Has he set Google up for this blowup or do Americans just usually have complaints to federal regulators written and ready to send?

Before being fired, Mr. Damore said, he had submitted a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board claiming that Google’s upper management was “misrepresenting and shaming me in order to silence my complaints.” He added that it was “illegal to retaliate” against an N.L.R.B. charge.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/business/google-women-eng...