Lawsuits can be the source of all sorts of surprising and off the wall stories and this one, filed by a Google Atlanta-based former data center employee takes the cake. In the lawsuit, which was filed on Oct. 29 in a federal court in Atlanta, the former employee, James Bara, alleges both sexual and religious discrimination from his superior.
While it doesn’t sound juicy, the stories that Bara tells are. Bara was initially a contractor for Google’s Atlanta office, working as an assistant in the Data Center. After six months, he was hired by Google as a full-time employee. According to the complaint, all was rosy for the next two years until a female transgender employee joined the group Bara worked for. Bara’s boss, a woman named Pam Sohn, allegedly made inappropriate comments about this woman, and ridiculed her sexual preference.
Bara complained about the comments to Sohn, who Bara says turned on him and began to treat him, and the other men in the office unfairly. Bara, who is a member of the Wiccan religion, also said that Sohn made inappropriate comments directed towards him about witches and his religion that made him feel uncomfortable. For example, Sohn would sing The Wizard of Oz’s “Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead.”
Bara’s employment was eventually terminated by Google after long standing issues with Sohn. There’s more in the lawsuit, but you get the picture. It’s totally bizarre, and also very sad if these allegations are true. Bara is seeking punitive damages as well as compensation for attorney fees.
We’ve received an official response from Google:
“After a thorough investigation, we have no reason to believe James Bara was discriminated against or treated unfairly, and we’ll defend ourselves vigorously against these charges. Google values a diverse and respectful workforce and does not tolerate discrimination.”
wiccan –
This would actually be an example of a case worth following, if only because it’d probably end up as a great Neil LaBute play.
I laugh.. but I shouldn’t… can’t help myself.
I don’t find any of it laughable. What’s funny about someone being made to feel uncomfortable because of their personal beliefs?
I’m wiccan and, yeah, i’ve had to put up with a lot of “jokes” and offensive spiel from people thinking that it’s okay to mock or take the proverbial out of you for it because it’s just a “make believe” religion.
Well it ain’t, and whilst i’m all for free speech and that, when someone makes comments that make another person feel bad or uncomfortable there is a time to stop.
I disagree. I think that everyone should be treated with equal disdain. Muslim, Christian, Atheist, Polytheist, Agnostic, Wiccan, black, white, green, orange, tall, short, fat, skinny, normal, whatever. However, I don’t believe it should be brought into the workplace.
Outside the workplace it shouldn’t matter. There is no “free speech but”. If you don’t think someone should be able to make those comments, you aren’t for free speech. If you don’t think they should be brought into the workplace, that’s a different matter and I agree.
I’ll even help you out a little. I’m a dirty Christian. I have a make-believe friend in the sky who grants my wishes when I talk to him from a kneeling position….if he feels like it.
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Southpark 4eva.
OMG grow up. People of all religious beliefs are mocked all the time.
aren’t all the Wiccas lesbians ?
No, but all lesbians are Wiccans.
Wicca is not a religion period.
[citation needed]
Yes, it really is.
Actually, Wicca IS a REAL religion, worthy of First Amendment religious freedom protections. Do some research before mouthing off.
THE NIGHT TIME IS THE RIGHT TIME!
I am trying to figure out what the funny/entertaining part of this story is.
The funny part is you’re intelligent enough to not think its funny.
This sounds right to me. There only has to be an appearance of harassment.
Sounds legit to me… I guess I’ll have to read it to see what’s so funny?
I didn’t realize anyone who was older than like 16 and past that angsty phase was Wiccan.
Well “Wells”, you are definitely not informed. Your comment, while probably meant to be sarcastic/funny, is pretty offensive.
Then you know very little about the Wiccan/NeoPagan religion in this country. There are plenty of resources on the internet for you to educate yourself. I would suggest starting with the Witches Voice, The Pagan Federation (UK site) and the C.O.G site.
Yeah. There are people much older than 16 who are still in that phase. Some of them make websites!
Stop calling it a religion – it is NOT a religion period.
Feeling a bit defensive about your sky wizard?
Tell that to the U.S. government.
