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Google VP told employees to stop using the word “family” after staff complaints

by mbgaxyz on 1/19/19, 7:10 AM with 9 comments

  • by low_tech_love on 1/19/19, 8:52 AM

    No, Google employees are not forbidden to use the word "family". I'm sorry but this is not HN-quality content. The whole thing is nothing but a sensationalist waste of time, starting from the clickbait headline down to the fact that the entire article is based off of a claimed leak from another (so-called) far-right website. Seriously?

  • by writepub on 1/19/19, 8:30 AM

    Disagreeing with something doesn't entitle employees to storm out of meetings, unless there was intentional malice. While family doesn't necessitate children to be a part of it, neither is the implication that a "high probability exists that families have children", offensive enough to storm out, act out, throw a fit, etc.

    At what point will Google realize that every tantrum doesn't deserve a corporate change, some just necessitate the employees to "grow-up" enough to live in a world that's not a 100% ideal.

    FYI googling "family definition" returns "a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household". How genuine can this outage really be?

  • by alexnewman on 1/19/19, 7:17 AM

    It's a good thing that family friendly isn't parsed as anything other than two words with no implied context. It doesn't sound less awkward than everyone friendly. After what's the difference between kid friendly and family friendly.

  • by DanBC on 1/19/19, 9:11 AM

    A friendly reminder that the Daily Mail is hopelessly inaccurate.