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lawsuits
The New Penthouse Letters: HR Exec Files FriendFinder Suit
FriendFinder Networks, the publisher of Penthouse and operator of adult-classifieds websites, is facing a sexy legal scandal. A former top executive who went public with her grievances has now filed a lawsuit. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by doggotmyshoes: It must be really confusing to the not=so=smart porn workers (or Penthouse Pets or whatever their correct title is) what... 7 Responses | Other threads
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discrimination
Guess Which One Is the Google Executive?
Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search products, experiences the unfamiliar at a recent visit with First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House. (Photo by AP)
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By Owen ThomasComment by sample032: I was hoping the Obama administration would rise above race, but I guess seeing this shouldn't surprise me. In... 7 Responses | Other threads
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lawsuits
'Sexual Predator' CEO Accused of Attacking His Assistant
Greg Shenkman, CEO of a San Francisco software company, allegedly used work visas to import an Eastern European woman as a sexual plaything, according to a former assistant who is charging him with sexual battery. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Drunken Economist: I hate to be callous, but this is business as usual in the eastern bloc. Seriously, blow thru the Czech... 5 Responses | Other threads
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lawsuits
FriendFinder's Latest Scandal Sexier Than a Penthouse Letter
A porn star draping boobs over an employee's head. Lapdances on the company dime. $50 million in back taxes. These are just some of the charges Penthouse publisher FriendFinder Networks is facing from an ex-employee.
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By Owen ThomasComment by michaellamb: how can someone get hired to for penthouse and expect to have an HR by-the-books company. Come on. If you... 17 Responses | Other threads
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discrimination
Yahoo Flack Quit After Lawsuit Leak
One of the messes Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz must clean up is a three-year-old investigation into claims of discrimination by a black female lawyer. After a leak of confidential documents, it's now even messier. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by ludwigk: That shot of Eulonda with her shoulder raised, and presumably outstretched arm, makes it look like she took that shot... 2 Responses | Other threads
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discrimination
Gays now entitled to inept online dating
eHarmony does not hate gay people. It is merely ignorant of them. That is the dating site's excuse for excluding same-sex customers — a practice that led a gay New Jersey man, Eric McKinley, to file a complaint with New Jersey's attorney general which eHarmony has just settled, paying a $50,000 fine to the state and $5,000 to McKinley. eHarmony was founded in 2000 by Neil Clark Warren, an evangelical Christian and a psychologist; he is still the company's chairman. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Drunken Economist: Throw me in a vat of stew, but this is also why Prop 8 passed and the ban on gay... 10 Responses | Other threads
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discrimination
Valley companies half as likely to have a woman on board
A press release from Spencer Stuart, the executive recruiting firm, celebrates a "milestone": More than half of the Silicon Valley companies it tracks now have at least one woman on their boards of directors. This is not the accomplishment they would have you think: Among the boards of companies on the S&P 500, 89 percent have at least one woman, and women make up 15.7 percent of S&P 500 directors, versus 8.9 percent in the Valley. Progress, perhaps, but progress that highlights the tech industry's lingering sexism.
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By Owen ThomasComment by nobuggin: You also rarely saw black people at Grateful Dead concerts. Was it racism or are black people just not... 2 Responses | Other threads
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politics
Valley homophobes still drafting Yes on Prop 8 response ad
BoomTown reporter Kara Swisher rappelled from a skylight at Jerry Yang's secret hideout to score this draft copy of an ad, in which a bunch of tech bigwigs come out in favor of gay marriage — or at least in opposition to Proposition 8, a California state ballot initiative which would ban it. No Valley company in its right mind would be seen opposing gay marriage, so why bother? More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by Apel Mjausson: Implying that people are homophobic based on a draft of an ad is skating on very thin ice. There are... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Ramsey Allington
Googlers gone wild in India
Ramsey Allington, the bad-boy manager of Google's book-search operations who stands accused of sexism and discrimination by his employees, has turned electronically shy after Valleywag's exposé of his misdeeds. His blog, Ramsey's World, is now friends-only — which just suggests he's got more to hide. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by ektorp: What a complete tool. Ramsey is indeed a big lottery winner with his gig at Google, and he's lucky... more » | Other threads
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Ramsey Allington
The rotten manager behind Google Book Search
A coalition of book publishers and authors have extracted $125 million from Google in settling a copyright lawsuit they filed in 2005. The agreement should make Google Book Search vastly more useful, as millions of books get added to Google's index. The team at Google which deals with publishers should be busier than ever. Too bad it's run by a sexist tyrant who's seen 7 of his 13-person team — all women — leave in a year's time. Googlers who formerly worked under Ramsey Allington, the head of Google's book operations, say he's a terrible manager who has actively discriminated against women in his employ. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by QADude: Is it just me, or does the woman next to him look really, really drunk? 2 Responses | Other threads
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politics
Apple, Google oppose gay marriage ban, while Yahoo stays silent
Google crossdresser-in-chief Sergey Brin got his company, after contentious internal debate, to express opposition to Proposition 8, a California ballot initiative which would ban the same-sex marriages rendered legal earlier this year by the state's Supreme Court. Now Apple, too, has expressed its corporate views, donating $100,000 to the No on Prop 8 campaign. Who hasn't weighed in? Yahoo. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Ted Dziuba: Why the disclosure? You can't exactly short Prop 8's stock. 2 Responses | Other threads
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marissa mayer
Google's "first female engineer" doesn't think of herself as a female engineer
Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of things that actually make money, sat down for a filmed power breakfast with NBC's Today show. Aside from a fib at the start — that she doesn't think of herself as a female Googler, when that's how she's listed in her corporate bio, and how she introduced herself, quite recently, to ABC News, It's a good performance — no nervous tics, no creepy laughs captured on camera. But it's missing something. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by KaliIshamael: I've heard rumors about Google sexism for years, including them not even giving interviews to a couple of smart women... 1 Responses | Other threads
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discrimination
Oracle looking for programmers — no experience necessary, or wanted!