As the saying goes “only in America”
KW, it’s not just in America. That’s just one example.
do your research you pompous bastard… It is in fact where many religions stemmed from.
It’s like any religion, or Objectivism… most post-adolescents don’t take such things too seriously. Then there are those who do, and who will *never* miss a chance to tell you all about it.
I’m 30 years past that “angsty” phase.
Wicca is a federally recognized religion here in the U.S., and it is very much a spiritually lifelong commitment. You confuse Hollywood and “teen witch” commercial authors with practitioners of a legitimate faith.
“Wicca is a federally recognized religion here in the U.S”
so is satanism (its true!) the US navy will offer you a satanic burial if you so wish it
the fact that any of these idiotic irrational superstitions get legal legitimacy is what is galling
but then again, this is the USA…you can be as stupid as you want as long as you get other people to join you.
Lemme guess, you have no problem with Christianity?
The U.S. Navy does not provide ANY sort of religious burial unto itself. You must provide your own religious personnel, or request a military chaplain to officiate (of which there are no Satanic ones
Just out of curiosity, what about Wicca’s dogma do you find irrational or superstitious, since we base our beliefs on the laws of physics?
OK – I can’t resist that one!
How is the Law of Threes ( http://en.wikip.../Rule_of_Three_(Wiccan) ) based on physics? Sounds like exponential growth to me…
How about the Wiccan Rede ( http://en.wikip...iki/Wiccan_rede ) – every action has repercussions, positive AND negative, which implies that you can do nothing per belief. Interestingly/confusingly, by doing NOTHING you are also harming people – so you can’t even do THAT! *grin*
Belief is great. Faith is great. I frankly envy those with such traits – makes life a whoooole lot easier. But please, don’t try to state your faith can be scientifically proven. It just does not work.
John B., I’d love to answer your comment, but there is no reply button. You have pat answers to these, but I cannot reply to the flaws in the theories, especially the one where our faith can be “scientifically proven.” I never stated that. I said we base it on the laws of physics, which means we operate within those laws. Your comments are based on something out of a B-movie, not logic.
Whoop dedo… stupid is as stupid does…and since when is any religion superstitious. What’s irrational and idiodic to me is folks actually believe that Mary was a virgin. I could go on, but I really need to go take down my Samhain altar now. The pomegranates are going bad. Blessed Be.
Here’s a good resource, BTW:
http://wicca.timerift.net
I didn’t realize anyone who was older than like 16 would be so immature as to make derogatory comments about another person’s religious beliefs.
You must be new to this world….
My guess is that he’s 17.
Same as believing in a dude who changes wine into blood and bread into flesh… and then rose from the dead & now watches over you from some great happy land in the sky.
It’s always easiest to make fun of someone else’s beliefs…even when one’s own are just as “silly” as anyone else’s…
Humility. Practice it.
Yeah, and same as believing in a bearded guy’s theory, that a human being, the most “technologically advanced computer” in the world, with thousands of terabytes of memory, millions of (designed) mechanisms (unexplained to this day), ability to think, understand, feel, touch, love, cry, procreate, have basic moral values, etc, etc, has a monkey as his ancestor…
After all of the nonsense from the bearded guy, the “dude who changes wine into blood and bread into flesh” doesn’t look so bad after all, does He?!
P.S. To those who are interested in this debate, here are a few interesting facts to ponder on (taken from the book called “The Big Argument: Does God Exist?”):
1. The lungs that look like a pair of pink sponges in our chest, for example, contain about 600 million tiny air sacks called alveoli and have 750 woven miles of blood vessels. If the lungs were flattened out, they would cover a surface area of about 1,000 square feet.
2. Our bone is stronger than granite. A block of bone half the size of a computer mouse can support ten tons – four times the capacity of concrete. In an “average” adult, the marrow of the flat bones (skull bones and ribs) also makes two-and-a-half million delicate red blood cells per second, as well as providing anchor attachments for our muscles.
