tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post7654585102153193257..comments2024-03-19T04:42:41.038-05:00Comments on Althouse: "Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences."Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger221125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-75453493912474977162017-08-09T08:36:46.868-05:002017-08-09T08:36:46.868-05:00Roy Jacobsen said...
Damore is the un-named boy i...<i>Roy Jacobsen said...<br /><br />Damore is the un-named boy in A Wrinkle in Time who could not (or would not) bounce his ball in the correct rhythm.<br /><br />8/8/17, 11:18 AM</i><br /><br />So there you are! The other person that read that book! I knew there had to be at least two of us but could not locate another...Toddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12837407567105543162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-1996096124529071872017-08-09T08:22:58.469-05:002017-08-09T08:22:58.469-05:00HoodlumDoodlum said...
What matters is that he hu...<i>HoodlumDoodlum said...<br /><br />What matters is that he hurt womens' feelings. That is intolerable.<br /><br />8/8/17, 10:25 AM</i><br /><br />Correction, he hurt the "wrong" womens' feelings. Had it been a bunch of bible-thumping women or conservative women or NRA member women, the hurt feelings would either not matter at all or be justified BUT because the feelz of liberal/leftist women were hurt, fetch the stake, firewood, rope, gas, and matches...Toddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12837407567105543162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-67049444598206274122017-08-09T06:58:27.277-05:002017-08-09T06:58:27.277-05:00>Expressing ideas that hurt people's feelin...>Expressing ideas that hurt people's feelings is an act of violence. <br /><br />No, violence is physical. Claiming that speech is violence is idiotic, and it's an attempt on your part to intimidate others. So, fuck you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-64968849491953222292017-08-08T21:05:21.700-05:002017-08-08T21:05:21.700-05:00I heard this story this morning on a news program....I heard this story this morning on a news program. In the same segment announcing the Google firing, the newsreader (a woman) touted a scientific study proving that women are cognitively superior to men.Mea Sententiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417580952765467708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-7230127004480943622017-08-08T19:12:33.780-05:002017-08-08T19:12:33.780-05:00This is how we get more Trump.
Today at work our ...This is how we get more Trump.<br /><br />Today at work our door repair guy showed up at my building. We worked together over a couple weekends awhile back became friends over the hours spent together. Anyhoo, you will never meet anyone less politically involved, he believing that their isn't a dimes difference between the uniparty factions.<br /> This latest example of someone being professionally lynched for having the audacity to express doupleplusungoodbadthought was the final brick. He now is firmly in Trumps camp because of his war on this bullshit political correctness.theribbonguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03183033820880778230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-51233691189452337032017-08-08T18:53:57.667-05:002017-08-08T18:53:57.667-05:00Do you have a license to practice? You could alway...Do you have a license to practice? You could always seek to serve as his counsel. Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-52571141385963834052017-08-08T18:08:14.360-05:002017-08-08T18:08:14.360-05:00http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2017/08/in-matter-of-...http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2017/08/in-matter-of-james-damore-ex-googler.htmljghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05254850370113601762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-80931098295262438982017-08-08T17:38:40.730-05:002017-08-08T17:38:40.730-05:00"...but the company is entitled and even requ..."...but the company is entitled and even required to demand that employees not participate in creating unequal working conditions for men and women."<br /><br />No, actually it's perfectly legal as long as it's intended to redress past discrimination. Where it gets a bit tricky is when, for obvious reasons, they want to take steps to redress past discrimination without admitting to having discriminated in the past. I'm not sure whether you can discriminate to redress a disparate impact without admitting that the disparate impact is a result of discrimination. Given how much employment lawyers get paid, I'm guessing the answer is "yes". When you're getting paid that kind of money, you always answer "yes". Let 'em find out different in court. Jupiterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13008508862847561845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-82668629903485535952017-08-08T16:38:17.564-05:002017-08-08T16:38:17.564-05:00The sheer intellectual dishonesty I'm seeing o...The sheer intellectual dishonesty I'm seeing on the left in characterizing what this guy actually wrote is shocking to behold. <br /><br />Jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16517956537865658903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-59037109271246797642017-08-08T16:21:23.921-05:002017-08-08T16:21:23.921-05:00Have you read the memo yet, Professor? One of the...Have you read the memo yet, Professor? One of the guy's points is that the executive level positions require a huge time commitment and women are less likely to be willing to commit that much time to work, so if companies want to have more women in those positions the type of work/positions need to change (to be less onerous time-wise).<br /><br />That's...pretty close to what you argue about how "we" should change working life to make it more fair for women, isn't it?HoodlumDoodlumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17591221162603652473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-85539396869374185642017-08-08T16:20:20.607-05:002017-08-08T16:20:20.607-05:00"and will shortly be employed with the cool k..."and will shortly be employed with the cool kids"<br /><br />I think he is likely to collect, probably a settlement long before anything like a trial. <br />Probably enough to be financially independent, and then some. <br />However I don't think he will be employable in any large company or university. He will be blackballed, for several years anyway. He will however be free to be a private scholar.<br /><br />"He filed a complaint with the NRLB before posting the article."<br /><br />If I understand correctly, he filed after posting the article, and seeing the semi-official reaction, but before being identified and before being fired. I don't think he had grounds for a complaint before posting his paper. He may well have had an NLRB complaint lined up waiting for the reaction though. <br />buwayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02388691837737324814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-31519326672356658662017-08-08T16:08:11.154-05:002017-08-08T16:08:11.154-05:00Google is starting the classic big company decline...Google is starting the classic big company decline. They have a big river of money coming in, and they act as if that river will never dry up no matter what they do. So they're starting to do all sorts of stupid things because they figure the money thing is set.<br /><br />This is exactly what happened at Yahoo, right down to the way they're driving out the engineers and replacing them with seat-warmers.Bob Loblawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11081916786770290968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-63980995151717687152017-08-08T16:02:32.508-05:002017-08-08T16:02:32.508-05:00He filed a complaint with the NRLB before posting ...He filed a complaint with the NRLB before posting the article. Google is in trouble.Attila99https://www.blogger.com/profile/15754474191075132640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-5701483313751392172017-08-08T15:23:10.413-05:002017-08-08T15:23:10.413-05:00This guy is a brainiac and master of game theory.
