Google Employees Stage Protest Over Handling of Sexual Harassment (nytimes.com) 271
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Employees at Google offices around the world held a wave of walkouts on Thursday to protest the company's handling of sexual harassment. The walkouts, which started in Asia and spread across continents, were planned for around 11 a.m. in their time zones. Protests were held through the day in Google offices in the United States. The backlash was prompted by an article in The New York Times last week that revealed that Google had paid millions of dollars in exit packages to male executives accused of harassment, while staying silent about the transgressions. As late morning arrived in different time zones on Thursday, Google employees walked away from their work at offices including Singapore; Hyderabad, India; Berlin; Zurich; Dublin; London; New York; and its headquarters in Mountain View, California.
Employees posted photos on social media, but it was unclear how long the protests lasted as many of those who stopped working stayed inside the buildings. The employees who organized the walkout have called on Google to end its use of private arbitration in cases of alleged sexual assault and harassment. They have also demanded the publication of a transparency report on instances of sexual harassment, further disclosures of salaries and compensation, an employee representative on the company board and a chief diversity officer who could speak directly to the board.
Employees posted photos on social media, but it was unclear how long the protests lasted as many of those who stopped working stayed inside the buildings. The employees who organized the walkout have called on Google to end its use of private arbitration in cases of alleged sexual assault and harassment. They have also demanded the publication of a transparency report on instances of sexual harassment, further disclosures of salaries and compensation, an employee representative on the company board and a chief diversity officer who could speak directly to the board.
But We're not EVIL (Score:2)
Still not Evil... nothing to see here...
Re: But We're not EVIL (Score:3)
Fire them all and hire more commissa ... err ... "diversity officers".
Re: But We're not EVIL (Score:5, Insightful)
No need. Big Brother Google already fired all their competent engineers. All that's left now are H1-Bs and screaming social just-us activists. I mean, seriously, have you seen the utter shit quality of Google's recent software?
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If so, then that is one scary fucking statement.
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H1Bs have to have a degree in Comp Science or some other engineering+5 years coding and have to be paid a certain amount (differs by areas and cost of living. For Mountain View at least 105K).
That sets some kind of a minimum bar as no company is going to pay 105K for incompetent folks.
On the other hand if you are Black Lesbian you dont even need to interview. Google's diversity program calls that a triple play.
When you get so hard into virtue signalling that you keep hiring useless people, you still need to
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Because the definition of "competent" is to be totally okay with sexual harassment.
An ad company (Score:3, Interesting)
Loans. All the exams. That wealth someone paid for the best education.
They found work at an
Working for Communist China and helping de rank the internet...
Start your own company with your own great ideas.
Find a really great company that makes product and services you actually like working with.
Thats what your education allows you to do.
The freedom to find work all over the USA.
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College loans that you spend half your life paying back are mostly an American thing. Most of these protestors are outside the USA, where education is much more affordable. The downside is that they have no student rec centers with saunas, climbing walls, and acai bowl bars.
Re: An ad company (Score:2)
"an .... ad company"
Google is a surveillance company. The ads are just a cover. They make the majority of their revenue from selling surveillance data to repressive governments.
Re:An ad company (Score:5, Insightful)
They found work at an .... ad company.
Yes they did, and it completely irrelevant. You see the type of primary work a company does is completely irrelevant to a desire to work for a company unless your overriding decision is affected by some moral opinion about said company.
What actually matters to most people:
- The type of work.
- The type of development opportunities.
- The long term investment in the type of work.
- The type of prestige.
- Getting paid what you're worth
This is why the likes of AI / image recognition experts will line up to be paid money with lots of zeros on the end to work at an "ad company". It's why datacentre designers and hardware experts line up to be paid money with lots of zeros by an "ad company".
Start your own company with your own great ideas.
If it were easy then everyone would do it. But it's not. It's far easier to be paid for your expertise than to branch out into something that you have no experience in. The fact that you actually suggested this shows that you've never started your own company before.
Find a really great company that makes product and services you actually like working with.
They did. Most educated and capable people do not work very long for a company they aren't happy with.
Thats what your education allows you to do.
The freedom to find work all over the USA.
Which begs the question, why is it that you are more upset that these people work at an "ad company" than the people themselves?
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Ensuring users have to view ads? Stopping users from not viewing ads? Censorship for Communist China? Deranking search results?
Ensuring any new encryption is ad ready?
Development opportunities...
Ads and censorship....
