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Ultimatums never work, and threatening to resign is never a good strategy (compared to either trying to amicably work things out OR just resigning).

However Google's passive-aggressive response wasn't terribly great either ("We respect your decision to leave Google ... and we are accepting your resignation.")

It's a firing packaged up as fake "respect".

I wish both sides learned more about how to de-escalate situations.



or she just wanted to leave. perhaps causing some fuss was part of the plan, too.

i'm not involved with google in any way except being their product and user of their services... but neither side inspires my confidence here.


They could have written “we won’t meet your ultimatum but we don’t think you’ll resign like you threatened, so see you after vacation”. Would that be better?


I mean, they could have just been upfront and said

"We feel that at ultimatum is not an effective way to discuss this issue and so we are hereby terminating your employment effective today."

No need for this passive-aggressive "respect your decision" [but didn't actually respectfully let you confirm your decision] bullshit.


Leadership needed to look firm and serious here. They needed to send a message that ultimatums will not be tolerated in this business.




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