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>>tech-h+(OP)
I thought this story had already been reported a month ago. But no, I was wrong, that was the other organizer of the Google Protests, Claire Stapleton:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jun/07/google-wa...

So to clarify, both of the female Google employees who lead/organized the protests have now left because they say they faced retaliation. That looks very bad for Google.

>>Admira+md
Looks good for Google to me. These protests were getting out of hand, and their demands were showing some major entitlement.

>>lawnch+me
You don't understand Google culture if you think this line would fly with anyone there. Entitlement for full time employees is baked into the charter, along with transparency. That's a good thing and a bad thing, in different ways. It gave bad actors a lot of autonomy, but it also exposed them to scrutiny and pushback from good actors.

What's surprising is that now these reprisals are trying to push that back to make Google more like other normal companies and organizational structures.

>>KirinD+9h
This is the big point.

It's true that it is not normal for employees to be able to speak against their company (or express strong opinions publicly).

Yet Google has always prided itself on being different in having outspoken employees.

This is why it looks bad for Google when it's just business as usual everywhere else.