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UploadVR Had a 'Kink Room,' Pressured Female Employees To 'Microdose,' Alleges Lawsuit (gizmodo.com)

The virtual-reality company UploadVR is being sued by the company's former Director of Digital and Social Media for rampant sexual harassment. According to Gizmodo, "the lawsuit alleges that the company's employees and founders created a hostile work environment in which sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and retaliation occurred on a regular basis." From the report: In the suit documents, the former Director of Digital and Social Media for UploadVR claims that the office environment was a "boy's club" that employees expressly referred to as a "boy's club." From the suit: "Specifically, the male employees of UploadVR, including Mason and Freeman, would discuss their sexual exploits in graphic detail at the workplace in front of Plaintiff and other female employees. For instance, UploadVR employee [name redacted]'s sex life was a frequent topic of conversation. The other male employees would talk about how he 'refuses to wear a condom' and 'has had sex with over 1000 people.'" The documents also claim that employees were engaged in Silicon Valley's hot new trend of "microdosing" and "using Marijuana in the office." When female employees didn't want to participate, they would be ostracized by the male employees and excluded from important meetings and lunches.

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  1. Re:VC Round by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Funny

    but you'd suppose that the VC's would check for this sort of thing in the due diligence phase.

    The VCs were too busy microdosing.

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  2. Re:Seriously simplify your life by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or hire only women. You can save up to 70% on salaries.

  3. Re:VC Round by arglebargle_xiv · · Score: 3, Funny

    "I'm gonna call me a coupla hard, pipe-hittin McAfees.."... naah, it just doesn't sound the same.

  4. Silicon Valley by wisnoskij · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hay, it's a free country. If you don't like assholes and drugs then move out of California.

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  5. Re:Hiring practices... by ColdWetDog · · Score: 3, Funny

    So, the homeopathic approach to hallucinogens?

    Hunter S. Thompson wound not approve.

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  6. Re:Phrasing is the key by smallfries · · Score: 4, Funny

    Otherwise, I can't see any heterosexual sexual assault, I mean, a chick can't rape a man.

    Reading this remind me of some invaluable advice that I once heard : never go full retard. Maybe it is useful to you too?

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  7. Re: As a male adult by Kurrelgyre · · Score: 3, Funny

    Calling in an anonymous tip to legal authorities, like from a phone booth, which at one time charged 10 cents to make local calls.

    To you kids out there, phone booths were public booths with landlines you could pay to make calls from.

    To you babies out there, phone calls are how you used to talk to people using only your voice. No video, no text, and you had to dial a specific number to reach them.