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Re "The type of prestige"
To make that clear we're talking about personal gain. It's amazing what having a company name does on your resume, especially when said company has famously high standards for employing technical people.
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Which begs the question, why is it that you are more upset that these people work at an "ad company" than the people themselves?
Stockholm syndrome.
Re:An ad company (Score:5, Informative)
Nobody cares about your definition.
Google makes money selling ads.
Bill Hicks was right.
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As in Bill Hicks the fantastic comedian? [youtu.be] ?
What's the reference?
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Bill Hicks.
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Ah-ha, that skit [youtu.be]! Thanks!
I *really* wish we could ban all ads. Getting rid of the visual pollution alone would make it worth it.
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> Banning all ads is certainly possible in a democracy.
I don't think that's realistic at this stage of human development. :-/
> A generic ban on tv ads and web-ads (outside webshops) would be great.
That indeed would be a noble goal to reach for but, sadly, human nature is still based on an archaic paradigm: There is never enough.
Once free energy is (re)discovered, our POV will change and maybe then people will realize that ads are destructive long term.
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And I doubt that Google employees care about your definition. Google uses ad money to build interesting stuff that many people would love to work on. AI, self driving cars, wireless internet balloons, smartphones, computational photography, operating systems...
Almost everyone working in any kind of tech/R&D environment will ultimately be getting paid by commercial interests like advertising or sales.
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No, they don't - If Gmail was free I wouldn't have to agree to let Google snoop on and sell my data in order to use it.
Conditions are the defintiion of not-free.
Re:An ad company (Score:5, Insightful)
ex-Google employees (Score:5, Insightful)
im pretty sure that Google Internal Security just face-recognized all of those social media posts, put all those workers on a blacklist, and will have them banned from the tech industry.
young people these days don't seem to understand how mega corporations work. they are not your friend, they are not your community, they are not a family, they have no values, and they have no empathy. they are big, sociopathic lumbering expressions of greed and brutality. if slavery were legal, every single one of them would buy slaves. if murder were legal, every single one of them would engage in murder.
stop trying to change Google. Quit google, and go work for some company that is not a monstrous leviathan of cruelty.
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But they put nice colors on the walls and give meeting rooms cute names.
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So you're advocating for people with moral differences working for megacorporations to just quit and go elsewhere. Okay. How do you think that'll play out in the long term? If the problem is, as you put it, that these corporations are 'big, sociopathic lumbering expressions of greed and brutality', do you think that situation will be made better or worse if people simply stop trying to change
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If people had morals or spines, they'd leave in large numbers and Google, Facebook, etc. would crumble overnight.
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im pretty sure that Google Internal Security just face-recognized all of those social media posts, put all those workers on a blacklist, and will have them banned from the tech industry.
young people these days don't seem to understand how mega corporations work.
I take it you're young then? It may surprise you that the employer employee relationship is something typically of benefit to both sides. Employers don't sit around looking for excuses to fire people. Google probably knows quite well who participated in the process, they will however do precisely nothing about it.
Finding staff costs money.
Training staff costs money.
That doesn't even take into account the quality or capability of the staff in question.
stop trying to change Google. Quit google, and go work for some company that is not a monstrous leviathan of cruelty.
Or I could take the good (the reason I would work for a c
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monstrous leviathan of cruelty
Descriptions like that are so far divorced from reality that they undermine your argument.
Google is unlikely to retaliate because it needs skilled workers, and has trouble recruiting them already. Blacklisting people is like salting the earth, you not only destroy your most important resource but ensure that it's extremely difficult to recover.
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> they are big, sociopathic lumbering expressions of greed and brutality.
I'd say this is true when any group of people gets above 10 or so, once there are enough people that you need a system to keep the group running, so people can just blame the system. Good luck trying to run a planet with 7 billion people without having these problems.
> young people these days don't seem to understand how mega corporations work.
They do what's in their own best interest, to create money and power for their owners/e
If the paragon of feminist morality (Score:2)
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I would like to know when Google claimed they were a perfect company, rather than a company trying to do better, that has a ways to go in spite of their efforts so far.
No doubt you can easily find a citation, right?
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Re:If the paragon of feminist morality (Score:5, Insightful)
I would like to know when Google claimed they were a perfect company, rather than a company trying to do better, that has a ways to go in spite of their efforts so far.
In politics we call these people limousine liberals. The self-righteous, sanctimonious assholes that preach that they're better, their actions are better, and if you don't do what they tell you? You're a terrible person. This of course is while they're carrying on like normal or acting even worse then what they claim they're fighting for/against/etc.
