<story><title>Google paid Andy Rubin $90M while keeping silent about a misconduct claim</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/google-sexual-harassment-andy-rubin.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>a-dub</author><text>&amp;quot;In 2013, Richard DeVaul, a director at Google X, the company’s research and development arm, interviewed Star Simpson, a hardware engineer. During the job interview, she said he told her that he and his wife were “polyamorous,” a word often used to describe an open marriage. She said he invited her to Burning Man, an annual festival in the Nevada desert, the following week.&lt;p&gt;Ms. Simpson went with her mother and said she thought it was an opportunity to talk to Mr. DeVaul about the job. She said she brought conservative clothes suitable for a professional meeting.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;woah nelly!  totally fucked that he was hitting on her in the interview and appears to be a pretty cut and dried abuse of power...&lt;p&gt;but...  business casual, with mom, at burning man?  that&amp;#x27;s absolutely bananas.  however i can see how it would come to be, you&amp;#x27;re staring down your dream job, and there&amp;#x27;s this tight knit group of people you want to join so you go along with all of it... and then you realize later that you were just being played because someone wanted to sleep with you.  yikes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>&amp;gt;  and then you realize later that you were just being played because someone wanted to sleep with you. yikes.&lt;p&gt;I think she probably realized, that&amp;#x27;s why she brought her mom and conservative clothes.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes one way to win is to play along and lead your opponent into a trap.&lt;p&gt;Granted the trap didn&amp;#x27;t work as &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.linkedin.com&amp;#x2F;in&amp;#x2F;rdevaul&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.linkedin.com&amp;#x2F;in&amp;#x2F;rdevaul&lt;/a&gt; is still a director at X. Propositioning people and telling them about your open relationships during an interview process then inviting them to a drug infused festival should lead to not being a director anywhere in my opinion but maybe I am old-fashioned.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google paid Andy Rubin $90M while keeping silent about a misconduct claim</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/google-sexual-harassment-andy-rubin.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>a-dub</author><text>&amp;quot;In 2013, Richard DeVaul, a director at Google X, the company’s research and development arm, interviewed Star Simpson, a hardware engineer. During the job interview, she said he told her that he and his wife were “polyamorous,” a word often used to describe an open marriage. She said he invited her to Burning Man, an annual festival in the Nevada desert, the following week.&lt;p&gt;Ms. Simpson went with her mother and said she thought it was an opportunity to talk to Mr. DeVaul about the job. She said she brought conservative clothes suitable for a professional meeting.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;woah nelly!  totally fucked that he was hitting on her in the interview and appears to be a pretty cut and dried abuse of power...&lt;p&gt;but...  business casual, with mom, at burning man?  that&amp;#x27;s absolutely bananas.  however i can see how it would come to be, you&amp;#x27;re staring down your dream job, and there&amp;#x27;s this tight knit group of people you want to join so you go along with all of it... and then you realize later that you were just being played because someone wanted to sleep with you.  yikes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>komali2</author><text>Talk about dedication - not planning on going to burning man, then going with a &lt;i&gt;week&amp;#x27;s notice&lt;/i&gt;, in conservative clothing no less? Ms. Simpson is willing to go to far greater lengths than I to increase offer prospects...&lt;p&gt;I would have read it differently if she had gone &amp;quot;burning-man&amp;quot; mode, as I&amp;#x27;d be tempted to do if invited on a whim like this. I&amp;#x27;d always intended to try anyway, so having a guaranteed champion there (and maybe a camp? Unclear if crashing at the camp was implied in the invitation), would make it a fun thing to do. But the conservative clothes makes it seem like she was treating this as a step in the interview process.&lt;p&gt;Why was DeVaul talking about his personal romantic&amp;#x2F;sexual life in an interview? How stupid of him. What a dumb gamble, even if he was trying to get laid, the risk&amp;#x2F;reward just doesn&amp;#x27;t make sense in the context.</text></comment>