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[unable to retrieve full-text content]“Hands Were Shaking”: Google Engineer, On H-1B Visa, After Being Laid-Off  NDTV Source link

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

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Google nixes paying out remainder of maternity and medical leave for laid-off employees  CNBC Google won’t pay remaining parental or medical leave for laid-off employees  Engadget Google workers hit back at CEO over layoffs: ‘Nowhere have workers’ voices been adequately been considered’  Fortune Source link

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced mass layoffs on Friday.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images A Google engineer said he was shocked to find out he was laid off at 3 a.m. on Friday. Chris McDonald told Insider he was locked out of work accounts 20 minutes after reading the notice. He hoped Google’s layoffs were a “wake-up call” to other tech workers who were still in their jobs. A Google engineer who was recently laid off said he was locked out of the company’s online system 20 minutes after finding out… Source link

Many Google employees were having a normal day on Jan. 20 before their lives were turned upside-down. Some workers had gotten their jobs at the tech giant after years of dreaming about it, and others had been there for over a decade. Then suddenly that morning Google’s parent, Alphabet, announced that it was cutting 12,000 jobs. In doing so, it joined a long list of tech companies that have eliminated scores of employees in recent months. An outpouring followed on social media, including… Source link

An engineering manager laid off by Google said the tech giant sees staff as “100% disposable.” Justin Moore said on LinkedIn that he was laid off through an automatic account deactivation. Moore was one of 12,000 people affected by the company’s mass layoff last week.  … Source link

Mere days after cutting its workforce in half, Twitter is asking some employees to return, . Citing two sources within the company, the outlet reports management at Twitter has come to the realization it either let some workers off by accident or without realizing their experience was essential to building the features Elon Musk wants to bring to the platform. Twitter did not immediately respond to Engadget’s request for comment. Platformer’s Casey Newton was the on the company’s plan,… Source link