A former coworker who claims that she sexually assaulted him has received backlash from a female Google executive who claims that his tenure at the tech giant was “marked by recurring instances of misbehavior with women.”
In a complaint filed in November, Ryan Olohan, a 48-year-old married father of seven from New Jersey, claims Tiffany Miller touched his abdomen, complimented his physique, and said her marriage lacked “spice.”
According to the prior complaint, Miller, an Asian American, informed Olohan that she was aware that he favored Asian women and was referring to his wife, a Korean national.
The allegations made by Ryan Olohan against Tiffany Miller are without foundation. In response to the lawsuit, Miller’s spokesman told DailyMail.com: “Instead of admitting the truth that – as Google has publicly said – Google dismissed Mr. Olohan for reason after examining many complaints against him by his coworkers.
Mr. Olohan has created a fictitious conspiracy theory in which Ms. Miller and others are accused of planning a complex, multi-year plot to have him dismissed. The statement stated, “Mr. Olohan’s effort to place responsibility for the results of his own misbehavior on other parties is not supported by the evidence.
However, Miller referred to Olohan’s initial claims as a “fictional story” that was intended to “blame others for his own severe inadequacies in order to conceal the fact that Google – not Miller – dismissed him.” After working at Google for 15 years, Olohan was fired in August 2022.
In the Southern District of New York, Olohan has filed a complaint against Miller and Google, claiming that he was the victim of sexual harassment, gender discrimination, racial discrimination, and retaliation.
One piece of the amended lawsuit submitted by Miller’s attorneys states, “Olohan’s efforts to reinvent himself as a victim are especially comical in view of his difficult career at Google, which was defined by recurrent incidents of misbehavior with women and subordinates.”
In the court document, Miller refutes almost all of Olohan’s accusations.
In addition, the lawsuit minimizes Miller’s dealings with Olohan, denying that she ever served as his supervisor, that she ever “engaged in an improprieties” with him, or that she had any role in his termination.
Olohan claimed that Miller scolded him in front of several workers when she was intoxicated at a Google event in December 2021, loudly stating Olohan that she “disputed with him 70% of the time” and “did not like him 70% of the time.” Miller’s attorneys disagreed with this claim.
According to the lawsuit, she said that she generally agreed with Olohan’s leadership techniques. She disputes being intoxicated at the moment.
A Google spokeswoman said in a statement to Insider on Olohan’s dismissal that he ‘was dismissed with cause following a comprehensive assessment of complaints from several workers.
We vehemently reject these allegations and strongly stand by our judgment in this case.
The business has contested Olohan’s allegations in court and requested that the lawsuit be dismissed “with prejudice.”
Olohan’s attorneys stated: “We are unhappy with Google’s failure to accept responsibility and look forward to defending Mr. Olohan’s rights.”
According to Olohan’s lawsuit, the chest-rubbing event occurred at the Fig & Olive restaurant in Manhattan in December 2019. Olohan claims he reported the incident to human resources the following week, but nothing came of the complaint. And that the harassment was just getting started.
Olohan alleges that Miller started reporting him to human resources for “microaggressions” as retaliation against him. He alleges that after 16 years with the organization, harassment continued up to his termination in August 2022.
The alleged event occurred at the corporate outing shortly after he was elevated to managing director of food, drinks, and restaurants and joined a new management group that included included Miller.
The parent from New Jersey said that at first, he felt awkward bringing it up since so many of his coworkers had been “drinking alcohol excessively.”
During that evening, when he indicated that Miller may have had “too much alcohol,” he was informed that it was just “Tiffany being Tiffany.”
Olohan reported the event to Google’s Human Resources division, which ‘openly conceded that the complaint would likely be escalated if the allegation was ‘in reverse’ – a female accusing a white guy of harassment.’
The event was not discussed or looked into, and Olohan alleged in the lawsuit that Miller retaliated against him when he reported the incident to HR.
There were supervisors present in two occasions referenced in the complaint when Miller reportedly scolded him and reported him to human services for “microaggressions.”
Miller was “being petty” in both cases, according to Google’s Human Resources Business Partner Jacky Schiestel, while Olohan did not engage in any microaggressions.
Olohan said that Miller’s reprisals and animosity gave him uneasiness and gave him the impression that he was on probation.
The lawsuit claims that despite Google being aware that Miller’s harassment of Olohan was motivated by his rejection of her approaches, the company did nothing.
According to the complaint, Olohan said he started to feel more pressure from his boss Adam Stewart, who allegedly informed him in February 2022 that his management team had “clearly too many white males.”
Olohan alleges that Miller continued to act in retribution, and that at a work excursion to a karaoke club in April 2022, Miller insulted him while intoxicated.
According to the lawsuit, Miller made fun of him in front of Google staff members and emphasized her knowledge that he favored Asian women over white women.
In June 2022, Olohan was told by Schiestel that a worker had complained to Human Resources about him. About three weeks later, Olohan told Schiestel that Miller had ordered the complaint to be filed as revenge for his rejecting her sexual advances.
According to the lawsuit, Olohan was instructed to exclusively recruit female candidates for the team in June and was urged to remove a male employee in July to create way for a woman on his team.
After working at Google for 16 years, Olohan was dismissed the following month.
Olohan said that during a videoconference conversation, a member of the Google Employee Investigations team informed him that he was being dismissed for not being “inclusive.”
The Google Employee Investigations team said that he had been “ableist” in his comments on workers’ walking speed and hustle and “non-inclusive” in his favoring of top achievers.
Both Google and Miller are named as defendants in the case, which accuses them of engaging in discrimination, retaliation, and creating a hostile work environment and asks for unspecified damages.
Olohan joined the Klick Group as the executive vice president of expansion after being fired. In New Jersey, he also runs an ice cream parlor.
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