...<i>This guy is a brainiac and master of game theory.</i><br /><br />Game theory is math, not being good at strategy, unless it's a mathematized game.rhhardinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06901742898653890646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-4726581902592624672017-08-08T15:19:42.018-05:002017-08-08T15:19:42.018-05:00He is pretty much in control now.
He reminds me o...He is pretty much in control now.<br /><br />He reminds me of the couple <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/couple-buys-san-francisco-street-mansions-considers-charging-residents-for-parking-2017-8" rel="nofollow"> who bought the street in San Francisco. </a><br /><br /><i>They didn’t learn that their street and sidewalks had been sold until they were contacted May 30 by a title search company working on behalf of Cheng and Lam, said Emblidge. The title search outfit wanted to know if the residents had any interest in buying back the property from the couple, the lawyer said.<br /><br />“I was shocked to learn this could happen, and am deeply troubled that anyone would choose to take advantage of the situation and buy our street and sidewalks,” said one homeowner, who asked not to be named because of pending litigation.</i><br /><br />The guy is from Hong Kong and works in Silicon Valley.<br /><br />I would set up a toll gate.Michael Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18127450762129879267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-75129214802566867122017-08-08T15:11:56.847-05:002017-08-08T15:11:56.847-05:00We are a majority dishonest nation. It's not j...We are a majority dishonest nation. It's not just political correctness. When you attend a sports event, the really questionable replays are not shown: I guess the leagues are affraid the fans will stone the referees or players. Our military, our spies, our government all lie constantly. Economists lie, scientists lie, cops let Crimes go unpunished, traffic laws are routinely ignored. People see crimes and don't report them. As the tectonic plates of our society bind up, all we can do is await the release of all that tension. It will be epic.<br /><br />JackWaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14711089367463277913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-61071863085491435912017-08-08T14:56:54.550-05:002017-08-08T14:56:54.550-05:00I wonder just how much Google will pay this guy to...I wonder just how much Google will pay this guy to avoid discovery? <br /><br />The world wondersJasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16517956537865658903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-7180206690931581822017-08-08T14:54:41.245-05:002017-08-08T14:54:41.245-05:00Also - I want Lazlo Spatula arrested, detained and...Also - I want Lazlo Spatula arrested, detained and dismissed!!!! Toilet jokes on the internet?!?!? For shame!!!!!Glen Filthiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03256741311142364722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-12488913199383600302017-08-08T14:53:50.011-05:002017-08-08T14:53:50.011-05:00This guy just turned the table on the lawfare fink...This guy just turned the table on the lawfare finks. Even A-house is flummoxed and admits to having the need for more info. I think this guy just led the SJW's into a legal minefield and will blow it behind him and cash in.<br /><br />This guy is a brainiac and master of game theory. The SJW's came crawling out of the woodwork to signal their virtue, with many of them publicly stating they will sabotage this man in the workplace by any means possible, black list him with other companies, and do everything in their power to harass him and make his life miserable because of his opinions.<br /><br />$$$$KA-CHING!!!$$$$<br /><br />Companies more concerned with competing than with social justice will line up to hire him too. This guy has effectively flipped the bird at the social justice wanks, beaten them up and taken their lunch money - and will shortly be employed with the cool kids while Google is left trying to help the wankers get their panties unknotted. <br /><br />The man deserves every penny he'll get too.<br /><br />Glen Filthiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03256741311142364722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-25695734815079482672017-08-08T14:51:21.269-05:002017-08-08T14:51:21.269-05:00Is that Unruh?Is that Unruh?Jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16517956537865658903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-79592081329157883802017-08-08T14:30:18.946-05:002017-08-08T14:30:18.946-05:00Don't know about Unruh... it seems like it'...Don't know about Unruh... it seems like it's not an employment law thing but an equal access to public accommodations thing. <br /><br />I was thinking about California Labor Code Sections 1101 and 1102, along with section 98.6.<br /><br />Discussion here: http://www.fentonkeller.com/resources/workplace_law/2008/july_2008_political_activity_in_workplace.htm Jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16517956537865658903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-59800688407037494632017-08-08T14:15:56.000-05:002017-08-08T14:15:56.000-05:00A coworker of mine had a calendar of Michelle Obam...A coworker of mine had a calendar of Michelle Obama. Each month had a different large picture of the First Lady.