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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.
she needs a good fuck to remind her of her proper place in the universe.
"If you think you're too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."
Film at 11.
It's doubtful that Travis was the only problem child at Uber. He probably hired like-minded pals who remain in power there, so this won't be the last we hear of problems at Uber.
But this isn't "bro culture" or "toxic masculinity", he's just an everyday, run-of-the-mill, common asshole. Plenty more where he came from.
slashdot: A failed experiment.
...is surprised when no-one ever hires her, or anyone like her ever again.
People are supposed to be ASSETS for their companies, not liabilities.
Since, you know, they investigated and found no actual evidence of her claims.
We see 30 articles like this but nothing on the AMD Epyc chip announcement this week.
I think we can safely conclude that Slashdot editors don't care about Technology.
and everyone took it as gospel. what was she going to say? oh i got fired from uber because i was a drama queen who ran to hr every two seconds in my own attempt to play politics just like everyone else? no, instead she accuses everyone else of playing politics as if crying wolf to hr isn't exactly a political tactic. uber changed the world, lyft can kiss my mother fucker ass. fuck a "fast follower".
It was an easy target. Let's see her try that with a real company with real money, not some damn unicorn that barely exists at all. This story is one about the triumph of political correctness, not civil rights.
Chop her worthless bitch skull off and fuck her blinking cuntface as she dies
So with all the secret monitoring, law breaking, deal breaking, poor treatment of drivers, driver pay scandals, and a few other scandals made public that I'm forgetting and nothing happens...
1 sexual harassment case though and its like a total nightmare and the ceo steps down... WTF?!
So basically you can lie cheat and steal all you want, just dont have a "bro culture" and its all good!
Stealing the guy's company from him while he mourns the death of his mother is the real lack of morals in this incident. Fuck those bloodsucking brocapitalists (since anything sjw don't like is now a brosomething).
She writes how everyone was gunning for their bosses jobs, and so what does she do? she decides to gun for her bosses job by getting them fired for excessive broness.
If Lao Tzu wrote about it, we hardly call this news. We have had many examples of people who made a difference. Even if you do not pay any attention at history, you will know about sports or technics where there are people who made a difference.
Are we supposed to be in awe, because she was a woman, or what?
Yes, sometimes 1 person makes a difference. Most of the time they don't.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
No, simple "not interested" was insufficient.
In other words: "I expected they would fire him and promote me to his position."
But he was a "stellar performer", bringing a lot of money in, and she was a noob on first day in the team, fresh out of training. So that didn't happen.
And it just couldn't stand. After all, a corporation can't prioritize efficient employees and profit over entitled employees and their peace of mind...
So the shitstorm began, and... now HR will think twice before employing a female engineer.
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It's instructive that for all the problems Uber has what ends up destroying the company is an attack by the insane progessive left.
Let this be a lesson, if you own/run a company and you detect the cancer of "social justice" in your organization you had better cut it out quickly before it spreads and becomes terminal...
... if you say the politically correct things, that is. Which means no change whatsoever from the current agenda by the "powers that be", to be sufficiently cryptic as to stand the slightest chance of getting one upvote or however the hell these scores are calculated.
The world has much bigger problems than some foetid cunt's delicate emotions . With every shrill complaint the public grows increasingly desensitized. Keep shrilling and we won't just end up a with a pussy-grabbing president running the free world - the next one can punch women in the face all day long. DGAF
Complained too much and the sympathy is gone. Your own fault, bitch.
It looks as though she's not going to be applying for jobs anytime soon.
I'm represented by Verve and InkWell. And it looks like she's doing the public speaking circuit.
But, I have to agree with the GP, she's not going be hired by anyone ever. The HR software used these days will catch it and her application would be deleted. If she actually got a response, it'd be the lame "You don't have the skills." excuse.
Because if it turns out that what she said was not truthful, that would only be another example of SJW-witchhunts of which we have had way too many in the past decade.
No, I am not a friend of Uber at all. While they may shake up (positively) the encrusted taxi market in some countries, in others they have shown that they are unable to play by the rules while still making money. Like in Germany.
And round it goes...
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.
You're goddamn right. Men suck. Men ruin everything. Men cause all wars. Men cause all hardship. Men cause all poverty. Men are selfish, greedy, and violent.
FUCK MEN.
No, not literally. In fact all men should be castrated at birth.
My wife works in the medical industry and more or less ignores what happens in technology. However this entire time with news stories on NPR and the nightly news she was firmly against 'bro-culture' and sexism in technology.
When the Uber Miami Memo leaked I showed it to her as 'evidence' for the toxic, misogynistic, bro-culture that was everywhere. She read it through twice and then came back with, "Ok, so where's the sexism that people are complaining about?". Every single thing in there she thought was completely reasonable. ("Don't have sex with someone that is above you or in the same group.", "Don't do drugs".)
There is a narrative that a lot of people are pushing and a lot of other people are onboard with defending without sitting down and listening to what some individuals consider offensive and toxic.
One "person" can make a difference, but one "woman" can never make a difference. Females are inherently inferior to men in every conceivable way, and every time they open their mouths and start bleating like donkeys, I want to reach over and slap their idiotic jaws shut. This is the red pill, guys. This is the truth. Women will never earn as much money as men, they will never be as smart as men, and they will NEVER have as much value as men. Women are only good for breeding, but when it comes to pleasure, you MUST find a man. Or a boy. A woman cannot satisfy a man like a man can. Women are just a bunch of disgusting BREEDERS, and as such they are repugnant and disgusting. This is the red pill. We are trying to wake up as many men as possible. Remember who you are! Don't let yourselves be tricked by women! They will lie to you. They will steal from you. They will cheat on you. A man will do none of those things. Men, you must get rid of your females and only make love to other men. The younger the better. This is the red pill. Join the North American Man/Boy Love Association and prove that women have no value. Join today.
