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Ellen Pao Says Kleiner Perkins Has Now Fired Her

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Re: Ellen Pao Says Kleiner Perkins Has Now Fired Her

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Post by SeoxyS »

I'm surprised it took so long, actually. What did she expect? Suing her employer makes her a massive liability to the firm. The only thing keeping her there was how a firing would reflect on the case and in the press. KPCB must've decided that the bad press was the better alternative (and rightly so, IMHO).

Re: Ellen Pao Says Kleiner Perkins Has Now Fired Her

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Post by JoachimSchipper »

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"If EA were some kind of exploitative entity, wouldn't we have heard about it sooner? Wouldn't we have heard about it from multiple people? Instead, it's coming from someone whose husband clearly had trouble climbing the career ladder at the firm." [Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Hoffman]

Given the problems that suing your employer is likely to give you, few people do so even if their employer is really bad.

(I have no opinion on this case, and there are people who sue their employer for no good reason. But the fact that it's just one lady is not a strong argument.)

Re: Ellen Pao Says Kleiner Perkins Has Now Fired Her

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Post by andyjohnson0 »

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"If KPCB was some kind of discriminative entity, wouldn't we have heard about it sooner?"

This is a misleading argument. If discrimination occurs in a organisation and is reported, then someone has to report it first. Claiming that the first person to report it is not credible because they are first, and there have not been prior reports, is fallacious.

(To be clear, I'm not taking a side wrt Pao or KPCB. I've never heard of this case before, and know nothing about it. The other reasons you cite may be correct for all I know.)

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