Chief of staff? That was her job title? What, really, does a chief of staff do in a corporation that rents office space? I've never heard of Ford or General Electric or Apple or Amazon or pick-a-legitimate-company having a chief of staff. The White House or Pentagon, yes, but does Warren Buffett or even Mark Zuckerberg have a chief of staff?
Discrimination, of course, is bad, and there seems ample evidence that this was going on at We (Don't) Work. That said, sheesh. The second Neumann introduced her, or anyone else, as chief of staff to SoftBank or other investors is the second they shoulda run for the door.
Can't wait for this lawsuit to play itself out, and for the love of God, please let it go to trial. The saga of We (Don't) Work is the best business story since Enron, and the good part is, only the rich appear to have gotten screwed. I'm guessing the chief of staff, regardless of whether it was the plaintiff or her replacement, got paid pretty well, which is why, perhaps, neither she nor anyone else observed that the emperor had no clothes even as Rome burned.
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most of the comments show how much more work needs to be done and how long is the road ahead for gender equality. Its shocking and sad at the same time to read them... Somehow its the woman’s fault for sticking around, or the fact that she is replaced by a man does not seem to raise any concern but seeing as normalcy.. So a woman cannot get pregnant, and if she does she has to suck it up, because after all its her choice.
wow. then you wonder why you guys are so far behind.. come and check the Nordic countries and learn a few things about gender equality.. it would help you opening your small minds
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My pregnant wife was working till her feet were so swollen that she could not put on any shoes any more. My pregnant colleagues at work work event at night and on at least one occasion we had to call the husband of one of them to take her to the hospital, because she started having contractions.
I am reading some comments here and am speechless at "why should I do their work so that they can have children?"
If a society is judged by how it treats its most vulnerable members, the sick, disabled, prisoners, pregnant women, etc, I am sorry to say that this country behaves just barely above Nazi Germany.
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I cringe when the United States, even with its problems, is compared to Nazi Germany. No real American would do that. It disrespects everyone who suffered through that horrible period of world history.
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I should not have to subsidize other people’s need to have progeny.
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@Marshall J. Gruskin ONLY certain behavior is compared. The increasing ‘nationalism’ for sure.
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“'We like to say that right now we’re bringing in the most talented women in the world at an early stage,' Adam Neumann, now-ousted, said in an interview hosted by the Economic Club of New York in 2017. 'We’re going to grow them all as leaders.'"
Unless those foolish women choose to aquire children, the old-fashioned way. Then, obviously, all bets are off.
You know, WeWork might still realize Nueman's dream to 'change the way people work and elevate global consciousness' while revolutionizing the modern office -- put a good Daycare in each building.
Make work Convenient.
Oh, and better get rid of the misogyny
It's no longer the Roaring 60's.
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"You should realize that women discriminate against other women in some areas (like the workplace) just a much as men. An example is even given in this article. This has been shown in numerous studies..."
- ms, ca, via NYT Picks comments
Spent 11 years supporting senior executives (direct reports to the C-level) at a Fortune 100 company - unfortunately, very true, and more common than corporations are willing to acknowledge.
Yet another important discussion that isn't taking place because it is an inconvenient truth that is blatantly inconsistent with "The Official Media Narrative".
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When there is no willingness to compromise, conflict is inevitable. There are multiple ways to ingest marijuana without smoke and by means that cause no harm to anyone else. Most users crave the effect and are not addicted to smoking. After all, there is no substance like nicotine in marijuana. Most folks who don’t find the obvious solution have hidden agendas and are fixing for a fight.
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I realize that we no longer live in the world where you joined a company for life, and retire with a pension and gold watch, but for the most part these comments have a very cynical bent. Women can, and do, contribute a lot to the workplace both before and after becoming mothers. Is my work life and schedule more complicated because I have a child? Yes. Do I contribute value beyond my hours logged in the office? Definitely yes. Maternity leave is temporary; chauvinism and short-sightedness are not. Men who feel that women get their just desserts for getting pregnant and having children are truly experiencing male privilege to its fullest.
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Based on what I've read about this CEO and his unprofessionalism, I'm sure there was discrimination against women at this company. But most of what's detailed in this article doesn't add up to much. The fact that her role was filled by a man while she was on leave doesn't really mean anything. I also find it surprising that it says that this woman was uncomfortable in her job interview and then went on to take the job anyway. Sure, people take jobs for a lots of reasons, but 6 years is a long time to stick around in a bad situation.
