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A Google executive claims he was booted by the tech giant for rejecting a high-ranking female colleague’s grabby advances at a posh company dinner.

Ryan Olohan, 48, accuses Google of firing him after one its top
executives, Tiffany Miller, groped him at a Chelsea restaurant in December
2019 and told him she knew he liked Asian women — which Miller is,
according to a blockbuster November federal lawsuit filed in Manhattan.

Miller, director of Google’s programmatic media, rubbed Olohan’s abs, complimented his physique, and told him her marriage lacked “spice,”
according to court papers.

The alleged hands-on encounter unfolded during a drunken company gathering
at Fig & Olive on West 13th Street shortly after Olohan was promoted to managing director of food, beverages, and restaurants and joined a new management team that included Miller in Google’s Manhattan offices,
according to the lawsuit.

While Olohan, a married father of seven, said he was initially
uncomfortable bringing up the incident because many of his colleagues were drunk, his co-workers later chalked up the behavior to “Tiffany being
Tiffany,” court papers say.

Olohan said he reported the issue to Google’s human resources department
the following week, but nothing ever came of the complaint.

The HR rep “openly admitted … that if the complaint was ‘in reverse’ — a
female accusing a white male of harassment — the complaint would certainly
be escalated,” according to the lawsuit.

Olohan claims Miller began retaliating against him after he made the
complaint by criticizing him and reporting him to human resources for “microaggressions,” although the complaint does not specify what Miller
accused him of.

The retaliation allegedly continued at a Google-hosted event in December
2021 where Miller drunkenly admonished Olohan in front of his colleagues.
The rancor was so bad that colleagues encouraged Miller to move to the
other end of the table, according to the lawsuit.

Miller later apologized and “although Google was aware that Miller’s
continued harassment of Olohan stemmed from his rejection of her sexual advances, it again took no action,” the suit claims.

Miller drunkenly berated Olohan yet again during a company get-together at
a karaoke bar in April 2022, where she mocked him upon arrival and
reiterated that she knew he preferred Asian women over white women —
knowing that Olohan’s wife is Asian, according to court papers.

Olohan said he began feeling increasing pressure from his supervisor, who
told him that there were “obviously too many white guys” on his management team. In July he was encouraged to fire a male employee to make room on
his team for a woman, the suit claims.

The following month, Google fired Olohan, ending his employment after 16
years at the company.

During a videoconference call, Olohan said he was told by the Google
Employee Investigations team that he was being fired because he was not “inclusive.”

When he asked why he was non-inclusive, Olohan was told he had shown
favoritism toward high-performing employees and that he was “ableist” for commenting on other employees’ “walking pace.”

Olohan’s lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages, names both Google and
Miller as defendants and accuses them of discrimination, retaliation, and fostering a hostile work environment.

In a statement to The Post, a spokesman for Miller denied the accusations against his client.

“This lawsuit is a fictional account of events filled with numerous
falsehoods, fabricated by a disgruntled ex-employee, who was senior to Ms. Miller at Google,” the spokesman said. “Ms. Miller never made any
‘advance’ toward Mr. Olohan, which witnesses can readily corroborate.”

https://nypost.com/2023/01/28/google-exec-fired-after-female-boss-groped- him-at-drunken-bash/

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