She didn’t sneak the paper, and the committee was trying to block it for BS reasons like the committee member wanted his work cited.
Jeff Dean is a billion-dollar employee who has evidently extremely weak people skills. He was in way over his head in this one and he made the exceptionally bad choice of continuing the argument. Moreover he knew Gebru was consulting a lawyer, so his actions are de facto retaliation for that.
If you can’t muster skepticism for Google’s astroturf here, you’re falling straight into the issues of bias and prejudice that we do dearly need to expunge from the workplace.
Jeff Dean is a billion-dollar employee who has evidently extremely weak people skills. He was in way over his head in this one and he made the exceptionally bad choice of continuing the argument. Moreover he knew Gebru was consulting a lawyer, so his actions are de facto retaliation for that.
If you can’t muster skepticism for Google’s astroturf here, you’re falling straight into the issues of bias and prejudice that we do dearly need to expunge from the workplace.