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Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. -Rumi | RelEng @ Slack | luckiest wife of @aphyr

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    EricaJoy ‏@EricaJoy 25 Jul 2015

    To the Googlers sending me private messages about the troubles they're having there: I'm sorry you're experiencing distress and unhappiness.

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    • Sasha Perigo Davey Alba Scott Hanselman Matthew Martin Dan Corp. Noms & Dranks © mc spacer Joshua Ooi
    8:40 AM - 25 Jul 2015
    11 retweets 48 likes
      1. EricaJoy ‏@EricaJoy 25 Jul 2015

        It sucks to feel unappreciated, undervalued, mistreated, and/or taken advantage of. Those are all really shitty things to feel at work.

        12 retweets 31 likes
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      3. EricaJoy ‏@EricaJoy 25 Jul 2015

        I really wish I could respond to you (many of you) directly with some secret sauce or advice about how to handle your situation.

        3 retweets 14 likes
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      5. EricaJoy ‏@EricaJoy 25 Jul 2015

        But honestly, I have no idea. I handled my shit at there by just quietly accepting it all for years until I couldn't anymore.

        2 retweets 13 likes
      6. EricaJoy ‏@EricaJoy 25 Jul 2015

        The silence caused me lots of stress, pain, & grief (previously documented here ICYMI: https://medium.com/thelist/the-other-side-of-diversity-1bb3de2f053e …). So I stopped being silent.

        18 retweets 35 likes
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      8. EricaJoy ‏@EricaJoy 25 Jul 2015

        Speaking up didn't fix a damn thing, but it made me feel better. I didn't feel complicit in my own unhappiness there anymore.

        16 retweets 51 likes
      9. EricaJoy ‏@EricaJoy 25 Jul 2015

        Ultimately, tho, IANAL, or the Oracle, or Mrs. Cleo, or any other magical negro, so I can't tell you what to do in your various situations.

        1 retweet 16 likes
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      11. EricaJoy ‏@EricaJoy 25 Jul 2015

        Unfortunately, IME, nothing you say or do is going to make any appreciable difference in what happens there. Which sucks, I know.

        2 retweets 9 likes
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      13. EricaJoy ‏@EricaJoy 25 Jul 2015

        You kinda want to believe you can change things, that you can make a difference, that you can make your experience better.

        4 retweets 16 likes
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      1. Matt Mireles ‏@mattmireles 25 Jul 2015

        @EricaJoy how about starting your own company?

        0 retweets 0 likes
      2. EricaJoy ‏@EricaJoy 25 Jul 2015

        @mattmireles I've thought about it. It requires a significant safety net, though, that I don't really have. Further:http://qz.com/455109/entrepreneurs-dont-have-a-special-gene-for-risk-they-come-from-families-with-money/?utm_source=SFFB …

        0 retweets 1 like
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      4. Matt Mireles ‏@mattmireles 25 Jul 2015

        @EricaJoy as a fmr google engineer, I doubt the risk is that high. You are eminently hireable.

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      1. cate con el búho ‏@catehstn 25 Jul 2015 South West, England

        cate con el búho Retweeted EricaJoy

        What @EricaJoy says about leaving Google here - she's right on. You can't fix it but you can liberate yourself.https://twitter.com/ericajoy/status/624967485842784256 …

        cate con el búho added,

        EricaJoy @EricaJoy
        To the Googlers sending me private messages about the troubles they're having there: I'm sorry you're experiencing distress and unhappiness.
        3 retweets 8 likes
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      3. Camille Fournier ‏@skamille 25 Jul 2015

        @catehstn @EricaJoy have given this advice to so many people unhappy in tech in general. Sometimes it's just not the right place for you!

        2 retweets 8 likes
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      5. Maggie Zhou ‏@zmagg 25 Jul 2015

        @skamille @catehstn @EricaJoy I think Google internally spreads this effed up rhetoric that it's "the best in the industry" at everything

        0 retweets 4 likes
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      7. Maggie Zhou ‏@zmagg 25 Jul 2015

        @skamille @catehstn @EricaJoy I see way more people quitting tech completely from out of Google than other companies

        0 retweets 2 likes
      8. Maggie Zhou ‏@zmagg 25 Jul 2015

        @skamille @catehstn @EricaJoy ah yeah. I can imagine thinking that. but it's totally not true.

        0 retweets 0 likes
      9. Camille Fournier ‏@skamille 25 Jul 2015

        @zmagg @catehstn @EricaJoy I know but it's a pernicious idea especially for underrepresented folks

        0 retweets 0 likes
      10. Maggie Zhou ‏@zmagg 25 Jul 2015

        @skamille @catehstn @EricaJoy definitely. it was the general vibe when I was there among my women tech friends. "ugh I'd leave but where?"

        0 retweets 3 likes
      11. Camille Fournier ‏@skamille 25 Jul 2015

        @zmagg @catehstn @EricaJoy I'm frequently grateful for having accidentally gotten out of big tech and seen the rest of the world

        0 retweets 3 likes
    1. Cathleen London MD ‏@DrChaya 26 Jul 2015

      .@EricaJoy sad to see that 30 years later industry has not changed. Sexism alive and well in the valley and elsewhere. SMH

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