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.

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What it made clear to me

[ooloorie]

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.

Mostly what it made clear to me was that I wouldn't want to be in the same company as her, let alone in the same room.

Re:She's out on her own.

[Killall -9 Bash]

She's fucking toxic. Read her blog post: TL;DR-- Aside from one instance of mild sexual harassment (and I call it "mild" because things were implied instead of said, and there weren't any threats, no touching, etc.), she's complaining about standard workplace bullshit.

Calling this "Bro" culture is asinine feminazi bullshit. I suspect she sucks at programming, but I don't feel like buying her book to find out. I know the UBER app AND website are a barely functioning SHITSHOW.