What I learnt from being sexually harassed at Google
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#3>When I was eventually promoted on the team, I resented having doubts about its merits — was I promoted because of my abilities, or was I promoted because he was trying to apologise for his boorish behaviour?
It must be awful to have a problem like that.
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#4> In the span of a week, I went from feeling excited and motivated about my job to feeling lethargic, anxious, and unenthused. (...) I was kissed on the cheek, asked to sit on my manager’s lap, told about my manager’s sex life and virility (...)
There exists a breed of narcissists who are so incapable of tolerating rejection that they will consistently ignore every sign of it. In fact, the less you are satisfied with their actions, the more they will repeat them, desperately needing to see that your displeasure was just a temporary fluke and in the end they really are those cool dudes who are never wrong and everybody just admires them.
As a man I've never been asked to sit on one's lap (knock on wood), but some did give me a fair amount of trouble.
It doesn't help that their delusional serf-confidence can be confused with competence by some less experienced folks and get them promoted to management roles. In fact, I'd expect their density to increase as you go up the corporate food chain.
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#5Is this really a problem with Silicon Valley? I think it's an universal problem you'll find in all industries.
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#7Is this really a problem with Silicon Valley? I think it's an universal problem you'll find in all industries.
Women who leave seem to think it's worse in tech. Pretty solid data point.
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#9> a company well-known for its “Do no evil” culture
This was their motto a decade back and what they are doing does not reflect it even remotely. I'm pretty sure they are not known for "do no evil" culture, just that the slogan is tied to them somehow.
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#10I probably would've felt more sympathy for her had it not been for the fact that upon scrolling down, she still has google listed as one of her former employers! now if being at google was such a traumatic experience, why reference them in your sexual harassment letter? If it happened to me, I wouldn't list the former employer I worked for.