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Stock Image From Getty Former Google Engineer Sue’s Over Wrongful Termination A former Google engineer is accusing the company of firing him after he spoke out about incidents of racism, sexism and harassment in a employee forum according to a new lawsuit. Mashable reports that the employee who identifies as disabled, queer and transgender, Tim Chevalier, is suing Google for discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wrongful termination. Tim called the environment at Google in 2015  “overwhelmingly” of cisgender white men — and that “its workplace culture reflected their views.” Chevalier says he advocated for the rights of women and minorities in order to push back on the online bullying he regularly witnessed on Google’s forums, in order to make Google a more habitable place for him, as well as other minorities but, instead was told to hold off on his thoughts because that “wasn’t what he was hired for.” So what did White Men Googlers do that was so foul? Chevalier says employees openly questioned the competency of women and minorities on internal message boards. They also allegedly allowed employees to openly call coworkers “immoral” because of their sexual orientation. Chevalier’s lawyer called the company’s social networking system “a cesspool of bullying and harassment.” Yikes. Three other employees have been found in Google’s HR docs to have been terminated for being “discriminatory toward White men” — What. Are. The. Odds? Google is simultaneously facing a gender wage discrimination suit according to CNN.  They need to get it together! Continue reading →