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@quixoticjeremy said in Non-IT News Thread:
@danp said in Non-IT News Thread:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/business/google-women-engineer-fired-memo.html
lol who didn't see that coming?
Looks like he may sue them for retaliation. Will be interesting to see how this one plays out.
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@danp said in Non-IT News Thread:
@quixoticjeremy said in Non-IT News Thread:
@danp said in Non-IT News Thread:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/business/google-women-engineer-fired-memo.html
lol who didn't see that coming?
Looks like he may sue them for retaliation. Will be interesting to see how this one plays out.
Agreed, I'll be keeping an eye on it as well.
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Being as big as a corporation as Alphabet is, I'm sure they have a hire/fire at will policy mixed in. Also the employee broke several company policies regarding the material he wrote.
Which is grounds for termination (according to the article).
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@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
Being as big as a corporation as Alphabet is, I'm sure they have a hire/fire at will policy mixed in. Also the employee broke several company policies regarding the material he wrote.
Which is grounds for termination (according to the article).
Couldn't agree more. I don't understand why you would release that memo to begin with....
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@quixoticjeremy said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
Being as big as a corporation as Alphabet is, I'm sure they have a hire/fire at will policy mixed in. Also the employee broke several company policies regarding the material he wrote.
Which is grounds for termination (according to the article).
Couldn't agree more. I don't understand why you would release that memo to begin with....
It's as if he was testing the waters to see what would happen. Or he had the plan to do this, get fired over it and sue as retaliation because he doesn't want to work any more.
In either case it's purely his doing, regardless of free speech or openness or whatever other policy the business has.
They didn't fire him because of what he wrote, they fired him because he broke company policy.
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@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@quixoticjeremy said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
Being as big as a corporation as Alphabet is, I'm sure they have a hire/fire at will policy mixed in. Also the employee broke several company policies regarding the material he wrote.
Which is grounds for termination (according to the article).
Couldn't agree more. I don't understand why you would release that memo to begin with....
It's as if he was testing the waters to see what would happen. Or he had the plan to do this, get fired over it and sue as retaliation because he doesn't want to work any more.
In either case it's purely his doing, regardless of free speech or openness or whatever other policy the business has.
They didn't fire him because of what he wrote, they fired him because he broke company policy.
They did fire him because of what he wrote, but they should be able to justify it based on policy.
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@danp said in Non-IT News Thread:
For all of you Meraki fans out there --
Thanks Meraki. You just caused me some more work...
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@quixoticjeremy said in Non-IT News Thread:
@danp said in Non-IT News Thread:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/business/google-women-engineer-fired-memo.html
lol who didn't see that coming?
Him, presumably.
Frankly, men just aren't biologically cut out for diversity tasks.
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The memo for those who are interested.
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@eddiejennings said in Non-IT News Thread:
The memo for those who are interested.
Is there a TL:DR version 10 pages is past my bored limit. . .
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@eddiejennings said in Non-IT News Thread:
The memo for those who are interested.
Great Read! This guy is definitely a libertarian.
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@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@eddiejennings said in Non-IT News Thread:
The memo for those who are interested.
Is there a TL:DR version 10 pages is past my bored limit. . .
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@danp said in Non-IT News Thread:
http://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/glen-campbell-dead-at-81
I announced that on the weekly wrap up video but I can't post it as I'm on AT&T xFinity and it can't handle uploads.
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Wealthy San Francisco residents lose private street over tax bill
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Wealthy San Francisco residents lose private street over tax bill
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40861145While I love the premise of sticking it to rich folk, this kind of stuff is why I hate local government. Those who can, do. Those who can't, govern?
Certainly some type of notice had to have been given to someone. Why am I so intrigued by this? lol
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@bigbear said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Wealthy San Francisco residents lose private street over tax bill
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40861145While I love the premise of sticking it to rich folk, this kind of stuff is why I hate local government. Those who can, do. Those who can't, govern?
Certainly some type of notice had to have been given to someone. Why am I so intrigued by this? lol
What, you think the people in the houses actually own the land? I can almost guarantee that they've all purchased a piece of property that is land use and not ownership. Otherwise, government couldn't tax it.
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@travisdh1 The idea that a tax lexy of a few hundred dollars could go unnoticed and result in this means no one tried to contact said residents.
Then again, as wealthy people are generally even more stingy, they likely would have fought the $300 fee in court.
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@bigbear said in Non-IT News Thread:
@travisdh1 The idea that a tax lexy of a few hundred dollars could go unnoticed and result in this means no one tried to contact said residents.
Then again, as wealthy people are generally even more stingy, they likely would have fought the $300 fee in court.
Residents didn't own the street as it was, so they were not the ones to be contacted. The HOA that owned the street didn't update their tax records and had the tax info sent to their old address without forwarding.
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@bigbear said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Wealthy San Francisco residents lose private street over tax bill
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40861145While I love the premise of sticking it to rich folk, this kind of stuff is why I hate local government. Those who can, do. Those who can't, govern?
Certainly some type of notice had to have been given to someone. Why am I so intrigued by this? lol
It was, they send the tax statements regularly. They have records of it. That the place that they sent it to had been abandoned was the HOA's problem.
