Given the employee's general attitude, I find it easy to believe her manager was already not happy with her.

See her previous (potential) legal troubles with Google that she even acknowledges herself.

> I was in the middle of a potential lawsuit for which Kat Herller and I hired feminist lawyers who threatened to sue Google (which is when they backed off--before that Google lawyers were prepared to throw us under the bus and our leaders were following as instructed) and the next day I get some random “impact award.”

https://www.platformer.news/p/the-withering-email-that-got-a...