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If someone states I will do X if you don't do Y, it still comes down to the person choosing to take some action X. If you don't take action Y, it is still on the first person to choose to take action X. She may have intended to hand in her resignation, but she did not get the chance.

She said if these conditions are not met, I will work with you on an end date. That's not what happened, she was terminated immediately with the rationalization being that they didn't like the tone of the email she sent to the Google Brain Women and Allies listserv. That alone points to it being a termination.

Is she largely responsible for her employment ending at Google. You could say yes, but fact is that Google is the one who cut things off.



Once both parties decide to part way, I don't think it's reasonable to think that you will get to choose the exit date at your own liking.

Either party can choose an earlier date, but not a later date.

I don't really care if she left or Google fired her. But framing it as Google is evil for firing her seems dishonest when she was the one who gave the ultimatum.

Google is evil, but not for this activity.




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