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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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I lost $11,300 to identity fraud. What I learned: Usual safeguards don’t work.

I lost $11,300 to identity fraud. What I learned: Usual safeguards don’t work.

“Looks like someone is trying to take more than $10,000 from us.” That’s the message my husband typed to me on a Monday morning in October. By the time I wrote back, he was on the phone with our bank. The weekend before, someone walked into a bank branch, pretended to be one of us, and took thousands of dollars from our checking account. We joined the tens of millions of Americans who each year are victims of identity fraud, where criminals steal a bank or credit card number and use the… Source link

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Google preps more work within footprint of downtown San Jose village

Google preps more work within footprint of downtown San Jose village

Former Orchard Supply Hardware building at 720 West San Carlos Street, a one-time retail site within the footprint of Google’s proposed Downtown West village. SAN JOSE — Google plans to demolish part of the former Orchard Supply Hardware complex in downtown San Jose, a move that suggests the tech titan has not “forgotten” about its transit village project. The upcoming bulldozing effort shows the search giant continues to conduct preliminary work ahead of an… Source link

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