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– A few weeks ago, Google woke up amid 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 used to work for Google slams her and says she has “receipts” to prove she was fired by mistake. Calling herself Google’s “most successful diversity recruiter in history,” April Christina Curley Twitter Monday to tell her part of the story. She says the company “fired” her in September after she was solely responsible for recruiting HBCU students. Curley write that, despite her “stellar” performance, “my promotions were repeatedly denied, my compensation was reduced, I made plans to improve my performance, I refused leadership opportunities, I screamed, [and] intentionally excluded from meetings. ”
Curley also says that one of her managers (female and white) told her that her strong Baltimore accent was a “disability” 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 for leadership opportunities. “Curley says she has more details about” the extremely racist recruitment and hiring practices I’ve seen at Google. ” NBC News has more to say about 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 women. Google employees are pushing to leave the company, “said an NBC employee.” They are usually forced to leave the company. A Google representative told Business Insider that the company has a “large team of recruiters.” to attract HBCU students, adding: “We do not agree with the way April describes her termination, but it is not appropriate to comment on her claims. “Gebru himself he also replied to Curley’s story, calling it “a heartbreaking account.” (Read more Google articles.)