<br />The calendar was a form of expression. Political expression, at that.<br />Let's say I really disliked President Obama and his wife.<br />Is that expression therefore violence against me? Does that expression create a hostile work environment--forcing me to think about the fact that a person in the same space as I inhabit (to work) holds a positive opinion about someone I find so terrible, or troubling, etc?<br />If I go to her Obama-hating boss and complain, I guess the pro-Google people would back the boss if he fired her.<br />I mean, opinions are violence now. Speech we don't like is violence, and violence is prohibited in the workplace.<br /><br />Hey, she should have known not to put such a divisive expression up--the fact that she didn't anticipate getting fired for that is just a "blind spot" she should have corrected.HoodlumDoodlumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17591221162603652473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-49813393441557652262017-08-08T14:10:30.602-05:002017-08-08T14:10:30.602-05:00Your day is coming, leftists. The day you pull th...Your day is coming, leftists. The day you pull this crap on the wrong person or persons.<br /><br />Because they will - to quote a certain President - "Punch back twice as hard."<br /><br />You will not like being crushed under the rules you mandate for the rest of us. You won't like it one bit.<br /><br />But you will have deserved it. Jim athttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02271099587684174816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-70925003345182227762017-08-08T14:06:19.827-05:002017-08-08T14:06:19.827-05:00"Will Wall Street punish them too?"
-- ..."Will Wall Street punish them too?"<br /><br />-- Did Grubhub ever recover from telling the world that certain people aren't welcome there? I remember I saw that and gave them a day to apologize, or even fauxpologize, and then cut off using them, and I haven't looked back since. Given that we have bi-weekly game/DnD days, and I'm a lazy single guy who frequently works late, they've lost a lot of business from me.Matt Sablanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15885240752820005149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-54165199646468179592017-08-08T13:54:03.215-05:002017-08-08T13:54:03.215-05:00"We care about our Female Employees so much t...<i>"We care about our Female Employees so much that we fire anyone who makes them uncomfortable with words and thoughts" <br /><br />How very Feminist and empowering.</i><br /><br />I watched an all-hands webinar for Mr. Pants' employer with him the other day where they discussed the new mentoring program that is available to women only. I am so offended at the thought that my owning a vagina, to these people, means that I'm mentally handicapped to the point where I can't figure out how to advance my career without someone holding my hand. <br /><br /><i>...but the company is entitled and even required to demand that employees not participate in creating unequal working conditions for men and women.</i><br /><br />As mentioned above, my husband's employer offers professional mentoring to women only. That sounds an awful lot like unequal working conditions. But God help the person who speaks up to point this out. <br /><br /><i>The guy was an idealistic idiot, a self proclaimed liberal, who thinks he has the right to say whatever he wants on company time suing company resources whether or not it fits with the image his company is trying to project. I agree with almost everything he said, but he's an idiot.</i><br /><br />Maybe. Or maybe he has been salting away his salary and decided he was going to be the one to take stand and be made an example of to start the we've-obviously-jumped-the-shark conversation. Someone has to.<br /><br /><i>The SJWs at Google are bragging about keeping blacklists of people insufficiently supportive of diversity, by which they mean far left radicalism. If the leadership had any brains at all they'd fire every person who commented positively. You can't have employees subverting your company for political purposes. <br /><br />I think there's about zero chance that happens. On the bright side this further exposes the SJW goals. They're coming for you. Even if you're a moderate liberal they'll get to you. It doesn't really matter how far left you are the attackers need a scapegoat so they can pose as anti-racist heroes.)</i><br /><br />This is true, and terrifying. Like having a job and paying your mortgage? Don't be the first one to stop applauding. <br /><br /><i>Just about every modern workplace has a form you sign stating that you will not use corporate networks for non-work purposes.</i><br /><br />I'm sure corporate networks are never used for social justice purposes. Like how the listserv at my husband's office in Austin wasn't used to organize a walkout so employees would leave their desks during working hours to join the anti-bathroom bill protest at the Texas state capitol a few weeks ago. Yeah, that was a figment of the imagination. <br />I Have Misplaced My Pantshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14325799399154580481noreply@blogger.com