Also, support your local LGBT groups. Gay pride! :)
Michael Knight would be proud!
Well, okay, "person", not "man", but yeah, same thing. "Person" sounds very awkward in that context somehow. English needs to learn from these other languages that have gender-neutral pronouns that we can use to keep from offending the overly-sensitive. Otherwise it seems so forced when we have to force nouns into pronoun duties.
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
I think this is way too premature. She was complaining about the bro-culture. It still is a bro-culture. Firing a CEO is a nice consequence, but it is no where near a solution.
If I had to guess, I'd say that in one year, everything will revert back to the same.
It evidences monumentally bad practice.
Slashdot post #51238 on the identity politics at Uber. Still fail to see how this is Slashdot material at all.
Anyone else fed up of this anti bro shit? isn't it enough that people are making an effort to be over inclusive of women... bro culture is a result of lots of guys working together, you are essentially complaining about guys being guys... do you hear about men complaining how girly culture is so annoying in majority female work environments? NO because it's obvious WHY. No one expects women to stop being girly just cos some guys wana work in fashion design. If you want to change the balance of gender fine but that doesn't mean you get the CHANGE the other gender.
and its called natural selection u fat faggot
So let's get this straight. There is an anti-Uber story on this site almost, and I'm hardly exaggerating, EVERY DAY.
Even if we can ignore that, what's the story here? Literally some random employees BLOG POST totally unsubstantiated with any sort of evidence which would be easy to provide without legal ramifications.
Real headline:
With Her Left-Wing-Media-Backed Blog Post About Uber and Fist-fulls of Cash Paid to Her by Said Media, Susan Fowler Proved That Made-Up Story of One Person Can "Trigger" a Bunch of SJW-Inclined Morons into Being a Corporate-Controlled Drone Mob to Fight for Uber's Enemies
Toxic
False poetry over what displeases you for no rational reason, every time. You don't need fancy words to decorate your self-righteousness.
The Slashdot crowd of rabid left-wing editors' pets have some success in certain discussions in their rampaging around each-others Foes list and suppressing any opposing point of view. Those of us who care about the community should be more vigilant in disallowing them to spin their echo-chamber cocoon in seemingly sympathetic stories like this.
I'm a guy, and I know I feel uncomfortable when I get paired with some sales guy who's a walking sexual harassment lawsuit waiting to happen when visiting one of our customers. I think most guys who are somewhat normal and have regular relationships with the opposite sex do too. The problem comes when the organization you work for doesn't do anything to actively discourage douchbaggery of any kind. I may be old school, but I think workplace interactions should be professional, and any "extracurricular activities" shouldn't need to be discussed in a work context.
I hope she's getting a lifetime's worth of income from her settlements, because I know there are plenty of hiring managers who wouldn't touch someone who has a reputation like the one she has now. Maybe some things will change because of this, but I do know the technology world has shifted. It used to be exclusively nerds, so the complaints you'd get would be of the creeper/stalker variety associated with the "living in your mom's basement" crowd. Now, these web startups are using frameworks, APIs and SDKs to build software, so you're getting a lot of less technical people snapping Legos together to build apps...and just like the CS boom of the late 90s, you're seeing a lot of "bros" getting into the startup biz because of the money involved. If you want to see a parallel in another field, just look at how many former fraternity guys wind up in sales organizations and the culture that develops in most of them as a result.
I just don't understand why people can't be professionals at work. Maybe it's working 100 hours a week with the same people in a cramped office, but I've mostly encountered professional workplaces in my career...usually we're too busy doing work to harass co-workers...
I think if Uber didn't have 99 other problems, they would have been able to rally the troops to successfully bury this. She had help.
He resigned because his mother died in a boating accident. Nothing in this article is true.
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So... show me on the doll where the bad gay touched you.
Therefore, by the (faulty) logic you're using, you're just a cow with a keyboard - osu-neko (2604)
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Racists gonna race...
Someone needs to learn the definition of consent. Oh and to stop being a bigot.
We wouldn't be in this position if it wasn't people who shared views like yours. Maybe you wouldn't have to hear about all of this "Gay Stuff" if the last several decades didn't involve thugs assaulting gays for sport, known "fag bashing". But eventually if you oppress people long enough, they have to rise up and defend themselves. If that means making people like you aware that gays exist, and straight people like me insisting that gays are perfectly acceptable people, then so be it. You and others who share your views have made your bed, now lie in it. I couldn't care less if it makes you feel uncomfortable or "disgusted", but it seems like a small price to pay considering the offense society has committed against gays. Grow a pair, snowflake.
With all due respect to Ms Fowler, I don't think she brought down the CEO. The behaviour that she describes is in a lot of tech companies. I don't recall seeing their ceo's exiting. It was all of the other illegal stuff that uber we're doing and the major VC funders were afraid of losing their money that brought down Travis.
What's up with these millennial kids who expect to be hired, transferred 3 times and made boss in less than a year of being hired? Face it Susan, you were a squeaky wheel, a proverbial pain in the ass - and you got managed out the door.