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Female Engineer Sues Tesla, Describing a Culture Of 'Pervasive Harassment' (theguardian.com)
A female engineer has spoken out about a discrimination lawsuit against Tesla that she filed last year. AJ Vandermeyden, 33, has accused Tesla of ignoring her claims of "pervasive harassment" and says she has suffered "mental distress" and "humiliation." From a report on The Guardian: Vandermeyden, 33, shared her story with the Guardian at a time when Silicon Valley is reeling from the explosive allegations of former Uber engineer Susan Fowler. Offering a rare public account of discrimination from a tech worker who remains employed at her company, Vandermeyden said her dedication to Tesla motivated her to advocate for fair treatment and reforms -- despite the serious risks she knows she faces for going public. "Until somebody stands up, nothing is going to change," she said in a recent interview, her first comments about a discrimination lawsuit she filed last year. "I'm an advocate of Tesla. I really do believe they are doing great things. That said, I can't turn a blind eye if there's something fundamentally wrong going on." Vandermeyden began at Tesla in 2013 and was eventually promoted to a manufacturing engineering position in the general assembly department, which consisted mostly of men and where she was paid less than male engineers whose work she directly took over, according to her complaint.
You mean "humanity"? There's 7 billion of us, that's not because men walk around with a rope around their balls and their cocks strapped into their buttcrack.
Women then complain that men don't make the first move anymore.
Why isn't Susan Fowler suing Uber? Much like with this incident at Tesla (ex-SpaceX employee here btw, and this comes as no surprise), there is a shitton of evidence, and nothing being done about it. I can't wait for this fucking bro bubble to burst.
I'm not exactly surprised. In most cases where I see the office/design part interface with the shop/implementation part there is the potential for this kind of friction. Even in cases where harrassment is not of a sexual nature, it's common for simple vulgarity to creep in even if just as a reaction to the minor cuts and body wear and tear when working and the need for a certain amount of toughness in order to do the job.
Don't know enough about the salary aspect. She well might be underpaid becase of sexism, or she might have been brought in to do the job because they wanted someone that cost less in that role, and they didn't feel that the role justified the salary they previously paid.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
I'm assuming the culture at Tesla is similar to the culture at SpaceX, which is a culture of "fuck you, work 90 hour weeks because you're just here building your resume and I can work you to death if I want to", which is to say any pervasive harassment isn't a female problem, it's a cultural problem that is applied to every peon in the building. If that assumption holds true, the fact that she was paid less isn't because she's a girl, but because the market bears that salary for that position for a girl and Tesla can and will get away with anything it can to further its goals in the most cost effective way possible. Basically, it's the assassin saying "It's not personal, it's just business", which the courts tend to be okay with because it's not special treatment.
oh shit.. too late.
No we don't know she's an SJW trying to Kafkatrap Tesla.
No we have no evidence Musk is a rapist. Yes I know he's got a penis, that is not evidence.
Forgive me, but past accusations haven't exactly primed me to believe this. If true, it's absolutely something that should be corrected, and she should be lauded for having the courage to make it public. ...however, if it's sour grapes because she didn't get the promotion she wanted, I wonder if we'll ever hear about it?
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
"which consisted mostly of men and where she was paid less than male engineers whose work she directly took over" This seems to imply this just because she is a woman, I'm a dude and I've been in this position myself, hell I've even been in a engineering management position and made less than the guys I was in charge of of.
Sure this all could just be because she's a woman, but there is at least a real possibility that there were other reasons contributing to her situation.
1) Why does everyone keep calling her Susan Fowler? She's married now, it's Susan Rigetti - but I guess they don't want people looking up that name and associating this whole incident with her husband's "computer company"
2) This is not the first time she's made headlines with attention-grabbing claims. A few months ago there was a story about her making the rounds on how she'd moved from studying math at a 6th-grade level to doing graduate-level quantum mechanics in just 18 months. I don't want to cast doubt on her current claims, but this previous story is highly incredible, to say the least.
You forgot to end the comment with "APPS!", genius.
Tesla cows don't make any moo. they are completely silent, you only hear their hooves.
I hate when people complain that they are doing the same job and getting paid less without mentioning how much experience they have. If they have less experience in that position, then they should fully expect to get paid less. It's not about being 'qualified', it simply comes down to experience.
However, with all the bitching and moaning that they do, I'm not surprised that some employers wouldn't want to promote their whining asses.