3. Our heart, composed of unique cardiac muscle, beats at least 2.8 billion times during the average life span – resting between beats. This means it pumps 600,000 tons of blood in the average lifetime through 60,000 miles of blood vessels. If skeletal muscle from the arm or leg tried to do what the heart does day out and day in, it would be useless within minutes. The heart is a wonder of engineering.
4. The average person has two kidneys that contain 1.3 million amazing units of filtration called nephrons. With every beat of the heart, one-third of the blood goes to the renal arteries, and thus through this pair of reddish-brown, bean-shaped organs. This means they filter about eight quarts of blood every hour. The kidneys are designed, at the level of the nephron, to return glucose, ions, water, and other important substances to the blood while expelling two liters (three pints) or urine a day. Anatomists estimate our kidneys are about as complex as the brain. They are certainly not just a pair of blood filters, as many think…
The problem with atheists is that they believe that everything has to have a beginning and since God doesn’t have one, that’s an intellectual dead end for them and while I cannot explain how it’s possible either, I do believe in it, just like we believe in other things we can’t explain.
Believe me, it’s takes just as much faith to believe in evolution, then to believe in the fact that God doesn’t have a beginning. But that’s not all, the atheists and evolutionists have another big problem they don’t want to talk about, that basically is a dead end to their own theory.
Here it goes: Assuming that life was formed by chance on our planet, which also formed by chance when matter and the universe came in to existence as the result of some type of “big bang” explosion of space and energy, the question is, where did space and energy come from?! Where did this “whatever”, that caused space and energy to form, come from, and so forth and so on. No matter how you look at it, the very first “whatever” (let’s call it an element) that started the whole evolution thing, could not come in to existence by itself and at the very least, had to be created, so there you have it, another dead end…
Sorry for the long post, but I felt compelled to write it. Thanks for reading!
kirk cameron reads tc! who woulda thunk??
the same old creationist hee-haw…the body is complex, therefore it must have been created. okay, these “stats” are interesting…but so what?
the human body has countless imperfections, vestigialities, and other leftovers from evolution. creationists tend to overlook these in their quest to define the human body as the ultimate engineering project
You really got nothing here. Specialization of organisms happens all the time in nature. Because bone can hold up tons of weight = proof of G-d? You’re kidding, right? I’ve got a pen on my desk which is really a nice shade of yellow. Does that mean there is really an Easter Bunny?
And your closing argument, something must have started the first “whatever” is valid. That’s why science is working to figure out what that something is.
For the record, I’m not atheist. I just think if G-d left us any message or clues about our existence then he encrypted it in nature and gave us science and inquisitiveness to decipher it. Why cripple our potential with religious superstitions?
All the examples you have given can be explained through the theory of evolution. To state that atheists think everything needs to have a beginning goes to show just how little of your homework you have done. To think that an atheist’s problem with God centers around him having a “beginning” or not, is downright ignorant.
Apart from all that, if all those “wonderful things” you speak of were created by a God of some sort, that God would need to be at least as complex, if not more complex. Somehow, you don’t feel the need to question where *he* came from, or what made him. But that’s just religious selectivity, I figure.
@SX, in an infinite universe, the highly improbable becomes inevitable.
Asking “where did space and energy come from” shows how little you know about Big Bang theory. (And it’s circular. If this is so important to you, then you must also ask where the guy with the beard comes from too.)
Over the last five thousands years there have been many, many concepts and phenomena that were moved from the “God did it” bucket to the “science explains it” bucket. In that same time, the reverse has never occurred.
Your fascination with nephrons says more about you than evolutionary theory. Would you really go to a doctor who rejects evolution, even as those theories are used every single day to develop pharmaceuticals and even predict which flu shot you should get?
@ everybody who replied to my original comment: For a second forget that you are an evolutionist, and with a clear and free-of-a-preconceived-belief-in-evolution mind, try to think about the following:
Something cannot be created or come out of nothing. Now, for the sake of the argument, suppose the evolution theory is correct and evolution started billions of years ago because of something, that caused something that caused the whole evolution process to start, but herein lies the problem, since something cannot be created out of nothing, where did the very first something that started the whole evolution process, come from?! Obviously it wasn’t created so where did it come from?!
