Former engineer says Uber is a nightmare of sexism (opens in new tab)

(theverge.com)

16 pointsmendelk9y ago7 comments

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mendelkOP9y ago· 2 in thread

Related to this post[0], but The Verge has comments from Uber CEO:

> I have just read Susan Fowler's blog. What she describes is abhorrent and against everything Uber stands for and believes in. It's the first time this has come to my attention so I have instructed Liane Hornsey our new Chief Human Resources Officer to conduct an urgent investigation into these allegations. We seek to make Uber a just workplace and there can be absolutely no place for this kind of behavior at Uber -- and anyone who behaves this way or thinks this is OK will be fired.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13682022

huac9y ago

The point of her post is that Uber's HR is complicit in this nightmare of a situation - actively working against her and other women. So to ask Uber HR to respond is a pathetic and cowardly attempt to shove the issue under the table.

Furthermore, saying "It's the first time this has come to my attention" is not a great response to a post which alleges that HR responds to sexual harassment claims by saying "this is the first time we've had a complaint against this guy".

aisofteng9y ago

>new Chief Human Resources Officer

Does this mean that the person running HR when these alleged incidents took place has been replaced? That would probably invalidate your criticism.

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I_am_neo9y ago· 1 in thread

Gee, it sounds like every job I've ever worked... I no longer work jobs

Draw the line and stick to it

amagumori9y ago

Oh, you just choose not to work a job! Never thought of that!

keithchambers9y ago

Sounds terrible and nobody should but subjected to this sort of work environment.

Not sure how the story ends because I stopped reading just after ... "which I wrote about in my bestselling (!!!) book Production-Ready Microservices."

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