It's really no difference then the old catholic indulgence system. All sins can be forgiven as long as you virtue signal hard enough, and throw enough money at *insert special/pet cause* showing how "woke" you are.
Re:If the paragon of feminist morality (Score:5, Insightful)
At this point I can tell if trolls like this are American or Ukranian....
Would you be happier if I called them baizuo instead? By the way, it's a common term in Canada as well. Someone in the Ukraine would be more likely to use a local version of champagne socialist, noting the heavy communist influence on the country.
Wish I could.
Don't worry, one day you'll have learned enough of the world that it'll either drive you insane or make you a realist.
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Don't worry, one day you'll have learned enough of the world that it'll either drive you insane or make you a realist.
In my case, both.
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So Ted Nugent is a limo liberal? How about Paul Ryan? Donald Trump?
Hillary Clinton? Maxine Waters? Nancy Pelosi, Al Gore? Figure out the difference yet?
Let me ask you something, what is it like living with shit for brains?
I wouldn't know, but going by your post you seem to be a subject matter expert on this topic.
Re: If the paragon of feminist morality (Score:2, Insightful)
Yup. The corporate social just-us nazis at Google et al. remind me very much of the "fundamentalist Christians" who were prominent a couple decades ago.
The same huffy self-righteousness. The same raging hypocrisy. The same burning desire to force their morality on an unwilling public. The same mean spirited, small minded, small hearted outlook on life.
The social just-us nazis do seem rather better financed than the fundie fake-Christians were. (I guess suitcase full of cash from the Chinese intelligence ser
What would you do? (Score:5, Insightful)
wat do? Work, or fuckit take a break?
Re:What would you do? (Score:5, Insightful)
Show the company why men earn more: Get work done even when others don't.
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yeah, plus walkouts are a great opportunity for some grab-ass since their not on the premises and not working
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Find quality work with another company.
Re: What would you do? (Score:5, Funny)
Complain to HR that you are being made to feel bullied by not participating in their walkout and you no longer feel safe at work.
Re: What would you do? (Score:5, Funny)
You can't be bullied by a SJW. If a SJW bullies you, then you, by definition, deserve it. So it's not bullying. You're just bullying them more than you already do, by making them bully you.
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Tell them to save the world on their own time.
Some stayed in the building? (Score:2)
What’d they do... sit at their desks with their hands folded on their laps?
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They sat at their desks, had a wank, talked about which girl was the hottest and generally farted and ball-scratched the day away.
Ah yes, the fabled 1950s Golden Age.
11am? (Score:2)
And the whole thing is horseshit (Score:5, Interesting)
Here's why: I worked at Google. At Google, today, you can't as much as argue with a feminist (and I'd bet money most of Google's female employees consider themselves that), let alone sexually harass anyone for real. I once called out a female SJW on internal Google+ for "kill all white men" type of rhetoric. This promptly resulted in her reporting me to HR for "harassment". This is the kind of offense threshold we're talking about here. Does Google have bad apples? Any company of 85K people has at least a few. Can you get fired for as much as looking at some female co-worker wrong? 100% you can, if you're not Andy Rubin or the like. There is "process" for that: you get reported to HR, and security will walk you out the door for a mere "credible" accusation, no evidence or physical contact required. So the whole thing is SJW bullying plain and simple. If you're not walking out with them, you're misogynist bigot and literally a Nazi. So glad I don't work there anymore.
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Here's why: I worked at Google ... So glad I don't work there anymore.
So am I. Oh boy, so am I !!
I was amongst the first batch hire by Google, some twenty odd years ago. It used to be fun and satisfying working there.
The situation worsen, but at that time it was still 'tolerable', until the time they got that Indian on the helm, then all hell broke loose.
That's the time I started packing, and never looked back.
Re:And the whole thing is horseshit (Score:5, Insightful)
It is difficult for an outsider to know which is the truth.
But we do all know how Damore was treated.
Only one data point. But went to the CEO.
Re:And the whole thing is horseshit (Score:5, Informative)
OP here: literally anybody in the trenches trying to challenge even the smallest facet of liberal dogma will face a fate similar to Damore's. Think gender dysphoria is a mental illness (many psychiatrists agree)? Don't want to use ever more bizarre pronouns? Think wage gap doesn't exist? Don't like illegal migrants (sorry, they aren't "undocumented immigrants")? Wear a MAGA hat? They will eventually chase you out, it's not even a question.
