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Former Engineer Says Uber Is a Nightmare of Sexism; CEO Orders Urgent Investigation (susanjfowler.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report on The Verge: A former Uber engineer has published an explosive account of sexism and power struggles in the workplace, with allegations beginning from her very first official day with the company. The engineer, Susan Fowler (who left Uber in December and now works for Stripe), posted the account to her blog on Sunday, calling it a "strange, fascinating, and slightly horrifying story." It is indeed horrifying. Sexism is a well-documented problem in Silicon Valley, but the particulars of Fowler's account are astounding. She says problems began on day one, when her manager accosted her with details of his sex life: "In my first official day rotating on the team, my new manager sent me a string of messages over company chat. He was in an open relationship, he said, and his girlfriend was having an easy time finding new partners but he wasn't. He was trying to stay out of trouble at work, he said, but he couldn't help getting in trouble, because he was looking for women to have sex with. It was clear that he was trying to get me to have sex with him, and it was so clearly out of line that I immediately took screenshots of these chat messages and reported him to HR. When I reported the situation, I was told by both HR and upper management that even though this was clearly sexual harassment and he was propositioning me, it was this man's first offense, and that they wouldn't feel comfortable giving him anything other than a warning and a stern talking-to. Upper management told me that he "was a high performer" (i.e. had stellar performance reviews from his superiors) and they wouldn't feel comfortable punishing him for what was probably just an innocent mistake on his part. The things only get worse for Fowler. Read the full account of her story here. In the meanwhile, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said the company would "conduct an urgent investigation" into the allegations, and promised to fire anyone who "behaves this way or thinks this is OK."
Journalist Paul Carr summing up the situation, says, "Uber's ability to be on the wrong side of every moral and ethical issue is bordering on magical."
Journalist Paul Carr summing up the situation, says, "Uber's ability to be on the wrong side of every moral and ethical issue is bordering on magical."
Reporting your boss to HR on the first day is usually a very bad way to start at a new company for any reasons.
Now harassment means repeated offenses. Ok you want to have sex with me, I say no and as long as you don't come regularly asking me if I changed my mind, it's okay. Don't tell it's because I'm a man. I already had proposal from gay mens which I declined (because I was not gay) and that was it. They found I was handsome and attractive, I was not interested, this is it. (I'm still in contact with one of them without any troubles ever seen. Perhaps he fantazised on me a few time when alone (don't know don't care even if he jerked thinking about me).
But now if instead of replying "No I'm not interested to do that with you" and see if (as expected) you get no news of that guy again, you first contact HR. Then you declare war. And you then complain about consequences. But whatever the reason, someone who deals with issues like this is a problem inside any company and you want him or her out.
Don't create sexism and harassment cases where they do not belong. Someone ask you to have sex with them. You have the right to decline and as long as they do not insist and ask without any threatening words, that should be over.
Not necessarily. Look at how these companies do their hiring. Google for example has hired every single black person who has ever applied, I assume we would see similar percentages for women engineers.It is not surprising that less hires would cut it, and leave, when you reduce initial vetting. Look at the education admissions system. Blacks make up a huge portion of college enrolls, But since any black with C and D averages can get into MIT, most of them do not ever graduate (as past schooling success is a good indicator of future schooling success)
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
Here we have a prime example of a cultist. See how they use the catchy terms such as "brogrammer" and "MRA" in an attempt to dehumanize their hated targets. Their post is writhe with buzzwords and propaganda they hear from their favorite twitter accounts.
Thanks for the SJW argument. It hardly needed to be made, as we all knew it already.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Problematic = SJW dog whistle keyword. Nobody else uses the term.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Jesus - that's what you got out of that?
I said that writing a story about being a stellar performer and being held back by a manager who doesn't want to lose you because you make them look good does not equate to a "GRIPPING STORY ABOUT EXPLOSIVE SEXUAL HARASSMENT."
And I'm part of the problem?
The problem sir is a lack of integrity, scope, and truth. We should all aspire to these things.
Problematic is still an SJW dog whistle. If you're not a leftist, then please stop using the term. It needs to go on the ash heap of history along with colored, phrenology, eugenics, and all the others.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Any advance from a supervisor is UNWANTED.
I don't respond to AC's.
If you're a student of the real sciences, you're clearly not a very *bright* student. If you were even moderately bright, you'd know that there is really quite a big difference between "difficult to see" and "when we cannot observe something".
Oh please this place is still full of neck beards that can't figure out what is inappropriate around women and what isn't. They spout off some angry sounding ramblings and then can't understand why women don't interact with them.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
Which are alleged to exist but nothing, not even a redacted screen shot, was provided. Have you links to Screenshots and Formal complaints that TFA does not provide, or are you just trolling?
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.