At Google, an Employee-Run Email List Tracks Harassment and Bias Complaints
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Re: At Google, an Employee-Run Email List Tracks Harassment and Bias Complaints
#2I'm not a big fan of HR departments, but an open company-wide-readable email list seems like it could have it's own perils.
Hopefully it's carefully moderated/anonymized/edited by somebody who is good at that sort of thing.
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#3- A female employee was allegedly called a “princess” for favoring salad over burgers.
I imagine the guy that delivered that comment would be hard pushed to figure out what he did wrong. I suppose we all have to really careful what we say.
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#4Is this what got Amit Singhal in the first place, perhaps? (EDIT: I guess not, he left fifteen months ago, this list is eight months old.) It's briefly mentioned in this article, but I was shocked less people talked about what the Amit Singhal story meant for Google.
That one of their most senior executives, who at one point rewrote the entire Google Search engine, when that was possible for one person to do, and worked there for sixteen years was fired for sexual harassment.
It's hard to imagine he suddenly started harassing women sixteen years in, so I have to wonder how long Google may have been trying to protect one of their most valuable employees.
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#5Why is confidential material for public consumption? All this is stuff that ought to go to the Ombudsman, HR or the police to be dealt with properly. What good does it do to hear "my supervisor is habitually oversharing and told me she smokes hashish and is worried about an upcoming drug test"?
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#6I'm not a big fan of HR departments, but an open company-wide-readable email list seems like it could have it's own perils. Hopefully it's carefully moderated/anonymized/edited by somebody who is good at that sort of thing.
This has really huge potential for abuse.
How do we know the acts happened indeed?
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#7I feel this might be problematic. The Soviet block countries had something called a culture of criticism and self-criticism. As part of this culture, factories would orchestrate meetings in which people who ran afoul of party management were publicly humiliated by their colleagues and ostracized. What's wrong with simply firing people who are implicated in harassment and possibly reporting them to law enforcement?
Re: At Google, an Employee-Run Email List Tracks Harassment and Bias Complaints
#8> One employee said that during a one-on-one performance review with a manager, he was told that his rating dropped from "Exceeds" to "Meets" because he didn't get as much done while on paternity leave.
If true, that is quite obviously legally actionable.
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#9- A female employee was allegedly called a “princess” for favoring salad over burgers. I imagine the guy that delivered that comment would be hard pushed to figure out what he did wrong. I suppose we all have to really careful what we say.
Hmm. I'm actually struggling to think of a situation where it would be the done thing to call one of your colleagues "princess", be they male or female.
Re: At Google, an Employee-Run Email List Tracks Harassment and Bias Complaints
#10- A female employee was allegedly called a “princess” for favoring salad over burgers. I imagine the guy that delivered that comment would be hard pushed to figure out what he did wrong. I suppose we all have to really careful what we say.
Can you explain specifically whats wrong with the comment.
This could be making fun of a friend. How is this harassment?