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No, yours is a defeatist attitude. The more people dare speak about workplace abuse the less downside there will be for future ones who do, legally and professi
by null_ptr 13y ago
No, yours is a defeatist attitude. The more people dare speak about workplace abuse the less downside there will be for future ones who do, legally and professionally. We're engineers, we shouldn't accept a rotten status quo and "move on", we should fix it. We should strive for a better society, even if it means some of us will be worse off for having done so. No pain, no gain.
- bsder 13y ago> We're engineers, we shouldn't accept a rotten status quo and "move on", we should fix it. We should strive for a better society Why should we fight a battle against an entrenched enemy? Leaving and making a better company elsewhere is FAR more effective. This isn't like fighting a government where we are stuck because of geographic place. One of the many reasons why people form startups is to get out from under business culture that they perceive as oppressive. She would be better off founding a company that shares her values where she can push them from the top rather than fighting from underneath inside one that does not.
- malandrew 13y agoThis. A lot of the reason current startups have such fun cultures is because people who saw an opportunity to create a business consciously decided to build the type of company culture they want to manage. If she wants the world to have more of the type of culture she wants to foster then she should go ahead and start a company and be the leader for once. I'm certain that being at the top would temper her views of how much of her negative experiences were the result of actual active sexism and how much is inherent result of the manager/subordinate relationship.