No olds allowed. That's the unspoken HR mantra of Web startups — but the noisomely discriminatory practice seems to be spreading to some of the Valley's largest companies. Valley engineers are clucking over a job listing posted to a list run by the Software Development Forum. In it, an Oracle recruiter advertised a laundry list of required technical skills — but then noted that only "fresh grads" could apply, due to what seems to be an unofficial policy at Oracle: "We have multiple openings for our newly formed EBS Integrations group at Oracle but we have a restriction to hire only fresh graduates from outside." Companies from Microsoft and Google regularly make a practice of hiring engineers right out of college. They are younger, healthier, and more pliable — less costly in every way. But can Oracle legally advertise a job, but then reject a qualified applicant because they're not a "fresh grad"? It seems unlikely, but I'd welcome thoughts from HR experts in the comments. Oracle's job listing: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by socialjustice: I agree that Oracle is pathetic in their salaries and other stuff, that;s why I left it a while ago.... more » | Other threads
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great moments in hr
Is Google's "work hard, play hard" recruiting code for age discrimination?
"We have a preference for those who like to work and play hard," the search giant candidly informs potential candidates for openings for a compliance manager, senior internal auditor, financial project analyst, senior internal controls auditor, management accountant, internal audit treasury manager, accounting manager, internal audit manager, and technology risk analyst. Doesn't exactly conjure up the image of a white-haired 58-year-old Type II diabetic, does it? More »
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By theodpComment by grgle2: Discrimination may not be the right word, but the google culture is a difficult one to survive in let alone... more » | Other threads
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exits
Valley's 150 biggest companies all run by men
With Diane Greene ousted as the CEO of Silicon Valley software company VMware by a jealous man and replaced by testosterone-laden former Microsoftie Paul Maritz, there's not a single woman running any of the Bay Area's largest 150 companies by revenues. We'd be less despondent about this if the up-and-coming women didn't have us so down. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Shadowlayer: I recently made a network on Ning for my relatives, and nobody used it. Honestly I think the entire project is... more » | Other threads
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discrimination
Venture capital remains dominated by white men
Shall we all pretend to be shocked by a new study that shows that the venture-capital industry is overwhelmingly — no, disgustingly white and male? A National Venture Capital Association survey found that 88 percent of general partners — the people who can actually greenlight an investment at a firm — are white, and 86 percent are male. On the VC blog Private Equity Hub, Alex Haislip takes hope, noting that the junior ranks of VC firms are more diverse — and that some less lily-white firms have delivered good returns lately. Greed and the relentless herd-following instinct should take care of the industry's inequities, he seems to argue. Good luck with that! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by alliwink: So tell me does anyone have any tips in case some of us looking for funding are not white male... more » | Other threads
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the olds
Olds take back Valleywag
Now that Valleywag's Straighty McStraights are out of the closet, it's time to stand up for another oppressed demographic: The Valley's middle-agers. No, not the professionally groomed gray-haired executives who hop between million-dollar gigs. I mean the kid-raising, house-owning, middle-managing people without whom none of the snotnose Web 2.0 brats would still have a job. I've been full-time at Valleywag three days, and the elder abuse is already insufferable. So: Send me your age-discrimination stories, your defamatory tales of underage "founders," your news items of interest to techies over 40. As for you Youngs, someone needs to tell you: Your code sucks, and we only keep John C. Dvorak around because he drives you insane.
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By Paul BoutinComment by WagCurious: You should have Alaska go through an interview loop at Google just to document the ageism of the process. That... more » | Other threads
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harassment
Debian death threats? Come on, send us the emails
"I was *shocked* to hear that one of our community has been the target of death threats as a thank you for her work," wrote Debian project leader Steve McIntyre, near the bottom of a long message about the results of a survey of Debian contributors. Now McIntyre tells The Register, "I have since discovered that several of our female developers and documenters were threatened. It was some kook in the U.S. who made quite a name from himself harassing women for supposedly destroying the free software movement." Valleywag would be happy to make the guy an even bigger name for himself. Got death threats? Send 'em in or just post in the comments.
