Report: An ex-Google employee claims he was fired for refusing his female boss’ advances

In December 2019, Ryan Olohan said that Tiffany Miller had touched him in an inappropriate way at a business dinner in New York City.

According to a complaint filed in November, a former Google employee claims the tech giant fired him after he allegedly turned down the advances of a female executive. During a business dinner in Chelsea, Manhattan, in December 2019, Ryan Olohan allegedly said Tiffany Miller made him feel better, according to The New York Post.

Olohan, who is 48 years old, says in the lawsuit that Miller, who is in charge of Google’s programmatic media, touched his torso, praised his body, and told him that her marriage lacked “spice.”

Miller, who is Asian, also told him that because Olohan’s wife is also of Asian descent, she was aware of his liking for Asian women. The business gathering, which included alcohol, apparently happened not long after Olohan was appointed managing director of foods, drinks, and restaurants. Miller was a member of his new team as well.

The married father of seven said that after becoming “very uncomfortable,” he “quickly distanced himself from the situation” and raised it the next week with the human resources division. He was reportedly informed that if a woman complained about a white male for harassment, the situation would be escalated, but the HR department did nothing. When Olohan speculated that Miller may have had too much alcohol in relation to the 2019 incident, his colleagues remarked that it was just “Tiffany being Tiffany.”

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In addition, Miller was accused by Olohan of fabricating “microaggression” complaints against him in reprisal for telling HR about the 2019 event, which had worried him. Olohan faced animosity even after Miller publicly criticized him at a Google event in December 2021 while intoxicated. Miller apologized, but she continued to act in the same way in April 2022 at a pub. In Olohan’s case, Google is accused of not taking the right steps even though it knew that Miller’s harassment was because he turned down her sexual advances.

Olohan claimed that his supervisor began to put him under more and more pressure, and that in July 2022 he was requested to fire a man in order to hire a woman. The next month, Google fired Olohan, ending his 16-year employment.

Olohan was fired for being “non-inclusive” by favoring high achievers and “ableist” for making remarks on workers’ “walking pace,” according to the grounds given.

A Miller representative was described by the New York Post as denying all of the accusations. In her claim, Olohan alleges harassment at work, retribution against her, and discrimination against Google and Miller. The former Google employee is now Klick Group’s senior vice president of growth.