1/ Sexual harassment on some bro companies is the norm in some cultures.
I can tell many stories. My currently employment DOES NOT do that to me. This is my experience. Follow the 🧵
#womenintech #empathyisyourfriend
I can tell many stories. My currently employment DOES NOT do that to me. This is my experience. Follow the 🧵
#womenintech #empathyisyourfriend
2/ sorry to break this to you, but life taught me that if you have 1 problem and bring it to HR suddenly you have 2 problems
3/ that led me to never report formal sexist harassment behavior cause I didn't want to get in trouble. So what do you do?
4/ you get out, and I got out of every company that made my life. Tough is the follow up when you are interviewing for those companies that "vow" they don't discriminate against women:
5/ if you tell you were harassed and left, good luck girl you are blacklisted. So what do you do? Make up excuses.
6/ "didn't have career projection there". "No real growth opportunities"
Because trust me, NO ONE CARES WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN TRHOUGH.
Because trust me, NO ONE CARES WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN TRHOUGH.
7/ that leads up with women having extremely short tenure in tech, and being gaslit all the way throughout their careers. NO GIRL YOU ARE NOT CRAZY, THEY JUST DONT CARE.
8/ I heard many times: "you are bossy like this because your partner didn't f* you the night before" while calling me a bitch behind my back
9/ so to sum up: HR is not your friend. They are there to protect the company. I am yet to find a hard proof otherwise
10/ NEVER NEVER NEVER tell a recruiter or an interviewer you were harassed. I never found one single soul to get past the "this girl is a troublemaker" bias
11/ trust your network of friends. Don't be naive. Yes this foster lack of accountability, but if you don't take care of you, who will?
*that made my life hell
12/ and yes talking about this is risky but YOU ARE NOT ALONE
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