Submitted 3 weeks ago by along_the_road@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62v51d1ry2o
This doesn’t surprise me. I know a gal who reported retaliation at Google and was immediately put on a secret HR blacklist that prevented her from getting above a certain perf rating. She was later “laid off” without cause.
She recorded her chat with HR, and this is a direct quote from the HR person: “Oh, that’s not retaliation. That’s a very specific legal construct. It sounds like what your manager is doing is more like retribution.”
Because “Google employee probably fired after Google acknowledges she was telling the truth about sexual harassment” isn’t quite as PC of a headline
Redundant is the British term for being laid off.
It’s used outside of UK too. I’ve seen it used in the US, for example. Usually it’s just a corporate term that says “you’re fired” but without saying that. They use terms like these all the time to try not to take accountability for fucking someone’s life up.
It’s easier to shun problematic women from society (in this case fire her) than to educate and hold men accountable on how women are not objects, nor property.
“Made redundant”? WTF, BBC?
That is just the British term for being laid off/fired.
It’s not quite the same thing. If you are ‘fired’ that’s generally to do with performance or conduct of the individual. Redundancy is about not needing (or affording) the role any more (i.e. it is redundant). There are specific legal protections for each case that work quite differently. (You cannot rehire for the same position after a redundancy, for example)
Tell me you’re American without telling me you’re American.
Does anyone outside the Brits use it though? All this tells you is they are not from the UK
Tell me you’re a corpo lackey buying into the “synergy speak” without telling me directly.
It’s like I tell everyone else that gets harassed, sexually or non-sexually: go tell a lawyer, not HR.
chahk@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
Remember, folks, HR is there too protect the company, not you.