Comments on: Google (per)plex, continued

By: Hugo S Cunningham

Hugo S Cunningham — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 03:49:48 +0000

Damore was fired for discussing a bona-fide workplace (labor) issue, whether he and others would face sexual discrimination in continuing employment and promotion. It would be a propitious occasion for fellow Google workers to develop the labor theme further by engaging in decentralized “lone wolf” wildcat strikes (aka “sabotage”). Let Google’s software start malfunctioning, not enough to threaten life, but enough to embarrass management and dissipate profits. The strike wave could be expected to end when Damore is rehired, signaling Google’s implicit acceptance of an ideologically diverse workplace.

Under current NLRB doctrine, concerted labor actions do not require formal unions with formal strike votes.

By: mx

mx — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 21:02:31 +0000

In reply to Donnie. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.

By: Donnie

Donnie — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 15:45:15 +0000

In reply to mx. Because women. Do you know one?

By: mx

mx — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 03:19:33 +0000

In reply to Robert. Why do you conclude women were the leakers?

By: Rxc

Rxc — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 00:30:23 +0000

The response by the diversity director was clear. She was going to find out who wrote the memo, and she was going to fix him. Which she did.

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 22:49:09 +0000

Your point at the end is what puzzles me the most. The most dangerous, disruptive people at Google are the women who took an internal discussion and leaked it to the outside world. If it weren’t for them, Google HR could simply have removed the memo, told Mr. Damore they appreciate his concern, but feel it is off-topic, and it would have been over.

I think the Brooks’ piece in the Times is right. Google needs a new CEO. The company is full of women and people who identify as women who are ticking timebombs, ready to explode about anything they don’t like. It is these leakers who should have been fired.