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Google fires James Damore for memo on echochamber
Karl Marx:
--- Quote from: PhantOS on August 09, 2017, 12:33:37 AM ---he's being brutally honest and he's 100% correct
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To cite the article in tber's post above yours, "engineering is all about cooperation, collaboration, and empathy for both your colleagues and your customers." When this dude comes strolling along saying we should "de-empathize empathy," further proving that he has no idea what he's talking about, your instinct is to agree with him? I'll be optimistic and say you posted this to be contrarian (or conformist to this forum's culture) and didn't actually read this dude's stuffty juvenile research paper.
Conan:
--- Quote from: tber123 on August 09, 2017, 12:29:40 AM ---Any thoughts on this former Google employee's response to the memo?
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this is a valid point, esp the part about the manifesto/memo creating a hostile working environment. that's enough to fire an employee, tbh.
since someone got wind of it outside the company i'd say its a fair bet that he wasn't exactly discreet with his distribution of this memo within the company and so had immediately caused workplace drama. he wouldnt have had to be fired if it was discreet and between him and his manager only.
Tactical Nuke:
--- Quote from: Karl Marx on August 08, 2017, 11:37:33 PM ---
"Women are biologically inferior to men in terms of technical ability"
"wtf why are you firing me"
Not to mention he immediately mentions that he is a libertarian despite nobody caring or needing to know this information.
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because he was fired over his lack of technical ability and not, y'know, exposing Google
I am genuinely dumbfounded by you sometimes
PhantOS:
it has more to do with the gender roles of society. when you give girls dolls that allow them to partake in housekeeping activities and raising children and other bullstuff you essentially instill the 'a woman's place is in the house' mentality that draws them away from tech jobs and manual labour
still, women have a small edge over men in the user interface and sociological side of the tech field, like advertising and user friendliness
Red Spy:
--- Quote from: PhantOS on August 09, 2017, 12:49:40 AM ---it has more to do with the gender roles of society. when you give girls dolls that allow them to partake in housekeeping activities and raising children and other bullstuff you essentially instill the 'a woman's place is in the house' mentality that draws them away from tech jobs and manual labour
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this is as dumb as saying men are stronger because they're shoved into playing sports