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– A few weeks ago, Google was in the middle of a controversy over the departure of Dr. Timnit Gebru, who says she was fired after sending an email criticizing the company. Now, a second black woman who previously worked for Google is beating her up and says she has “receipts” to prove she herself was fired by mistake. Learning to be Google’s “most successful diversity recruiter in history,” April Christina Curley Twitter Monday to tell their side of the story. She says the company “terminated” her in September after she was solely responsible for hiring HBCU students. Curley he writes that, despite “stellar” performance on his part, “I was repeatedly denied promotions, cut compensation, assigned performance improvement plans, denied leadership opportunities, and called : [and] intentionally excluded from meetings “.
Curley also says one of her executives (female and white) told her that her strong Baltimore accent was a “disability” that she should reveal at internal meetings and that she “never felt comfortable supporting my work. because she was “intimidated” by me and therefore never considered me leadership opportunities. ” Curley says he has more information about “the tremendously racist hiring and hiring practices I’ve seen on Google,” but that he will keep these anecdotes for a while. NBC News has more information on other complaints this year about diversity at Google, where black women make up 0.7% of the technology workforce. “We’ve seen what happens to black women at Google who put pressure on the status quo,” one NBC employee explains. “He’s usually forced to leave the company.” A Google representative told Business Insider that the company has a “broad team of recruiters” working to attract HBCU students, adding: “We don’t agree with the way April describes his cessation, but we should not comment on their claims. ” Frost itself he has also responded in Curley’s story, calling it a “heartbreaking account.” (Read more Google stories.)