一位接近Tinder员工的消息人士告诉Verge，起诉该约会应用母公司Match Group 20亿美元的多名Tinder员工本周被解雇。其中包括营销和传播副总裁Rosette Pambakian，她在最初的诉讼中声称Tinder前首席执行官Greg Blatt对她进行了***。Match发言人贾斯汀·萨科（Justine Sacco）不愿确认受影响员工的姓名，但确实表示，包括帕姆巴基安在内的“部分”员工因“无法履行工作职责”而被解雇

该公司最初在8月份让这些员工休行政假，这意味着他们不允许工作，但继续领取工资。帕姆巴基安被解雇后，向Match集团首席执行官曼迪·金斯伯格（Mandy Gin**erg）和Tinder首席执行官埃利·塞德曼（Elie Seidman）发送了一封电子邮件，称她受到了“持续的恐吓和报复”，目的是“迫使[她]辞职”。Verge收到了一份来自帕姆巴基安身边人士的电子邮件副本，我们在这篇文章的底部发表了这篇文章。

电子邮件还说，解雇与帕姆巴基安对布拉特的性骚扰指控有关，她从未就这些指控接受过采访。她写道，“你告诉全世界，一项虚假调查（我甚至从未接受过采访）确定这次袭击是某种‘自愿拥抱’——就好像一位首席执行官在公司假期的整个晚上发表了露骨的性言论后，在其他员工面前抚摸他的下属，这是一种双方都同意的行为她还声称Match在她选择权授予前一天解雇了她。她提到了一项仲裁协议，该协议迫使她退出Tinder联合创始人肖恩·拉德的诉讼，她“拒绝签署人力资源部提交给我的非贬低协议，这将阻止我公开谈论我的经历以换取赔偿。”

金斯伯格在她自己的电子邮件中回复了帕姆巴基安的电子邮件，我们也在下面发布了这封电子邮件。在信中，她驳斥了帕姆巴基安的报复指控，并重申公司调查了布拉特和之前的性骚扰指控。她说，Pambakian一开始从未提出过性骚扰指控。”我当时不是首席执行官，但我知道你至少在两个不同的场合接受过面试，你从未指控过性骚扰，”她写道。

她接着说，Pambakian的期权“已经加速，应该可以在您的账户中行使，以及自8月以来授予的其他股权裁决”，并表示仲裁协议是标准的，“其中没有保密协议，我们从未试图强迫您签署非贬低协议。你可以自由地公开谈论任何你想谈论的事情。”

这些信件大部分已经公开发表了。Match在提交诉讼时回应了Pambakian在诉讼中的性骚扰指控，并表示“在独立董事会成员的指导下进行了仔细彻底的调查，得出结论，除其他外，没有违反法律或公司政策，并采取了适当的行动。”

这场官司的核心是指控Match故意低估Tinder的价值，以避免向原团队支付大量现金，但由于Pambakian不得不退出，目前尚不清楚Pambakian将参与哪些活动。

罗塞特的电子邮件：

Dear Mandy,

Six years ago I wrote the very first press release for Tinder. Since then, I’ve poured my heart and soul into this company and helped grow it into a global phenomenon and top-grossing app. I was the youngest and longest-standing female executive at the company. I love Tinder. And I love my colleagues. But you have now fired me from a company I was so proud to build in blatant retaliation for joining a group of colleagues and Tinder’s original founding members in a lawsuit against Match and IAC, standing up for our rights, calling out the company’s CEO Greg for sexual misconduct, and confronting the company about covering up what happened to me.

While I truly hoped that decency and professionali** would prevail and that you would let me return to work, I knew that was probably unlikely when I was placed on leave the very day the lawsuit was filed and you continued to defend the acti*** of the executive that I spoke out against. Rather than acknowledge the truth and condemn his acti***, you chalked it up it to “bad judgment.” To make matters worse, you told the world that a sham investigation (in which I was never even interviewed) determined the assault was some sort of “c***ensual cuddling”—as if there could by anything c***ensual about a CEO groping his subordinate in front of other employees after making sexually explicit comments throughout the evening of a company holiday party. No company that has faced allegati*** like this has gone to such lengths to protect one of its own – it’s truly despicable.