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Seems very opportunistic to being this suit at this time versus, say, years ago when it’s alleged to have happened. Seems like a disgruntled employee who was willing to go along until the IPO cratered.
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@Bjh She was fired early this month. That seems to be a rather sensible time to bring about a wrongful termination lawsuit.
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@Bjh
Exactly. When they asked you that “unlawful” question back in 2013, why did you not take your “shocked and stunned” self to a lawyer then?
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@Bjh
Most employees try to retain the little they have while in the job, even if they are abused. It is when they have nothing left to lose that they fight back.
Your argument is like saying that Americans and French must have been pretty happy under the monarchies, so their revolutions were fake because they waited so long.
Human nature.
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Please. I don’t believe this. “You are getting big” Is a diss now? Also, the owner can do whatever he wants in his plane; he owns it. A worker can’t dictate to his or her boss aka the owner how they should behave.
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@Mairaj Haider
It wasn't his plane; it was the company's plane. And the company, like most that choose to follow the law, has policies against discriminating against pregnant employees, and exposing employees to unhealthy conditions (like smoking), and illegal activity (like smoking pot on a plane). And heck, I'm conservative! Treating women like this is not only wrong, it's bad business.
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Okay, but he’s the owner paying for it. This is just too much. I would have let her go too in a heartbeat. I understand she doesn’t want to come but then he has the right to choose to let her go or not or appoint someone temporarily. The man works like a dog prob; she rather have him drink up in the plane I bet.
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@Mairaj Haider,
"You are getting big" said by a superior has ALWAYS been inappropriate. Get over it.
If it is corporate business or a corporate jet, yes, she certainly can complain.
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I am an employment discrimination lawyer and sadly most of these cases are frivolous. I would really way for it to be resolved before judging.
I would also say, as someone that is disabled, but chooses to not use it as a crutch or excuse the way to the top for women and and people of color is not through lawsuits. It will just make it harder to get hired.
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So nice to hear your male perspective on a female discrimination case, Mark. I think it’s admirable that you don’t rely on your challenges to give you advantage - unfair or not, but I’m shocked you don’t see the valid case in this article.
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@Mark. I’d say you’re an employment defense lawyer. You don’t represent those who’ve experience the discrimination but rather those who perpetrate it. You’re a man, judging from your name. So your advice is put up with the unlawful abuse and hide your “difference” — or blend in—don’t get pregnant, don’t “act gay”, try to “be white”, don’t ask for lawful accommodation, laugh at the sexist, racist, homophobic jokes and all will be well. These laws were past in the ‘70’s—and here we are 50 years later. No, sir, it’s the culture that has to change. It’s what’s right and it’s the law.
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@Heather exactly.. and he is a discrimination lawyer...
Gosh, someone who covers all the important bases: discrimination, self-dealing, delusions of grandeur, disdain for details and common sense, makes nonsensical but grandiose statements, leaves lots of creditors and investors holding the bag, and practices hypocrisy and greed. Almost presidential!
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She couldn’t do the job so she was fired; makes sense.
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So, pregnant woman are discriminated against. This should not be. But neither should discrimination in hiring be allowed where older workers are concerned. Yet, discriminating against older people is never mentioned here.
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Alternative headline: Tech CEO Turns Out to Be Bad Guy.
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Just rebrand it. “ We Stole.”
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Amazon is pretty bad too. Look who their top lieutenants are but for 1 token woman. Senior leaders down stream are majority all men too and it’s almost 2020. Pathetic. Nothing will change in tech companies for a couple decades, always been a good ole boys club, will remain that way until the girls in STEM classes in grade school now kick some butt and take over and even the playing field.
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Lost in the mix of approbrium for Neumann are comments by the enablers Senior Exec. Ms. Jen Berrent... woman's solidarity... Not. Dog eat Dog World, isn't it?
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So "zero tolerance for discrimination" but you will "vigorously defend yourself". No chance your former Chief of Staff is telling the truth huh?
It would be super refreshing if a company would say "we'll review the facts and do everything we can to resolve the issue".
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Seen this movie before. And it doesn't end well. Hopefully, the rest of the staff at WeWork will admit to themselves that they were led down the primrose path by a con man, and a misogynistic con man at that.
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"a male employee was hired to replace her, and she found herself sidelined when she returned to work."
Yep. Been there. Had 2 female peers leave and I got stuck with their work. I got a bigger bonus than them, too. Corporate is very bad at maternity leave in the US.
