Leaked Microsoft Email Chain Reportedly Describes Hellish Workplace for Women

This Gizmodo post consists entirely of quotes and paraphrases from the original article (which they do at least link to):

https://qz.com/1587477/microsoft-investigating-sexual-harass...

> “I would like to offer to anyone who has had such demeaning experiences including those who felt were dismissed by management or HR to email me directly,”

This is such a fucked up thing to say. Basically, "if you have damaging information like this, please send it to the top, so we can most effectively suppress it. Don't tell anyone else. Definitely don't use our normal channels, they are not effective."

It really proves that this particular HR department is not set up at all to handle the situation, and that their strategy for dealing with this is just to wing it. There's no process here, just damage control.

Literally shocking to me. I am not disputing any of the sources. However, I will say that my experience in the developer tools division two decades ago was of nothing but exemplary behavior (I admit to being a privileged white male). It is the work experience I remember most fondly from the last 35 years and not least because the people were so wonderful. As a guy raised as a feminist I watched carefully the treatment of women and minorities and at least from the outside saw literally nothing to be ashamed of. This is sad.

It's interesting that one quote said there were secret James Damores at the company. My first thought was that's a GOOD thing. I guess his kerfuffle really is a bit of an ink blot test.