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Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer for Uber and current engineer at Stripe, accused the company of rampant sexual harassment and human resources negligence in a blog post published today.
Fowler claims that on her first day out of training, she was solicited for sex by a superior on an internal company chat thread. She then immediately captured screenshots of the messages and sent them to Uber's human resources department. In a healthy organization, such a problem would have been quickly resolved. But Fowler alleges that the harassment only continued, preventing her from moving up within the company.
"Upper management told me that he 'was a high performer' and they wouldn't feel comfortable punishing him for what was probably just an innocent mistake on his part," explained Fowler in her post
At this point, Fowler says in her post that she was given a choice of remaining on the team and accepting, "a poor performance review," or moving to a different team.
[...] Though she didn't want to leave the role she felt she was best prepared to fill, she switched teams. Work continued, and while Fowler had settled into the new role she regularly had conversations with female employees who shared similar stories about HR negligence, even citing unacceptable experiences with the same superior that solicited her.
[...] Amid chaotic internal politics, Fowler attempted to transfer to a different department, but the company blocked her request. Citing strong performance, she couldn't understand why her request had been denied.
"I was told that 'performance problems aren't always something that has to do with work, but sometimes can be about things outside of work or your personal life,'" added Fowler in her post.
She ultimately decided to stay in the same role until her next performance review. But the frustration continued with a second reassignment rejection and a further explanation that her "review had been changed after the fact," and that she didn't show "signs of an upward career trajectory." As a result, she was shut out of a Stanford computer science graduate program sponsored by the company for high-achievers.
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(Score: 4, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday February 22 2017, @07:03PM
Fuck you four times. When you said
> she's a special snowflake guaranteed to move on to bigger things because she'd Fighting The Power(TM) and any claim she lied is merely anti-female sexism
You said the precise fucking OPPOSITE of what I did. And no, I never read Hunter S. Thompson; I was born in 1985, long after the Nixonian debacle went down. I'm simply both open-eyed and pissed off; think "George Carlin crossed with a demi-femme Xena warrior princess" here.
And you will. Not. Gaslight. Me. I counted three, count 'em, ichi-ni-san, cases of deliberate misdirection here: non-sequitur, damning with faint praise, and insincere self-deprecation. You're as transparent as glass to me.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by VLM on Wednesday February 22 2017, @07:33PM
So I take it the wedding's off then? Just kidding. You don't have to get all personal just because we disagree on ... everything .... politically. No non-sequitur here, only complete lack of common ground making the issue perhaps too confusing for you. I do like your writing style even if we can't stand each others politics. You did catch me on the insincere self-deprecation, I am pretty awesome, thanks for reminding everyone, although that's probably fairly obvious.
So, sincerely, have a nice day and I suggest you read Hunter Thompson some time, he's more timeless than you appear to think he is, and no I'm not rickrolling you into reading some sort of ur-Moldbug, although I have to admit that would be epic if I pulled that off.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday February 22 2017, @07:38PM
Fuck off. You got your bloated head handed to you and you're not gonna make a graceful exit. And everyone can see it.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 22 2017, @09:28PM
You got trolled.