<div dir="ltr">C'mon, that's a quote from the article. YC is just sharing with you relevant news about tech, freedom, and the erosion of it. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 8:57 AM bo0od <<a href="mailto:bo0od@riseup.net">bo0od@riseup.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">doesnt matter what all been said here, just because you worked at google <br>
= you deserve every bit of what happened, wish for you all the worst <br>
things in you life.<br>
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also Medium is a shitty media.<br>
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congrats you suck.<br>
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Yosem Companys:<br>
> My solution was to advocate for the adoption of a company-wide, formal<br>
> Human Rights Program that would publicly commit Google to adhere to human<br>
> rights principles found in the UN Declaration of Human Rights, provide a<br>
> mechanism for product and engineering teams to seek internal review of<br>
> product design elements, and formalize the use of Human Rights Impact<br>
> Assessments for all major product launches and market entries.<br>
> <br>
> But each time I recommended a Human Rights Program, senior executives came<br>
> up with an excuse to say no. At first, they said human rights issues were<br>
> better handled within the product teams, rather than starting a separate<br>
> program. But the product teams weren’t trained to address human rights as<br>
> part of their work. When I went back to senior executives to again argue<br>
> for a program, they then claimed to be worried about increasing the<br>
> company’s legal liability. We provided the opinion of outside experts who<br>
> re-confirmed that these fears were unfounded. At this point, a colleague<br>
> was suddenly re-assigned to lead the policy team discussions for Dragonfly.<br>
> As someone who had consistently advocated for a human rights-based<br>
> approach, I was being sidelined from the on-going conversations on whether<br>
> to launch Dragonfly. I then realized that the company had never intended to<br>
> incorporate human rights principles into its business and product<br>
> decisions. Just when Google needed to double down on a commitment to human<br>
> rights, it decided to instead chase bigger profits and an even higher stock<br>
> price.<br>
> <br>
> It was no different in the workplace culture. Senior colleagues bullied and<br>
> screamed at young women, causing them to cry at their desks. At an<br>
> all-hands meeting, my boss said, “Now you Asians come to the microphone<br>
> too. I know you don’t like to ask questions.” At a different all-hands<br>
> meeting, the entire policy team was separated into various rooms and told<br>
> to participate in a “diversity exercise” that placed me in a group labeled<br>
> “homos” while participants shouted out stereotypes such as “effeminate” and<br>
> “promiscuous.” Colleagues of color were forced to join groups called<br>
> “Asians” and “Brown people” in other rooms nearby.<br>
> <br>
> In each of these cases, I brought these issues to HR and senior executives<br>
> and was assured the problems would be handled. Yet in each case, there was<br>
> no follow up to address the concerns — until the day I was accidentally<br>
> copied on an email from a senior HR director. In the email, the HR director<br>
> told a colleague that I seemed to raise concerns like these a lot, and<br>
> instructed her to “do some digging” on me instead.<br>
> <br>
> <a href="https://medium.com/@rossformaine/i-was-googles-head-of-international-relations-here-s-why-i-left-49313d23065" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://medium.com/@rossformaine/i-was-googles-head-of-international-relations-here-s-why-i-left-49313d23065</a><br>
> <br>
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