She should've been given her job back. However, she is at the top end of the business world. She knows the hours. Women don't get it all, like feminism has made them believe.
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@Scott right, women dont get it all, but men do, right? maybe its about time that men find a way to carry their own children so we are free to have it all
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Imagine being paid $185million to drive a company into the ground.
American capitalism at work.
I know many software engineers think they’re paid handsomely, and don’t believe they need a union. I ask of you, if someone is being paid $185M to behave in a way that would get you fired, are you really being paid what you’re worth?
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Women get pregnant, it's a fact of life. If you didn't know that then you need to ask your parents where you came from (I suggest you down for this).
I can understand the strain on a small mom and pop business but any larger business had better be able to plan around maternity leave. As a corporate exec I call it being a "big boy" (or girl).
When immature children are the CEO at behemoths such as Uber, FB, We Work this is bound to happen. Softbank and others really need to do a psych assessment of these kids they are giving billions of dollars to before investing in them... Oh, yea and I almost forgot to mention how these kids have lost Softbank lots of money.
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Nobody demotes a valuable employee who's doing terrifically. If you got demoted, it's because your life outside work impaired your work.
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@Anti-Marx You're right in theory, but that's not the way it works in practice. In the real world, people get demoted for all sorts of reasons outside of their actual job performance, including politics. I know that sounds silly (why would a company do something that hurts their profits?), but it's the world we live in.
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@Anti-Marx Do you hear that ringing sound? It’s the 1950’s calling.
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@Steve E
Politics, ok. But that's not the same as discrimination. A might demote B because B and C threaten to form an alliance that might undermine A.
I don't believe in discrimination. The people in finance whom I know are way to greedy to care about anything aside from profits.
I COULD see a pregnant woman getting demoted, because she no longer served as eye candy, but that would mean she wasn't hired for ability. Just for looks.
Most people are replaceable. Business has no loyalty. Those two facts do not add up to discrimination. The mistake is to see a company as a family. A company is a money making machine.
I was an academic, for a decade. The law of that realm is publish or perish. In business, it's profit or perish.
My impression is that employees at supposedly friendly millennial companies such as WeWork expect kinder, gentler treatment. Ok. On Wall St. it's a battle royale. I live near Citi in TriBeCa. I see people leaving the office at midnight. I even see people going BACK to the office at midnight. There are always a line of cabs out front, even at 2AM. Finance companies want employees willing to work 80 hrs a week. That might be indentured servitude, but it's not exactly discrimination. Maybe they discriminate against employees they can't indenture.
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This is the WeWork mission statement:
“Create a world where people work to make a life, not just a living. Create a world where people work to make a life, not just a living.”
Try not to laugh, I dare you.
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@JPLA this is for OTHER people who have offices at wework facilities. NOT for wework employees.
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The mission statement was the first clue: a bunch of baloney. Saddest part of this? That baloney companies hold power and sway in late stage, vulture capitalism. They just keep taking the money and running away.
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This guy should run for office. Apparently voters can’t get enough of guys like this.
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The mission statement dreamed up by this newly minted billionaire fraudster:
“Our mission is to elevate the world's consciousness.”
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Wow, some of these “woke” entrepreneurs are not so “woke.”
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@David H The fewer intolerant "woke," the better. Ask our last real president, Barack Obama.
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".....another high-level company official, Jennifer Berrent, commented, “Wow, you’re getting big,” in front of a WeWork executive."
No! “Wow, you’re getting big?" In front of an EXECUTIVE?? And Ms. Bahrdi lived to tell the tale? How? How did she do it?
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Right! You wouldn’t mind someone telling you that in front of your exec team I’m sure!! I don’t know why that woman is offended. Snowflake!
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@Yes So perhaps it was inappropriate and she didn't like it. Welcome to life. But no.It's so nad it's part of her LAWSUIT! Pathetic.
Oh, yeah, if you're "woke" you don't believe anyone's feelings should be hurt in the slightest, ever. That's why they need safe spaces. Too bad the company didn't make one for her. Maybe she wouldn't have sued them.
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Getting pregnant is part of life for quite a few women. Since it takes two incomes to have a marginally middle class life in America, Mr. Neumann's attitude and actions are not acceptable any longer if they ever were. Women have always worked whether inside or outside of the home. Pregnancy is one of the occupational hazards of being a woman. In fact if you want to see how much equality exists in a society or a company look at how they treat pregnant women, people who are caring for sick or elderly family members, and people in general when they are in need of some caring. By most standards most companies in America fail. And so does America.
