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The women of Google are walking out. Guess why
Hotair.com ^ | October 31, 2018 | JAZZ SHAW

Posted on 10/31/2018 4:09:16 PM PDT by Kaslin

What’s going on at Google HQ these days? (I mean, aside from squashing conservative views in search results and figuring out what happened to that whole “don’t be evil” thing.) One report out this week indicates that the women working at the search giant are preparing to walk off the job. That seems strange for a company what was once ranked as one of the best places to work on the planet.

It turns out that there’s been some sexual harassment (if not assault) going on with at least one former executive there. And rather than take swift action to show their support for the Me Too Moment, Google decided to try to cover it up for a while and then give the guy a golden parachute on his way out the door. Needless to say, the ladies aren’t terribly thrilled about it. (Buzzfeed)

In a new email, Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees that he supports the planned “women’s walk” to protest issues of sexual misconduct at the company.

A group of more than 200 engineers at Google are organizing a companywide “women’s walk” walkout for later this week to protest recent revelations about the search giant’s protection of employees that had allegedly engaged in sexual misconduct, according to four people familiar with the situation inside Google.

The protest, which is expected to happen on Thursday, comes in light of a story by the New York Times last week into the alleged misbehavior of Android creator Andy Rubin and other executives at the company, some of whom still have positions of prominence at Google.

You know the company is between a rock and a hard place when the CEO is forced to go before the media and tell them that he supports a planned walkout that will cripple his labor force for as long as it lasts.

While it sounds like there were more people involved, the primary complaint centers on Android creator Andy Rubin. He left the company in 2014, receiving glowing reviews from former CEO Larry Page. What wasn’t publicized was that the married Android developer had been “involved” with a female employee. And the story of the involvement included phrases like “coerced oral sex in a hotel room.”

Adding more salt to the wound was the fact that while Google could have shown him the door with his pockets empty, they paid out a $90M severance package to him for all of his outstanding work. If that’s their idea of accountability for someone behaving that badly it’s no wonder the female engineers are on the warpath.

But isn’t Google supposed to filled almost entirely with liberals? You shouldn’t be able to swing a dead cat without hitting a couple of male feminists. Even before the advent of #MeToo, it was a progressive hotbed. If women were being mistreated, shouldn’t the company have been among the first to stand up in collective outrage?

You might think so, but Google apparently likes its progressivism with healthy side order of hypocrisy. But now the cat’s out of the bag and soon the women will be out the door. And given the initial reactions from their very red-faced CEO, I’m willing to bet that none of them will be docked any pay for time missed at work.


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Google deserves to go down, they are way to big for their britches.
1 posted on 10/31/2018 4:09:16 PM PDT by Kaslin
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Even the most extreme ultrafeminists cannot live up to their own expectations.


2 posted on 10/31/2018 4:10:25 PM PDT by jarwulf
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3 posted on 10/31/2018 4:10:44 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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The women of Google are walking out. Guess why

Some guy looked at some chick's breasteses and it's the end of the world?

4 posted on 10/31/2018 4:13:24 PM PDT by humblegunner
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The women of Google are walking out. Guess why...

Ladies room out of order?


5 posted on 10/31/2018 4:13:29 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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The women of Google are walking out. Guess why

It's five O'Clock?

6 posted on 10/31/2018 4:14:44 PM PDT by humblegunner
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“Guess why?”

They’re on their periods.
They can’t code.
Math is hard.


7 posted on 10/31/2018 4:17:29 PM PDT by EEGator
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In a new email, Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees that he supports the planned “women’s walk” to protest issues of sexual misconduct at the company.

Hope Sundar doesn't decide to fire these woman and replace them with H-2B's. Now that would be evil.

8 posted on 10/31/2018 4:17:33 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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No, it’s because Google won’t put tampon dispensers in the ‘men’s’ room.


9 posted on 10/31/2018 4:18:07 PM PDT by PROCON ('Progressive' is a Euphemism for Totalitarian)
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To: EEGator

More liberal on liberal crime. Boo hoo hoo...


10 posted on 10/31/2018 4:19:18 PM PDT by Dr. Pritchett
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No! They were told they couldn't bring their dogs to work anymore. So they had to leave their girlfriends home alone! 🍺
11 posted on 10/31/2018 4:19:30 PM PDT by miserare ( Indict Hillary!)
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To: jarwulf

“Even the most extreme ultrafeminists cannot live up to their own expectations.”

“Make the enemy live up to their own rules.” Alinsky.

L


12 posted on 10/31/2018 4:20:52 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Dr. Pritchett

I enjoy canibalism by the left.


13 posted on 10/31/2018 4:21:49 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Kaslin

Someone getting a bit too googly-eyed.


14 posted on 10/31/2018 4:26:24 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

15 posted on 10/31/2018 4:28:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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A $90 MILLION severance package??????

Words fail me........


16 posted on 10/31/2018 4:31:44 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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“If you can't trust Google, who can you trust”, he said with dubious mirth?
17 posted on 10/31/2018 4:32:28 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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LOL. LIB lunatics gone wild !!!


18 posted on 10/31/2018 4:36:23 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: metmom

Me too.


19 posted on 10/31/2018 4:38:02 PM PDT by Kaslin (And that is not)
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To: humblegunner

breasteses? What is that?


20 posted on 10/31/2018 4:39:53 PM PDT by Kaslin (And that is not)
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