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With Her Blog Post About Toxic Bro-Culture at Uber, Susan Fowler Proved That One Person Can Make a Difference (recode.net)
Kara Swisher, writing for Recode: It was Lao Tzu who said that "the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." In the case of complete and utter change reeling through Uber right now -- culminating in the resignation of its once untouchable CEO Travis Kalanick -- it turns out that it began with one of the most epic blog posts to be written about what happens when a hot company becomes hostage to its increasingly dysfunctional and toxic behaviors. It was clear from the moment you read the 3,000-word post by former engineer Susan Fowler about her time at the car-hailing company that nothing was going to be the same. Titled simply, "Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber," the essay deftly and surgically laid out the map that the media and others would use to prove to its out-to-lunch board and waffling investors that Uber CEO Travis Kalanick had to go. In her account, Fowler was neither mean nor self-righteous, although in reading the story that she laid out about her horrible time there, it would have been completely fair for her to have taken that tone.
In retrospect, it is interesting to see that a reflective blog post from an engineer ended up in the casualties of CEO, most of the senior leadership and a few board members. Maybe the cracks were already there but nevertheless it has been surreal seeing this unfold in the space of 5 months. It is almost like watching the butterfly effect in action.
I would argue she was an asset to the company.
It is now in the process of growing up a bit. It may not make it to grown up, but this was a needed kick in the slats.
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I'm represented by Verve and InkWell. [susanjfowler.com] And it looks like she's doing the public speaking circuit.
She's an author. I know this is shocking for some people on Slashdot, but she has a personal brand that exists independently of her tech job.
But, I have to agree with the GP, she's not going be hired by anyone ever.
According to her blog post, she left Uber and works at Stripe.
The HR software used these days will catch it and her application would be deleted.
I was out of work for two years, underemployed for six months, and filed for chapter seven bankruptcy in 2011. During that time I was told repeatedly by recruiters that I was "unemployable." The day after my bankruptcy got finalized, I had a new full-time job. The opinions of recruiters and HR software are overrated.
Oh, fuck you. She was propositioned for sex on her first day at work by her immediate supervisor. If you think that's "chivalry" or "romance" or that having a problem with that is "political correctness", then frankly, you're a piece of shit.
I would posit, that the overuse of harassment or discrimination by those on the left, women and minorities have been what has rendered the terms less useful, and overused and abused.
Sure, there are plenty of real occurrences of these abuses, however when so many folks found out they could make $$$ by crying 'wolf' and suing....well, the legitimate cases got lost in the mass of fake ones, and now....everyone is scared at the places of employment.
Its getting harder and harder to fire someone that is incompetent due to them being afraid of the fired employee crying discrimination or verbal sexual assault.
And that really isn't "political correctness"...that is mostly from the left screaming racism/sexism at anyone that either disagrees with them, OR may have actual studies that may show there actually are differences between the sexes, or races or racial cultures that are either pro/con when compared to other races/cultures or the opposite sex.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Why would she lie about it? Even if she wins, many people will be reluctant to hire her now. The legal challenge is a huge financial risk, especially if she doesn't have really concrete evidence.
Unless you actually believe in those mythical raving SJWs, and from her writings she doesn't seem to be that way at all, failing to use common feminist terminology that is normally associated with those mythical beings, it doesn't make sense to do this on anything other than solid principal. That's why all the other women she says told her it was normal didn't speak up - maybe they couldn't afford to lose a job, maybe they couldn't risk being unemployable or losing a large and expensive lawsuit.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Exactly how is reducing corporate taxes going to help the poor champ?
Record profits have shown that companies wont increase wages or hire more people. So how is increasing those profits going to help anyone.
Protip: IT WONT. They hire the people they need at the minimum they can get away with paying, and that WILL NOT CHANGE. Claiming otherwise, especially after the fail of trickle down, is confirmation bias.
Income taxes and corporate taxes should be raised to offset the fact that the taxpayers are having to subsidize the workers with benefits for low income workers. You want me to agree to lowering taxes on businesses? Pay a living wage, when the number of people on the dole decreases we can decrease the tax rate.