The measure of a society/government is exactly what Hubert Humphrey said decades ago: “The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.”
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For crying out loud it’s 2019. As a supervisor I’ve worked with new moms to accommodate them during pregnancy, maternity leave, and return. Commitment, flexibility, and common decency go a long way.
And I’d think twice about a wework space after reading this article. Women leaders need to speak with their feet.
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Neumann sounds like an extreme jerk .... pragmatically, though, you’ve got to fill the job of the important employee who is out on leave. And if the replacement employee does a fantastic job, I’m not sure they deserve to be booted as soon as the initial employee decides to return.
An ancillary point: there’s a big difference between suffering a catastrophic medical event (stroke, car accident, cancer, or an expected _complication_ from pregnancy) that renders you unable to work for a while ..... and exercising your choice to pursue something that is important and meaningful to you ( such as having a child and spending uninterrupted time with the child after their birth.) The former category, to my mind, absolutely deserves lenient, fully-paid leave. The latter category, not so much.
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Here's an anecdote from the early days of WeWork, when it was aggressively cultivating a young, hip, millennial image; someone I in his retirement years (yeah, it was me) booked an appointment to check out the WeWork space that had just recently opened -- when it was still a novel concept. I arrived at the building and was told that the person I'd made the appointment with was in a meeting that was going to last awhile. When I got home I checked my LinkedIn page and discovered that someone from WeWork had checked it. Apparently I was a particularly undesirable demographic. I'm not surprised WeWork has workplace issues.
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Please, keep the lawsuits coming until this barbarian is penniless.
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It’s clowns like Neumann who almost make the old robber barons look good.
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i can't wait til Mr. Neumann runs for President, touting his "business success."
And, by American standards, since he kept $1.3 billion is hasn't been indicted, he is successful.
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Watching WeWork is like watching everything that is wrong with America - a rise in stature with little substance to back it up; a hustle that put another country’s bank in jeopardy; a scam that allowed the CEO to walk away with one billion in cash whole his employees are laid off by the thousands. Disgraceful and not unlike our current president.
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Maternity and paternity leave are very important. However i have also seem many times a woman goes on maternity leave, the business hires a temporary replacement, and then after using the maximum allowance of maternity leave the woman decides to be a mom full time and quits. This is a unwieldy burden for many businesses and a solution of this abuse should be found
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@Brian Brennan
Having spoken to a lot of women who make this choice, I ask that you re-think your use of the term "abuse" to describe the situation. The women I've spoken to don't go into maternity leave planning to leave their job once they've maxed out on leave. A lot of things change for people when they become parents in ways that they can't predict. Often what happens is they find themselves in love with this sweet little potato that came into their lives and as they face the prospect of spending less time with the potato and going back to a job where they're bored or treated poorly or undervalued, they choose the potato. The high cost of childcare in many areas, combined with women tending to earn less than men, also factors into this equation. I would hardly call this "abuse" of their employer.
I should also say that not just women face this conundrum. Men face it, too, but several factors make it more likely that they return to the workforce, including the fact that they probably make more money than their female spouse/partner and society still is rather skeptical of the stay-at-home dad. It's easier for women to step out both financially and culturally.
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Fewer and fewer women don't return to their positions these days. The only women I know who don't return are the ones who start job hunting whilst on mat leave which by the way is completely within their rights.
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Abuse? Really? Some states don’t even allow the sale of puppies before eight weeks old, because they shouldn’t be separated from their mothers before then. It’s considered abuse.
What on earth makes you think that it’s not abusive to begin separating a baby and mother after the minimal 12 weeks of protected leave afforded currently? Maybe new mothers would return to work more often if they were returning later and to more supportive environments that allow for them to be new mothers. They aren’t abusing the system when they fail to return; they are continued victims of it.
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I wonder how Audrey Gelman, CEO of The Wing—an all-inclusive women’s working space who recently posed as the first ever visibly pregnant CEO on the cover of a business magazine, would feel knowing this man owns 23% of her company? How can The Wing advocate for equal treatment & advancement of women’s careers when they’re funded by someone that upholds the exact opposite of these values?
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@Julia Chong My guess is she’s unbothered seeing as she dated Terry Richardson for years. Seems she champions only SPECIFIC women’s rights for equality. Doesn’t seem genuine to me.
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Toxic corporations like WeWork need to be dismantled or forced into bankruptcy. Exactly what is the ex-CEO being rewarded with $185M for 4 years of consulting work after being ousted for nearly destroying the company?
