A former Google executive has filed a lawsuit alleging he was fired after his top female boss groped him.
Ryan Olohan, 48, claims Google’s director of programmatic media Tiffany Miller, one of the big tech giant’s highest-ranking executives, was fired after he was caught at a Chelsea restaurant in December 2019.
Olohan claims that Miller “knew he liked Asian women” and rubbed his stomach while telling her his marriage “lacked spice”.
The New York Post reported that “the alleged hands-on encounter unfolded during a drunken company meeting 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. According to the lawsuit, Miller was at Google’s Manhattan offices. .
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Olohan is a married father of seven and rejected Miller’s advances, according to his complaint.
Instead, Olohan reported the alleged incident to Google’s human resources department the following week, but never heard back from them.
The HR representative “openly acknowledged … that if the complaint was ‘in reverse’ — a woman accusing a white male of harassment — the complaint would certainly escalate,” according to the lawsuit.
“The retaliation allegedly continued at an event hosted by Google in December 2021, in which Miller drunkenly admonished Olohan in front of his colleagues. According to the lawsuit, co-workers encouraged Miller to move to the other end of the desk,” the Post reported. “Miller later apologized and ‘although Google knew that Miller’s continued harassment of Olohan stemmed from his rejection of her sexual advances, it again took no action,'” the suit claims.
The report continues, “Miller again drunkenly abused Olohan at 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 to white women — knowing Olohan’s wife was Asian. , according to court records.”
Olahan was soon fired after working for the company for 16 years.
A spokesperson for Miller denied the allegations to the Post, saying, “This lawsuit is a fictitious account of events filled with numerous falsehoods, which Ms. Created by a disgruntled former employee who was older than Miller. Ms. Miller was never Mr. There is no ‘advance’ towards Olohan, witnesses can easily confirm that.