There’s nothing you can do or say that will disprove this. This is the dead end of the evolution theory my friends…
If you can answer this question, I would love to hear your answer, if not, it’s time for you to re-think the whole evolution theory baloney…
I don’t want to hear any attempts, theories, etc., to answer this question, so you either answer it if you know the answer or simply don’t try. Oh and please no personal attacks. There’s nothing more pathetic than going in to a personal attack mode when you run out of arguments, so to those who like to use this strategy, please don’t make smart people who share you points of views, look foolish, because of your stupidity
@ Fitz: OK, but why do people believe in everybody, but Jesus?! Jesus is a historical figure and eyewitnesses and historians recorded that he existed, performed miracles, raised people from the dead, etc.
I don’t understand what’s wrong with the whole believing in Jesus thing, when there are historical figures who have far less records of their existence then Him, and yet nobody disputes the validity of their existence, life, etc, etc.
Jesus was a good guy and never intended for religion to become what it is now, a circus, so looking at the state of religion now and the hypocrisy you see in a Christians people’s life, I can see why a lot of people have an “allergy” to religion, but Jesus is not the bad guy here, people who misrepresent Him and what He was all about are.
There is nothing wrong with pure and hypocrisy- free religion.
Evolution has nothing to do with Creationism, the Big Bang, or how everything began.
Evolution is simply the study of how things adapt and change over time.
SX – The concept of “creation” and “beginning” and “end” are entirely human concepts that are simply convenient ways of categorizing change.
There is no law written somewhere stating that cause and effect cannot go on into the infinite. We don’t have the ability to step outside of our pocket of space/time and test what it is which caused our 11-dimensional knot of existence. Even if we could, you would still ask: “What created that!”, so it is a pointless question to ask.
What we do know is that a massive pulse of energy left the universe as we know it over the course of billions of years. The important questions are the ones regarding what happened within this universe, not outside of it, for it is impossible to know. However thinking that it is some entity which gives any kind of shit about one small corner of this universe is very anthropocentric and without reason.
Getting back to evolution, you clearly don’t have a full comprehension of just how much time millions of years and millions of generations is, and how much change can occur in that time. Evolution is a ridiculously simple concept which cannot be denied if you escape your biases of “onoes we couldn’t have been monkees!” and realize that natural selection is INHERENT to any reproducing system that mutates.
You cannot deny that we reproduce. You cannot deny that we mutate when we do. You cannot deny that some mutations are beneficial while others aren’t.
The complexity of the human body is not even close to reasonable doubt about evolution since time and time again it has been explained in detail how all of these structures could have come about, AND how these structures are not at all the best possible design but rather one that worked (and how much useless crap is left over from previous evolutionary eras).
Please show me an eyewitness account of Jesus performing a miracle that is not in the New Testament?
My understanding of Jewish teachings from the Talmud, which I have not studied but have discussed with those that have, is that science was weighed equally important to scripture in understanding G-d. In Jewish teachings these were not orthogonal, but necessary. This teaching does not believe that the text is strict, as many orthodox Jews believe.
I purchased “Genesis and the Big Bang” for a family member, which explores this topic further. While I have not read it, she enjoyed the book.
I am not a practicing Jew, but as an engineer I find this careful balance attractive. I think both are valuable for understanding ourselves and faith, and find it unfortunate that Christians take a very narrow view that often rejects the Jewish teachings it is based on.
Silly.. God must be exceedingly complex, to have invented all this. Who made Him?
Duh… God made us, and we made him.
And to the non-practising Jew: Muslims come from Jews and Christians come from Pagans. That’s why they have that cannibalistic ritual that they call sacrament in an effort to create immortality. They also believe in Santa Claus.
When I was in high school I went to the principal’s office to complain about sexual harassment. They laughed at me when I told them it was girls and expressed that I should consider myself lucky. Go figure. It’s funny how what some people see as harassment others look at as entertainment.
A five year old with a box of crayons could do a better job of “designing” a human being than did the proverbial sky daddy.