Nowhere in the world is failure and dazzling executive incompetence rewarded as richly as in Silicon Valley
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@Sameer The CEO of Boeing received a giant bonus. It is the elite giving lots of cash to the elite members even when the company fails. In the case of Boeing blame the shareholders who wanted a higher stock price. That was when the company laid off technical people and sent the software to India. People forget that is why Trump pushes the stock market filled with overvalued shares, but the CEO and senior management love it since their pay is tied into it. I fail to understand how WeWork CEO is walking away with so much. In Japan if the company has a problem or fails the senior management takes the hit. In the US they give you a raise on the grounds it is hard to find knowledgeable and experienced people. Joke! Jim Trautman
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I try not to judge based on appearance but look at his picture. He certainly looks like he doesn't care about anyone but himself. His behavior is consistent with that. Legalities aside, you want to keep valued employees. Treat them poorly and positions go unfilled or can only be filled by other terrible people.
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@trautman, I've worked in Silicon Valley in the tech industry for 19 years. And I often joke, half seriously, that so and so executive was compensated with $300 Million in total compensation for his incompetence that brought the market cap of his company from $110 Billion to $7 Billion (Sun Microsystems led by Scott McNealy who recently hosted a private fundraiser for Trump and trying to sell his home for $95M); I can achieve the same results at fraction of his compensation. Alas, they won't hire me as a CEO because I have some brains and a lot of common sense along with more than enough integrity :)
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Certainly sounds like gender discrimination to me. Still so rampant in the workplace.
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Why does anyone valorise the tech industry or the culture of the STEM disciplines that feed it when they harbour such toxic masculinity. Why can we not instead uphold the humanities, especially disciplines like art history that are highly feminized and also gay friendly, plus better at integrating voices from the rest of the world?
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So how many men were discriminated against because their wives or girlfriends became pregnant? If none this really sounds like sex discrimination.
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What a jerk!
And why do VC companies keep supporting this illegal and immoral discrimination?
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So. This is how it goes. And excuse me gentlemen if you disagree but just have a chat with any woman who got pregnant on the job. First, should you tell or should you not, because you know the response will not be in your favor. Second, after telling, get ready for everyone commenting on how ¨big¨ you are. Third, you better start preparing for a new job some other place.
Oh, but this is protected by law? Yeah, good luck with that.
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I think a lack of understanding by many about what actually happens on maternity leave is common. The comment that it is vacation a familiar. They don’t understand the 24/7 nature of sleepless nights and days, f not being able to eat or go to the bathroom because the baby is crying/hungry/covered in poop/about to get into something it shouldn’t etc.
I was relieved when I went back to work- it felt like a vacation compared to maternity leave. I love my children, don’t get me wrong. But even some friends who had easy babies don’t understand what it’s like to deal with colic and a baby that barely sleeps- or will wake up the minute you put them in the crib or that screams bloody murder every time he farts (oh how that has changed- now they squeal with delight at farts).
We need to educate people about the varied experiences of motherhood because not even every parent understands the range of experiences others may have. Then the misconception that maternity leave is a break would hopefully end.
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@Pandora The Nordic countries of course where individuals count for more give paternity leave to men and women and recognize the changes that come about before delivering and after. For bonding it is good that both parents that leave and are part of the start of a child's development. By the way they are paid just like working of course here if you get time off it is without pay. North America the backward society, but hey, everyone still believes it is better. The world of delusion. Jim Trautman
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I see you; and hear you. Not many people understand how dark it can be with non-sleeping colic babies. “Work” would have been a vacation. I slipped very close to a brink I may not have come back from, but for a few moments of light.
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Yes! My second baby was easier but I was so lonely. I ended up going back to work earlier than planned. Work was definitely my break.
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While I'm sure the allegations against WeWork are true, this problem stems from the fact that the U.S. has never developed any national parental leave policies. Instead, companies are left to create their own leave policies, which leads to results like this. Maternity leave does put companies in an awkward spot - three months is not enough time to hire and train a replacement, not to mention when the original employee returns you still have the replacement. What usually happens is the other employees have to pick up the extra work while the parent is gone, but they are usually not compensated for it which leads to resentment. There is no easy solution here.
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I sometimes think that nothing has changed since 1981 when I first started working. I guess the difference is that now everyone acknowledges that this behavior is wrong. But it still happens almost everywhere.
