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Ex employee spills 'sex, sleaze and secrets' of Facebook

4 points by neya 14y ago

Zenst 14y ago
WOW, guess somebody kept silent until they got there bonus. Wonder why. It is hard to take anything like this too serious without hearing from others and given it is to promote a book I do find it somewhat biased. I doubt that things were as bad as she is saying and alot of it seems to be sour grapes. Are there no female programmers at facebook? Also if a company wants it's engineers who it pays alot of money closer to work what has that to do with reception/support staff who are paid less. Nothing to do with sex at all. I'm not a great fan of facebook, but I still find such dramatisations a little off-key and realy believe this person is making mountains out of a mole hill and claiming it as sex descrimination, YET not actualy pursuing any legal redress, though they did write a book. That in itself lends me to believe that she is a shallow, spiteful, manipulative person who happens to be a female. Realy does alot of females a diservice and in that I shall not be labeling any of this upon any sex or gender and put it down to a greedy person who is bitter. Anybody who works at facebook able to comment upon this novel she has written?
ecubed 14y ago
I may be biased because I'm a technical male, but From reading thisI got the impression that she was really just mad that she felt left out of the fun the technical people were having. The fact that they were white or male may been a side effect of that, but it was really a stretch for her to say that because they referred to the marketing and hr people as dumb as somehow being a sexist or race thing. The line "whilst everyone else (particularly the nontechnical employees on the customer support team who were mostly female and sometime, unlike the white and Asian engineering team, black) were assumed to be duller..." seems to be trying to get you to believe that the white/asian engineering people hate black people. I find that hard to believe . This reads more like bad gossip than anything else.

4 points by neya 14y ago

Zenst 14y ago

WOW, guess somebody kept silent until they got there bonus. Wonder why. It is hard to take anything like this too serious without hearing from others and given it is to promote a book I do find it somewhat biased. I doubt that things were as bad as she is saying and alot of it seems to be sour grapes. Are there no female programmers at facebook? Also if a company wants it's engineers who it pays alot of money closer to work what has that to do with reception/support staff who are paid less. Nothing to do with sex at all. I'm not a great fan of facebook, but I still find such dramatisations a little off-key and realy believe this person is making mountains out of a mole hill and claiming it as sex descrimination, YET not actualy pursuing any legal redress, though they did write a book. That in itself lends me to believe that she is a shallow, spiteful, manipulative person who happens to be a female. Realy does alot of females a diservice and in that I shall not be labeling any of this upon any sex or gender and put it down to a greedy person who is bitter. Anybody who works at facebook able to comment upon this novel she has written?

ecubed 14y ago

I may be biased because I'm a technical male, but From reading thisI got the impression that she was really just mad that she felt left out of the fun the technical people were having. The fact that they were white or male may been a side effect of that, but it was really a stretch for her to say that because they referred to the marketing and hr people as dumb as somehow being a sexist or race thing. The line "whilst everyone else (particularly the nontechnical employees on the customer support team who were mostly female and sometime, unlike the white and Asian engineering team, black) were assumed to be duller..." seems to be trying to get you to believe that the white/asian engineering people hate black people. I find that hard to believe . This reads more like bad gossip than anything else.