Smashing political dissent inside Google isn’t the only the way the top Google geeks spend their days. They also enjoy sex with the employees, or at least a little harassment now and again.
That’s the latest from the New York Times, which published a long story last week about the obscene payout a top Google executive collected after he was caught with his pants down, so to speak. The target of the Times story is Andy Rubin, the “Father of Android,” but the Times story also divulged a number of other sexual improprieties.
This is the same company that arrogated unto itself the authority to police the Internet for Crimethinkers, and to purge its ranks of deviationists from leftist orthodoxy.
Goodbye Andy; Hello Settlement
Rubin left Google in 2014 with a $90 million severance, paid in $2 million monthly installments for four years.
But when Google bade farewell to the smartphone innovator, it didn’t say, the Times reported, that “an employee had accused Mr. Rubin of sexual misconduct. The woman, with whom Mr. Rubin had been having an extramarital relationship, said he coerced her into performing oral sex in a hotel room in 2013, according to two company executives with knowledge of the episode.”
Amazingly, “Google could have fired Mr. Rubin and paid him little to nothing on the way out. Instead, the company handed him” the big payday. And even more amazingly, Google pumped millions into another of Rubin’s plans after he left.
Mr. Rubin was one of three executives that Google protected over the past decade after they were accused of sexual misconduct. In two instances, it ousted senior executives, but softened the blow by paying them millions of dollars as they departed, even though it had no legal obligation to do so. In a third, the executive remained in a highly compensated post at the company. Each time Google stayed silent about the accusations against the men.
Naturally, Rubin denies the Times’s story, and what went on in a hotel room we’ll never know. But after the Times published its article, Google told employees it fired “48 people for sexual harassment over the last two years and that none of them received an exit package.”
Other top Google execs who dallied with the hired help, the Times reported, include its co-founder Larry Page, who “dated Marissa Mayer, one of the company’s first engineers who later became chief executive of Yahoo. (Both were single.) Eric Schmidt, Google’s former chief executive, once retained a mistress to work as a company consultant, according to four people with knowledge of the relationship. And [Google co-founder Sergei] Brin, who along with Mr. Page owns the majority of voting shares in Google’s parent, Alphabet, had a consensual extramarital affair with an employee in 2014, said three employees with knowledge of the relationship.”
And there’s more:
David C. Drummond, who joined as general counsel in 2002, had an extramarital relationship with Jennifer Blakely, a senior contract manager in the legal department who reported to one of his deputies…. They began dating in 2004, discussed having children and had a son in 2007, after which Mr. Drummond disclosed their relationship to the company.
Google got rid of Blakely, but not Drummond, whose “career has flourished. He is now Alphabet’s chief legal officer and chairman of CapitalG, Google’s venture capital fund. He has reaped about $190 million from stock options and awards since 2011 and could make more than $200 million on other options and equity awards, according to company filings.”
Even worse, another top Google exec actually propositioned a woman during a job interview and tried unsuccesfully to seduce her at a company outing. Google did not hire her.
Stalinist Repression at Google
Yet the sexual shenannigans of Google’s top geeks isn’t its only problem. The company is viciously anti-conservative, as is the rest of the Big Tech Collective.
One example was Google’s Stalinist dismissal of James Damore, who published a memorandum that detailed the politically-correct lunacy inside the tech empire.
Damore got the dunking stool because he challenged the leftist dogma that men and women are identical biologically and psychologically, which might explain why they earn less money. Another unpardonable blasphemy that he wrote was that women are more neurotic than men, which explains the “higher levels of anxiety women report on Googlegeist and to the lower number of women in high stress jobs.”
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