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Loud sex scandals in Silicon Valley

 

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A wave of charges of sexual harassment has been shaking America for several months. Now talk about harassment is not only in Hollywood, but in Silicon Valley. Edition "Secret" described some of the most notorious cases.

Uber

In February 2017, the former employee Uber, engineer Susan Fowler published in a personal blog postin which she called the "nightmare" situation with sexual harassment in this company.

Fowler worked in Uber with 2015 of the year. On the very first working day, the senior manager wrote to her in her work chat that he was looking for a partner for sex without obligations. Fowler took a screenshot and sent it to HR, but this did not achieve anything. From her female counterparts, Fowler found out that the employee who was pestering her was repeatedly accused of harassment.

Post scattered on social networks. Other employees Uber supported Fowler and confirmed her words. In June 2017 of the year Uber More than 20 people fired, including the founder of the service, Travis Kalanik. Representatives of the five largest investors Uber they demanded that Kalanik quit the post without giving any specific reasons.

500 Startups

Founder of the mobile fitness app Proday Sarah Kunst told the publication Times about inappropriate behavior of the venture fund co-founder 500 Startups Dave McClure. In 2014, Kunst was interviewed by him. After the conversation, McClure wrote to her on Facebook: “I don’t know whether to hire you, or if I follow you.”

On the day of publication of the article 500 Startups actually confirmed the words Kunst. The company announced that for the past few months, McClure had been under internal investigation for accusations of harassment in the workplace. In the end, McClure resigned. His functions were transferred to the co-founder 500 Startups Kristin Tsai.

Hyperloop One

In November 2017 year edition Bloomberg published the stories of five women entrepreneurs who blamed the executive chairman Hyperloop One and co-founder of a venture company Sherpa capital Shervin Pishevara in harassment. According to them, Pishuevar pestered women with impunity, using the position of an influential investor Uber.

One of the agency interlocutors said that Pishevar had kissed and pinched her during lunch, during which they discussed investments in her company. The other is that the investor tried to “shove a tongue in her mouth” instead of giving the career advice she sought.

According to the Sherpa capital, Pishevar voluntarily left the company. An investor is not recognized in harassment and calls the publication "false accusations" and "the machinations of enemies."

Microsoft

14 December 2017 Year Edition Bloomberg has spread court documents regarding Microsoft. In 2014, employees of the company filed a class action lawsuit because of sexism and harassment right in the workplace.

One of the plaintiffs accused Microsoft that the company has hushed up the history of its rape. It all happened when the girl had an internship. The young man who raped her after the party was also an intern. The girl turned to HR and made a promise to conduct an internal investigation. Eventually Microsoft she offered the girl a job, assuring that she would not have to see, and even less to cooperate with, the young man who had raped her, who also received an offer. After some time, the girl realized that the young man was working with her in the same building. A little later, they were on the same team. For some reason everyone forgot about the investigation.

Women who filed a class action lawsuit collected 8600 evidence from other female employees. Microsoftto confirm the existence of problems in the company. Among other things, they received internal company documents confirming the concealment of information about rape.

In response to a public scandal, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella He pledged provide a “safe environment” in the workplace. Microsoft Already decided to tighten domestic rules and banned closed agreements between the company, employees convicted of harassment, and their victims.

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