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> A new hire orientation included the unprepared advice: “in IT we have a saying; stay away from the Three Os: Orientals, Old People and Ovaries”. Campbell was
by brenschluss 10y ago
> A new hire orientation included the unprepared advice: “in IT we have a saying; stay away from the Three Os: Orientals, Old People and Ovaries”. Campbell was told the person in question would not be giving new hire orientations in the future as a result, but that did not happen.
And from this Forbes article[1] :
> "All the engineers and others in predominately-male Magic Leap could conceive of to make the product female friendly was to produce a version in pink," the lawsuit said.
I can't imagine that a company like this wouldn't have many other major dysfunctional communication/team/management problems. In my experience, situations like this usually also come with teams people that can't deal with productive disagreement or differing opinions.
[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/aarontilley/2017/02/13/former-magic-leap-executives-lawsuit-accuses-company-of-sexism-and-misleading-marketing/#7ba391fc4323 http://www.forbes.com/sites/aarontilley/2017/02/13/former-ma...
- edblarney 10y ago"All the engineers and others in predominately-male Magic Leap could conceive of to make the product female friendly was to produce a version in pink" However sad, this is not grounds for a legal case. Most of the items in the article are like this. She's offered evidence that ML is maybe not a great place to work for women in some ways, but none that they are acting in a discriminatory fashion. Your first quote is particularly crude, but I don't even understand the context - why would they stay away form 'Old People' 'Ovaries' and 'Orientals'? There are tons of Asians in tech. Obviously extremely crude, but I don't even get the point of it. Maybe there's more to it, or I missed something. Seems like they need help, not to be sued.