GitHub Founder Resigns Following Harassment Investigation

An anonymous reader writes "Late Yesterday, GitHub concluded its investigation regarding sexual harassment within its work force, and although it found no evidence of 'legal wrongdoing,' Tom Preston-Werner, one of its founding members implicated in the investigation resigned. In its statement, GitHub vows to implement 'a number of new HR and employee-led initiatives as well as training opportunities to make sure employee concerns and conflicts are taken seriously and dealt with appropriately.' Julie Ann Horvath, the former GitHub employee whose public resignation last month inspired the sexual harassment investigation, found the company's findings to be gratuitous and just plain wrong."

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The term "Sexual Harassment" is very misleading !

[Taco Cowboy]

The term "Sexual Harassment", - with the word "Sex" followed by another word "Harass", - sounds awfully serious.

But, like all other liberal creation (social welfare, for example) "Sexual Harassment" itself has been abused.

Nowadays you can be slapped with a "Sexual Harassment" lawsuit if you comment on the way someone dress herself or "itself".

In fact, I can be charged for "Sexual Harassment" right now, because of the term "itself" that I've used to describe people whom I do not know how to describe (they are not male, nor female).

Beauty in in the eye of the beholder

[Anonymous Coward]

A woman can file a sexual harassment claim if she simply thinks a man might be having sexual thoughts about her. There does not have to be any overt action on the part of the man. It can simply be something like "The way he looked at me made me feel like he was undressing me in his mind," and that is enough.

"Can you describe in words the way he looked at you?"

"No, it was just a feeling that came over me."

Guess what, that is still enough to support a sexual harassment claim.

Re:The term "Sexual Harassment" is very misleading

[Barsteward]

why can't you just grow up and treat women as human beings with equal status. Neanderthals like you are the problem.

Re:Good.

[DNS-and-BIND]

It is 2014. In the year 2014, we all know that sexual harassment charges are often wildly overblown and nothing but a weapon of revenge. Remember Donglegate?

I love your witch hunt mentality. The guilty ones are out there somewhere, and if we tag a few innocents along the way, that's OK because nobody is innocent. They're all guilty of being men, all men are rapists, and go ahead and throw in race somewhere as well.