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Like you mentioned there are fundamental differences b/w a CEO who creates a culture where sexual harassment is OK to where a CEO will bully employees occasionally, steal their ideas as their own and park in the handicapped parking lot. I mean, both sound terrible, but the first one is definitely on a different level of nastiness.


One of the key differences is that Jobs may have personally been hard to work with at times and done childish things, but the companies that he ran (Apple and Pixar) were very professionally run and progressive companies. Uber's culture is fomenting harassment throughout the entire organization.

Uber is now big enough that most employees will never meet executives, so they won't be personally harassed by them, but if middle managers feel empowered to harass employees, that's a huge issue.


FYI "Are you a virgin? You look like a virgin." during an interview may have been sexual harassment.


Well, it's only sexual harassment if its true and not just some line from a Hollywood movie: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/04/17/ken-segall-steve-job...




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