Late in the afternoon of May 24, 2021, Tessa Kriesel was informed by her leadership at Fast that the team she was hired to lead, DevRel (Developer ...
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This is almost by definition. The most vulnerable folks are probably also the most likely to not be in the financial position to do anything but stay quiet, nor are they in the position to fight against power.
It's sad and very great that you are bringing more awareness to this Cher.
Thank you so much, Ben. And you are exactly right. The most oppressed can't speak out unless we give them the power to do so with our own privilege. Thank you for speaking up and being supportive.
I love you so much for sharing this so I don't have to. We all need to stand up for this behavior. The other people in this email thread should have stood up for me and they didn't. It's disgusting.
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Really glad I saw this, even if it was a few days later than it happened.
i think about how many people died around me in the infantry. I'm going to save this article because I want to show it to young kids thinking about enlisting for this country because I want to make sure they know exactly what they are risking everything for. This.
That's an interesting way to look at it
Spending years volunteering in everything from front line combat to homeless shelters and food shelfs to see your home slow burn into the night will show you how hollow your youth really was.
Then you’re just left with disassociation.
And everytime you try again to integrate and try again, you’ll read this authors hard fought sentiment in ubiquity and your stomach drops and you’ll feel how heavy that check you cashed was.
Honestly, these emails to looked more others trying to push her away because she's probably making them work. Not discrimatory at all, just mostly pushing her away ten trying to avoid exactly this, people saying how company X did this to women. I'm actually happy about people pointing out to shoosh money because problems should mot be swiped under the rug and yes in many ways women have been looked down to in IT and other fields but I'm seeing a lot of unfairness in purusue of justice at a workplace
Thank you for sharing. Glad to know I'm not alone!
That breaks my heart. Reach out anytime.
I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think that in the USA a company can have you sign away your right to sue for discriminatory behavior.
The onus is on the employee to prove discrimination, and usually through forced arbitration first.
consumeradvocates.org/for-consumer....
They can have you sign it, and hope you never question whether that actually means anything. Because most likely, it doesn't.
Sorry to hear about what happened. Both of you are very brave to speak about your experiences. I have gone through stuff over the past 20 years that I've never had the courage to speak about openly.
I don't quite get the whole "Sign this or leave" thing; was it not an option to say "No. Fire me or I stay."? Would that have negatively affected your chances of finding a new job in some way?
I see too much focus on oppressing woman which is usually what they always push and I got to say it's quite unfair stance. Do you see any male oppressed for working harder than others yet not being too sympathetic towards people setting their private lives over job that has to be done? No, because no one focuses. Have you ever questioned that some of them would love as well to be with their family but have a sense of responsibility towards job and sacrifice family obligations towards it yet get under the label of not a cultural fit and being pushed by the collegues? I gotta tell you I've been working in teams where I had email proofs of how ignores and disrispected I was because I pointed out mistakes as a system architect and backend developer. Quite literally no sense of professional responsibility from their side nor respect towards my years of experience compared to a non programmer and juniors one of which was a woman (although not married nor had kids). Guess what happened, she did admit she felt oppressed a bit in the beginning. Then she left by first call to much bigger company. I left a year after. The guy that came to replace me quit couple of months after. Does this indicate something? Yeah she was the oppressor including others.
You've picked your options to be a good mother. They picked theres to not have a family or whatever. Don't yell unfair on people not adjusting to your timeline its completely unfair to all the others. If you can't make it and people say it's OK why not br happy about it? I'm removing myself from as much meetings as possible them pushing younger devs, yes especially woman into more obligations hoping they will take over my place and all because I'm hoping to expand family. Am I oppressed for picking time and letting my "carrer" go down? No, I'm picking my side as a family man and risking income. So be more just with the words and be more fair to others. They also have time issues.
I've hidden your reply because it's strange and out of place.
I happened to share Tessa's story (a woman) and my story (also a woman). I'm not "focusing on women". I AM a woman.
It's strange to me that you're arguing about whether or not folks have family or not. No one should be discriminated against or harassed, and no one should be oppressed into silence over those things (or other ethics violations).
I'm happy to have a conversation about Non-Disparagement agreements, but that's not what you are doing.
Sure, I pointed out some portion of your unfairness in text and best repsponse is cancel culture. You feel "offended" because there's a slight disagreement from somene yet again mark it as "out of place". It's good to know there's no room for disagreement so I'll be sure to not ever comment on your posts.
My post is about Non-Disparagement Agreements being used to silence employees that have been discriminated against, or have witnessed unethical practices.
I don't feel "offended" - I feel your comment is out of place because it steered away from the topic to centering yourself in a way that claimed I was doing something that I was not.
It isn't about disagreement, it's about responding with complete nonsense that has absolutely nothing to do with the important topic I'm discussing.
And my comment was that you don't see that it's actually putting a point on a discrimination against woman. Not about centering myself but to try to make you see that there's a lot of text focusing on it and steering itself away from the topic. In any case you have the right to hide the comment and I have the right to mark the post as low quality as a bit pusing towards something that you did not intend as a topic. Not fully just enough to have my reaction to it.
Haris, I am a woman. Tessa is a woman.
We were both discriminated against as MOTHERS, which is why I specifically said PARENTS.
Your knee-jerk reaction comes from within you, not me. I communicated my point just fine.
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