This is actually incredibly common for smaller brands who find themselves with surprise hit (ETA: Kate bought this dress off the rack—Issa didn’t know about it until pics hit the news; this was not a commission). If you have a ton of people who want to place orders, yet you have no way to fill those orders because you…

Well, yeah. If you get a flood of orders you aren’t prepared for, sometimes you just can’t fulfill the orders. And once that happens your brand gets a bad reputation.

So demand increased and that’s why she went out of business?

Can we say his election was just practice and we’ll have the real one now? Please and thanks 🙏

Ha, ha, yeah, “Practice round, takesies, backsies!”

Love the spin: “We were just practicing so we could weed out the problems.” Riiiiight.

That’s not true. Everyone in tech knows that Uber are assholes, other companies would be happy to hire her. Plus, this kind of HR failure is a golden ticket. It’s so bad, any competent lawyer should be able to get her enough money that she wouldn’t need to work for a while.

None of those fucking words actually mean anything.

It’s so bad. She spells out the sexist manager’s logic in the full blog. Apparently he got a discount by buying the mens’ jackets in bulk, and from this fact he drew the conclusion that buying the jackets for the women would be unfair to the men because he would have to spend more money on the women then on the men,…

as a lawyer who is usually on the defense side of employment discrimination suits, and who also thinks that sometimes people are just assholes and it’s not about gender/race/whatever: GIRL SUE THEM.

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…

Oh PLEASE let there be a tech bubble burst. I would love nothing more than for those snide, vapid, useless motherfuckers in Silicon Valley to have to do actual fucking work for money.

The director replied back, saying that if we women really wanted equality, then we should realize we were getting equality by not getting the leather jackets.

The HR rep asked Fowler if she and the other female engineers were friends, and asked for details on how they communicated.

Particularly shocking given Uber’s stellar reputation as a safe convoy for female passengers.

So, again, someone told him something and therefore not his fault for repeating it without fact checking. Sad!

Do you remember in Harry Potter when Voldemort was being really super mean to the Malfoy’s and you were like, “sucks to be y’all. Prolly shouldn’t have hung out with wizard Nazis.”

Would any moderately sane woman let Leto be around children? Would he be bothered to try?

Eh, Jolie and Leto both have that mysterious intense vibe, but judging by how one is a humanitarian activist and the other one is a Terry Richardson BFF rape apologist, I think not.