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September 23, 2019 10:40 pm

Google Employees Explain How They Were Retaliated Against For Reporting Abuse

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Sexual harassment, gaslighting, broken promises of promotion, gender-based discrimination, and racism. Motherboard has obtained a document written by 45 different Google employees alleging they've experienced of all the above. The document lays bare how working at Google -- a company whose motto was once "don't be evil" -- has become really hard for a lot of people. The document is a collection of stories submitted by Googlers as part of an internal campaign to highlight cases of retaliation. The stories in the document were collected after the organizers of the Google Walkout, Meredith Whittaker and Claire Stapleton, published an open letter about being retaliated against after speaking out, according to a current Google employee. "I identify as a LatinX female and I experienced blatant racist and sexist things from my coworker. I reported it up to where my manager knew, my director knew, the coworker's manager knew and our HR representative knew. Nothing happened. I was warned that things will get very serious if continued," one Googler wrote. "I definitely felt the theme of 'protect the man' as we so often hear about. No one protected me, the victim. I thought Google was different." You can read the full document here. Below are just some of the quotes shared by Google employees in the document. Each story goes under a heading. Some examples include: "Punished for reporting sexual jokes"; "Fearful of physical retaliation," "My 10+ years of experience and trajectory was sabotaged for reporting unethical behavior," "I reported my abuser and found I wasn't the first one," and "Ethics & Compliance aren't always so ethical." Eileen Naughton, Google's vicepresident of People Operations, the company's name for the human resources department, said: "Reporting misconduct takes courage and we want to provide care and support to people who raise concerns. All instances of inappropriate conduct reported to us are investigated rigorously, and over the past year we have simplified how employees can raise concerns and provided more transparency into the investigations process at Google. We work to be extremely transparent about how we handle complaints and the action we take."

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