Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

I am an Uber survivor

medium.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

111–120 of 841 posts

Re: I am an Uber survivor

#111

Post by oculusthrift »

mjolk wrote: post #39

> I am afraid to make my name public. Let’s call me Amy. For reasons only the #ubervictims know, let’s refer to the villain of this story as Mike#2. My default is "show me the evidence", but I believe Susan Fowler's account because she put her reputation on the line and I was willing to trust that she left, opposed to got fired, due to non-performance reasons based on being able to somewhat approximate/confirm her te…

put skin in the game by putting your name on your profile or rescind your allegations

Re: I am an Uber survivor

#112

Post by deanCommie »

harryh wrote: post #31

Why would someone write an anonymous blog post but then declare that they are: 1) A woman in her late 20s 2) Who used to work at Uber in Engineering working on database and networking scalability 3) Went to a top private college 4) has a Masters in Information Systems 5) previous to Uber worked as a Data Analyst in a tech company in the Midwest and left when it was acquired by a Chinese firm 6) Is 5 foot 7 Caucasian…

Why would someone read this whole post, and the main takeway they get from it - enough to post a hackernews comment - is to question the poster's claims of interest in anonymity. (And - let's be honest - therefore trying to discredit her whole story one chip at a time).

People like you are the problem.

Re: I am an Uber survivor

#113

Post by jordigh »

"There is no place for ethics in this business sweetheart. We are not a charity."

OMFG

I don't know if this is real or not, but given how Uber acts publicly about everything else (breaking the laws until governments are forced to amend the laws for Uber), I'm not surprised at all if this really is the overall attitude that they have for everything.

Re: I am an Uber survivor

#114

Post by CodeSheikh »

aylmao wrote: post #32
JustSomeNobody wrote: post #18

Yet again the nerds have become the bullies.

Except I doubt these are "the nerds". These are likely the fratboys who studied business and are continuing their hazing and misogyny as managers after college.

I am also assuming some fancy MBA jerk.

Re: I am an Uber survivor

#115

Post by JustSomeNobody »

aylmao wrote: post #32
JustSomeNobody wrote: post #18

Yet again the nerds have become the bullies.

Except I doubt these are "the nerds". These are likely the fratboys who studied business and are continuing their hazing and misogyny as managers after college.

> It was normal for our supervisors to openly appreciate the performance of one member over the other and publicly demean members who did not perform as per their expectations. Chauvinistic, racist and homophobic attitudes were far too normal at Uber. Once in a group chat, team members referred to a new Asian American recruit as slanty eye joe. It was normal for guys to refer to other guys as fags when they didn’t participate in private parties where sex and drugs were involved. It was normal for guys to openly refer to attractive female colleagues as sluts when they refused to go out with them. They had private chats where guys wrote sexual fantasy stories about female colleagues and supervisors where they performed all sorts of demeaning acts on the women. I confronted the guys on my team whenever they passed lewd comments about female supervisors but never felt comfortable confronting guys who were not in my team.

Sounds to me like it was her team members also.

Re: I am an Uber survivor

#117

Post by JustSomeNobody »

CodeSheikh wrote: post #114
aylmao wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except I doubt these are "the nerds". These are likely the fratboys who studied business and are continuing their hazing and misogyny as managers after college.

I am also assuming some fancy MBA jerk.

She specifically mentions confronting members of her team.

Re: I am an Uber survivor

#119

Post by JustSomeNobody »

xenihn wrote: post #89
JustSomeNobody wrote: post #18

Yet again the nerds have become the bullies.

Not sure what kinds of companies you've worked at, but from what I've seen, founders, execs, and their inner circles aren't nerds.

She specifically mentions confronting members of her team.

Re: I am an Uber survivor

#120

Post by MaxfordAndSons »

jacobolus wrote: post #102
MaxfordAndSons wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The genius of labeling it "human resources" just struck me. As an employee (and human) it seems reasonable to interpret it as "resources for humans" and thus assume it would be there to help. But its true meaning, to execs/stakeholders/corporate persons, is "[the department which manages the] human resources".

This is not really an obscure secret. Wikipedia: “Human resources are the people who make up the workforce of an organization, business sector, or economy. [...] A human-resources department (HR department) of an organization performs human resource management, overseeing various aspects of employment, such as compliance with labour law and employment standards, administration of employee benefits, and some aspects o…

I get that, I wasn't saying it was actually a secret, just a conveniently vague conventional name.
Post reply on HN