I spoke up about Rivian’s toxic bro culture and got fired
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I know Rivian is only funded by Amazon, not run by them.
The golden rule is: unless you have evidence to the contrary at least give her the benefit of the doubt, the vast majority of these cases are bad enough without people trying to muddy the waters with a 'both sides' approach. No executive in their right mind commits career suicide by relating such an account if it isn't true, and someone who managed to climb to the top of an automaker can be assumed to be in their right mind.
she said that
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29120696.
In this case, Rivian got to brag that they poached a well-respected executive with experience managing sales for a small but high-status brand. This assured investors, lenders, and the market for their IPO that they’re “growing up” and “scaling for success.” Meanwhile, they got to do whatever they felt like doing with the investment money, because they had zero intention of doing anything said executive proposed.
Given sufficiently sexist and misogynist executives, hiring a woman for a role they had no intention of empowering makes even more sense than hiring a man, because misogynists would respect a man and feel bad about marginalizing them.
1. If it happened the way she says it happened, it’s her fault. She ought to have known how to deal with this.
2. Alternatively, she’s a lying, scheming, conniving woman.
I have nothing else to say to you.
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Inclusion: A seat at the table. Equity: When you speak at the table, others listen.
If management excluded everyone in sales from meetings regardless of gender, the author might have equality but not equity.
Whereas if management ignored everyone in sales but listened to the author, the author would have equity without equality.
If you want people to listen to your ideas at the table and accept or reject them based on merit, that's equality. Everyone starts off from an equal standing.
If you want your one vote regardless of what people think or how grand or stupid your ideas are, that's equity. Among N people you always get 1/Nth the attention, reward, impact, etc.