Google employee reaches settlement after termination for not being ‘inclusive’
A Google executive who was fired for not being “inclusive” after rejecting his superior’s sexual advances reached a settlement with the tech giant last week.
Since he was hired as an account executive in 2007, Ryan Olohan climbed his way to the top by exceeding the expectations of his bosses. He has won multiple company awards and bonuses due to his performance and, in 2019, was promoted to managing director of Food, Beverages, and Restaurants at the company.
Olohan, a Catholic father of seven, owns an ice cream shop named Seven Scoops and Sips where he employs people with special needs.
Sexually harassed
In December 2019, Olohan was at a company dinner event with about 15 other employees. According to the original court filing in 2022, he was approached by a female colleague named Tiffany Miller. Miller, who had been drinking, rubbed Olohan’s stomach and remarked that he had “such a nice body.” She told him he was “handsome” and mentioned that there was no “spice” in her marriage. An Asian woman like Olahan’s wife, Miller commented to Olohan that she knew he liked Asian women. Olohan immediately removed himself from the situation.
When he filed a complaint with the Human Resources Department, the HR employee openly admitted that if the situation were reversed and a female were to accuse Olohan, a White male, of sexual harassment, the complaint would be escalated immediately. The HR representative also told Olohan that Miller had a drinking problem.
However, Google did not conduct any investigations in response to Olohan’s sexual harassment claim and did not notify him that they would.
Retaliation
Instead, Miller retaliated against Olohan. She berated and humiliated him in front of other employees several times, once drunkenly saying that she “did not like him 70% of the time.” She accused him of twice committing “microaggressions,” a Leftist term for being indirectly racist. Google Human Resources Business Partner Jacky Schiestel sided with Olohan and said Miller was being “petty.”
At another event, Miller made sexual advances to Olahan in front of other colleagues, asking him if he had been building his muscles at the gym and saying she knew he preferred Asian women to White women.
Nevertheless, HR continued to take no action.
Miller continued to harass Olohan. At one point, she convinced a colleague to complain to HR that Olohan was not being “inclusive” in his plans for an offsite event, which HR had approved in advance.
Fired for being ‘non-inclusive’
Olohan was subjected to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideology at Google. In February 2022, for example, Olohan’s superior, Adam Stewart, told him there were “too many White guys” on the team.
When a position opened on Olohan’s team he was told to hire a woman for the role. He was also encouraged to terminate a male member of his team and replace him with a female.
On August 5, 2022, Google’s Employee Investigations agents notified Olohan that he was being fired for not being “inclusive.” They said that he showed bias toward “high performers,” which is considered “non-inclusive.” They also accused him of “ableism” because he commented on the walking paces and “hustle” of other employees.
Google defends Miller
After Olahan filed a lawsuit against Google and Miller, Miller denied all his claims and accused him of being sexist and racist. Google sided with Miller, saying Miller’s complaint was “a fictional account of events filled with numerous falsehoods, fabricated by a disgruntled ex-employee, who was senior to Ms. Miller at Google.”
Last week, Olahan’s lawyer Alex Rissmiller said “a settlement has been reached in resolution of all claims,” but told The Daily Caller the settlement provisions are confidential.
