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This is the mentality that leads to drama explosions like at Uber. They were all focused on making money and building a big company. Because of this, they ignor
by jmcgough 10y ago
This is the mentality that leads to drama explosions like at Uber. They were all focused on making money and building a big company. Because of this, they ignored the "little things" like building a HR department that could support women when they were put in bad situations.
- true_religion 10y agoI think a part of "don't tolerate a culture that gets in the way of making that [making money] happen" is not tolerating sexism, juvenile behaviour, harassment, or bullying in the workplace. All of those factors make some of your employees less productive.
- jmcgough 10y agoTotally agree. The distinction I'm trying to make is that it's easy to let these things happen when you're focused on building and selling a product. I'm positive that no CEO wants their business to be a place where women are harassed or personnel problems slow down progress. However these things can and do happen without a lot of careful effort spent early on, focused on preventing them. By the time the problems become visible (e.g. through a shocking public blog post), it will be significantly harder to fix the underlying causes, which is very costly to the company in terms of attracting and keeping talent and maintaining focus on objectives.
- michaelchisari 10y agoYou would think so, but people are very often willing to damage their own financial self-interest in favor of prejudices, especially when the former is long-term and the latter short-term.
- ori_b 10y agoThat would fall under "tolerating a culture that gets in the way of making money".
- amorphid 10y agoMy comment was a comment, not an employee handbook. Boss: "Hey, my partner and I would love it if you'd like to join us for drinks at my place on Saturday night." Employee (replies & CC's boss's boss): "I'm here to work, and this is making me extremely uncomfortable." ^^^ strive for that.
- xyzzy_plugh 10y agoAll work and no play makes Jill and Jack dull.
- amorphid 10y agoGet your work done and you can go home early.
- emodendroket 10y agoOffice dating is dicey but, I think, workable, but the issues with a superior asking a subordinate out on a date are so obvious that I don't see how you can think it's OK.
- Chris2048 10y agoCC's boss's boss? A bit passive-aggressive for a friendly gesture isn't it?
- emodendroket 10y agoDo you think a male boss inviting a female employee over for "drinks" on a Saturday night at his home is nothing more than a "friendly gesture"?
- prolly_a_moron 10y agoWay more often than not, yes. Is your default position to assume there's an agenda behind every invitation?
- grad_ml 10y agoNope. Uber case was plain simple case of sexual harassment. My question is, would Uber have arbitrated in same manner if female employees were accused of harassment? yes, they would have. It's not about women,men or trans. It's about equality at workplace. Should one be more sensitive to women employees concern than men? If yes, where is the equality?
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoI don't see what popping into stairways in the company building to have sex has to do with making money. From the outside, Uber seems to have gotten focused on a blatantly unsustainable, ultra-exploitative business model and on frat-boy hijinks at the office.