<story><title>Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potential Political Bias</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/craigsilverman/facebook-zuckerberg-what-if-trump-disputes-election-results</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gumby</author><text>That employee argued that people, such as people like me, were inherently less competent than others due to aspects of their gestation.  Frankly I wouldn’t want to work with someone with such an attitude, and based on his writing vice versa.&lt;p&gt;If he actually cannot get a job due to his stated opinions, well, frankly I’m not surprised.  Why would you hire someone who publically says up front he scorns many of his potential coworkers?</text></item><item><author>smart_jackal</author><text>A google employee had also similarly pointed out evidence in an internal company memo few years ago. That employee was promptly fired and last I heard, he is struggling to make a living and ends meet in the US.</text></item><item><author>fach</author><text>&amp;gt; This smells like sour apples from an employee who focused more on their plans to take down their employer than their actual job.&lt;p&gt;The story didn&amp;#x27;t read as &amp;quot;sour apples&amp;quot; to me but rather an employee pointing out evidence that contradicts the &amp;quot;two strikes&amp;quot; policy Zuckerberg explained at the company Q&amp;amp;A. It&amp;#x27;s tough to write that off as &amp;quot;Facebook isn&amp;#x27;t perfect&amp;quot;.</text></item><item><author>wiredone</author><text>“Potential” Political bias.&lt;p&gt;Can we just acknowledge for a moment what it’d be like to have a colleague who’s desperately trying to prove that your work is a “big conspiracy” when you’re honestly all just trying to do your best.&lt;p&gt;I see so many of these stories of weirdly rogue political activist type employees recently surprised when they their employer doesn’t like that they’re purposely trying to undermine them and their employees work. I’m sure Facebook isn’t perfect, but I know enough good people who work there to know they’re not all out to “get” us.&lt;p&gt;This smells like sour grapes* from an employee who focused more on their plans to take down their employer than their actual job.&lt;p&gt;*ed: previously written as “sour apples”...it’s been a long day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcims</author><text>edit: you&amp;#x27;ve already been lumped on, no need to reply to more of the same here.&lt;p&gt;Now that the dust has settled a bit on the memo, I&amp;#x27;m curious about this take:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;That employee argued that people, such as people like me, were inherently less competent than others due to aspects of their gestation.&lt;p&gt;I didn&amp;#x27;t get that much of a dichotomy from the memo.  To me he focused much more on interests than competency or capability, and he went through some effort to indicate that the effect was limited, including this summary at the top:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Many of these differences are small and there&amp;#x27;s significant overlap between men and women, so you can’t say anything about an individual given these population level distributions.&lt;p&gt;Then followed with a little chart showing two distributions with a lot of overlap.&lt;p&gt;I felt like the story of the memo overtook the memo itself, which seemed to be a ham-fisted attempt at exploring how we prioritize various metrics with diversity and inclusion.  It was obviously premature as well, based on his own charts the effects he was discussing wouldn&amp;#x27;t come into play until we&amp;#x27;re approaching something much more even than we have today.&lt;p&gt;Ultimately the way Google handled it seemed rather cowardly.  Damore&amp;#x27;s personal story adds a little complexity to the situation and I really feel that he touched a third rail that might not have been as obvious to him at the time.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potential Political Bias</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/craigsilverman/facebook-zuckerberg-what-if-trump-disputes-election-results</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gumby</author><text>That employee argued that people, such as people like me, were inherently less competent than others due to aspects of their gestation.  Frankly I wouldn’t want to work with someone with such an attitude, and based on his writing vice versa.&lt;p&gt;If he actually cannot get a job due to his stated opinions, well, frankly I’m not surprised.  Why would you hire someone who publically says up front he scorns many of his potential coworkers?</text></item><item><author>smart_jackal</author><text>A google employee had also similarly pointed out evidence in an internal company memo few years ago. That employee was promptly fired and last I heard, he is struggling to make a living and ends meet in the US.</text></item><item><author>fach</author><text>&amp;gt; This smells like sour apples from an employee who focused more on their plans to take down their employer than their actual job.&lt;p&gt;The story didn&amp;#x27;t read as &amp;quot;sour apples&amp;quot; to me but rather an employee pointing out evidence that contradicts the &amp;quot;two strikes&amp;quot; policy Zuckerberg explained at the company Q&amp;amp;A. It&amp;#x27;s tough to write that off as &amp;quot;Facebook isn&amp;#x27;t perfect&amp;quot;.</text></item><item><author>wiredone</author><text>“Potential” Political bias.&lt;p&gt;Can we just acknowledge for a moment what it’d be like to have a colleague who’s desperately trying to prove that your work is a “big conspiracy” when you’re honestly all just trying to do your best.&lt;p&gt;I see so many of these stories of weirdly rogue political activist type employees recently surprised when they their employer doesn’t like that they’re purposely trying to undermine them and their employees work. I’m sure Facebook isn’t perfect, but I know enough good people who work there to know they’re not all out to “get” us.&lt;p&gt;This smells like sour grapes* from an employee who focused more on their plans to take down their employer than their actual job.&lt;p&gt;*ed: previously written as “sour apples”...it’s been a long day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xupybd</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think he argued that anyone was inherently less competent.&lt;p&gt;From what I understand it was about preferences not competencies.</text></comment>