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Just a symptom of a bigger issue. The United States continues to fail mothers and families with their terrible (or frankly, nonexistent) policies on paid family leave. Virtually every other country in the world has some kind of paid family leave in place.
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Shame on JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs for trying to foist this Ponzi scheme on public investors. Just don't use this company, there are better choices available.
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The verbal abuse, arrogance, and infantilism of Neumann aside...
What is an employer to do when an employee goes out on leave and their job duties still must be fulfilled?
If the manager must have someone fill in for the employee on leave, who may have been doing a different job before filling-in, it’s not so simple to make the pay equal between the fill-in and the absent employee. Additionally, there’s always a period of transition between when an employee out on leave comes back and the fill-in will need to slowly hand responsibilities back to the former. It’s almost never an immediate switch.
There’s more detail here that needs to be fleshed out.
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Every other country but one has figured it out. We claim to be pretty smart. I bet we could do the same.
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I think the US labor market needs a New Movement.
#METOO@WORK
It is more common than not that Supervisors regularly make degrading remarks. I have seen Managers yell and demean employees in front of other employees AND even customers. Granted women are more often targets but it does not change the fact that some American Management act like you are their property.
Educate, Agitate, Organize!
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@Tio Sam
Great idea!
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“We have zero tolerance for discrimination of any kind,” Ms. Rocco said. “We are committed to moving the company forward and building a company and culture that our employees can be proud of.”
I'm sure they're awfully proud that the mastermind of this Potemkin corporation is walking away with hundreds of millions stuffed in his pockets.
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This quote :
"...“We have zero tolerance for discrimination of any kind,” ...
Ya. Right.
There is no discrimination against anybody - may be.
But there sure is discrimination in favor of this crook who collected more than a golden parachute or cufflinks or whatever.
While other employees are being fired and their so called options are all underwater.
This crook sails away on a big yacht - so to speak.
You would think there would be some laws against this type of abuse.
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@Neil typical PR spin right?
HR departments will never address the discrimination of a CEO as they report to that same person. It's all lip service.... They will most likely address non-leadership employees - as long as they are not considered to be critical to the bottom line of the organization.
All these businesses claim high moral principles, as long as they don't come on the way of making money.
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It's very disappointing to see companies that frame themselves as new and hip acting just as badly as the old boys' clubs of the past. I hope to see more women running these companies.
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@AMH I don't believe the answer is that women have to run the companies. I think the companies need to be run by humans with respect for others, women and men alike.
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This is incredibly sad. Certainly reaffirms the correct decision to remove Adam. Unfortunately, in his removal, all staff associated with him was also let go, including Medina.
However, I work for WeWork, and my department feels so different. I have not experienced any obvious gender discrimination - something that I chalk up to my departments managers. We celebrate paternity leaves with maternity leaves equally. It's why I chose to come here. If anything, truly a testament that even if your leadership is insane, the people and teams you work with day to day really make the difference.
Good leaders, we see you! Fingers crossed we don't lose them in the coming layoffs.
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@kiara What a creative way of saying #notallmen
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@Lucy Harrison Oh come on! Kiara isn't excusing bad behavior, she's just sharing her experience at WeWork.
My broad understanding of #MeToo is the movement is about women being treated more equitably. You should realize that women discriminate against other women in some areas (like the workplace) just a much as men. An example is even given in this article. This has been shown in numerous studies, including in my field science. It's not as though women have been shown to be better.
(I'm a woman by the way.)
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@kiara - I think your post is very telling, and likely more reflective of the true WeWork culture. In reading this times piece, this former employee’s complaint is present as fact, when it’s simply an allegation. The timing of this lawsuit is certainly convenient. Forget her firing - pretty much all WeWork employees lost out big time when the IPO failed. Right now all they have is another Gig - no longer that highly appealing job. One way to recoup the lost glory is to sue bigly!
I have a hunch my perspective as to the motivating factor is spot on. Perhaps if she sued while the IPO was still alive this IMO would appear more credible...
Ah, Mr. Neumann.
Just another misogynistic charlatan hiding behind an app.
Stories abound about his megalomania, the tamest being his hiring of a female employee to spoon fed him with his lunch during a meeting so that he “can have more time devoted to thinking.”
Why this narcissist is not yet in Trump’s cabinet is a mystery.
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@Opinioned!
Maybe he could replace Wilbur
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Why are so many of these start-ups nothing more than marketing, whether of product, culture or personality? The comparison to Trump’s cabinet is apt in many ways. All smoke and mirrors, nothing underneath.
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That last line made me laugh out loud.
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