A Google executive claims he was booted from the tech giant for refusing lewd advances from a senior colleague at a posh company dinner.
Ryan Olohan, 48, has accused Google of firing him after one of 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 said a blockbuster federal lawsuit in November is in Manhattan.
Miller, director of Google’s programmatic media, rubbed Olohan’s stomach, complimented his physique and told him their marriage was “lacking spice,” according to court documents.
The alleged hands-on encounter happened during a drunken corporate meeting at Fig & Olive on West 13th Street, shortly after Olohan was promoted to chief executive officer of food, beverage and restaurants and joined a new management team that included Miller at Google’s Manhattan offices to the lawsuit.
Ryan Olohan accused Google and one of its top executives, Tiffany Miller, of firing him after Miller groped him at a Chelsea restaurant in December 2019.
While Olohan, a married father of seven, said he was initially uncomfortable speaking up about the incident because many of his co-workers were intoxicated, his co-workers later penned the behavior as “Tiffany is Tiffany,” court filings 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 were ‘the reverse’ — a woman accusing a white man of harassment — the complaint would certainly escalate,” the lawsuit says.
Olohan claims Miller began getting back at him after he filed the complaint by criticizing him and reporting him to human resources for “micro-aggression,” though the complaint doesn’t specify what Miller accused him of.
According to court documents, Tiffany Miller rubbed Olohan’s stomach and told him she knew he liked Asian women.
The retaliation allegedly continued at a Google-hosted event in December 2021, where Miller drunkenly admonished Olohan in front of his colleagues. The resentment was so great 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 was due to his rejection of her sexual advances, it again took no action,” the lawsuit states.
Miller drunkenly abused Olohan again during a company meeting at a karaoke bar in April 2022, where she taunted him upon his arrival, repeating that she knew he preferred Asian women over white women — despite knowing that Olohan’s wife is Asian, according to court records .
The alleged encounter happened during a drunken company meeting at Fig & Olive on West 13th Street. Helayne Seidman
Another incident allegedly occurred at a Google-hosted event in December 2021, where Miller drunkenly admonished Olohan in front of his colleagues. Helayne Seidman
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Olohan said he was feeling increasing pressure from his boss, who told him there were “obviously too many white people” on his management team. In July, he was encouraged to fire a male employee to make room for a woman on his team, the lawsuit says.
The following month, Google fired Olohan, ending his tenure after 16 years with the company.
During a video conference call, Olohan said he was told by the Google Employee Investigations team that he was being fired for not being “inclusive.”
Olohan said he was told by the Google Employee Investigations team that he was being fired for not being “inclusive.”
When asked why he wasn’t inclusive, Olohan was told that he favored high-performing employees and that he was “offended” when he commented on the “walking pace” of other employees.
Olohan’s lawsuit, seeking unspecified damages, names both Google and Miller as defendants, alleging discrimination, retaliation and encouraging a hostile work environment.
In a statement to the Post, Evan Siegfried, a spokesman for Miller, denied the allegations against his client.
“This lawsuit is a fictional account of events full of untruths, fabricated by a disgruntled ex-employee who managed Ms. Miller at Google,” Siegfried said. “MS. Miller never made any ‘promotion’ towards Mr. Olohan, which witnesses can readily confirm.”