which is not good for the company and his co-workers, so pretty cut and dry on the decision to fire him.

Damore literally advised the readers to not reduce men and women to their averages and pointed out that their bell curves have a very significant overlap. One of the main takeaways from his memo is to examine everyone on an individual-by-individual basis.

I have kind of given up on Western society at the moment.

I read the memo and there was nothing hateful within it at all. There was greater vitriol and malice in the tweets of random strangers directed towards the employee.

The fact people can just go on twitter to complain and ruin a mans career is deeply concerning. Its also why i steer clear of social media personally.

Christ... having read that it's an even worse state that he got fired over it, honestly people with half a brain who could read the memo would see that by firing the guy over his "hate" that they are basically proving him to be right 100%

His memo is very well written and all it seems to ask is honest and open discussion on the matter, down to the first objective of it being

Then he gets fired for this, it proves that this reaction to him was based on nothing more than a lack of reading the most basic outline of what he asked for, this would be like putting someone to death for them suggesting starting a discussion about if the death penalty is a good idea or not, really just turns him into a martyr

Never question a corporation's culture when you are just a small insignificant cog in a corporate machine. Insubordination is indeed a genuine reason for dismissal. He was an insubordinate and he dared to challenge the culture of the company and he was rightfully dismissed.

Of course there are. Some states have more protections than others, but even if the most employer friendly state, you can't fire someone because of their religious beliefs, political views, etc. You can fire that person for poor performance or breaking rules, but there's a minimum burden placed on the employer.