RobDownSouth
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The corporate headquarters at Uber has a huge problem: The number of women working in professional positions there has plummeted from 25% down to 6%.
Why? Because sexual harassment is rampant, and upper management and their corporate human resources department routinely turn a blind eye when senior engineers sexually harass female junior engineers.
Read this and wince
and here is the blog post that started the Uber shitstorm yesterday
One junior female engineer was harassed literally her first day on the job by her manager. She was asked several times to have a threesome with her boss and his wife.
She immediately reported this to HR, which told her to suck it up and deal with it or request a transfer. The manager got a "stern warning" and she was told if she did not request a transfer, he'd likely retaliate with a poor performance review and HR could not do anything about this.
Textbook sexual harassment, folks.
Senior management noticed the massive outflow of female talent and gave incentives to managers to retain women in professional positions.
This caused a Machiavellian reaction: Managers would give women glowing performance reviews, then after the review would revise their female employees' ratings downward (not telling the employee), making them ineligible for transfers or promotions, essentially keeping them captive under their supervision (and managers got bonuses).
All this was swept under the rug until CNN did an expose last night, now the Uber CEO is oh-so-concerned about this sort of shenanigans. Gonna form an "urgent" committee to get to the bottom of this, dontcha know.
Why? Because sexual harassment is rampant, and upper management and their corporate human resources department routinely turn a blind eye when senior engineers sexually harass female junior engineers.
Read this and wince
and here is the blog post that started the Uber shitstorm yesterday
One junior female engineer was harassed literally her first day on the job by her manager. She was asked several times to have a threesome with her boss and his wife.
She immediately reported this to HR, which told her to suck it up and deal with it or request a transfer. The manager got a "stern warning" and she was told if she did not request a transfer, he'd likely retaliate with a poor performance review and HR could not do anything about this.
Textbook sexual harassment, folks.
Senior management noticed the massive outflow of female talent and gave incentives to managers to retain women in professional positions.
This caused a Machiavellian reaction: Managers would give women glowing performance reviews, then after the review would revise their female employees' ratings downward (not telling the employee), making them ineligible for transfers or promotions, essentially keeping them captive under their supervision (and managers got bonuses).
All this was swept under the rug until CNN did an expose last night, now the Uber CEO is oh-so-concerned about this sort of shenanigans. Gonna form an "urgent" committee to get to the bottom of this, dontcha know.
