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The perpetrators still have their jobs and the women they harassed still have to work with them. It seems Verkada actually does tolerate sexual harassment and
by bronson 6y ago
The perpetrators still have their jobs and the women they harassed still have to work with them.
It seems Verkada actually does tolerate sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior.
- jimmaswell 6y agoThis is a sad example of needless extremism where anything short of the nuclear option just isn't good enough.
- CaptainZapp 6y agoWe may disagree here, but this is such egregious behavior that I, for one, only see the nuclear option for such a case. But as long the money roles in investors don't give a shit.
- chandra381 6y agoNeedless extremism? Tell me, if something similar happened in your company, or god forbid, to somebody on your team, what would you like to happen?
- jimmaswell 6y agoThey got the biggest financial penalty in the history of the company apparently, and I'm sure more actions not mentioned here.
- andyroid 6y agoThat says nothing without knowledge about the next largest financial penalty. It could just as well be the _first_ financial penalty dealt in the history of the company.
- bronson 6y ago> and I'm sure more actions not mentioned here. Why are you sure? Especially given their weak response so far?
- 013a 6y agoThis is a company which had high-level employees use their own product to take pictures of women who worked for them, privately shared those images on a corporate network, attached sexually explicit captions to the images, then deleted the evidence when shit hit the fan. Literally just one of these transgressions is a fireable offense at most other companies.
- bronson 6y agoYou think getting fired for violations is the nuclear option? Then what do you call involving law enforcement?
- clairity 6y ago"nuclear" implies indiscrimiately devastating (lots of collateral damage), not just out of proportion, so losing a job, while painful in the moment, isn't a "nuclear option" for this sort of sexual malice that instills real doubt and insecurity in victims and divides employees and customers otherwise. a lawsuit and an arrest might be closer to that extreme. or at the extreme, a lynching (in no way advocating that of course). hyperbole has the exact extremist effect you're railing against, which is indeed needless. with that said, a demotion, an unpaid furlough, or pay cut may be part of a more reasonable consequence, giving the offenders a chance to reflect and grow (and eventually return to their prior status), rather than throwing them into a potentially negative cycle.
- chowned 6y agoNot a day goes by on here where I don't read ten comments reminding everyone that employment is a mutual contract that can be terminated by either party at any time. So I'll say to you what those people say: you can always just get a new job, one where sexism is tolerated.
- KittenInABox 6y agoSharing secret photos of co-workers and making lewd comments about them is a nuclear behavior.
- cmdshiftf4 6y ago>the women they harassed still have to work with them. Given the facts at hand, it seems that they still choose to work with them. Unless you're accusing Verkada of slave labour/people trafficking? Edit: If you're downvoting this you're actively denying women agency. Not cool, you misogynists.