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After the lawsuit, Damore will never have to work again.
Re:And the whole thing is horseshit (Score:5, Insightful)
I have a friend in Google who is Constantly telling me what the op said. It's full sjw infestation "with us or against us"
Having now actually visited a campus, it was EXACTLY how the movies, tv and gtav depict.
I saw /mostly/ women, mostly young and mostly hip looking types. I'm 40 and out of the 300 ppl I saw, I'd say teen were my age or older.
I saw less then 5 "typical nerds" that we generally look like, balding, overweight dudes who look a bit shy / insure of themselves.
My contact tells me the vast majority of real work is done by about 15% of the staff. It was seriously like a high school cafeteria.
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I saw /mostly/ women, mostly young and mostly hip looking types.
Seems unlikely as Google's own stats say that women are a minority in their company. Also if you look at the photos in TFA you can see that there are more men than women protesting.
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I have a friend in Google who is Constantly telling me what the op said. It's full sjw infestation "with us or against us"
Having now actually visited a campus, it was EXACTLY how the movies, tv and gtav depict.
I saw /mostly/ women, mostly young and mostly hip looking types. I'm 40 and out of the 300 ppl I saw, I'd say teen were my age or older.
I saw less then 5 "typical nerds" that we generally look like, balding, overweight dudes who look a bit shy / insure of themselves.
My contact tells me the vast majority of real work is done by about 15% of the staff. It was seriously like a high school cafeteria.
On a similar note, I've started to notice how young police officers look these days!
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I think you need to reread my post.
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I wasn't "terminated", but I did have a sit-down with HR. Some time later I left on my own. I suspect I'm on a blacklist somewhere now, marked as "do not rehire".
Try it. Find an example of the obviously extremist rhetoric on internal G+ and try to call out the person on it. Better yet, post a clever meme on Memegen ("constant struggle" would do the job). You'll see for yourself. Google is brimming with SJWs who are constantly on the lookout for new things to be offended by. If you do not constantly signal y
Something cannot be explained (Score:4, Interesting)
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If there's an element of exerting power and control involved as well as sex, then it makes perfect sense. Is there a better way to prove your absolute and complete dominance over a reasonably attractive female employee...maybe one with a husband or boyfriend...than to tell her to lie down and spread or watch her career go to hell?
If you're that kind of scumbag, you're going to do this every time you think you have a chance of getting away with it.
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People want what they can't have. As you say, he has money, he can just pay for it... But that's less rewarding than having to work for it. There is less excitement, no will she/won't she uncertainty, making the payoff less satisfying.
Because it is about pwoer (Score:2)
Not a good long-term move (Score:2)
If employees feel they have to protest against their own employer fine
BUT...
I can guarantee you everyone single of them who walked out or protested or went on social media about it is has now effectively destroyed any career at Google. They won't be fired [especially in Europe] but they won't be promoted or advanced and will be first in line if it's redundancy time.
Corporations are self-protecting entities.
Also I'd suggest they Google [heh heh] the concept of "Biting the hand that feeds you"
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Sometimes "the hand that feeds you" is also the one trying to get a finger up your fanny. If enough employees object, Google will actually have to reform its corporate culture to bring it more in line with the part of its original (now quietly emended) mission statement that said, "Don't be evil".
In Europe, employees have a lot more tools at their disposal to fight back against employers who act the way you describe. In North America, they'd be toast. In Europe, they have a fighting chance.
Anonymous reporting (Score:4, Interesting)
They want to be able to anonymously accuse someone of sexual harassment. I'm sure no one would abuse a system that would allow you to destroy someone's life without repercussions.
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The real question is: what happens with such accusations? Is there a proper investigation and a presumption of innocence until proven guilty? Or is it a #metoo witch hunt?
Reasons (Score:2, Interesting)
Leftie: "Everyone should go to University! It's a Human Right!"
Normie: "Er, everyone can go to university. What's the problem?"
Leftie: "NOOO! Poor Brown people can't because Poor, Brown, Misogyny, Racism, Patriarchy, NAZIS!"
Normie: "Huh? We have bursary and scholarship programs. Kids with good grades can fill out a form and get their education paid for. So what's the problem?"
Leftie: "REEEEEEEEEEEE! Everyone should go to University! It's a Human Right! REEEEEEEEEEEE!"
