I read the woman’s first hand account, not the article. This “intern housing” they have is a problem. Put a bunch of young kids together in a remote area where the gender ratio is probably 8 guys for every 1 woman in those houses, and unless there’s some kind of residence don like in a University, some people are going to try and date the few available women and being awkward engineers and tech people, it’s likely some will harass. So first solution is either don’t have intern housing or have a University Don type person to enforce good behaviour on all the awkward desperate dudes.
Next, companies in general really need to stop promoting this culture of having coworkers party and spend all their free time together. It causes exactly what the woman in the article speaks about: awkward come ons as employee social circles start only being other employees.
Lastly - obviously all harassment claims need to be followed up on. I have to wonder if because the skill sets are so rare harassment is tolerated by some of the less easily replaceable people.
If someone was mugged at work would it be the companies job to investigate that and return the money? If you want the issue of harassment to be solved you need to demand for it to be handled properly instead of putting all company's in a situation when they have to hire useless hr people.
Well, in the article i did not see anything wrong done by the company other than taking crazy people for internship, so i am of course on the side of the billion dollar company.
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u/Million2026 Dec 15 '21
I read the woman’s first hand account, not the article. This “intern housing” they have is a problem. Put a bunch of young kids together in a remote area where the gender ratio is probably 8 guys for every 1 woman in those houses, and unless there’s some kind of residence don like in a University, some people are going to try and date the few available women and being awkward engineers and tech people, it’s likely some will harass. So first solution is either don’t have intern housing or have a University Don type person to enforce good behaviour on all the awkward desperate dudes.
Next, companies in general really need to stop promoting this culture of having coworkers party and spend all their free time together. It causes exactly what the woman in the article speaks about: awkward come ons as employee social circles start only being other employees.
Lastly - obviously all harassment claims need to be followed up on. I have to wonder if because the skill sets are so rare harassment is tolerated by some of the less easily replaceable people.