I was fired from Google after my female boss' 'sexist' changes to her department left me feeling hopeless

A former Google executive has revealed however helium was near feeling 'depressed and hopeless' by a pistillate brag who helium claims undermined him and different men employees successful a relentless run of discrimination. 

Marco Meier, who worked for the Google advertizing squad for astir 13 years earlier helium was fired past year, successful a suit accuses Managing Director of Sales Marta Martinez of sexism and making her antheral co-worker's lives miserable.

The 43-year-old erstwhile German pro hoops subordinate claimed helium had a promising vocation with the institution but was fto spell aft complaining astir gender favoritism from Martinez.

In a bombshell national suit filed successful the Southern District of New York past week, Meier claimed Martinez subjected antheral employees to a 'relentless campaign' of hostility and discrimination. 

'I felt depressed and hopeless, to beryllium honest, due to the fact that I had mislaid power implicit my vocation trajectory,' Meier told DailyMail.com.

'Seeing however galore different antheral squad leads were fto spell astir me, however I was overlooked for promotions, and past listening to discriminating comments, it seemed wide that the men were being targeted based connected our gender.'

It's the latest successful a bid of workplace favoritism lawsuits successful which achromatic men accidental they've faced favoritism arsenic companies clasp policies that assistance women and minorities get ahead.    

Meier started arsenic an relationship enforcement with the institution successful 2011 and, aft respective promotions, was earning $540,000 annually by 2023. 

However, helium claimed his 'work situation irreparably and dramatically changed' successful 2019 erstwhile helium began to enactment nether Martinez. 

'I felt that Marta Martinez had an docket and lone supported the pistillate squad leads successful her department,' Meier told DailyMail.com, echoing the claims made successful his 37-page lawsuit.

'It felt similar antheral enactment had nary spot successful her team, and it seemed similar I was intelligibly targeted due to the fact that of my gender, adjacent though I brought specified a unsocial inheritance to the team.'

Meier says helium had loved the occupation and was readying to decorativeness retired his vocation astatine Google until helium was 'derailed' by the caller boss. 

'I felt that I was with my backmost against the wall,' helium says.

'I ever gave my implicit champion for my squad and for Google. I ever had fantabulous manager and show ratings - until I started reporting to Marta Martinez.' 

The suit alleged that erstwhile Meier started with Martinez's team, 7 of her 9 employees were men, but implicit the people of 4 years, she fired astir of the men and replaced them with women. 

According to the lawsuit, she allegedly sent specified messages as: 'The women connected my squad person amended enactment skills and are amended prepared' and 'Men are excessively assertive and excessively competitive.'

The suit alleges that Meier and different squad leaders were not allowed to afloat instrumentality portion successful meetings and were reviewed overmuch much harshly than their women co-workers.    

It besides says men employees struggled to get onto large projects, portion lesser qualified women staffers got the opportunities. 

To enactment it simply, Meier says, women got promotions and men were repeatedly turned down. 

In 1 instance, Martinez allegedly gave her antheral and pistillate squad members an yearly rank to Step-Up, a institution that supports lone women successful leadership, for their Christmas gift.

'I complained respective times to HR, and Google adjacent responded successful an email stating that Marta Martinez committed a behaviour [violation] and was fixed training,' Meier told DailyMail.com.

'Still, perfectly thing changed, and past I was fired soon after.'

After his archetypal complaint, Meier was assigned to a antithetic manager but claimed Martinez dispersed mendacious rumors astir him to his caller boss, it is alleged.

'Martinez further retaliated by submitting mendacious and antagonistic show reviews of [Meier] to his caller manager,' the suit says.

Meier past filed his 2nd complaint, and aft the institution closed that investigation, helium said helium was fired. 

'Not lone was nary enactment taken by Google against Martinez, but simply 2 months aft the purported probe was completed, Google proceeded to notify [Meier] connected January 17, 2024, that his employment would beryllium terminated connected April 17, 2024, nether the guise of "Role elimination,"' the suit said.

Meier's favoritism and retaliation suit seeks an unspecified magnitude successful damages to beryllium determined aft a assemblage trial.

Google has denied the allegations successful the suit and said its probe into Martinez showed she did not discriminate against anyone.

'We thoroughly reviewed these allegations much than erstwhile and recovered them to beryllium wholly meritless and misleading,' a spokesperson said.

'We person a zero-tolerance argumentation for favoritism and retaliation and bash not beforehand oregon marque relation elimination decisions based connected gender, period.'

The lawsuit is portion of a increasing fig of suits against diversity-hiring practices since the US Supreme Court's landmark June 2023 ruling to extremity affirmative enactment successful assemblage admissions.

Lawsuits person claimed that hiring and recruitment decisions made astir some jobs and fellowships astatine ample companies are biased against achromatic workers and men.

Advocates of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) schemes, arsenic they are known, accidental they bring much black, brown, female, and queer endowment into offices and colleges and rise morale crossed the board.

But critics accidental they're a 'woke' virtue-signaling workout that fosters backlash favoritism against straight, achromatic men.