By the same token, if design were the inherent element, why so few design templates. We’re to expect an infallible omnipotent omniscient “god” could only come up with these few templates?
E.g., a horse uses the same template as a man, as an ape, as a dog, as a bird, as a fish. There are some differences, of course, but the structural elements are the same.
Any thing with eight legs uses the same template, whether it’s above water or under. Same thing with twelve limbs.
There are really only a couple of dozen templates for life on this planet. Couldn’t god have been more creative than that?
Saddly, no. And this is the ephemeral being to whom you bend a knee? Fah.
It is like other religions, but it has a focus on the earth, nature, and practice. I’m not religious at all, but if I had to pick one, it would probably be Wicca.
The James Bara VS. Google case is now online at the AllRise court. Join the debate and cast your vote – http://bit.ly/AllRise268
See, now, THIS is an example of a GOOD comment plug. On topic, no pretense, and the link is exactly what you expect. Nice.
He’s definitely got a case, but it’s a little bit funny. Have to have a sense of humor about life even when fighting for your rights.
Care to enlighten what is funny about someone’s misfortune? Would you have found it equally funny if the boss was a Wiccan and Bara followed a mainstream judeo-christian faith?
As a Wiccan, I must admit to also singing “Ding Dong” in irreverent moments. It’s unfortunate that this case seems to be more than bad office humor.
I too poke fun at myself at times, and will put up with others poking fun at myself if the situation permits. Humor is a good way to humble (shock!) someone into either feeling welcome, or to tone down an ego. Its not a bad thing.
The problem comes when the gentleman asked, hopefully in a respectful and polite manner, for his boss to stop because he felt it was excessive, and the situation continued.
Sohn a house fell on his mother you insensitive clod.
Who cares what religion it is, if it’s harassment then it’s harassment. I don’t know about the specifics in this case, but certainly Google, as an employer, has an important role here: to make sure it doesn’t happen in the workplace.
I was shocked to see the vocal support for the wizard Bara. I fully expected to see comments mocking Wicca — very surprising to find the opposite.
That said, I wonder what comments would be if the white wizard Bara were a scientologist…
exactly. this is why i am against discrimination of scientology. it is patently no more or less idiotic than any other religion. and the catholic church has spent centuries burning people, telling people in third world nations not to use condoms, raping boys, and liberating people from their savings, so don’t try to tell me scientology is patently more harmful to members
Scientology has applied for religious status for no other reason than to dodge taxes and have an easy tool to shun opponents. L. Ron Hubbard himself stated that scientology is not a religion nor a psychotherapy – before flipflopping and changing the words in the books, that is.
Apart from the question whether or not ’scientology’ should be a religion, the commercial entity known as the ‘Church of Scientology’ or ‘Church of Spiritual Technology’ is a dangerous criminal organisation. http://www.truthrundown.org for just some of the disturbing facts.
look, i agree with you, its a crooked scam org that preys on its members
just like every other religion
and frankly the crackpot beliefs of scientology are no more crackpot than any other religion…we just take montheistic nonsense as mainstream because we’ve been exposed to it our whole lives. i could just as easily condition you to accept zeus worship
No, it is not a scam. We’re all descended from clams, and you have now violated their copyright under DMCA merely by mentioning it. Prepare for the harassment-by-lawsuit of a lifetime, heathen xenu-worshiper.
You misunderstand me, I care very little for the things Scientologists believe in. If they believe that we are aliens colonized on earth by an evil overlord called Xenu 75 million years ago, by all means, let them.
I am, however, worried by the downright criminal practices of the upper management of the commercial entity called the ‘Church of Scientology’, which uses illegal tactics to combat opponents and to blackmail ex-Scientologists. What they’re doing in their little cult is by no standards acceptable, and saying something like “but all religions are stupid!” is, even though I agree with the sentiment of that message, being unnecessarely soft towards a bunch of convicted criminals.
hehehe. “Wizard” is for the movies. Bara is a Wiccan.