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By Paul BoutinComment by harshmellow: Bill Gates does have lots of free time these days... more » | Other threads
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clips
Meet the Nerd Girls, "working their pumps" for your workplace
Women earn 56 percent of all degrees in science and technology, but according to Newsweek, 52 percent of women leave those jobs, with 63 percent saying they experienced workplace harassment, believing they needed to "act like a man." It's one Tufts University's "Nerd Girls," featured in the clip above, are "working their pumps so hard" — to show that women engineers can be girls and geeks. Because the very best way to gender equality is to proclaim that what women want is to "put on lots of makeup, throw on some insanely high stilettos and walk down the street and get attention and be like Hah!"
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Comment by tokenfemale: That clip is pathetic. The way to be a woman in a male-dominated work force is to fit in. That doesn't... more » | Other threads
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google
Eric Schmidt doesn't care about Hispanic people
What does a poorly received speech today by Eric Schmidt at the Economic Club of Washington have to do with Hispanic IT workers? Nothing, really, and that's what Lista, the Latinos in Information Sciences and Technology Association, wants you to know. One has to admire the sheer Valley-like opportunism of Lista's Jose Marquez, who sent us five questions Schmidt didn't answer about the threat a search deal between Google and Yahoo poses to the people his organization claims to represent. One question we have for Marquez: Does your close scrutiny of a potential Google-Yahoo deal have anything to do with Microsoft's many partnerships with your organization? Marquez's curiously loaded queries: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by sample032: @michaellamb: She works for a Latino-interest organization, so adding Hispanic, albeit as a synonym for Latino, makes her appear relevant--keepin'... more » | Other threads
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discrimination
How many black friends does Marissa Mayer have? Let's count!
Lily-white couture aficionado Marissa Mayer is a champion of her gender at Google, struggling to ensure that 25 percent of its engineers are women. How is she doing on other measures of diversity? Google has come under fire from Congress for offering H-1B visas to foreign workers rather than increasing its numbers of African-American hires. Perhaps the problem lies in its executives' social circles. A collage of Mayer's Facebook friends in the Google network reveals very few faces that are not white or Asian.
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By Owen ThomasComment by YamkaGaius: I totally get the sentiment of this post but I hate that little aside about how her friends are either... more » | Other threads
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clips
The five racist cartoons Google wants you to see, but no one else does
Google's YouTube hosts 11 Warner Bros. cartoons banned since 1968 for their racist content, New York Times reports. Google flack Ricardo Reyes told the paper it is up to users to flag offensive content and up to copyright holders to notify Google when infringing content is uploaded. "The cartoons are despicable," the NAACP's Richard McIntire told the Times. "We encourage the films' owners to maintain them as they are — that is, locked away in their vaults." But hiding the videos goes against Google's mission to organize all the world's information, including — it seems — records of our hateful past. Should the five racially offensive cartoons embedded below be so easy to share? Google never asked. More »
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Comment by BobDope: The 'refrederator' podcast did a whole 'Black Comedy Week' chock full of embarassingly racist cartoons a while back. Some... more » | Other threads
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great moments in hr
Google works really hard at making sure 25 percent of its engineers are women
Google's business goal is to organize the world's information. Ambitious. Google's goal for hiring women engineers? "We're very focused on having about 25 percent of our technical workforce be women," Google VP Marissa Mayer tells a Bay Area public-radio interviewer in this clip. Google's cupcake princess added that Sergey Brin — he's the cofounder she didn't date — and Larry Page — the one she did — came up with that target shortly after they founded the company.They'd read a lot of research around how to form the best companies and a lot of studies show that if you fall below 20 percent of the workforce being women, things become really imbalanced and unhealthy inside the corporate culture.
The silver-lining: Now when Google apologists start going on about the company's "20 percent" rule, the rest of us get to ask: "Wait, which one?"
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Comment by dangster: You guys do realize WHY Google wants 25% of their engineers to be women, right? It's the same reason... more » | Other threads
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exits
Worker-hating college site Uloop paid $50,000 to settle Jewish employee's lawsuit
College classifieds site Uloop, the subject of a labor complaint filed by fired employees, previously had to settle a wrongful termination suit, according to a tipster. A marketer and founding member of the team was fired last fall, and filed suit arguing that it was discriminatory. Unlike the rest of the team, veterans of the dot-bomb who were churchgoing Christians, he was young and Jewish. Uloop settled the case, paying $50,000. As for any hints that company management may like unions even less than Jews, notoriously anti-union newspaper publisher Gannett made invested an undisclosed amount in December. Update: Turns out the marketer in question is "Silicon Valley Publicist" Denis Hiller, who can thank his lucky stars he won't have to spin Uloop's latest possible transgression.
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By Jackson WestComment by sample032: Luckily for Denton, if his writers try to unionize, the Jewish part won't be an issue, and having "independent contractors"... more » | Other threads
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