Has anyone seen a policy on how to handle sexual harassment allegations in the work place? If it comes down to 'he says she says' do you fire someone even though you don't have evidence? Similarly, if you don't fire someone and new allegations come up later then it makes the employer look like they are an enabler.
Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment
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#12Gee, maybe people shouldn't be forced into working 60 hour work weeks to barely scrape by, and then we'd have time to try to socialize outside of work, form real relationships with people we're find ourselves attracted to, under appropriate circumstances. But no. Not a chance. We get roped into hundreds and thousands and tens of thousands of hours of coding camps and university curiculum, and then spat out into a con…
Most senior VCs are quite well off are paid very well.
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#13This is a watershed moment in the VC industry. The dam has finally burst, and we're now seeing the establishment of a new norm in which women who are being harassed go public rather than feeling compelled to hide it. Expect to see many men who were operating under the old norms getting ousted.
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#14I'm ashamed of my colleagues and my industry.
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#15How is it that the old money industries of Wall Street and Hollywood, no vanguards of gender egalitarianism themselves, seem to have less flagrant sexual harassment issues? Do they keep them under wraps or are they just more mature by now?
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#16I'm ashamed of my colleagues and my industry.
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#17Buried lede: Dave McClure implicated and is out of daily operations at 500 Startups
/That's/ the lede you're taking away from this story? Some asshole's fall from grace?
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#18I had always heard the constant murmur of sexual harassment happening in the Valley, but I was never sure if there was any merit to it. I anecdotally had never seen anything that would even come close to a situation like those described, so I kind of brushed it off.
But then articles like these come out. Wow. These are some of the kingpins of Silicon Valley shown sexually harassing with hard, factual evidence. I had no idea.
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#19This is a watershed moment in the VC industry. The dam has finally burst, and we're now seeing the establishment of a new norm in which women who are being harassed go public rather than feeling compelled to hide it. Expect to see many men who were operating under the old norms getting ousted.
I expect less VCs to take meetings with women, sadly. Not because they are likely to be problems, quite the opposite I'd wager.
That's going to be the rather depressing and sad reality of the shakeout of this.
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#20Has anyone seen a policy on how to handle sexual harassment allegations in the work place? If it comes down to 'he says she says' do you fire someone even though you don't have evidence? Similarly, if you don't fire someone and new allegations come up later then it makes the employer look like they are an enabler.
Policy: contact an attorney