Google executive discriminated against male employees, bombshell lawsuit alleges

A senior executive at Google subjected male employees to a “relentless campaign” of hostility and discrimination – systematically targeting men to be fired, denying them promotions, refusing to allow them to contribute in meetings and even distributing memberships to professional organizations that only served women as Christmas gifts — a bombshell lawsuit alleges.Marco Meier, a former German pro-basketball player, joined the tech giant in 2011 and worked on the ads team for nearly 13 years.He claims in a newly filed lawsuit that he was routinely passed over for promotions and ultimately fired under false pretenses by a discriminatory boss who said that male employees were “too aggressive and too competitive.”Meier was a “stellar employee,” the lawsuit claims, and worked himself up to the role of Head of Google Marketable Products – Big 5 Agencies and secured one of the biggest ad sales deals in Google’s history, but things took a turn for the worse when he began reporting to the executive, the lawsuit states.“We need more leaders like Marco.

I strongly endorse his promotion,” Google Vice President Torrence Boone wrote in a 2021 email reviewed by Fox News Digital. In 2022, 14 people from Meier’s department received promotions to director positions, 13 of which were women, the lawsuit alleges.Fox News Digital reviewed an email announcing the promotions.

A Google representative said the company always “hires the best people for the job.”When Meier began working under the executive in 2019, the team comprised seven male team leads and two female team leads.In four years, that number was completely flipped.

The executive had fired all but two of the male team leads, Meier being one of the two that remained, according to the suit, and replaced them with women, in what the lawsuit alleges was “nefarious and systematic elimination.” The executive allegedly said that male employees were “too aggressive and too competitive,” court pa...