Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

Individuality comes before all else

Yea, no not really. Sorry to say, but if you're an engineer, or working at a similar job then you need to be able to work together with a lot of different people, who often have different political ideas or views.

Or to quote a Google employee:

Essentially, engineering is all about cooperation, collaboration, and empathy for both your colleagues and your customers. If someone told you that engineering was a field where you could get away with not dealing with people or feelings, then I’m very sorry to tell you that you have been lied to. Solitary work is something that only happens at the most junior levels, and even then it’s only possible because someone senior to you — most likely your manager — has been putting in long hours to build up the social structures in your group that let you focus on code.

And as for its impact on you: Do you understand that at this point, I could not in good conscience assign anyone to work with you? I certainly couldn’t assign any women to deal with this, a good number of the people you might have to work with may simply punch you in the face, and even if there were a group of like-minded individuals I could put you with, nobody would be able to collaborate with them. You have just created a textbook hostile workplace environment. https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-manifesto-1e3773ed1788

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