Waaaaa, but I came up with "a" solution and they didn't make me head of the company, waaaaa.
Not enough to meme/troll about on Reddit and 4chan today?
Gives you a false sense of reality. Enjoy the delusion that communist rags like "the guardian" paint for you. As a hunch, I'm sure you will be watching CNN and MSNBC for follow up stories.
Ok, well, first off, this woman is not an "Engineer" in the sense that she holds any academic credentials or certifications (neither am I). The article clearly states she started working at Tesla in 2013, was *promoted* to vehicle assembly. She is an "assembly engineer" in the same way that a guy working on the floor at Ford making IC cars is.
After this, following claims that she was held to unreasonable performance standards and subject to sexual harassment on the shop floor, , she transfered to the "purchasing department", which Tesla was apparently glad to accomodate.
These are simple facts which may or may not be relevant to the case, which appears to me that Tesla hired this woman, and has been happy to allow her to shift roles in the company and build her skillset. Apparently, she just purchased a Model-S. I have worked in IT for 15 years, and I sure can't afford a Model-S. So, anyway, sounds like a pretty damned good job to me.
This has led to more than one occurrence where I have about fallen over when a Tesla has passed close to me in the parking lot. Once the car started moving on it's own with little else as visual reference I found my body compensating against the movement. Because there was no sound I assumed the car was stationary and I was not. Glancing away and grabbing another car for balance was the only thing preventing becoming one with the pavement.
~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.
When I was a kid in HS we used to harass other drivers. 2 or 3 of us (separate cars) would pull up next to an old lady at a red light. On cue, we'd all start to reverse slowly, while watching the old lady freakout, thinking her brakes were letting her roll into traffic.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Omg you're an inspiration!
I wish I had thought of this when I was younger. :)
~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.
>Therese Lawless, Vandermeyden’s lawyer,
> who represented former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao in her high-profile discrimination lawsuit against venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Well, we know how that turned out for Ellen.
>Vandermeyden recently took out a hefty loan to buy the cheapest version of the Model S Tesla car and has a reservation for the upcoming Model 3
So after launching a potentially very expensive lawsuit you decide to get a "hefty" loan and buy a Model S? Huh.
I'm getting tired of stories based on allegations.
We obviously don't know the facts of the case. We obviously can't judge the merits of the case.
All this does is try to stoke the extreme ends of the spectrum; feminists will see this as another example of men keeping women down in STEM, while anti-feminists will see this as yet another false accusation to further the cause of women in STEM.
How about we let the courts do their job *THEN* write an article about the results instead of trying this in the 'court' of public opinion.
" where she was paid less than male engineers whose work she directly took over, according to her complaint."
So why accept/keep the job if she's unhappy with the compensation?
-Styopa
Just a post ago you were complaining about this, and now you're inspired to do it to someone else.
So so true
A simple solution. If you are accused of any form of harassment you are guilty even before the trial.
No, this why you promote a problematic woman into a management position where she is sure to fail badly. Then you'll have cause to fire her and any complaints of "inequality" or "harassment" will be dismissed as the complaints of a disgruntled employee who couldn't handle the responsibilities and workload expected of someone in her position and payscale. Cheaper than a lawsuit in the longrun.
Why are these allegations always from blogs and never from police reports?
If you believe you have been harassed then first go find a judge and pursuit your case in civil/criminal court.
When there is an actual finding feel free to report that in a news article. Don't go to the public with an unsubstantiated one sided story not one member of the public is in any position to properly evaluate in order to push emotional buttons and exert PR pressure.
God knows most of us have dealt with people who just make shit up for personal gain or who expend more mental energy screwing over coworkers than they do actually working.
The media's standards for publishing stories has to be higher than one half's account of their divorce.
'says she has suffered "mental distress" and "humiliation."'
This has been my experience with every single job I've ever had. What makes her so special that she can sue someone over this?
OK thats evil but funny. Am I a bad person that I find that funny?
**Life is too short to be serious**
Seriously, money is taboo subject at work and I've never been asked what I make and I've never had the temerity to ask what a colleague is making. How do you even find out what your colleagues make? And even if they tell you how do you know they aren't lying? People tend to lie a whole lot about money. Absent a W2 staring me right in the face I doubt I'd believe they weren't lying by 20% in one direction or the other depending on the person.
That's why I never believe people who make these kinds of claims. In what universe would you ever even find out?
