Uber is not known fortreating its driver particularly well , but it gets unfit : According toallegationsfrom an ex - engineer Susan J. Fowler , the ridesharing app has a acculturation of misogynism , and threatened to fire her after she reported sexual molestation . Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has already answer to the allegation , saying in a assertion to Gizmodo , “ What she distinguish is detestable and against everything Uber stand for and believes in . ”
In a blog post titled “ Reflecting On One Very , Very Strange Year At Uber , ” Fowler alleges that when she began as theSite Reliability Engineerin late 2015 , her boss solicited her for sex . In her own words :
On my first official twenty-four hours rotate on the team , my new manager institutionalize me a string of messages over company confabulation . He was in an opened human relationship , he said , and his girlfriend was having an easy time finding new partners but he was n’t . He was trying to detain out of worry at work , he said , but he could n’t help getting in difficulty , because he was face for cleaning lady to have sexual urge with . It was clear that he was trying to get me to have gender with him , and it was so clearly out of line that I immediately took screenshots of these chat messages and reported him to HR .
When Fowler first take on with 60 minutes , she says they tell her “ even though this was intelligibly intimate harassment and he was proposition me , it was this man ’s first offense … he ‘ was a high performing artist ’ ” meaning upper management would n’t punish him with anything more than “ a warning and a austere talk - to . ” She remove team . When she later became friends with other woman at Uber , she say many had experiences similar to her own . Fowler claims they told her “ story about reporting the exact same handler [ she ] had report , and had [ also ] reported incompatible interactions with him . ”
After that , Fowler alleges , she and some other women engineer at Uber scheduled fresh meetings with 60 minutes “ to assert that something be done . ” Shedescribesher meeting :
[ T]he rep I speak with told me that he had never been reported before , he had only ever committed one offense ( in his chat with me ) , and that none of the other fair sex who they met with had anything unsound to say about him , so no further action could or would be taken . It was such a clamant lie that there was really nothing I could do . There was nothing any of us could do . We all gave up on Uber HR and our managers after that .
In a statement Uber sent Gizmodo , CEO Travis Kalanick promised to enquire Fowler ’s call and fire “ anyone who behaves this manner or think this is OK . ” Kalanick ’s statement below :
I have just scan Susan Fowler ’s web log . What she describes is abhorrent and against everything Uber abide for and believes in . It ’s the first prison term this has come to my attention so I have instructed Liane Hornsey , our unexampled Chief Human Resources Officer , to bear an urgent investigation into these allegement . We seek to make Uber a just workplace and there can be absolutely no topographic point for this variety of behavior at Uber — and anyone who behaves this way or think this is o.k. will be discharge .
Fowler ’s claims about the topsy-turvyness of work at Uber extends beyond ignored sexual harassment claim . She writes , emphasis ours :
[ T]here was a game - of - throne political war cod within the rank of upper direction in the base engineering administration . It seemed like every manager was fighting their peers and attempting to undermine their direct supervisor so that they could have their direct supervisor ’s job … The ramifications of these political game were significant : projects were abandoned give and right .
Not only this , but she says that after receiving a great performance review , she request again to channelise teams . high - ups allegedly told Fowler that her “ carrying out review and score had been changed after the official review had been calibrate , ” and it was now negative , meaning she had to remain put . Although Uber would n’t define what performance problems Fowler had — she claims she “ fill out all OKRs on schedule , never missed a deadline even in the mad organisational chaos”—the company severalise her not to worry because it had no substantial - world consequences .
It twist out that preserve me on the team made my manager look good , and I overheard him boasting to the rest of the team that even though the rest of the teams were losing their woman engineers left and correct , he still had some on his squad .
After file many more HR reports due to this sort of treatment , Fowler articulate her manager threatened to force out her because she was verbalise out . When she told him that was illegal , and report it to the CTO and again , HR , “ none of them did anything . ”
“ I had a fresh job whirl in my hand less than a hebdomad later , ” she writes . presently Fowler work asan engineer for Stripe . Gizmodo reached out to Fowler to further inquire about her time at Uber , and did not get an contiguous reply .
These newfangled allegations are more bad tidings for Uber , which has not been having a corking year . After a massively successful#DeleteUber campaign , which protest Kalanick ’s weak reaction to the Muslim ban and his involvement in Trump ’s business advisory council , the companylost 200,000 client . After that , the CEOsevered ties with the presidentin an endeavor to earn back customers , but the company is seemingly ineffectual to quash scandals .
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The company has also been accuse ofunion - busting , had to yield out $ 20 million to workersafter promising drivers “ exaggerated ” wages , lose $ 2.2 billionin 2016 , has amurder problem , anddoesn’t always do a great jobof handling customers ’ intimate torment claims .
In his answer to Fowler ’s claim , Kalanick say , “ We assay to make Uber a just workplace and there can be perfectly no position for this kind of behavior at Uber . ” Even if Uber somehow fixes its internal culture of sexual harassment and misogyny , how can the companionship be a really “ just ” work if it continues to refuse to treat its drivers as employees ?
This office has been updated to include the full statement from Uber CEO Travis Kalanick .
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