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A former Microsoft employee is suing over sex discrimination

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> Non-engineer "policy wonk" feminist

> Regularly attends female-only conferences

> Regularly shares female-only shortlist articles

> No proof that women are paid less or discriminated against, CEO has looked into it

hmmmm.... call me unsympathetic but we've seen this crap being pulled before. These conferences indoctrinate women with a victim mentality.

"Microsoft investigated and concluded that he had in fact been sexually harassing female employees." A quote from the article.

The complaint calls stack ranking sexist, and calls for the suit to be made into a class action.

Well, it appears you are prejudiced rather than unsympathetic. You don't know enough about the case to make that kind of a judgement call.

America right now has a huge victim culture. There's a lot to be said for the clash of victimhood culture with dignity culture and honor culture.

Awful to hear about this, Katie (@k8em0) has been a hugely positive force for Microsoft's security team. Definitely the most visible champion of their bug bounty programs and responsible disclosure practices.

The new Ellen Pao his here, suing an employer over sex discrimination: former Microsoftie Katie Moussouris.

Well, at least this reporter is up front and honest that the news and it's readers don't give a single fuck about the person in question, just new entries in the serial drama narrative the news crafts around sexism.

Unsurprising, but disappointed, that the article opens by typing one woman losing a gender discrimination to the claims of another. The Microsoft CEO told women to shut up and accept what they are given. Not really surprised at the suit.

Meanwhile, the Business Insider author appears to be semi-literate and they do not seem to employ an editor.

>The new Ellen Pao his here

>She also says she lost out on a promotion opportunity in 2012 while she on maternity leave.

>...many women supported Pao and was happy that she brought public attention to the situation.

> The Microsoft CEO told women to shut up and accept what they are given.

"Women should $x" does not implicitly mean "Men shouldn't $x."

I expect that most CEOs would like all of their employees to shut up and accept what they are given.

And the CEO did this at a safe internal company event and was obviously given a softball q he should have been able to answer in his sleep.

They should have fired him for that and gone on bended knees to Alan Mulally and begged him to take the Job

You can read her civil complaint here: https://www.unitedstatescourts.org/federal/wawd/220713/1-0.h...

It's interesting reading.

> The new Ellen Pao his here, suing an employer over sex discrimination..

Surely it's some kind of record to have a typo five words into the article.

It's impossible for me to know about what happened to the ex employee. That said, class action seems to be a strategy to bolster the image of the suit by making it more visible.

If it's clear the clams are truthful, then hope the plaintiff prevails. That said, given some people statistically will be overcompensated and others undercompensated as a consequence of imperfect measure and assessment, how can companies guard against this kind of phenomenon which is bound to happen in companies with thousands of employees? That is, if on average things are proper, but individually, some individuals are disadvantaged, what can be done?

Reading the complaint, it's clear that, if true, the plaintiff was discriminated against, but it's not immediately clear if it was because she was a woman or if it was because she was a bad employee.

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