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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
What retaliation have they faced from Google exactly?

>>dmix+Zd
From this article:

> In an email to colleagues, Whittaker said her Google manager told her to "abandon [her] work on AI ethics" and blocked a request to transfer internally.

From the aforelinked Guardian article:

> In the letters, Stapleton said that two months after the walkout, she was demoted and “told to go on medical leave” despite not being sick. The demotion was reversed after she hired a lawyer, she said.

>>jakela+ke
The manager feedback was posted in an internal mailing list.

It said no such thing. manager asked her to focus on her day to day job. Her ai ethics work was not aligned to the job she was hired for.

>>cobook+ug
This is not correct. Her day to day work is/was in the AI bias and ethics space, even within google.

>>joshua+AB
Why do you think so? Do you have a source of any of her supervisors saying that?

>>xyzzyz+sH
My source is the same document that the other poster mentioned.

When did you leave? Because you know, people switch jobs, and her role at Google at the time of leaving was leading the Open Research Institute, which you might imagine has nothing to do with drive.

But no I'm not going to share confidential information just because you don't believe me.

>>joshua+uP
The "Open Research Institute" is a one-person affair that she created on her own. You can put anything you want in your job title in Moma, you know. That's why I was talking about everyone else in her ladder and team.

>>xyzzyz+801
Right, and she's reported to the same person for a while now, who has nothing to do with drive.