Uber Settles Federal Investigation Into Workplace Culture (cbsnews.com) 22
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: In 2017, a former Uber employee wrote a public essay describing how the ride-hailing company had permitted sexual harassment to fester at the workplace. The revelations led to an outcry over Uber's toxic culture. Federal authorities and others began investigations into the company. More than 20 employees were later fired over their part in the behavior. And the disclosures raised questions about Uber's growth-at-all-costs mentality, resulting in the ousting of Travis Kalanick, a co-founder and then the chief executive.
On Wednesday, Uber resolved one investigation into its workplace culture (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source). The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which has been examining the company since 2017, said it had "found reasonable cause to believe that Uber permitted a culture of sexual harassment and retaliation against individuals who complained about such harassment." Uber said it had agreed to a settlement with the agency by establishing a $4.4 million fund to pay current and former employees who were sexually harassed at work. It also agreed to three years of monitoring by a former agency commissioner to ensure that it changes its practices. "The company remains under investigation by the Justice Department over a tool it created to help it evade scrutiny by law enforcement authorities," the report adds. "It is also the subject of a consent decree with the Federal Trade Commission over its privacy practices until 2038."
On Wednesday, Uber resolved one investigation into its workplace culture (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source). The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which has been examining the company since 2017, said it had "found reasonable cause to believe that Uber permitted a culture of sexual harassment and retaliation against individuals who complained about such harassment." Uber said it had agreed to a settlement with the agency by establishing a $4.4 million fund to pay current and former employees who were sexually harassed at work. It also agreed to three years of monitoring by a former agency commissioner to ensure that it changes its practices. "The company remains under investigation by the Justice Department over a tool it created to help it evade scrutiny by law enforcement authorities," the report adds. "It is also the subject of a consent decree with the Federal Trade Commission over its privacy practices until 2038."
Basically if you want to run a company (Score:1, Troll)
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Nowadays you have to become or pretend to become an sjw ...
Or, you know, don't sexually harass people at work. And as an employer, deal with legitimate harassment cases properly..
Re:Basically if you want to run a company (Score:4, Insightful)
Or, you know, don't sexually harass people at work.
That's a step too far from some of these guys. It's a sad excuse for a life when you equate treating people decently with being a SJW.
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It is normal healthy behavior that is getting labelled "harassment" by people who have literally been trained to feel like victims.
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Has that possibility entered your mind at all?
What if it was shit like saying "You look nice today" or "That's a nice dress" ?
Do you realize that sjws consider that "sexual harassment"?
what about the drivers who did sexual harassment (Score:2)
what about the drivers who did sexual harassment to riders?
What they never tell you (Score:3)
...with "toxic culture" firings? How many of those toxic people were women.
Which allows them to continue to continue pretending toxicity is solely male-on-female.
Fun fact: At least 50% of sexual harassment is FROM women on Twitter:
https://www.mic.com/articles/1... [mic.com]
Go ahead, google for yourself about "cyberbullying" and see how it's "directed against women" but almost never mention women are equally responsible for it. And ask yourself how many articles, or TV spots you've EVER seen that directly mentioned and addressed... the other 50% of the planet doing the bullying.
This isn't some MRA / redpill bullcrap. I just think that what ISN'T reported is often as interesting, or more interesting, than what is reported. Like how Bernie Sanders gets less than 1% of the reporting and airtime even though he's easily the top 3rd candidate, while people with less than 1% of the POLLS get more time than him.
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From your fine link:
"It's important to note that Demos doesn't explain how its algorithms verified who was behind all the sexist comments and how those people identify â" if they're even people at all. It's rather easy to make up a fake social media account and pretend to be someone else, but even Twitter has admitted tens of millions of its users are actually bots."
So you're citing a study which doesn't reveal its methodology, and declaring victory, when your metacitation reveals that it's not valid.
Worker Dignity (Score:1)
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And you know this how? Can I borrow your crystal ball for a minute, I need to look at next week's lottery numbers.
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Follow the money. Factions were set against Uber and looking for something to punch them with. These were big city politicians in a kickback scheme with taxi services.
Maybe it's a coincidence...and maybe not.
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reading about the case. how else?
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I fucking doubt there was anything "toxic" about the workplace. Are you fucking serious? The people who complained were sjws who were going act out no matter what company hired them. stop hiring young people right out of college. they are literally mentally ill.
Sounds like you've got a pretty toxic attitude yourself. Triggered much?
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a person who labels everything they don't like as "toxic" has labelled me "toxic".
wow, what are the chances?
So they are prostitutes now, or what?? (Score:2)
Funny, how that goes. ...
How you can free yourself of any crime, by simply paying money. Just by virtue of being a corporation. (Not 'people' then, eh?)
"We harassed you, X, and maybe practically raped you, Y? Here's $1000 'for your troubles'... *throws money* ... ya whores!".
This is how this reads to me.
Frankly, if they were really harassed, they should never settle for money. Take it, maybe, but NOT accept any settling of the matter. Because that kinda makes one look like one was in it just for the money.
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That was one of the purposes of incorporation -- to turn the company into a fictional person, and suddenly all laws apply directly to the company, instead of just to the people in the company.
This does offer a limited wall against going after the employees directly, and more specifically, the officers. It's similar to limited financial liability, where if the company goes into too much debt and can no longer pay its bills, they can no longer go after the personal money of the owners.
You can debate that as
Bottomless Money Pit (Score:2)
Hopefully the VC money will eventually run out and they'll go away soon. Same with Twitter.
Assuming Uber was following the Netflix standard (Score:2)
their rampant sexual harassment culture was one where male employees look at female employees for more than a few seconds before lowering their impertinent subhuman gaze to the ground