Normie: (sigh) "Ok, assuming you're righ
At 11am? (Score:2)
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Does privacy mean nothing? (Score:2)
The backlash was prompted by an article in The New York Times last week that revealed that Google had paid millions of dollars in exit packages to male executives accused of harassment, while staying silent about the transgressions.
Isn't it an HR policy to NOT share personal information about someone? Wouldn't this be counter to a persons right of privacy?
Yup, they're a pile of crap for what they did (if they did do it, and it wasn't just a baseless accusation), but does an employer really need to advertise why they got rid of someone? As far as the payouts, I'm sure there was something other than "Well, we think you're a good guy anyway, here, take a pile of money while we fire you for being accused of sexual harassment". Things a
Doesn't matter. (Score:2, Insightful)
This is all that Slashdot cares about anymore. This "SJW" monster they've invented in their minds to vilify people who are angry about things they don't personally care about, but might tangentially affect them eventually. Maybe. We all need a bogeything to rally against, be it "evul femunists" or "anti-meritocratic agents" or whatever other nonsense makes us less threatened when the world around us shows signs of not revolving around us.
Re: Doesn't matter. (Score:5, Funny)
We all need a bogeything to rally against
Especially the SJWs.
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Re: Doesn't matter. (Score:5, Insightful)
Especially the SJWs.
Well there's a difference between SJW's and 'bogeythings.' Bogeythings don't have an impact on society, don't go after your job, and further try to ruin future employment, and don't try to censor things. SJW's do. If you don't think so, why not go ask the round of progressive professors who've lost their jobs because someone got offended and rallied the mob over their opinion on Halloween costumes, or refusing to play along with their "whitey is the cause of all world ills" stances.
It's funny just how racist so many SJW's are though, especially with their cries of 'everyone else is a racist.'
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Re: Doesn't matter. (Score:3)
It's also apparently WAAAAAAY different than "coloured person" for some fucked up reason.
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Word order implies racism, bigot.
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Especially the SJWs.
...go ask the round of progressive professors who've lost their jobs because someone got offended and rallied the mob over their opinion on Halloween costumes, or refusing to play along with their "whitey is the cause of all world ills" stances.
LMAO, remember last year when Berkeley staff and educators had to use an escape hatch to flee SJW protestors? [wsj.com]
Good times.
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Previous story was that people were planning it. This one says they followed through. Not a dupe - they could've not made good on their threats, which also would've been a story.
Re: Bet they didn't post to Google+ (Score:5, Funny)
Posting to "social media" such as G+ would be a bad idea and probably career limiting.
Why would it be a problem if they posted to G+? It's not as if anyone would see it ...
Re: Hire stupid harassers (Score:3, Insightful)
So I guess that means that, before all of these SJWs started creating work stoppages, there were no harrassers?
Boy, the 1950s must have been wonderful. Totally harassment free!
Re: Hire stupid harassers (Score:5, Informative)
So I guess that means that, before all of these SJWs started creating work stoppages, there were no harrassers?
No, they existed. The difference between now and 20 years ago is that the "amount to be offended by" has increased to the point where air conditioning, smiling, small talk, and refusing to be baited by the crazy cat lady is claimed as sexist.
Boy, the 1950s must have been wonderful. Totally harassment free!
Well it was, especially if you were working a trade. Just remember that working in a switch office was considered one of the worst jobs for women because of the high levels of backstabbing and mean-girl cliques.
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The difference between now and 20 years ago is that the "amount to be offended by" has increased to the point where air conditioning, smiling, small talk, and refusing to be baited by the crazy cat lady is claimed as sexist.
Sorry but that's just plain horseshit. There are definitely people out there with this opinion, however they typically don't last long and few people give them the time of day.
On the flip side 99% of what you hear about is actual legitimate complaints that are only not tolerated now because people are sick of being harassed by arseholes. ... I say 99% because I assume you are a normal person who reads normal stuff and doesn't hang out on SJW blogs or go around fatshaming people on tumblr or whatever it is
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Looks like the NPC missed update 1.03a. Guess it's just further proof that machine learning has a long way to go.
Re: Hire stupid harassers (Score:4)
Re: Hire stupid harassers (Score:3)
That wasn't a wild claim at all. I may somewhat disagree with other parts of his comment, but the part you chose to quote is quite accurate.
Re: Hire stupid harassers (Score:5, Interesting)
I love how here any such claims, no matter how wild, get modded up high. Now I expect to be modded down for pointing this out, despite it being true. If there's one thing the "anti SJW" can't stand it's dissent.
