I don't know... I feel like putting her into that position exposed her to a lot of negative energy that she may not have necessarily received in the first place.
If I personally was the brunt of all that crap, it would definitely get to me personally - so while I appreciate the company's approach ideologically I think emotionally it might've done more psychological damage to her in the long run.
I have a great deal of trouble imagining that weeding out blatant sexist pigs in five minutes flat is somehow worse than working alongside one for months while he tries to pretend he's not but still cannot manage to actually have one iota of respect for her.
Yeah I see your point, it's unfortunate there is not an automated pre-interview system (like GPT meets Eliza) that could flag these people such that actual women aren't exposed to their toxicity.
As a woman who has endured a standard helping of sexist toxicity in the workplace, I'd much rather front-load it like this rather than be surprised that my department hired yet another jerk.
I'm not trying to invalidate this woman's experiences, because if they are genuinely true as written down, then that is some seriously toxic misogynistic shit, but some of the quotes from the male interviewees sound like they could be lifted straight out of an episode of mad men and an office in the 1960s.
“Hey, hon, before you go… can you get me some more coffee? And put some sugar in it."
I mean... really?? It's hard for me to even imagine those words coming out of a white-collar software engineer applicant. Did they hoot and wolf whistle as she walked by too?
I can only speak anecdotally but as a software engineer for the last two decades I've never seen anything even remotely like this in any of the software companies that I worked at, while bearing in mind that of course as a male I would likely be less likely to notice.
There is likely some truth in this article but it feels like it might be mixed up with some exaggerations which to me hurt the message as a whole.
One time me and a female colleague needed to have one of the salespeople sign a form and he blurted out to her: "Maybe you want my digits too, wink, wink!" So yeah, I do believe her.
Sigh... really? This is reddit-level "Yakov Smirnoff" of rebuttals. But I'm going to break it down for you anyway and operate on the shared assumption of good faith since you may have genuinely misconstrued my intent.
I couched my words - stating that I only found one particular piece of content unbelievable - once again now, FOR ME PERSONALLY. Irrespective of whether the "1950s women in the workforce" quote actually transpired, her overall experiences still cast a powerful light on the continuing toxic nature of the work environment for women.
While that might be true, from an outsiders perspective looking at things like: the anti-immigration agenda, the death penalty, and the almost willful refusal by a large minority to wear masks (to name a few) - you can see how somebody might draw the conclusion that for a country whose population strongly identifies as Christian, it seems to be lacking in basic Christian ideals such as compassion and empathy.
I think you're mistaken about what empathy entails. It's not empathetic to let illegal immigrants in with no plan on how they're going to be taken care of and spit in the face of people who are legally in this country. Americans aren't anti-immigration they're anti illegal immigration and there's a massive difference.
It's also not empathetic to give people life sentences over the death penalty. If you want to discuss wrongly convicted people and the death penalty that's a good argument but the idea that it's better for society and the justly convicted individual to remain alive in prison for life is asinine.
What do masks have to do with empathy? I think that's just being used as a bludgeon to force people into wearing them because they're "bad" people if they don't. I don't find it empathetic to tell people they're required to put a face covering on or they're an awful person who wants to kill people. In fact, forcing your beliefs on other people is one of the most UN-empathetic things I can think of.
It's not empathetic to take the easy route and just give people material things, assuming that'll make them happier or better people. This is the entire problem with the left wing mantra. I would argue the idea that dumping welfare checks in minority communities so they'll learn to be reliant on a system of handouts, while simultaneously telling them the system is against them is the opposite of empathetic. Especially, when it's not followed up with other forms of help. Sometimes being empathetic means you need to harsh up front in order to improve things in the long run. Teaching people to be self reliant is one of the most empathetic things you can do.
He specifically refuted the claim that it was "pedophilia and gore"; your response, while raising valid criticisms, has nothing to do with those two things.
Attribution is irrelevant if you're lifting them wholesale - and you're really stretching the definition of "fair use" since you're not obtaining consent from the actual content creators.
No idea if what OP is doing is or isn't fair use, but fair use doesn't require the content creator's permission, and in fact if you have the content owner's permission you generally don't need to invoke fair use at all (since they are in a position to simply grant you permission to use their content).
There is basically no chance that stealing the entirety of someone else's content (a full clip), no commentary, no parody, just a straight reupload onto their own account for views/subs is fair use.
I had the same experience moving from visual studio 2017 to visual studio 2019. I tried disabling every possible IntelliSense related feature and there was always a small but perceptible amount of input latency that drove me crazy.
Eventually I was forced to switch over to jet brains rider and I haven't looked back since, which is a shame because I really enjoyed using the previous versions (2010, 2012, 2015, and 2017).
Most composers were musicians before that and a lot of instruments adhere to scales such as fretted instruments or percussive instruments like the piano.
Using scales gives people a familiar territory in which to compose music and a western audience will already be culturally attuned to those sensibilities.
Good stuff, but since it seems like there is a lot of pedantic responses to this post I'm going to chip in myself and say that most traditional gospel renditions of amazing Grace also make use of the supertonic. In the key of C that would be DMaj.
If I personally was the brunt of all that crap, it would definitely get to me personally - so while I appreciate the company's approach ideologically I think emotionally it might've done more psychological damage to her in the long run.