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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.
Sounds kind of like certain people letting their on-line behaviors, formed from years of anonymous social media interaction, extend to the real world. Not that similar poor behavior hasn't happened before, just pondering it as a 'potential' contributor.
exactly what it sounds like... taking a low dose of drugs. usually many times a day.
the alcohol equivalent that most people have probably done would be taking one drink every hour or so, with water in-between so you can drink and socialize and get slightly affected without actually getting intoxicated.
I am a man and wouldn't want to work there. I hate specious and or frivolous lawsuits but in this case hope they get maxed.
love is just extroverted narcissism
None of my friends have EVER acted like this when I have been around them. I have also not encountered this before at any company I have worked at.
Every business I have worked with would have had the offending employees get one warning and then be out the door the next time it happened. I can't even imagine any engineering company being okay with "microdosing". The liability alone would kill that idea.
Even when I have been in a group of only male masters or phd students we mostly talked about science, engineering, movies, games etc kind of topics but not sexual exploits.
This is reprehensible behavior and should not be tolerated.
Computer modeling for biotech drug manufacturing is HARD!
That's odd, because whenever I'm mentioned being sexually assaulted (at 14), I've had sympathy from Feminists (despite me not actually being all that bothered about the incident - it wasn't at the same sexual violence level as rape.) Maybe the people you were talking to weren't Feminists, but assholes?
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.