Related to this post[0], but The Verge has comments from Uber CEO:
> I have just read Susan Fowler's blog. What she describes is abhorrent and against everything Uber stands for and believes in. It's the first time this has come to my attention so I have instructed Liane Hornsey our new Chief Human Resources Officer to conduct an urgent investigation into these allegations. We seek to make Uber a just workplace and there can be absolutely no place for this kind of behavior at Uber -- and anyone who behaves this way or thinks this is OK will be fired.
The point of her post is that Uber's HR is complicit in this nightmare of a situation - actively working against her and other women. So to ask Uber HR to respond is a pathetic and cowardly attempt to shove the issue under the table.
Furthermore, saying "It's the first time this has come to my attention" is not a great response to a post which alleges that HR responds to sexual harassment claims by saying "this is the first time we've had a complaint against this guy".
She joined Uber in November, while the author was still there. So no in that regard, but also, this is very clearly a systemic problem within Uber (and other companies) - an internal investigation will do nothing.
Sounds terrible and nobody should but subjected to this sort of work environment.
Not sure how the story ends because I stopped reading just after ... "which I wrote about in my bestselling (!!!) book Production-Ready Microservices."
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 15.1 ms ] thread> I have just read Susan Fowler's blog. What she describes is abhorrent and against everything Uber stands for and believes in. It's the first time this has come to my attention so I have instructed Liane Hornsey our new Chief Human Resources Officer to conduct an urgent investigation into these allegations. We seek to make Uber a just workplace and there can be absolutely no place for this kind of behavior at Uber -- and anyone who behaves this way or thinks this is OK will be fired.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13682022
Furthermore, saying "It's the first time this has come to my attention" is not a great response to a post which alleges that HR responds to sexual harassment claims by saying "this is the first time we've had a complaint against this guy".
Does this mean that the person running HR when these alleged incidents took place has been replaced? That would probably invalidate your criticism.
Not sure how the story ends because I stopped reading just after ... "which I wrote about in my bestselling (!!!) book Production-Ready Microservices."
Draw the line and stick to it