Is Google dirtier than Wall Street?
Just read the NY Times article about the sexual harassment at Google that led to the employee walk-out.
Thought it was going to be about something small and Jesus tap-dancing Christ I did not know it was Wolf of Wall Street up in that bitch:
- Larry Page (founder): dated Marissa Mayer (she was a company engineer at the time)
- Erich Schmidt (ex-Chairman): once retained a mistress to work as company consultant
- Sergey Brin (founder): had a consensual extramarital affair with an employee in 2014. Has wife divorced later
- David Drummond (Chief Legal Officer & Chairman of CapitalG): Had an extramarital relationship and had a kid with the woman in 2007
- Richard DeVaul (ex-Director at Google X): Polyamorous and invited a job candidate to Burning Man. Asked to take off her shirt at burning man and offered her a back rub - she refused and later did not get the job
- Amit Singhal (ex-SVP Head of Search): Left after a harassment case and was paid millions on the way out
- Andy Rubin ("Father of Android"): Left after a harassment case and was paid $90MM on the way out. This guy saw multiple women at Google and almost became CEO. He had been granted $150MM in stock a few weeks after the initial harassment investigation. Google later invested in Rubin's startup that he founded 6 months after leaving Google
Basically lots of top Google execs fucking around and getting paid the big bucks
I’m confused. What does this have to do with the “prestige” you always ask about?
Holy hell I've never seen someone have negative bananas. What an achievement!
This is what happens when you put a man and a woman in the same room together
This may be true most of the time and it's certainly what makes it into the headlines these days, ala 'he said she said', but I quit my last job because my female manager was being inappropriate with me... so this isn't strictly an issue of men-women sharing physical space and shit going down.
Far more often than not, regardless of the genders of those involved, it's a power/control issue... lest we not forget Terry Crewes, one of the few males that spoke up ala #MeToo about being groped by some male high-up producer or tv executive.
The sad thing about Terry is that even the media won’t really talk about it, or even acknowledge it happened anymore. But Hollywood is a special kind of depravity.
I don't think it's simply a Hollywood-centric deal, depravity- or otherwise. It's an over-simplification that's used, when people point the finger at Hollywood because those employed in Hollywood are seen on the big screen and on tv, so they're famous and more often than not, we know them by sight if not by name.
There's a massive swath of harassment and sexual assault that occurs in virtually every single industry and sector, between higher-ups and subordinates, between men and women, women and women, men and men. It occurs in the military, in business, in politics, in sports, in law enforcement... it's just those instances are relatively less frequently made into headlines versus the instances where the perpetrator and/or the one perpetrated on is a relatively famous face.
I agree with this. How was your female manager being inappropriate? Can you expand more on why it’s a power/control issue?
In regards to power/control, do you honestly believe that all prison rape is simply a consequence of horniness? In that setting, how does a man make another man feel like less of a man - you treat him as you would a female, as a hole. One might argue that some men in prison will simply make do with whoever is around to "help keep the edge off" but I would argue that it far more has to do with controlling, objectifying, shaming, subjugating, "props/cred for showing them who's boss" and numerous other things that have absolutely zero to do with anything sensual, sexuality or gender.
Just like when male hazing takes a penetrative turn in the military, law enforcement and sports groups/fraternities in high school or college... is it about horniness and hormones? I say no, it's a tangent of the above, it's about humiliation, control, objectification, etc.
As for the manager at my last firm, she ogled me constantly, to the point where my coworkers would notice and comment to me, even as I tried to ignore it. There was also an episode at a firm gathering where there was alcohol and after numerous drinks, she made some comments in front of others about my appearance that made me very uncomfortable.
>Larry Page (founder): dated Marissa Mayer (she was a company engineer at the time)
>Sergey Brin (founder): had a consensual extramarital affair with an employee in 2014. Has wife divorced later
This is nothing like Wolf of Wall Street and pretty common behavior. I don’t see how any of this is illegal or even unusual, shitty - sure, but people are shitty.
Common, probably. Illegal, maybe. Inappropriate and unethical...absolutely. One could argue Marissa Mayer was promoted for sleeping with the boss. See where this gets dicey? It’s a lawsuit waiting to happen.
> Common, probably. Illegal, maybe.
Still nowhere like Wolf of Wall Street, and lots of co-workers date, it's not illegal.
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