At Google, an Employee-Run Email List Tracks Harassment and Bias Complaints

Re:At Google, an Employee-Run Email List Tracks Harassment a... by MichaelGG on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @11:04AM (#14401820)

> "Subsequently informed by the engineer that she was expected to 'sleep with everyone' because that's the culture here."

I'm rather "unenlightened"/regressive/whatever from a SV perspective. But... If there wasn't a significant power difference here, like an intern vs someone senior, how does this even happen? I mean, I get it if it was one-on-one, even a direct boss might pressure someone into that. But "sleep with everyone"? What's the expected response?

Or was this some poor excuse after a failed attempt? "Hey don't get upset. Everyone sleeps around on this team."

I'm just having a hard time comprehending this quote, not from an offended view, just a practical/social/etc. view.

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Re:At Google, an Employee-Run Email List Tracks Harassment a... by pjc50 on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @11:15AM (#14401914)

It's a common abuse tactic: establish the behaviour you want as "normal" and gaslight people who object. Often it works. It's also the sort of thing that people can very easily explain away as "joke", "hazing", etc.

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