<story><title>Google&apos;s Culture of Fear</title><url>https://www.piratewires.com/p/google-culture-of-fear</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ncann</author><text>&amp;gt; Before the pernicious or the insidious, we of course begin with the deeply, hilariously stupid: from screenshots I’ve obtained, an insistence engineers no longer use phrases like “build ninja” (cultural appropriation), “nuke the old cache” (military metaphor), “sanity check” (disparages mental illness), or “dummy variable” (disparages disabilities). One engineer was “strongly encouraged” to use one of 15 different crazed pronoun combinations on his corporate bio (including “zie&amp;#x2F;hir,” “ey&amp;#x2F;em,” “xe&amp;#x2F;xem,” and “ve&amp;#x2F;vir”), which he did against his wishes for fear of retribution. Per a January 9 email, the Greyglers, an affinity group for people over 40, is changing its name because not all people over 40 have gray hair, thus constituting lack of “inclusivity” (Google has hired an external consultant to rename the group).&lt;p&gt;This is both hilarious and sad</text></comment>
<story><title>Google&apos;s Culture of Fear</title><url>https://www.piratewires.com/p/google-culture-of-fear</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Havoc</author><text>That does not bode well. When HR is the problem then you’ve got a serious problem. Very hard to get rid of problematic HR people because they obviously know all the tricks. And any sort of attempt at changing culture can also get derailed by them.&lt;p&gt;That leaves you with just override from above ie top management. And nobody sane is taking an even vaguely anti-DEI stance. So they seem a little stuck.&lt;p&gt;Won’t be the last major fk up we seen from them on this topic as a result.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; diversity architecture&lt;p&gt;Jikes</text></comment>