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05 June 2025 21h52

Was Google the only company at which that happened? It was not, and *everyone in tech knows it.*

Google YouTube recruiting violated labor laws repeatedly investigators find

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05 June 2025 21h52

As always, I gesture in the direction of Google, whose Youtube recruiting org put flagrantly illegal orders to its recruiters in writing, repeatedly, after being instructed not to. Those orders were corroborated by WSJ and screenshotted in the complaints.

Quality Crisis in AI-Generated Content Over Recent Years

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05 June 2025 21h50

I do not think that people appreciate how many gigabytes of Holy Shit You Put That In Writing And Think You Deserve A Gold Star For Doing So were authored the last few years.

Tech Industry Hiring Decisions: Management Chain Concerns

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05 June 2025 21h49

Chat logs where a hundred employees up and down the management chain said "We should not hire X." These exist up and down e.g. the tech industry.

Discrimination lawsuit settlement implications in workplace meetings

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05 June 2025 21h46

Agree that I'm exaggerating on the subtle bit, but I don't think it is a particularly close call that if had a meeting discussing openly discriminating against black candidates and someone objected and was told "Read the room" that their suit is getting settled *immediately.*

Legal Realism: When High-Status Institutions Ignore Law

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05 June 2025 18h08

I am willing to credit legal realism to a degree, and know that many sophisticated people thought “Oh sure the law says that but all high-status institutions are doing the other thing and in case of conflict we win.” Cultures change over time and sometimes rapidly.

Workplace Discrimination Legal Standards and Corporate Accountability

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05 June 2025 17h42

Also, relatedly, “hostile work environment” is a layup. Traditional standard is “You persistently made people feel subtly unwelcome.” Facts on ground are “You openly announced discriminatory intent, repeatedly, while forcing employees to endorse it.”

Legal Risks of Diversity Initiatives in Tech Engineering

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05 June 2025 17h37

And the evidentiary record in many coming cases will include “Management did a recorded Zoom call saying, and this is a quote, ‘Everyone knows we have too many white and Asian males in engineering. We are working urgently to diversify the pipeline in Q3.’”

Legal Regimes Targeting Systemic Discrimination Through Code Word Detection

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05 June 2025 17h35

Our entire jurisprudential regime here is based around “OK society moved on and basically nobody is openly racist anymore but orgs are riven with secret racists who are coming up with increasingly elaborate code words and we need to ferret those practices out.”