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Edit: Triggered Uber employee just sent his downvote. Pretty affirming. Good job, Uber :):P
Full of dramatic cliches and irrelevant details. (New Balance really?)
Some of the responses to that article express a sentiment that women should fight back and not just silently take it. I wonder (doubt) if they've ever been abused. It's hard for someone who has been abused to come forward, let alone stand up to an abuser. Besides, men outnumber women in tech by a very large margin. It's on our shoulders to help women fight back. Strength in numbers is a thing, and having men who spea…
She did fight back, told HR about what was happening, stood up to the abusers in meetings. Then when she was physically handled and verbally threatened in a meeting with many eye witnesses, nothing was done to support her or protect her. What else do they expect her to do? Bring a weapon to work and shoot everyone?
> Other female employees who were his seniors often discussed in private about his lewd comments and sexist behavior but no one was ever brave enough to complain to the senior management and HR because the management is known to ignore the complaints and many times punish the women by accidentally leaking the names of the women over private chat groups.
You can't make this up.
Wouldn't it be great if the US had some place they could take these kinds of complaints? We could call it a national labor board or national labor relations board. They could maybe investigate these kinds of problems and impose penalties. Oh right, we can't because Republicans. They weren't allowed to reach quorum under Obama and now they're fucked under Trump. This is the reality of the war on regulation.
With regard to the NLRB: it's worth remember (talk to a labor lawyer) that in general the act of organizing resistance to unfair practices is itself intrinsically protected by law: you do not need the approval of the NLRB to organize your workplace. Under the NLRA, it's unlawful to retaliate against an employee for "protected concerted actions" in which two or more employees protest working conditions.
I'm really happy she felt comfortable doing this. What an incredibly brave and strong person—I can't imagine what she must be feeling. What I really want to see is the other 20 men on her team tell their bosses to cut that shit out. We cannot rely on the abused to stand up for themselves; for every one who does there are thousands who cannot. It is on every one of us to report abhorrent behaviour, even if we think so…
Uninstalling the app and simply choosing to use a competitor's services are another option, but sapping the entire organization of revenue seems like it would hurt drivers and developers at least as much as management, if not more so. Do you think this merits organized public protest? Is the average Uber user aware of the issues/incensed enough to actually take to the streets?
Obviously I'd like to see a change, but I'm struggling with how best to actually make this happen.
I know this is not the main point to take home from this situation, and I also know I'll be attacked from making it, but I felt it was important nonetheless.
As an example, I heard that Yahoo dismissed the majority of their senior male staff, unfairly. The Verge, Vox, The Daily Beast and a host of others didn't report on this. The link below isn't the best reference, but it's one of the few I could find. http://www.gamespot.com/forums/offtopic-discussion-314159273...
I also remembered that Ars Technica gave it some limited and underwhelming exposure.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/10/yahoo-hit-with-a...
This should be compared to Ars' coverage of Ellen Pao, not just in the number of articles but also the language used between the two articles.
https://arstechnica.com/business/2015/07/breaking-ellen-pao-... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/06/ellen-pao-will-s... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/ellen-pao-drove-... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/06/judge-says-klein... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/09/ellen-pao-drops-... https://arstechnica.com/business/2015/07/reddit-ceo-ellen-pa... https://arstechnica.com/series/pao-vs-kleiner-perkins/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/ellen-pao-was-re... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/the-only-bad-pre... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/former-facebook-...
It makes me wonder if some sex discrimination is condoned by the MSM.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
My own. I'm not making claims of a sexist, racist, and hostile environment in a company, so for what it's worth, where I work isn't relevant.
Well, you made a call for someone to deanonymize herself yet you are not willing to deanonymize yourself on that account, perhaps because you feel that it might hurt your reputation not because you are wrong, but just because the internet is the shitty place it is...
Whoa. I did no such thing. I stated that I don't believe this anonymous account. The author specifically _should not_ unmask herself at this point without speaking with a lawyer.
> perhaps because you feel that it might hurt your reputation not because you are wrong, but just because the internet is the shitty place it is...
This is accurate. Someone has requested that I make myself open to "doxxing" so he/she can boycott my products, even though he/she didn't understand my perspective on this.
> tried to trigger me Man, I really wish the internet hadn't decided that "trigger" means to anger or upset someone instead of the original meaning: provoke an anxiety or panic attack, like lighting firecrackers around war veterans. Not that what Uber is doing here to "Amy" isn't despicable. I'm just a little bothered by this relatively frivolous usage of the word "trigger" compared to the original purpose for using…
Strange that this was your takeaway when there were so many other things in the article to be greatly bothered by.