Since being placed on leave, I’ve been subjected to ongoing intimidation and retaliation clearly designed to pressure me into resigning—from immediately removing my name from my office and converting it into a conference room, to trying to coerce me into turning over my private and personal data on my phone. Though I can think of no other company that has actually fired the woman who made sexual assault allegati*** against an executive—the company’s acti*** here, including firing me just one day before my remaining opti*** vest, are totally c***istent with the way you have circled the wag*** around him from day one.

Was the board aware that the company would publicly blame the victim?

When I refused to sign a non-disparagement agreement presented to me by HR, which would have prevented me from speaking publicly about my experience in exchange for compensation, Match snuck an arbitration clause into its employees’ most recent compliance acknowledgements, causing me, Jonathan, James and Josh to have to withdraw from the lawsuit. Know that my former Tinder colleagues and I still vigorously support that lawsuit — IAC and Match cheated us out of what we were promised and rightfully earned in exchange for building Tinder into Barry Diller’s most valuable business. As the lawsuit progresses the evidence will emerge and the world will see how IAC and Match plotted against their employees and rewarded misconduct.

I never imagined that I’d be pushed out of my company for standing up for what is right. But if that is the cost of being on the right side of history, I’ll pay it. As a woman CEO, I truly hope that you rec***ider the safety of your remaining female workforce and allow Tinder and other Match owned companies to follow in the footsteps of Uber, Facebook and Google in eliminating forced arbitration for sexual misconduct claims. We deserve better.

Rosette

Mandy的电子邮件：

Dear Rosette,

I’m glad you reached out to me directly and I would like to take this opportunity to clarify a few points, because there seems to be a very real disconnect here that I truly want to fix.

You were not terminated because you reported Greg for sexual haras**ent. You couldn’t have been, as you never reported Greg for sexual haras**ent. When Sean Rad brought the subject up nearly five months later, right after the valuation process commenced, it was immediately and thoroughly investigated by the Board, independently without any involvement from Greg, which concluded that no sexual haras**ent occurred. I was not the CEO at the time, but I know that you were interviewed on at least two separate occasi*** and you never alleged sexual haras**ent.

On the topic of sexual haras**ent at Tinder, you know how seriously reports are taken. You yourself reported two other male colleagues, whom Sean Rad hired, and they were very quickly di**issed. Clearly, it was taken very seriously given the company terminated those individuals. More importantly though, Greg is no longer here. I am. And I promise you, we do not retaliate against anyone who reports sexual haras**ent. Your position was never at risk due to any sexual haras**ent complaints. I wanted to find a way to keep you employed at Tinder.

As explained in the letter we sent you, you were terminated because it was not possible for you to fulfill the duties and resp***ibilities of your role as Tinder’s spokesperson for a number of reas***, including your public position against the company over a valuation process. We also recently asked you to come to the office for a meeting with the HR department to discuss work-related activities and policies and were told that we can only contact you through your attorneys. Unfortunately, it’s impossible for you to do your work at Tinder if all communicati*** related to your job have to go through your lawyers. As it relates to your personal information, any suggestion that we have been trying to access it is just not true. Like any company, we’ve asked for you, and all other employees involved, to return company laptops, phones and other devices to us. And unfortunately, we couldn’t retrieve a number of company devices from you and the others since you claimed that they were coincidentally all lost or damaged just before you decided to sue the company.

There are two last points I want to make: on the point about your equity, those opti*** have already been accelerated, and should be exercisable in your account, along with the other equity awards that have vested since August. However, on the arbitration agreements, there is no NDA in them and we never tried to force you to sign a non-disparagement agreement. You’re free to talk about anything publicly that you’d like. You have already done so and that’s your prerogative. But the arbitration agreement is attached again. As you already know from when you signed it, it’s clearly labeled “Agreement to Arbitrate.”

I am a strong female advocate and have said to the women in the organization that as a female CEO in charge, I have zero tolerance for bad behavior and I am very much invested in every single employee’s success. If you’d like to discuss any of the above, or have a productive dialogue, I am here and will make myself available for an in person meeting. Just let me know.

Mandy