I was referring to the Google/Damore situation when I referenced being fired for stating an opinion.
The Google/Damore situation is much worse. The Damore post was an anonymous opinion piece and they had to do an internal search to track him down. He wrote it after being forced to attend a diversity seminar.
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/op-e...damore-may-have-a-federal-case-against-google
The Google situation looks pretty bad for Google and they are going to have to cough up bucks.
Kaepernick quit, and demanded to be rehired by a competitor. That is a whole different situation. There are a number of judgments involved (including the fact it would have a negative effect on the fan base).
Like RG III, once teams had a couple of years of tape on Kaepernick he was a lot less effective and he apparently hasn't been working on his craft being much more interested in social issues. He is said to not be able to read defenses well.
Blaine Gabbert a non-playing backup for Arizona this year was 1-4 for the the start of the 2016 and got benched.
Kaepernick was 1-10 for the remaining games he started. In the Bears game Kaepernick was 1:5 for 4 yards and got sacked 5/25 (he lost 21 yards) before he was pulled (Gabbert was only sacked once). Both victories were against LA and Gabbert won more convincingly (28-0). The meltdown of Kaepernick in the Bears game is difficult to understand.
Now there was nothing particularly heinous in Damore's memo and if anyone wants to claim men and women are the same, or attack the memo, open a thread on the subject and we will have at it. Google's diversity seminars push leftist pseudo-science. If there was a law prohibiting lying to your employees their seminars would be actionable.
Just to note 55 year old Bobby Riggs beat Margret Court (6-2, 6-1) and lost a close tennis match to a 29 year old Billy Jean King. Bobby Riggs would have been beer canned by a top male competitor.
The fact that Facebook and Google try to influence elections by censoring the right end (actually everything but the left end) of the political spectrum is reason enough to bring anti-trust actions against these de-facto monopolies.