“I had a lab supervisor leave me love notes and gifts at my tensile machine”

True. I look back at a couple of places I worked earlier on in my career and I don’t know if it was age or fear or both, but there were several times I should have just marched right into HR. In the field I was in, people openly talked about the shit that went down, so there would have been plenty of witnesses. For…

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.

I must have been really lucky when I worked in high tech. I just got ignored, and that was bad enough. It’s possible some of the men on my team were afraid of me. (I do believe you. I’m just wondering why I never saw any of this. Better company? Or something about me.)

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…

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.

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.

They are renovating a landmark building in downtown Oakland to be their new headquarters and I go back and forth between wanting them to make it succeed For Oakland’s Sake and wanting the Black Bloc to just smashy everything they own.

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,…

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.

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.

I’m calling it now there is gonna be a tech bubble burst and Uber is gonna be the next Pets.com

Don’t worry, I’m sure Trump will eventually spell it that way in his upcoming defensive rants so maybe you were ahead of the curve.

“Sweden” not Swedan.”