Dude Was Fired By Google

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
08/12/2017 at 00:18 • Filed to: None

I personally think that Google is inherently evil and has nobody’s best interests at heart and why work there unless you want everyone to think you’re smart and you enjoy free lunch and hot rock massages and a swing set in your cubicle?

I haven’t read Dude’s manifesto, but I personally believe that Tech is diabolically sexist and Boom-Boom Room and maybe I read too much liberal media (well, I probably most certainly do), but hey: my simpathy meater is lymp.

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DISCUSSION (21)

Birddog > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/12/2017 at 00:36

“free lunch and hot rock massages”

I’m on board with that. Sadly there is no such thing as a free lunch. You give something away for those treats.

I share your view on Google and feel the same way with Amazon, Wally World and Ebay.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Birddog
08/12/2017 at 00:40

I mean, hey: I buy crap from Amazon all the time and I use a Nexus smart phone. I’d be curious to try working at an Amazon warehouse, maybe once I retire from teaching. But still: they’re all evil. I know a guy, an Oppo in fact, who worked at Apple for a while. My daughters swear by Apple stuff but I want nothing to do with any of it except to listen to music on an iPod.

Birddog > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/12/2017 at 00:44

Who with the what now?

You lost me.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Birddog
08/12/2017 at 00:47

That was a bit of a ramble, wasn’t it.

I’m saying yes, all those places are evil, including Apple, but I buy and use their crap and I’d even consider working at Amazon. Put crap in boxes for a living for a while. But they’re still evil.

RallyWrench > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/12/2017 at 00:51

Interesting article about life in such warehouses that I came across recently:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-free-online-shipping-warehouses-labor/

A few years old, but informative nonetheless.

Birddog > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/12/2017 at 00:56

A bit. I get it though. I can give up Ebay and Wally’s. Especially Wally World. I don’t miss Walmart at all.

Amazon is a bit tougher to walk away from.

RallyWrench > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/12/2017 at 00:58

Calling this guy a capital-D Dude is a disservice to The Dude, Duder, El Duderino. More tech Bro, I’d say.

Also, in addition to hot rock massages and swingsets, Googlers enjoy driving up the cost of housing well beyond what locals can afford, blocking traffic with their buses, and generally gentrifying whole communities that didn’t need it. Helps them forget that they’re working in the belly of Big Brother.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Birddog
08/12/2017 at 00:59

I neglected to mention Walmart. Regular shopper there also. 5 quart jug of Mobil 1 Original Formula 5/30 for $23. That’s pretty hard to beat. Of course, that also assumes that it’s not just re-bottled Quaker State...

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > RallyWrench
08/12/2017 at 01:03

Regarding my diction, I would have to agree, since all I did was capitalize to turn a noun into a name, but I could have called him Tech Bro, as you say. Point taken.

Regarding your second point: yeah.

RallyWrench > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/12/2017 at 01:40

I am a great enthusiast of The Big Lebowski, no other excuse for my defense of The Dude. Sometimes there’s a man...

DipodomysDeserti > RallyWrench
08/12/2017 at 02:22

This is one of those instances where a douchebag company attracts a douchebag employee who then gets thrown under a bus by said company. The douche eating their own, if you will. Unfortunately brilliant women have to put up with these assholes.

RallyWrench > DipodomysDeserti
08/12/2017 at 02:50

Too true.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > DipodomysDeserti
08/12/2017 at 07:22

Except that douche-anything is about as blatantly sexist a term as any person could choose to use in any context. I’d suggest “jackass” as a possible alternative.

DipodomysDeserti > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/12/2017 at 08:18

Douchbag is not blatantly sexist (at least not in today’s society). There’s actually a bit of an argument over the term in some feminist circles.

Douching is terrible for the overall reproductive health of women. Women only use douchebags because they were told their vaginas were dirty or smelly etc... The douche deserves to be mocked as it is terrible for women.

Jackass doesn’t really encompass what I was trying to describe, but thanks for the tip.

itranthelasttimeiparkedit > DipodomysDeserti
08/12/2017 at 08:56

It is going to depend on who you ask. There was an article floating around linkedin the other day as part of the fall out from google dude bro, it advocating removing any remotely sexist phrase from your company vocabulary, the one example I remember was “flirting” as in “flirting with disaster”.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > DipodomysDeserti
08/12/2017 at 11:38

Your view of that term is not typical and cedes the point on a technicality. Besides: it’s vague.

But I do take your initial point the Dude is an idiot and a sociopath.

nermal > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/12/2017 at 11:38

I’m over this guy. It’s not that I disagree so much with the main points of his “manifesto”, but that his firing was 100% justified. He works for a large company, and both created a “hostile work environment” and a shit-ton of negative publicity.

On the other hand, it wouldn’t surprise me if this is all calculated and he’s just looking for a payout in his lawsuit. Be as annoying as possible, get the company to settle quickly for large $$$ amount in exchange for you to STFU. In that case, things seem to be going well so far.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > nermal
08/12/2017 at 11:50

I wonder. I think that Google and its CEO are exposed to some criticism about their summary firing of the guy, but that they hold the stronger hand and a much larger budget for litigation. Dude is already making his case in front of alt-right nationalist media outlets. It’ll be interesting to watch, but I’m guessing that he is 14 seconds into his 15 seconds of fame. We’ll see.

nermal > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/12/2017 at 11:56

Agreed that the company’s legal budget will be higher. However, they are also a for-profit, publicly traded company. Their responsibility is to their shareholders, not to their idealism. They need to make a business decision to do whatever is in the company’s best interest. Whether that is spending the $$$ to fight the guy and win but still keep him in the news, or just paying him to go away is TBD.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > nermal
08/12/2017 at 13:17

I agree with you entirely, but I suggest that among the shareholders, the key people, political correctness will win the day. My guess, which I have to disclose is at least somewhat a hope on my part, is that now that James Damore has aligned himself with the Bannonites, for Google to settle with Damore would be perceived as a concession to the Alt-right. If Damore’s intentions really were pure, he wouldn’t be talking to Breitbart.

My guess is that the Alt- left are highly critical of the new Google CEO because he didn’t have a bunch of people at Google HQs gather and sing Kumbaya , and sacked Damore instead. CEO Dude may well do a lot of Kumbaya singing moving forward, but not with Damore around.

Let’s watch what happens and talk some more as it does.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > nermal
08/12/2017 at 13:19

There are solid academic folk who do not line up with the research that James Damore supposedly cites in his “manifesto” which I have no current intention of reading. Damore’s intentions are questionable and so is his socialization.