That’s silly. Google’s problem is exactly the opposite — it has encouraged its managers to bring their political prejudices into the office as discrimination policies, and now faces a well justified lawsuit by Damore which I hope will stop the practice permanently. An employer that really supported free thought would strictly abstain from concerning itself with its employees’ political views, and would simply suggest they leave them at home.

Gee, who would have ever guessed it wouldn’t work out?

Nope, no feeling sorry for Google – they created their own monster and now they have to deal with it.

Kind of reminds me of what was my local gym. They put up a whiteboard that anyone could write messages on. Originally, the intent was for people to find each other, sort of like: “looking for someone to work out with, spot each other, motivate each other, etc.”

Instead it turned into a political free-for-all. And a lot of the stuff was just down-right nasty and mean. Despite many of us complaining to management that we came here to work out and didn’t want to see offensive messages written on the whiteboard – management did nothing about it.

Needless to say, that is no longer my gym.

That’s one of the beauties of the free market, I was free to go elsewhere. Goggle will soon find itself with the same free market loss – good employees will go elsewhere.

In google-speak “don’t be evil” should apply to employees too. Yet what is ‘evil’? One of my informal Bible-teachers once remarked that, when she was young, she thought the verse about everyone “doing [the] right [thing] in their own eyes” sounded wonderful; until she realized that there were a lot of weeds growing wild in the wheat fields as a result of that policy…