Remember, folks, HR is there too protect the company, not you.
Because “Google employee probably fired after Google acknowledges she was telling the truth about sexual harassment” isn’t quite as PC of a headline
This doesn’t surprise me. I know a gal who reported retaliation at Google and was immediately put on a secret HR blacklist that prevented her from getting above a certain perf rating. She was later “laid off” without cause.
She recorded her chat with HR, and this is a direct quote from the HR person: “Oh, that’s not retaliation. That’s a very specific legal construct. It sounds like what your manager is doing is more like retribution.”
It’s easier to shun problematic women from society (in this case fire her) than to educate and hold men accountable on how women are not objects, nor property.
“Made redundant”? WTF, BBC?
That is just the British term for being laid off/fired.
It’s not quite the same thing. If you are ‘fired’ that’s generally to do with performance or conduct of the individual. Redundancy is about not needing (or affording) the role any more (i.e. it is redundant). There are specific legal protections for each case that work quite differently. (You cannot rehire for the same position after a redundancy, for example)
Fair. Did not know about the nuance, but in this case it was mostly just pointing out the BBC was not being callous.
Well, “laid off” and “fired” are two different things. It sounds like this is closer to being laid off.
But, regardless, nobody gets laid off for reporting sexual harassment.
Tell me you’re American without telling me you’re American.
Does anyone outside the Brits use it though? All this tells you is they are not from the UK
AUS
Tell me you’re a corpo lackey buying into the “synergy speak” without telling me directly.
What does “laid off” mean if you interpret it literally? Have you ever even thought about it? At least you understand how the the term “redundancy” came about. But what if the words we use to convey concepts are just the words we use to convey concepts, and not an act of malice or compliance?