I’m not sure why you would bring up a convicted criminal organisation and compare it to an innocent religion such as Wicca.
basically you can take any idiotic irrational belief system, wrap it in a thin veneer of ritual, call it a religion, and instantly you are elevated above rationality. do you want leprechaunism protected in the workplace? why not? the belief in leprechauns is fundamentally as sound/unsound as any religion
i’m not singling out wiccanism…why should christianity, judiasm, islam, or any other patently idiotic irrational fairy-tale belief system be subject to legal protection?
pam sohn should simply claim that chauvanistic behavior is part of her cultural religious identity. case closed.
on a side note, its amusing how paganists, wiccanists, etc seem to hold themselves out as some enlightened alternative to mainstream idiocy. no…alternative idiocy is still idiocy
A HUGE Amen to that … uh-oh, thats religious… how about simply “F” Yeah!
amen
wow, didn’t think i was reading valleywag. what a waste of space on what’s so obviously a story worthy of a tabloid, not what i thought was a serious technology news source. shame, shame…
“FEMALE transgender” – only in America.
Its interesting, I would like to hear both sides of the story though. Sure this guy was fired, but all I am reading is how he was wronged… what else did he do that could have justified his termination? I am sure there is much more to it.
If all he did was complain about the treatment of a co-worker, and then started getting made fun of etc, the he deserves all he can get, but if there was more insubordination etc etc, them perhaps he deserved it?
Side Note/Question: Is “wicca” even a real recognized religion? I am gonna start my own religion where I worship space aliens.
Good catch . . .consider why he may have been terminated!
Wicca is a real religion although the Catholic Church has always had propaganda to try to make it look like it’s not a real religion or that it’s satanic worship.
I’m pretty sure that Google does recognize Wicca as a real religion.
well if you want aliens, you are either going to look for Scientology or raelians. i personally find the Raelians to be much more accepting and sane than the Scientologists but to each his own.
Wicca is a “real” religion, and even the US Army recognizes it…with pentacles on military gravestones and everything.
I do agree with that; there are always two sides to a story. And yes, Wicca is a legally recognized religion here in the U.S. and other countries.
There are plenty of males and wiccans, and even some {gasp!} male wiccans that still work for Google, in the same location that Bara did, even. If this really were such a big issue, these kind of complaints would have been showing up long before now.
Google hasn’t put up any huge display of defense for public consumption, and I highly doubt they will. Odds are, Bara was dismissed for reasons having nothing to do with his gender or religion, and more to do with his attitude and work ethic (or lack thereof)
I knew James Bara personally. He’s a notorious liar and anyone else who knows him personally will tell you the same. His lies are simply going further because Google keeps so much information proprietary. I also know Pam Sohn personally. She constantly overly concerned about how any comments could be taken. I find it extremely difficult to believe that she would ever discriminate against anyone. This is ridiculous. Soon, all of Bara’s made up stories will unravel and everyone will feel ridiculous for believing them. It’s unfortunate that he’s giving Google a bad reputation in the process.
Good try, Pam
That’s not Pam, lol. I know everyone involved in this.. heather is right on target with that. Plus.. I’m a witch myself.
As a devout worshiper of the Sun God Ra, I have had it up to here with the constant name-calling and harassment I endure on a daily basis from my Wiccan coworkers here at the call center.
People should be as sensitive to my anachronistic hobby religion as I am to theirs.
I’m an Odinist and the fact that you have any religion besides mine offends me.
All hail the sun god, he sure is a fun god, RA RA RA
So, let me get this right?
This, up until this time, good employee did the right thing and stood up for someone who was being discriminated against and then ended up being a target himself for harassment.
The office manager should be fired and Google should pay.
No matter how hard a company tries to hire the best and brightest, a few losers wills sneak in. When they are eventually found to be incompetent, and are fired, some of them retaliate. From this same office a man named Jon Cobb filed a ridiculous law suit as well:
http://www.info...cleID=206700002
James Bara, so much speculation but let’s hear for someone who knows him. James was indeed fired from Google. But wait, look at this news press from his new employer that he no doubt provided info for:
http://news.yah...eb/prweb3058634
So the article spells out the quit for a better opportunity. That is obviously a lie but what else is a lie? Senior Program Manager? He started as a Data Tech 0 (the lowest level), advanced 1 level, moved to another department and was fired.
