ah! me too! Except I had met the poor woman at the same time I met him, at a party. It was loud and I was tipsy during the introductions so when he later told me that she was his roommate, I believed him. And thus didn’t question her presence in his life, though there were definite moments where I thought “oh, these…
I don’t know about prison but he definitely needs some non optional time with a therapist
How fitting, this Chris Brown story appearing in Dirt Bag.
The abuse she endured from Brown and his fans was/is horrific
I used to work with Uber’s current head of HR. She is an atrocious human being. In addition to the fact that many women in STEM have similar stories, I have ZERO doubts that their HR VP is fully capable of letting this happen on her watch, even knowing about it and not caring. She’s the perfect HR VP for a company…
They’re really helpful to women in so many ways. God’s gift, you might say.
My feeling is that any time you have a field so predominantly male (and white), you have an issue with ‘handling diverse groups of people.’ With tech, there’s also all the money and praise and perks to make people feel superior to others/‘invincible.’ In some cases, people in charge of staffing are so impressed by the…
Is this a microcosm of the entire nature of Silicone Valley?
There’s a reason they call it Man Jose. Wish I were joking.
A woman can’t just be good at her job, she has to be “outstanding.”
Girl. Same.
It’s basically the reason Terrell Owens is not in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, to use a sports analogy.
I feel so bad for the people I know who studied HR thinking they’d get a job that helped workers, then showed up the first day and realised their entire job was protecting the company.
Are you ugly? Because I am, and I’ve worked in a bio lab where I was ignored constantly, too. It was kind of great because I could get shit done.
As a woman FORMERLY in STEM, before all the neckbeards screaming misandry! and fake! come rolling in, I’m going to come right right out and say that her account sounds eerily similar to my own forced exodus from a fortune 200, and to things I heard from close friends/co workers. We were all sexually or racially…
I am not a labor lawyer, but this sounds so so so illegal.
It’s even creepier than that. I’m sure Uber has some sort of HR policy on outside work communications being held through back channels that aren’t approved through HR. This HR flunkie, instead of looking into her complaints, was instead looking for violations that Fowler could be written up for.
I suggest people read her blog all the way through. Even this write-up is underplaying how bad it apparently was. For instance, she was also threatened that she would be fired for reporting her manager to HR for the jacket incident, and when she complained that this was illegal, they essentially shrugged and did…