Google Walkout

At Google offices around the world earlier this week, employees gathered ____ ____(AS AWHOLE) for the Google ____(罢工), a coordinated demonstration to protest the company's handling of sexual harassment allegations against some key executives.

At one point at the search giant's global headquarters in Mountain View, California,thousands of Google employees ____(潮涌至) onto campus, through a large public park. 

 ___________________________________(这家搜索巨头的身影遍布世界各地,一共来自50家分部的谷歌人), from Tokyo to San Francisco, __________________________________(离开它们的办公桌去抗议,举起口号) and listen to their co-workers share their personal experiences at a microphone set up in the court yard.

  • en masse, walkout, left their desks to chant, hold up signs...

    chant: an expression that means news, local gossip, the facts, the mood in the air, is whatever everyone is talking about right now / Someone who expresses themselves very vocally and in an optionated manner

  • streamed

  • Googlers from 50 of the search giant's offices worldwide

A professor at the California Western School of Law, who ____(研究) law and gender.

Because of the industry's often progressive mission statements, ____ ____(PLUS) the companies' largely liberal work forces, ______________________________(像这样员工显示大规模的动荡不安在历史上实属罕见).

At Google, ______________________(抗议的欲望尤其旺盛).

  • researches

  • coupled with, it's been historically rare for employees to display mass unrest

  • the appetite for protest has been particularly robust

A handful of employees have reportedly quit ____(DUE TO) reports of a project called "Dragonfly," an effort to build a censored search engine in China.

In August, about 1,000 employees signed an open letter asking Google CEO Sundar Pichai to ___________________(公布) the project and to create an ethical review process for it that asks for input from ____-____-____(普通成员) employees, not just high-level executives.

Employees have also ____ ____ ____(抵制) Google's decision to go after ____(有利可图的) military contracts.

  • over

  • be transparent about, rank-and-file

  • pushed back against, lucrative

然而,这次的罢工抗议,就其规模和媒体关注度来说,与过去发生的抗议相比,达到了一个新的高度。

 

  • petition

  • Every business should wonder if a protest could be staged on their campus sometime in the future.

  • But the walkout -- in terms of scale and media attention -- took those previous protests to a new level. 

The organizers set up a Twitter account to _______________________(按天进行同步记录)

They ____ ____(清楚地列出) a list of demands for Google leadership, which includes ____ ____(呼吁) to end "forced ____(仲裁)" in cases of sexual assault and harassment. 

Forced arbitration means that people ____(放弃) their right to sue, and sometimes must agree to confidentiality agreements.

  • document the day as it unfolded

  • spelled out, a call, arbitration

  • waive

所有的主要新闻媒体都报道了本次事件。

Google's walkout was in response to a ____(BREAKING) New York Times report on sexual harassment at Google.

According to the report, Android creator Andy Rubin was accused by a worker of having ____(强迫) her to perform oral sex on him in a hotel room in 2013. 

  • Every major news outlet covered the event.

  • bombshell

  • coerced

Google reportedly _________________________(发现这项质控可信)

The company then asked for his resignation, gave him an ____ ____(辞职补贴) of $90 million, and didn't mention the misconduct in his departure announcement, according to the Times.

These false allegations are part of a ____ ____(恶意营销).

  • found the allegation to be credible

  • exit package

  • smear campaign

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