If she can afford a Model S while working on the Assembly line I don't think she is underpaid. I have 15 years working in IT and a Masters from a top 10 University and I cant afford a Model S. (Unless she thinks the harassment suit is her big payday and she has already started spending the settlement money)
The catcalls is an issue Women have faced ever since they came on the factory floor. In this day and age it should not happen. However the responsibility for that is on the mothers of the guys doing the catcalls who did not teach their sons to respect women. The company's job is to build cars not fix society's problems.
**Life is too short to be serious**
I think all employers should be sued for hiring and for firing people as well as for not hiring women or not hiring men, for firing women or for firing men, for hiring / firing that goes against feelings of some, for hiring / firing that goes alone the lines of feelings of some...
Employers in the USA must be really masochistic to continue hiring people, anybody at all, not even just women. Of-course to hire a woman or any other protected class for that matter you have to really have your head checked. Of-course if you do not hire them in some quantity, the government will attack you on that basis.
So you have to hire them and then you have to bear the blunt of the lawsuit your choices are very unpleasant. Hire the women and get a lawsuit. Don't hire the women and get a lawsuit.
That type of a choice is not a choice at all, I give you the third option: don't hire in the USA.
You can't handle the truth.
I am pretty sure we'll see more and more revelations like this from companies all over... in part because what was never really addressed was that Uber was not really distinctive. Any large company can have issues with employees harassing others. And in any large company people are loathe to deal with problems, preferring instead to sweep them under the rug...
One side effect of all of these revelations is probably going to be a solution to these problems that few people will enjoy - fewer women will be hired, because it appears now that any women you hire presents you with a lot of legal exposure. It would be far cheaper to deal with suits from women who sued because they were not hired than suits from women who were hired and harassed.
One last interesting observation - I note the response to Tesla being the target is notably more muted than Uber being the target. Uber has long been a target of the SJW crowd, for whatever reason - I was never quite sure why that was actually. But Tesla of course is the darling of the leftist brigades, and we can see the result from the comments here and elsewhere where Tesla actually gets the benefit of the doubt in a way Uber never will.
And THAT is the real shame.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
>> It was common for her to be the only woman in meetings with 40 to 50 men
Aww poor little flower. Tesla should provide a safe space that female employees can run to at any time.
>> Tesla also denied her overtime pay, rest breaks and meal periods
Welcome to everyday life that any Software Engineer will already be intimately familiar with, because in most companies, people in management frequently agree to drop-dead deadlines without even thinking to check with engineers to see if its actually even possible.
thanks for demonstrating the sort of people that are the problem, however.
This whole summary is misleading.
From the little information that is provided as proof of her claims, sounds more like a employee upset about not getting promotions and trying to get money out of the well known company.
...and want ungodly thoughts banned.
FTFY
Note: I am pro union, and think Tesla workers are making a mistake by rejecting UAW. I also disagree with the UAWs tactics in regards to Tesla.
The UAW has been sending workers in to Tesla to incite problems and try to rally workers to unionize. Her claim may be valid, but needs thorough investigation to verify. It is entirely possible she is either a plant, or paid off by the union to make a rallying point.
By all other records Tesla pays exceedingly well, has stellar benefits, and treats workers well. Tons of overtime requirements- but that is normal in the auto industry, and Tesla pays generous overtime rates. The workers are not interested in a union because they don't need one and as such don't want the fees. This may bite them in the ass later, but for now their wishes should be honored by the union.
Tesla cows don't make any moo. they are completely silent, you only hear their hooves.
added bonus, their farts are released in another location...
OK, so it's only a bonus if you don't live in said location...
You have the right to remain sentient. If you give up the right to remain sentient, you will be elected to public office
And this is how you perpetuate the problem.
The fact that most men cannot work a full day without making a sexually-related joke or innuendo is damn annoying. And I say this as a currently single man. I hate machist company cultures. Please grow up. You're not a pair of sentient balls attached to a body.
oh bullshit... that's one of those stories everyone tells and none are true.
Four things, let's see
- Ignoring her complaints of “pervasive harassment”.
The article has specifics later: "harassment by men on the factory floor including but not limited to inappropriate language, whistling, and catcalls".
Not nice, but not wholly unexpected either. It's a factory floor, and all of her earlier positions were office jobs. The factory floor is not a place for special snowflakes - male or female.
- Paying her a lower salary than men doing the same work.
