In 'Whistleblower,' Susan Fowler reveals the toll of speaking out against Uber
Hours after Susan Fowler received her company laptop at Uber, a chat message popped up from her boss. He wasn't offering her a friendly welcome to the new engineering team she'd just spent the last couple of weeks training to join, or suggesting the best place to grab a sandwich in the neighborhood. Instead, on that day in December 2015, he began sharing intimate details of his sex life with his girlfriend, with whom he said he was in an open relationship.
Fowler, then 25, was horrified by her boss' behavior and quickly reported it to the company's human resources department. But her supervisor kept his job and never faced consequences for his actions; Fowler was told it was his first offense and he was a high performer.
It was the first in a series of HR mishaps that ultimately led Fowler to write a February 2017 blog post detailing what she described as
