I spoke up about Rivian’s toxic bro culture and got fired
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Re: I spoke up about Rivian’s toxic bro culture and got fired
#2First question I would have is why did they hire a woman if they didn't want her to succeed? Just to marginalize her? There are not many details in the article so we can only guess.
Re: I spoke up about Rivian’s toxic bro culture and got fired
#3Wow. To let go of a coveted position and then to land in a shitshow like this must be absolutely terrible. Props to her for speaking up, and taking what she wrote as true (I see no reason not to) that company should be avoided like the plague, both on your resume as well as as a potential customer or stockholder. This won't end well.
Re: I spoke up about Rivian’s toxic bro culture and got fired
#4First question I would have is why did they hire a woman if they didn't want her to succeed? Just to marginalize her? There are not many details in the article so we can only guess.
As a PR move. To be seen as a diverse employer by clueless outsiders.
Re: I spoke up about Rivian’s toxic bro culture and got fired
#5First question I would have is why did they hire a woman if they didn't want her to succeed? Just to marginalize her? There are not many details in the article so we can only guess.
Performative inclusion.
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Inclusion: A seat at the table. Equity: When you speak at the table, others listen.
Re: I spoke up about Rivian’s toxic bro culture and got fired
#6First question I would have is why did they hire a woman if they didn't want her to succeed? Just to marginalize her? There are not many details in the article so we can only guess.
You are skeptical of the general concept of someone getting hired and then being marginalized by the same people who hired them?
Re: I spoke up about Rivian’s toxic bro culture and got fired
#7This is wild, my wife was hired as a supervisor at a sporting goods store ~15 years ago and faced almost the same style of discrimination. Meetings held with all the other super visors except her, Work that should have been hers given to other supervisors, boss was hard to meet with. What a strange pattern of behavior.
Re: I spoke up about Rivian’s toxic bro culture and got fired
#8Maybe its just correlation/coincidence but I wonder why companies associated with Jeff Bezos have such a toxic culture ?!
I know Rivian is only funded by Amazon, not run by them.
Re: I spoke up about Rivian’s toxic bro culture and got fired
#9First question I would have is why did they hire a woman if they didn't want her to succeed? Just to marginalize her? There are not many details in the article so we can only guess.
As a PR move. To be seen as a diverse employer by clueless outsiders.
Assuming this is your motive you wouldn't put a token diversity hire in charge of the thing that drives your revenue. You would put them in a bullshit job that had no impact on your top or bottom lines.
Re: I spoke up about Rivian’s toxic bro culture and got fired
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a PR move. To be seen as a diverse employer by clueless outsiders.
Assuming this is your motive you wouldn't put a token diversity hire in charge of the thing that drives your revenue. You would put them in a bullshit job that had no impact on your top or bottom lines.
According to the article that's exactly what they did. Nominally in charge but actually completely ignored, she was quite literally hired as a figurehead due to her pedigree, not because of her capabilities.