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Did you read the article or Fowler's account?

>In Fowler’s account of her year at Uber, she says that she explicitly reported the incidents of sexual harassment directly to Pham when she ran out of clear remedies. Nothing came of her attempts, she wrote.




Did YOU read THE Fowler's account?

"For example, Fowler wrote that she also spoke to the company’s chief technology officer, Thuan Pham, about a termination threat Fowler’s manager made for reporting his manager. That type of threat is illegal under equal employment laws."

"... he replied that he had been a manager for a long time, he knew what was illegal, and threatening to fire me for reporting things to HR was not illegal. I reported his threat immediately after the meeting to both HR and to the CTO: they both admitted that this was illegal, but none of them did anything."

Or did you read the telephone version of her account that Recode decided to spin and blindly made up your mind?

Which one is it?


> "and threatening to fire me for reporting things to HR was not illegal"

That doesn't sound right to me. While perhaps not illegal, it is certainly unethical and uncaring.


Retaliation is illegal under federal law.

https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/retaliation.cfm

"Participating in a complaint process is protected from retaliation under all circumstances."


We can all sit in a room and recite things that do not sound right to us in our little high-chairs.

The point is, she did not tell the CTO that she was a victim of sexual harassment. End of story.

Informing the CTO that one of the managers said (verbally) something in regards to the conditions of the employment is an entirely different issue.

The idea that you think both of the issues are even remotely compatible scares me.




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