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Laid-off Google employee files racism lawsuit claiming colleague attributed work mishap to ‘everything going on with George Floyd’

Laid-off Google employee files racism lawsuit claiming colleague attributed work mishap to ‘everything going on with George Floyd’

Tiffany Minott was laid off from her project manager role in January 2023  She claims colleagues made ‘thinly veiled’ racist insults against her   A former manager at Google has filed a lawsuit against the company which claims she was passed over for promotion because she is black and repeatedly faced ‘thinly veiled racist comments’ including a taunt about George Floyd‘s death. Tiffany Minott, 40, sued the company in New York alleging multiple civil rights violations and claiming that… Source link

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Google employee fired for shouting ‘Free Palestine’ at company event

Google employee fired for shouting ‘Free Palestine’ at company event

Google recently fired an engineer after the employee expressed anti-Israel sentiments during the Israeli tech industry conference, Mind The Tech, in New York. During a speech by Barak Regev, Google’s CEO in Israel, the employee publicly protested against Google’s collaboration in Project Nimbus, the Israeli military’s cloud computing project.  “I’m a Google software engineer, and I refuse to build technology that powers genocide, apartheid, or surveillance,” he shouted before being… Source link

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Google Employee Fired After Protesting Against Israel

Google Employee Fired After Protesting Against Israel

Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images Google confirmed it fired an employee who protested publicly against Israel. The worker stood and shouted during a presentation by Google Israel’s managing director. The employee was protesting Project Nimbus, Google’s $1.2 billion contract with Israel’s government. A Google engineer who publicly protested a talk by the head of Google Israel is now out of a job. The employee… Source link

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Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event, shuts forum

Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event, shuts forum

There was more internal controversy this week, also tied to the crisis in Gaza. Ahead of an International Women’s Day Summit in Silicon Valley on Thursday, Google’s employee message board was hit with an influx of staffer comments about the company’s military contracts with Israel. The online forum, which was going to be used to help inform what questions were asked of executives at the event, was shut down for what a spokesperson described to CNBC as “divisive content that is disruptive to… Source link

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Ex-Google employee retired at age 40 on a Friday but regretted it by Monday. Why an early retirement might not be for you

Ex-Google employee retired at age 40 on a Friday but regretted it by Monday. Why an early retirement might not be for you

‘I was crying my eyes out’: Ex-Google employee retired at age 40 on a Friday but regretted it by Monday. Why an early retirement might not be for you Nupur Dave decided to retire at age 40 on a Friday after a decade of working for Google and other startups. She had it all planned out, too — Dave wanted to spend her free time writing her third book, meeting up with old coworkers and networking with founders and artists. Don’t miss But the reality of achieving financial independence and retiring… Source link

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