Again, another blatant lie.
Others have chimed in with how much of a distorter he is. Soon the courts will hear he the case and I hope that credibility is brought up.
James landed a job with a sketchy celebrity gossip site because, he again, told lies to their management. His new employer believed he credentials. Do you?
inappropriate comments about witches. that’s rich
next thing you know, people will be in trouble for disparaging Satan
is it just me, or is it annoying that people can hold whatever beliefs they want and as long as they make it part of a religion, its somehow sacrosanct. Even when said beliefs involve endless disparagement of others or their beliefs
sorry, a stupid belief is a stupid belief, even if you’ve organized it into a belief system that’s sucked in a bunch of other people
Inappropriate comments about Wiccans, not just “witches” across the board.
So, Wicca is a “stupid belief.” That’s a very broad, general statement about a complex religious structure. What makes you feel it’s a one-belief system, and what is stupid about it?
I think that men or women in positions of power often use that power to punish others in subordinate positions
hope the wiccan wins against the douchebag
Those of you who wish to mock the beliefs of others will one day find yourselves on the receiving end of such scorn, all you do will come back to. At one point in your life you will find your self being treated as poorly as you treat others, and I will laugh because even then most of you wont even know why.
To the rest, let Truth guide you,
Blessed Be
Why, what are you going to do? hex us?
For those of you who couldn’t figure out what was so funny about this article, let me clue you in. The funniest part wasn’t the article; it was the comment string that followed. The whiney fringe has ruffled their feathers about being picked on. A few sarcastic individuals have tried to make funny comments. The whiney fringe has pouted and said “Not Funny.” Then the moral majority has tried to convince us all that they are right. Well, to anyone who took offense at anything posted above, “Get over yourself!”
Leena Rao wasn’t trying to poke fun at Wiccans, trans-gender people or anyone else. The note-worthy aspects of the lawsuit were simply the strange confluence of non-mainstream players in the harassment suit. It was ironic that this harassment occurred when all of the principals involved were “minorities.” Traditionally, most people think of sexual discrimination as the male boss harassing the female subordinate. They typically envision religious discrimination as occurring when Muslims or Jews are singled out by Christians. This seems to be just as clear cut harassment but involved none of the traditional players.
So, Wiccans stop whining. You have a religion that is not mainstream. Expect scrutiny and prejudice. All of the major religions faced it at one point of their history.
Christians, stop preaching (on this site at least). This is TechCrunch.com not ChristCrunch.com. Let’s talk about technical stuff.
Sarcastic Agnostics, keep making funny comments, but understand that some people get touchy when you hit their hot button. Try apologizing once in a while.
And to everyone else (including me), when it comes to religion, you will never be able to convince someone who believes something else to see your way of thinking.
I don’t knowed anything about wiccan before this article
@mary
Wiccan – new age word to describe a dead religion that’s been revived by the popular TV series with that Who’s the Boss girl. My sister is one of them.
Wicca – a living religion that has been bastardized by New Age commercial whackadoodles for fun and profit. But don’t confuse the two.
Hmm.
Wait, this guy?
http://news.yah...eb/prweb3058634
Yes, that same guy. By the looks of that article he wasn’t completely honest with them either. If you look at documents on this site – http://docs.jus...162539/1/1.html – you’ll see that the EEOC looked into the matter and found that he didn’t have a case. I think he’s just looking to embarrass Google into a quick settlement. He sees big money.
Once contracted at large law firm in IT department. Group manager was a woman with emotional issues. She would come through the cubes and literally hit, or kick peoples cubes if she was in a bad mood, or things weren’t going her way that day. She would ridicule one employee to another in private and pit people against each other. Crazy. Happens in many companies becuase the management is friends with, or scared to fire that person.
So, wait, what does Pam’s gender history have to do with this?
Wiccans beliefs are deception of evil spirits. You can read more info in here:
http://koti.phn...ola/wiccan.html