Reflecting on my own strange year at Uber

If the story is as presented, that's a shame and I'm sorry that happened to you.

That said, it's really a story of doing the wrong thing at nearly every turn. Why date someone on your team, you admit you knew better.

HR is not your friend or there to help you, they are there to protect the company from litigation. A coworker being short is not going to raise any flags. Her claims of harassment, in a company known for it, absolutely is - regardless of whether it's actually true or not.

It's interesting how hostile the top-level comments are toward the writer, and that everyone assumes they're a man, even though they don't specify. Is that telling? Who's to say.

People are characterizing them as though they're completely unaware of their surroundings, manipulating a system in their favor based on a petty and imagined grievance, even imagining their own depression. Empathy does not seem to abound here.

I read it as an account of contending with the system they're in, embroiled with at least a passive aggressive irritant of a co-worker after attempting a date. Communication degraded to the point where the writer seemed to feel alienated and was seemingly pressured into a situation that made it worse for them, until such a point where they were fired without just cause and rightfully took them to court in order to get the minimum they should have.

Sounds like an awful situation, and entirely plausible given the ways that big corporations tend to try and protect themselves. It's deeply unfortunate that this likely happens to many people, leaving them with no recourse, as well as potentially emotionally and financially vulnerable.

Gross reactions.

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