Report: Google paid Andy Rubin $90 Million after he allegedly coerced sex from employee | Google rewards Sexual Misconduct?

[mr moose]

12 minutes ago, Canada EH said:

Nope, that was just his bonus, they did not pay him to coerce non mutual sex, the money was a bonus.

 

Its common practice in big business to pay large bonuses and salaries no matter if they do great or make the company bankrupt.

I think you might have misread something, the $90M was pissoff pay, a golden handshake.   It was likely bad PR and legally grey as too what they could do so they paid him to leave.

 

 

[Canada EH]

No, its in the contract for when the vip leaves, bonus pay.

 

Do you have access to the vip's contract?

[Emanbaird]

1 minute ago, Canada EH said:

No, its in the contract for when the vip leaves, bonus pay.

 

Do you have access to the vip's contract?

Maybe he is the V.I.P 

[mr moose]

6 minutes ago, Canada EH said:

No, its in the contract for when the vip leaves, bonus pay.

 

Do you have access to the vip's contract?

Yes, but the report says he was asked to leave due to this incident, not for any other reason. 

[ZacoAttaco]

See, this is another reason why iOS is superior to Android. Apple's corporate culture is without blemish and I heard that Steve Jobs guy was super nice, a real people person.

 

Sarcasm, obviously.

 

 

[suicidalfranco]

always coming from the ones accusing the rest of their own mischief

wonder the kind of snake den facebook/twitter headquarter must be

[Tristerin]

The sum is chump change to Google.  Better to remove him than to have him do this again and the company get sued.

[Taf the Ghost]

1 hour ago, mr moose said:

People are forgetting that just because he had a sexual encounter does not mean he broke the law or enough company policy to legitimize sacking him.  But for the sake of PR they had to do something.  In the corporate world (in fact any world with contracts on that scale) you have to either proved illegal misconduct which undermines the contract or you have to pay them to go.   It is actually the foundation of innocent until proven guilty and people should be supporting it not crucifying them for it.

 

 

Given that the compensation was probably mostly in stock grants, it's likely Google barely spent any money on his exit anyway. A point people normally miss because of the big number.

 

As for this incidence, it doesn't seem in question he had some sort of sexual relationship with another Google employee, but the potential public fall out of trying to fire him if it was a questionable situation would be worse for Google than giving him a bunch of stock. PR has a cost to it, which is why these things happen.

[Taf the Ghost]

7 minutes ago, suicidalfranco said:

always coming from the ones accusing the rest of their own mischief

wonder the kind of snake den facebook/twitter headquarter must be

Well, if the "rape buttons" in some of the Media companies in NYC are anything to go by, or the Broadcomm Sex Dungeon, we probably don't want to know. We just want it killed with fire.

[suicidalfranco]

1 minute ago, Taf the Ghost said:

Well, if the "rape buttons" in some of the Media companies in NYC are anything to go by, or the Broadcomm Sex Dungeon, we probably don't want to know. We just want it killed with fire.

boi would i love to see that

[Trik'Stari]

I'm torn between my growing dislike of google, and complete lack of respect for a newspaper that actively employs racists, as well as occasionally completely making shit up (see: Pewdiepie controversy)

 

Seriously, I regard the NYT on the same level of WCCFTech

[spartaman64]

if google fires him and then he sues google for wrongful termination google cant use sexual misconduct as the reason for firing him if he wasnt convicted in court. the 90 million is probably part of an agreement preventing him from suing google

[Amazonsucks]

12 minutes ago, Trik'Stari said:

I'm torn between my growing dislike of google, and complete lack of respect for a newspaper that actively employs racists, as well as occasionally completely making shit up (see: Pewdiepie controversy)

 

Seriously, I regard the NYT on the same level of WCCFTech

Hey man WCCFTech isnt THAT bad...

[Trik'Stari]

2 minutes ago, Amazonsucks said:

Hey man WCCFTech isnt THAT bad...

Well as far as I know they don't actively employ a publicly blatantly racist leftist.

 

So yeah, I guess they're up a notch from NYT.

[HashBrowns]

3 hours ago, AnonymousGuy said:

"father of android".  Yeah and android 1.0 looks like dog shit compared to what you have today after a billion man-hours developing it.

I don't understand this. Bill Gates (father of Microsoft) created Windows which looked like dog shit, but today looks amazing. You don't see people bashing Bill Gates..

[ARikozuM]

What's the employee's stance on the matter? Could it have been a consensual act? 

 

Regardless, I think Google would have been more correct to offer the executive just a leave without investigation. Paying someone to leave because they did something wrong is the incorrect approach. 

[Derangel]

When it comes to people that high up the corporate ladder, big companies generally don't like to go the route of firing the person. It's easier to offer them a big payout in order to get them to resign and sign an agreement that they won't do things to harm the company or make a fuss on their way out. Then the company and the person "resigning" will offer some reason to resignation, it might even be a real one, but everything will go "smoothly" to avoid any chance of the company's stock being effected.

[Mooshi]

90 mil for a blowie at a hotel...I am obviously doing something wrong with my life.

[ZacoAttaco]

2 hours ago, HashBrowns said:

I don't understand this. Bill Gates (father of Microsoft) created Windows which looked like dog shit, but today looks amazing. You don't see people bashing Bill Gates..

Yeah agreed. The first iteration of a product is never good, but the brain behind and the creative mind behind it is what’s leads to good products. Rubin’s implementation lead to the ground work for modern Android, same story with Gates and Microsoft.

[D13H4RD]

5 hours ago, AnonymousGuy said:

"father of android".  Yeah and android 1.0 looks like dog shit compared to what you have today after a billion man-hours developing it.

I mean, it's version 1.0, and was actually designed as firmware for digital cameras before they shifted to phones, believe it or not. 

 

Android never got pretty until Matias Duarte did his work from Android ICS onwards (technically Honeycomb but that version was forgettable). 

 

Holo was still Android at its prettiest IMO

[mr moose]

2 hours ago, HashBrowns said:

I don't understand this. Bill Gates (father of Microsoft) created Windows which looked like dog shit, but today looks amazing. You don't see people bashing Bill Gates..

I think he might have confused father of android with getting sole credit for the current iteration of android.  

[Noctus]

"allegedly coerced".

 

Until that changes to "was found guily of" there's nothing to see here but conspiracy stories and bullshit.

[Mihle]

Both Google and him denies it.

[Doobeedoo]

What a world huh. 

[RuffRuffmcgruff]

Well would ya look at that, it's like the earth is still spinning and the sky is still blue. People being shitty is not new news.