一名前Uber工程师发表了一篇关于工作场所性别歧视和权力斗争的爆炸性报道，从她在公司的第一个正式工作日开始就有了指控。这位工程师苏珊·福勒（Susan Fowler，去年12月离开Uber，现在为Stripe工作）周日在自己的博客上发布了这个帐号，称它是一个“奇怪的、引人入胜的、略带恐怖的故事”。

性别歧视在硅谷是一个有据可查的问题，但福勒的叙述细节令人震惊。她说问题开始于第一天，她的经理向她讲述了他的***细节：

In my first official day rotating on the team, my new manager sent me a string of messages over company chat. He was in an open relati***hip, he said, and his girlfriend was having an easy time finding new partners but he wasn't. He was trying to stay out of trouble at work, he said, but he couldn't help getting in trouble, because he was looking for women to have sex with. It was clear that he was trying to get me to have sex with him, and it was so clearly out of line that I immediately took screenshots of these chat messages and reported him to HR.

据福勒的描述，福勒被迫留在一名对她进行性骚扰的经理手下。她说，人力资源部回应说，公司“不会感到舒服”，给他更多的是一个警告。她说，然后她就可以选择离开自己的团队，或者继续自己的工作，因为她知道这可能会导致骚扰她的经理做出糟糕的绩效评估。

从那以后，福勒的旅程只会变得更加凄凉。她描述了工程部高层管理人员之间的一场“权力博弈政治战”，管理人员公开试图破坏和征服对方：

It seemed like every manager was fighting their peers and attempting to undermine their direct supervisor so that they could have their direct supervisor's job. No attempts were made by these managers to hide what they were doing: they boasted about it in meetings, told their direct reports about it, and the like.

We all lived under fear that our teams would be dissolved, there would be another re-org, and we'd have to start on yet another new project with an impossible deadline. It was an organization in complete, unrelenting chaos.

她对自己在公司工作时间的描述还包括她的经理们试图削弱她的现实感和成就感。她说，光鲜的绩效考核后来被修改，以证明阻止她升职是合理的，并阻止她调到组织的其他部门。

值得注意的是，福勒的账户只在Uber的一年时间里才被披露，在这期间，她觉得自己必须保留虐待和不当行为的记录。即使是做记录和向人力资源部投诉也给她带来了麻烦。她自己的人力资源部门试图压制她的**，要求得到体面的待遇，据称这表明她是投诉中的“共同主题”，“通过电子邮件向人力资源部报告事情是不专业的。”（告诉**不要投诉是性别歧视组织的一个标志。）在她离开公司前的一次会议上，她说，她的经理对她说，她向人力资源部举报他的经理“如履薄冰”，并威胁要解雇她作为报复。

优步首席执行官特拉维斯•卡兰尼克（Travis Kalanick）在一份发给Verge的电子邮件声明中表示，公司将对这些指控“进行紧急调查”，并承诺解雇任何“行为如此或认为这样做没问题”的人。以下是卡兰尼克的完整声明：

I have just read Susan Fowler's blog. What she describes is abhorrent and against everything Uber stands for and believes in. It's the first time this has come to my attention so I have instructed Liane Hornsey our new Chief Human Resources Officer to conduct an urgent investigation into these allegati***. We seek to make Uber a just workplace and there can be absolutely no place for this kind of behavior at Uber -- and anyone who behaves this way or thinks this is OK will be fired.

优步过去曾有很多备受瞩目的争议，包括与高层管理人员的问题。2014年，Uber副总裁埃米尔•迈克尔（Emil Michael）威胁《潘多日报》主编莎拉•莱西（Sarah Lacy）进行诽谤活动。卡兰尼克后来说，这些言论“显示出缺乏领导力，缺乏人性，背离了我们的价值观和理想。”

最奇怪的是，福勒描述了一位高级经理如何承诺为所有现场可靠性工程师订购皮夹克，但在最后一刻通知团队中的**，她们不会收到任何皮夹克，因为没有足够的**来证明费用的合理性(福勒说，有120多个男人收到了他们的夹克，经理说，订购女式夹克是不公平的，除非他们能找到一种方法，像男士一样获得批量折扣。

福勒说，当她加入Uber时，**在她工作的组织中占25%。最后一天，她说这个数字降到了3%。

更新时间：2月19日，美国东部时间下午7:32：报道更新，包括优步首席执行官特拉维斯·卡兰尼克的评论。