[liberationtech] I Was Google’s Head of International Relations. Here’s Why I Left.

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doesnt matter what all been said here, just because you worked at google 
= you deserve every bit of what happened, wish for you all the worst 
things in you life.

also Medium is a shitty media.

congrats you suck.

Yosem Companys:
> My solution was to advocate for the adoption of a company-wide, formal
> Human Rights Program that would publicly commit Google to adhere to human
> rights principles found in the UN Declaration of Human Rights, provide a
> mechanism for product and engineering teams to seek internal review of
> product design elements, and formalize the use of Human Rights Impact
> Assessments for all major product launches and market entries.
> 
> But each time I recommended a Human Rights Program, senior executives came
> up with an excuse to say no. At first, they said human rights issues were
> better handled within the product teams, rather than starting a separate
> program. But the product teams weren’t trained to address human rights as
> part of their work. When I went back to senior executives to again argue
> for a program, they then claimed to be worried about increasing the
> company’s legal liability. We provided the opinion of outside experts who
> re-confirmed that these fears were unfounded. At this point, a colleague
> was suddenly re-assigned to lead the policy team discussions for Dragonfly.
> As someone who had consistently advocated for a human rights-based
> approach, I was being sidelined from the on-going conversations on whether
> to launch Dragonfly. I then realized that the company had never intended to
> incorporate human rights principles into its business and product
> decisions. Just when Google needed to double down on a commitment to human
> rights, it decided to instead chase bigger profits and an even higher stock
> price.
> 
> It was no different in the workplace culture. Senior colleagues bullied and
> screamed at young women, causing them to cry at their desks. At an
> all-hands meeting, my boss said, “Now you Asians come to the microphone
> too. I know you don’t like to ask questions.” At a different all-hands
> meeting, the entire policy team was separated into various rooms and told
> to participate in a “diversity exercise” that placed me in a group labeled
> “homos” while participants shouted out stereotypes such as “effeminate” and
> “promiscuous.” Colleagues of color were forced to join groups called
> “Asians” and “Brown people” in other rooms nearby.
> 
> In each of these cases, I brought these issues to HR and senior executives
> and was assured the problems would be handled. Yet in each case, there was
> no follow up to address the concerns — until the day I was accidentally
> copied on an email from a senior HR director. In the email, the HR director
> told a colleague that I seemed to raise concerns like these a lot, and
> instructed her to “do some digging” on me instead.
> 
> https://medium.com/@rossformaine/i-was-googles-head-of-international-relations-here-s-why-i-left-49313d23065
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