Not all people with the same job earn the same. Salary depends on various factors. It may depend on how good they are at the job. It may depend on whether they ask for a raise. It may depend on other factors, for example, on whether one is *actually* an engineer. She transferred in from sales and out to purchasing.. Her education isn't public, but with that work history, there is zero chance that she holds an engineering degree.
- Promoting less qualified men over her
Um, "qualified"? She lack an education to hold the position of Manufacturing Engineer, although Tesla normally demands that for their manufacturing engineers. She certainly has none of the work experience you would expect. Even then, a promotion depends on how well you do your job, how well you get along with your co-workers, and - most importantly - how well suited you are for the new responsibilities that the promotion would entail.
- Retaliating against her for raising concerns.
The bit of research above tends to point to Tesla trying too hard: they took a non-engineer and put her into a technical position that she was unqualified for. She failed, was moved to purchasing, and is now insulted. At least, that's sure what it looks like based on public information.
Enjoy life! This is not a dress rehearsal.
"Tech workers . . . have a natural understanding about women"
Hahahaaa zing! Wait a minute...were you serious with that? But...wow.
Employment negotiation is a complex dynamic.
My first and only blue chip job, I was fairly junior just a few years into career yet I firmly established as able to deliver and innovate and provide tech that opened up alot of new rev for them, but always been rubbish at asserting and negotiation. Some freshly minted grads came in, barely could compile a hello world, and I found out they started on 20% more than me. Was so angry about it and acted out of character driven by the emotion of indignation. Kicked up about it, threatened to quit, quit and then shortly later sub contracted back to them at a ruthlessly high rate and tripled my income : arrangement didn't last long but I got my pound of flesh. That and other experiences since, when I eventually moved into management roles, hiring and managing staff etc, have helped me realise it is complex. You can't just tell someone find another job or be more assertive or whatever, it's not easy flicking a switch and becoming a different person: pretending to be an alpha when you are far from that. Fears and insecurities that come into play the power dynamic is heavily against the employee.
Hiring Marxist feminists with Gender Studies minors.
Judging from the overwhelming reaction from the man children here, she deserves treble damages.
It's when they're getting older and are worried about losing their looks that they want catcalls (well, not so much that, but appreciation vocalised).
Smoke and mirrors publicity to hid the ugly truths at Tesla.
After all, Elon is a born and bred Apartheid Afrikoner who is living illegally in the U.S. (no citizenship).
Everyone with Tesla stock should take their money out of the company immediately. Apparently there's a discount on work for hiring females, yet Tesla still hires men. Tesla won't last long once other companies learn of this competitive advantage!!!
another woman complaining about a bad company at which she's chosen to remain. Yes, HR will always protect the company, that's why the company pays for an HR department. If you don't like what's going on, and if you don't like how you're treated, and if you don't like the amount that you're being paid, then you get to do the one thing that every man gets to do -- you get to threaten to quit. That's called negotiating to get what you want. And most of the time, you get to leave. That's exactly what it takes to get what you want.
You don't get to complain, in this case, three years later!
My company isn't like that. My industry isn't like that. Yet, you've stayed in a company that has mistreated you from the start.
Start your own company. That's what I did when I wasn't happy.
Most people buy exactly as much house as they can afford (morons that they are).
Closing price is public information. For first homes, you can more or less back calculate the family income from house price. Have to know if they are veterans and a few other things, but it's pretty direct.
It is useful information for extorting more money from the big cheeses. For example: If you know you are making less money than the moron who's mistakes you are always fixing, you know they can afford to increase your pay a lot. If you know everybody at the place is paid for shit, you know it's time to move.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Bitch.
Queue slashdot idiots complaining about "not all men" and "she's probably lying"
I have been working in the US for several years, and I have noticed this dangerous trend of constantly labeling as misogynist or racist behavior anything that targets a woman or a minority for things that have nothing to do with race or gender. As an outsider (I am from Europe, and worked in Asia), I can say that nowhere I have seen such an obsession with these two topics. If a white person sucks, and get fired, you talk about the actual causes of the firing. If it's a woman or a minority doesn't get hired, or get fired, it's often sexism and racism. I am sure there are real cases of racism and maybe even sexism, but this constant and indiscriminate wolf-crying is going to delegitimize real victims and actually make people hire fewer of these people.
