A Google executive has claimed that the tech giant fired him after his 16 years of service for resisitng sexual advances from a female top executive at an official gathering.
In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan in November, 48-year-old Ryan Olohan ccused that his Asian origin colleague Tiffany Miller ‘groped’ him at a party at a Chelsea restaurant in December 2019, saying her marriage lacked “spice". He alleged that Tiffany Miller rubbbed his abs and told him that he prefered Asian women more than white.
Olohan said he was infomed by a member of the Google Employee Investigations team in a video conference call that he was being fired because he was not “inclusive.”
Ryan Olohan, father-of-seven from New Jersey, said he was initially uncomfortable mentioning about the incident to his colleagues. But later he spoke to his colleagues about the sexual advances from his female colleague and even approached the Google's human resources department the following week. Although Google was aware about Miller's continued harassment of Olohan owing to his rejection of her sexual advances, it took no action, he alleged in the lawsuit.
Olohan claims in his suit that Miller began retaliating against him after he reported about her and also complained of “microaggressions" from Olohan. He also alleged that the retaliation continued at a Google-hosted event in December 2021 where Miller drunkenly admonished Olohan in front of others and his colleagues finally interved and took Miller to the other end of the table, according the lawsuit.
Tiffany Miller yelled at Olohan once again at another party held in April 2022 and there too, she mentioned that she knew he liked Asian women over white women, the lawsuit alleges.
Miller has denied the accusations against her through her spokesman. “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 in a statement to New York Post. “Ms. Miller never made any ‘advance’ toward Mr. Olohan, which witnesses can readily corroborate.”
Tiffany Miller is currently working as the Head of Industry, Media Platforms, and Programmatic Media Sales Lead, Consumer, Government, and Entertainment at Google. She holds the position in Google's Head of Industry, Travel.
