quarantine 'em

apparently the project went through a ridiculous number of directors (10+)

my conjecture is that after a while they started moving people sideways onto the project as a like a constructive way to force them to quit

(I say that because it looks like a lot of these senior folks just quit tech entirely right after and don't show up again)

I mean you've got to have an office in Greenland you can transfer people to, figuratively speaking, right? I'm just kidding Greenland owns. Anyway I'm just hypothesising

the current director (yes there is one) did not respond to direct emails which I suspect may just be due to me being marked as spam (I am not internal to Google, meh

however! I do have a friend in Google (helped me with the employee data) and I got them to email my questions anonymised [drum roll]

and the response was TETCHY. dismissive. I would say crabby almost to the point of being unprofessional and unfortunately that's it

"go away" in almost as many words. (or possibly "get away", I mean it depends how you interpret it) also very poor typography for a higher-up. rushed