Susan Fowler

The article talks about Susan Fowler, a former engineer employee of Uber, and the potential backlash she could deal with from online trolls and commenters from a blog post that went viral. The post was referring to an ongoing yearlong battle with sexual harassment, discrimination, and blaming-the-victim. She recalls her first day on a new team and the explicit text messages that a manager would send her. The manager was a married male that was in an open relationship.
Susan talks about how she would receive messages discussing the couple’s relationship status. Specifically, how the wife could find additional partners but the manager couldn’t. The messages would transition into compliments and attempts of sexual favors. The article doesn’t say whether it was for promotional opportunities or not. However, the company responded to …show more content…
Making note of the bravery and courageous nature of Susan for even posting the information about the case online for potential internet trolls and other negatively-charged comments. Even acknowledging the tactics that many of these trolls will do to discredit and defame their victim while making them feel unsafe. Stating that since Susan was in the technology industry that the backlash may be frequent and harsh. Though he agrees that what the manager did was completely wrong he also expresses his frustration with the company for not doing more once the claim was initially filed.
The course material that is most closely related to this article is ethics and discrimination. The textbook defines ethics as a person’s moral or standard regarding the rightness and wrongness of certain human actions in light of specific circumstances. The manager acted unethically when he decided to use company software to send messages to Ms. Fowler about inappropriate sexual advances. Also, doing so should have gone against the company’s code of conduct which may be reviewed pending the