>Provide additional mental health support for Googlers of color - especially following critical moments impacting their communities
This was a fascinating look into an entire different world, thank you. To work for a company that actually provides mental healthcare and then demand it proactively monitor the media for possible sources of stress on particular employees is a position of such breathtaking privilege I had to read it twice before it sunk in. Has this person ever worked somewhere half his coworkers are living paycheck to paycheck? Has he ever had a bad job in his life?
demand it proactively monitor the media for possible sources of stress on particular employees
It's Google...a simple Google News alert would be easy to set up, and having a counselor would be no more unreasonable to have than the massage therapists and barbers they currently have on site.
Indeed. I'm not saying it isn't inconvenient when the wheel breaks off your golden chariot, just that I'm surprised you have one at all. "Barbers and massage therapists on-site" Holy moley these people work in Cloud Cuckoo Land.
"My teammates always had something to say about everything. but when it came to the violent policing of black bodies, they were silent."
My guess is that they were afraid of retaliation and wisely chose to keep mouth shut. PC now is the new religion, especially in big companies. A few centuries ago, when religion was strong, engaging in a debate with strangers about whether the god exists would be a suicide: unless you say something along the few pre-approved lines, you would be reported and retaliated against.
It's a curious situation when black and white people see each other privileged: whites are privileged because "white privilege" and blacks are privileged because they receive special catering and are immune from many things that would get a white guy fired on the spot.
Over the last 5 years, I’ve heard co-workers spew hateful words about immigrants,
boast unabashedly about gentrifying neighborhoods, mockingly imitate people who speak different
languages, reject candidates of color without evidence because of “fit,” and so much more.
Is the actual situation described in the memo, where people consider their own ability to move through traffic more important than the life of a black man, not enough?
I find it hard to believe someone on this forum would have no clue what 'hateful words' sound like. Even if you've lived a completely sheltered life, at least you can read. Inform yourself.
It's a memo, not a lawsuit. He's describing a harmful culture, not naming specific names. He doesn't have to name specific slurs that were used. I would really like to believe that you're smart enough to understand what some of those slurs could have been. Which exactly were used has no relevance to the message of the memo.
Do you work at Google? People at the company may well recognise the situation. Whether or not you believe it is relatively irrelevant. Anyone with any social awareness will recognise this as something that certainly could happen. And people who are set to disbelieve it no matter what, will not be swayed by evidence anyway, like creationists and flat earthers.
So white people are afraid of being fired for something they chose to say, vs black people afraid of getting killed by the police for fitting a description?
Read the memo. It's quite the opposite. The person who spoke up complained about how the protests the killing of an unarmed black man would impact traffic, and found the protests 'ridiculous'. Everybody else nodded.
This caused the black team member to feel unsafe and made him afraid to speak up or even mention that he was going to join the protests.
I wonder what special catering you think the black guy received in this situation.
How can you know anything is true? By the nature of the text(a memo) it is was always going to be anecdotal. What a ridiculous comment to make simply because you were confronted with a differing perspective on the world.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 34.7 ms ] threadThis was a fascinating look into an entire different world, thank you. To work for a company that actually provides mental healthcare and then demand it proactively monitor the media for possible sources of stress on particular employees is a position of such breathtaking privilege I had to read it twice before it sunk in. Has this person ever worked somewhere half his coworkers are living paycheck to paycheck? Has he ever had a bad job in his life?
It's Google...a simple Google News alert would be easy to set up, and having a counselor would be no more unreasonable to have than the massage therapists and barbers they currently have on site.
My guess is that they were afraid of retaliation and wisely chose to keep mouth shut. PC now is the new religion, especially in big companies. A few centuries ago, when religion was strong, engaging in a debate with strangers about whether the god exists would be a suicide: unless you say something along the few pre-approved lines, you would be reported and retaliated against.
It's a curious situation when black and white people see each other privileged: whites are privileged because "white privilege" and blacks are privileged because they receive special catering and are immune from many things that would get a white guy fired on the spot.
Over the last 5 years, I’ve heard co-workers spew hateful words about immigrants, boast unabashedly about gentrifying neighborhoods, mockingly imitate people who speak different languages, reject candidates of color without evidence because of “fit,” and so much more.
I find it hard to believe someone on this forum would have no clue what 'hateful words' sound like. Even if you've lived a completely sheltered life, at least you can read. Inform yourself.
This caused the black team member to feel unsafe and made him afraid to speak up or even mention that he was going to join the protests.
I wonder what special catering you think the black guy received in this situation.
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