I would have told him I’d take a man’s jacket and see what his excuse would be.

Wouldn’t the better option have been just to get the women Men’s jackets? Or no jackets for anyone?

No. There’s no legal requirement I’m aware of to first contact your company’s HR department in a workplace dispute. There’s no reason you couldn’t go to HR after you take the matter to your lawyer, but honestly, I have to imagine any legal mind worth their salt would advise against it. Again, HR is there to protect…

Did anyone catch in her full write-up that the HR rep was also a woman? Fucking disgusting.

Wouldn’t the lawyer query as to whether you went to HR, first? I don’t think a case would endure in court unless one had.....

Or you know, a totally different reward not based on clothing size? If you feel you can’t feasibly buy it, THEN DO SOMETHING ELSE.

oh she should for sure be racing off to the EEOC like she’s on fire, and the documentation will be super helpful; I was thinking more generally about the constructive discharge standard.

That is toddler logic. Two tiny vulgarian thumbs up.

I know it’s said almost every time, but it bares repeating. HR is not there to defend you, it’s there to defend the company. If you have grounds to do so like Susan did, catalog evidence and take it to a lawyer.

So he’s saying he’d have to buy special jackets for women? Why can’t they have the same jacket?

Having her name published in this article will have the same effect. Only companies that value gender equity will look past it, and even some that do won’t hire her because she’s already a “troublemaker”.

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…

None of those fucking words actually mean anything.

ugh I know. and to be fair she left of her own volition, and it’s a steep climb to make out a constructive discharge claim, and given that she has a new job probably not a lot in damages... BUT STILL. ANGER. HULK SMASH.

I had the same thought, but sadly I’m pretty sure she knew damn well that if she ever did sue them for it, she would never be hired by a big tech company again... :|

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,…

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.

Alt-fact

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.