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by BrainInAJar
4036 days ago
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> Adria Richards was the one who tried to start a witch hunt by talking photos of the two individuals who were just minding their own business joking around. Adria was complaining on twitter about some sexist jerks. Those jerks are back to work and fine, and Adria is still unhireable for daring to complain about shitty behaviour. |
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As I recall it was a joke between two men about "forking" a male speaker's repo and the size of said speaker's "dongle." I'm not sure how that's sexist. Crass, yes. Sexist? Please inform me.
> Adria is still unhireable for daring to complain about shitty behaviour
Her job was basically a public relations role ("developer evangelist"), such an incident does a couple of things:
- Destroys any goodwill she had in the developer community.
- Shows that she's ineffective in dealing with public relations.
Also, in the middle of the incident she started using her employer's name to back her actions (e.g. she said that SendGrid "stands behind her)" and I'm pretty sure no one at the company gave her any approval to make such statements. That's another public relations no-no.
Also,
> Adria was complaining on twitter
This isn't exactly true.
1. One of the big reasons it blew up is that she turned it into a blog post on her personal blog.
2. She signed her blog post with "Yesterday the future of programming was on the line and I made myself heard" (though she later removed this from the post). (This Ars Technica article quotes the line[1]).
3. Several times she likened herself to Joan of Arc for making the Twitter post.
I'm not saying that she deserved to have her life ruined, but she had an active role in the initial push that gave this incident greater publicity.
[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/how-dongle-jokes-...