If I were to hire in this country, I'd be damn sure not to hire a woman or a minority which had a background in social justice (even a blog post or some classes in college would be a no go). There is just a chance that the person is some sort of fanatic. It sounds awful, but from what I can tell that equates to having a ticking bomb ready to explode under my ass. I don't care what your race or your ethnicity is, if shit hits the fan bad things may happen, and the last thing I would want is to have a lawsuit for discrimination and a wave of bad publicity for my business. Aww, yes, I am a such an awful person. Well, sorry, and welcome to the real world.
This seems just another case of a women who has had a lifetime of women's privilege deference and accommodation running into the hard truths of equality in a tough work environment. The courts will probably force the feminization of the work environment--women's privilege at work once again. The result, of course, will be the destruction eventually of an aggressively creative and forward pushing company.
E Proelio Veritas.
Women are wonderful effect
Media kept running headlines like, "Trump Says He Was a Pussy Grabber!!!" and women in the Hearltand responded, "Yes? And...?" There is a huge cultural divide here in this country, same as between Montreal and Quebec, but the media has been willfully ignorant about it until very recently.
from the article:
She is hopeful her lawsuit and public comments wonâ(TM)t end her career at a company she loves.
Would a sane person really think that suing the company they work for won't impact their future with the company?
Not only do I bet she is ugly, I know she is ugly!
Good one. I didn't know about it.
this is a bullshit claim.. it reeks of it. She just couldn't handle her job.
Whoa there buddy.
It's Tesla, not Lockheed. They're not even going to hit Mach 0.4 much less Mach 1. Don't include those kiddy gear-heads into the machist lifestyle. GottaGofast.
This will probably be labeled as racist but the reality is that when you import people from cultures where sexism is the norm, your own culture will also become more and more sexist. When the main reason for immigration is to import workers you also introduce an extra work culture of competition.
When you are born as an American and had a happy life and worked hard to get good grades, you didn't have experienced the hard live of someone who was born in a poor family in some poor country.
That person might have had to work 3 times as hard as you. He may have had to do everything in is power including lying, cheating, bribing to emigrate to the US to get a job. A job that paid his countries average yearly wage every week. A dream for that guy even when that average wage is very low to American standards. As an American you all of the sudden have to compete with someone who might even be better at your job then you, but who earns less than you because maybe he risks to lose his job when he complains. That person might start to work even harder. He has time to work harder because his social life is gone now he is so far away from his family and friend. You as an American might still want to keep in touch with your family and friends. Maybe you want to have a western, feminist wife who wants her husband to be there.
The American might become frustrated because he has to compete with someone who works harder for less money. He doesn't have to take care for his wife. In his culture he owns the wife, and the wife should always be ready for the man. The foreigner however might be frustrated with the spoiled American who maybe earns more, didn't work as hard to get there and wants to spend quality time with the family as if he considers is wife as someone equal to him.
This can create tensions which you can not talk about because they are cultural differences which have become a taboo. So superficially everything seems friendly and brotherly, but underneath the thick skin people might hate each other. And from time to time, when frustration takes the overhand sexist and racist harassment might boil up. Of course when you work very long hours, and the boss wants you to work more, more, more. And you are in a fierce competition with the colleague you kind of despise, while in your personal life you hate it that you have to give up all your personal dreams. Yes at that time things can start to become ugly. But hey when you complain you're no longer the team player.
And then there are the companies who just import the majority of their engineers from cultures were sexism as a word doesn't exist because women are no more then livestock. They don't even know that when they talk to women like they used to that they are being sexist. Other people copy that habit and before you know it all man act like sexists, and the entire culture in the company has become sexist. This has ironically happened with state jobs in my country. They gave the good example in the past by hiring 50/50 male/women. This was never really a problem. But they also start to give the good example by hiring 50/50 non immigrants/immigrants. This gives a lot of problem with sexism. But of course the reason is not the many immigrants at the work floor, but the 'white man' is the cause of all evil. This causes even more tensions because so many honest and friendly men are accused of being sexist while their dark tinted sexist colleague is considered not guilty. This turns even the most tolerant and friendly man in a racist because criticizing the situation has become racist.
Seems being indian is common on both sides of these problems.
You may want to have a neurologist check your proprioception. What you report makes it seem like you are unusually susceptible to loss of body awareness.
When the only tool you have is a claw hammer every problem starts to look like the back of someone's skull.
For once I believe in the cause and not the company. Tesla isn't doing anything great to my, eye, I'd move on if I were her. If Tesla ceased to exist tomorrow, hardly anyone would notice.