Do you work for a company with more then 300 people, a Fortune company, or company listed on a major stock exchange that has annual profits greater than $15m/year? How about been to a university in Canada, US, or Europe in the last 15 years? Can you name the last time you had mandatory workshops on any of the following: Sexual harassment/workplace etiquette/triggers/trigger-words/micro-aggressions/politically (in)correct language/politically correct speech/politically correct terminology.
Has your HR dept or student life/student union/professor published memo's outlining speech guidelines, improper speech, improper word usage in essays/papers, warnings against particular types of speech in the university and/or aggressively made restricted speech in a public university which is backed by the university president and/or dean of students. Thinking on the university, can you or can you or not remember at any point in the last 4 years where a TA, professor or tenured professor has been unofficially or officially sanctioned by either other professors, or adjoining body, or open protests by students for wanting to show full arguments/open discussion/defense of speech/views protected by charter/constitutional law/students rights charter/employment act/student union protections on an issue.
If the answer is no. Then you haven't interacted with mainstream education, or corporate culture in the last decade in any western country. In turn, you're ignorant of what's going on around you. If yes, then you're either accepting of these views or you're either not paying attention or are simply lowering your head so much to not make any waves, you've accepted the abnormal as normal.
Feel free to read campusreform [campusreform.org], Fire [thefire.org], or anything similar for universities. Go on and read up about the Title IX abuses and abuse of students with no due process for indictable offences/felonies. Feel free to read the employment manual and/or the up to 20 supplemental documents at a major company. Read The Guardian, Vox, Vice, The Root, Huffpo, and read the articles that led to those same policies you're now skimming over. Look at the universities that are primary hires at these major companies, then go take a look at the googlers and their statements. Notice anything yet?
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Do you work for a company with more then 300 people, a Fortune company, or company listed on a major stock exchange that has annual profits greater than $15m/year?
Yep.
How about been to a university in Canada, US, or Europe in the last 15 years?
Yep.
And your original claim is still bullshit. I note that you're industriously moving the goalposts though.
Can you name the last time you had mandatory workshops on any of the following: Sexual harassment/workplace etiquette/triggers/trigger-words/micro-aggressions/
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Re:Hire stupid harassers (Score:5, Insightful)
Nah bro. There's always something to offend a feminist. The goalposts always change. When the entire culture is based on gaining power and prestige by taking offence, offence will be taken.
They spend more time on facebook and slashdot compaining than working even when they do choose to show up. Don't hire them and you won't get your career ruined later when they witchhunt you for using the word "Dude" in your username or having a penis, or other not-woke-enough nonsense. [urbandictionary.com]
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Nah bro. There's always something to offend a feminist. The goalposts always change. When the entire culture is based on gaining power and prestige by taking offence, offence will be taken.
They spend more time on facebook and slashdot compaining than working even when they do choose to show up. Don't hire them and you won't get your career ruined later when they witchhunt you for using the word "Dude" in your username or having a penis, or other not-woke-enough nonsense. [urbandictionary.com]
The chilling proof of this statement can be seen by the fact that literally no men are now CEOs or Senators, judges, professors, doctors, etc.
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Time to link my favourite shit-eating grin on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Because male = guilty (Score:3, Insightful)
The man is clearly guilty because ... because you don't need a trial to know that every straight man is guilty of harassment.
Re:What is next? (Score:4, Insightful)
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What's wrong with a company being forced to do something other than being a psychopathic profit driven machine?
Re:What is next? (Score:4, Interesting)
What's wrong with a company being forced to do something other than being a psychopathic profit driven machine?
Nothing of course. But ask yourself why you'd want your company to start operating like Mizzou or Evergreen Collage. Then ask exactly how such environments are going to keep people happy and productive, when it degenerates into hostile cliques of people who witch hunt others because they're triggered.
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Nothing, but if it's trading that for being a psychopathic politics-driven machine, it's not an improvement.
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I was going to say "cookies and milk", but they already get that.
How about nap time? Oh, wait ...
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What will be the next demand? This is starting to look like a college campus and not a company.
Hopefully they will demand compulsory enrollment in the Selective Service and greater opportunities to be welders, firefighters, and concrete workers.
But that would never happen.
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Sexual assault is a crime. Harassment, in and of itself, generally is not.
And, in many cases, the victims do not want to be identified. Forcing it to be public would prevent a lot of victims from reporting, since THEIR names would be public, too.