OK, as a minority myself -- maybe not in tech today, but growing up in a region that was 99% white and not anywhere near Silicon Valley -- this really irritates me:
"The shitty thing about all of this is that by being open and honest about my experience I'm devaluing stock options of people I care about."
So Horvath is alleging what most definitely sounds like civil-court level of damages, if not criminal, but she won't provide details or file a lawsuit as a whistelblower because she fears for her friends' financial profit?
How the hell does that even make sense? What amount of IPO profit is worth the level of systematic oppression and discrimination that she is alleging here? And what kind of friends -- the ones privileged enough to earn a spot in Github's ranks and could easily get a job at a less purportedly evil company -- would be unsympathetic toward Horvath calling out her abusers, given the level of harassment and cruelty they have inflicted upon her, as she tells in her tweets?
I hate to pull the "I'm a minority card" too, but I am someone who can completely believe that a situation like Horvath's could exist "under the radar" and yet cause lasting harm to equality in society...it's a common fallacy to think that racism/sexism only exists when physical violence and criminal malfeasance (of the media frenzy kind) occur.
And so I'm equally frustrated that she, out of concern for her friends' bank accounts, will not do the right and just thing, given that she asserts to have irrefutable evidence and a solid case. And if there are enough good people at Github, as she also asserts, then legal and decisive action will only help Github to become a great company.
https://twitter.com/nrrrdcore/status/444662613020913665
"The shitty thing about all of this is that by being open and honest about my experience I'm devaluing stock options of people I care about."
So Horvath is alleging what most definitely sounds like civil-court level of damages, if not criminal, but she won't provide details or file a lawsuit as a whistelblower because she fears for her friends' financial profit?
How the hell does that even make sense? What amount of IPO profit is worth the level of systematic oppression and discrimination that she is alleging here? And what kind of friends -- the ones privileged enough to earn a spot in Github's ranks and could easily get a job at a less purportedly evil company -- would be unsympathetic toward Horvath calling out her abusers, given the level of harassment and cruelty they have inflicted upon her, as she tells in her tweets?
I hate to pull the "I'm a minority card" too, but I am someone who can completely believe that a situation like Horvath's could exist "under the radar" and yet cause lasting harm to equality in society...it's a common fallacy to think that racism/sexism only exists when physical violence and criminal malfeasance (of the media frenzy kind) occur.
And so I'm equally frustrated that she, out of concern for her friends' bank accounts, will not do the right and just thing, given that she asserts to have irrefutable evidence and a solid case. And if there are enough good people at Github, as she also asserts, then legal and decisive action will only help Github to become a great company.