Falling over is one thing, watching someone mash their brake harder while sitting in a stationary vehicle with their hands on a steering wheel is quite another. One causes pain and possibly injury, the other is a harmless prank where a person's perception is played with for a moment.
~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.
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Context - obviously.
Why is pretending to be stupid to push a flawed argument such a thing now? You guys are not brain damaged former DJ's coping with the aftermath of years of cocaine addiction with your rants televised for entertainment. Sorry to pick on you rtb61 when you are just following a trend, but it's pointless, self-demeaning and not even funny.
It's nowhere near unique so not unlikely. To sum up, high school mathematics is generally shit so someone who work hard can get through it in a couple of months and then get through a couple of years of undergraduate mathematics in a year if they have a tight focus. I've seen a few students do that when transitioning from a trade to an engineering degree.
It should be "someone who works hard", and puts a strong focus on science/maths/engineering instead of, as I have unfortunately shown, English.
... then no company would hire men at all, because they would be able to get the same work done, for less pay, by hiring only women...
Since we never see this happening, we know that the 'gender wage gap' is a LIE.
You picked up on it. Tech workers don't understand women because they don't understand what it means to be a person.
Their attitude leans toward, "But I can make apps and fine tune databases so I'm a demi god and can treat humans as the Olympians did."
I'd like to think that as a tech worker I've gotten around this by staying grounded, but it's open to interpretation (of course).
There's a saying, "Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up."
She probably found out she didn't negotiate as well as the men did. This is classic, and she can't even sue because she agreed to it. She should STFU and do her job. She can do something about it next year.
...all things being equal.
Now, that also includes the salary you ask for, negotiate, and get. 10 people doing the same job with the same tenure and performance evaluations are still going ot have 10 different salaries ... sometimes vastly different.
If i'm a hiring manager and someone will take $50k even though I have $60k budgeted because it's typical for the position ... I'm going to pay them $50k. That's not discrimination, that's poor negotiation on the employees' part. Then you get promoted a few times which involve % increases...and suddenly you realize you're making 10% less than your peers who got promoted because you were all along because that's the $ you accepted.
While anecdotal, in my 18 years of corporate america I've found that people who aggressively ask for and pursue more $ typically get it. Gender is rarely, if ever, relevant at all.
You can get rich if you own a politician, but you have to be rich to buy one in the first place.
Rationalize away, but we know what's in your heart. But that's ok. Look at this as an opportunity for personal reflection and growth.
Oh, really? Why would that be?
There are varied uniquely male privileges to be obtained.
There are varied uniquely female privileges to be obtained.
There are privileges that come with decency. I won't say human decency as I have known animals to have that decency and it should be reciprocated.
Very, very few obtain more than a small fraction of the privilege they could obtain.
Very often the members of a given group do not recognise their own privileges as they seem natural within that group. That makes the grass look even greener on the other side of the fence.
There is privilege everywhere. It is hard not to see it. It is best to try and be objective.
That would also be pretty well impossible for any woman I have ever known unless she was the only woman present and maybe not then. If you think that testicles or ovaries do not affect sentience then you go against a massive field of evidence and the bulk of the psychiatry and psychological world.
In case you did not know it, men in majority female workplaces cop a lot too. With far less recourse.
When contacted, Tesla provided the following statement to TechCrunch regarding the new statements made by Vandermeyden to the Guardian:
Tesla is committed to creating a positive workplace environment that is free of discrimination for all our employees. Ms. Vandermeyden joined Tesla in a sales position in 2013, and since then, despite having no formal engineering degree, she has sought and moved into successive engineering roles, beginning with her work in Tesla’s paint shop and eventually another role in General Assembly. Even after she made her complaints of alleged discrimination, she sought and was advanced into at least one other new role, evidence of the fact that Tesla is committed to rewarding hard work and talent, regardless of background. When Ms. Vandermeyden first brought her concerns to us over a year ago, we immediately retained a neutral third party, Anne Hilbert of EMC2Law, to investigate her claims so that, if warranted, we could take appropriate action to address the issues she raised. After an exhaustive review of the facts, the independent investigator determined that Ms. Vandermeyden’s “claims of gender discrimination, harassment, and retaliation have not been substantiated.” Without this context, the story presented in the original article is misleading.
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
Learn to negotiate and don't cry if you negotiated a lower salary for yourself.