Apple is a "toxic working environment" where sexual harassment, power harassment and discrimination are rampant and employees are intensely white

ByAnirudh Koul

I felt the limits of Apple 's female employees' sexual jokes in the workplace and I directly mailed Tim Cook to the workplace environment improvement. Mr. Cook has not responded to this, but when the news site · Mic set up a thread asking for opinions on this female employee's mail, the actual situation of the workplace environment is written from Apple employees and former employees It was done. According to those contents, Apple said that sexual harassment, power harassment, racial discrimination and gender discrimination are carried out on a daily basis, and there is no movement to improve or cope.

Leaked Apple emails reveal employees' complaints about sexist, toxic work environment
https://mic.com/articles/154169/leaked-apple-emails-reveal-employees-complaints-about-sexist-toxic-work-environment

Daniel (a pseudonym), Apple's female engineer, works in a team consisting almost of men, as many other companies do. One day a colleague of the team said "When an intruder intrudes into it and rapes everyone" when he told a joke, Mr. Daniel says that such a work environment where sexual / violent jokes flutter is "a very toxic atmosphere He said he had complained about it. A male employee who initially told the joke apologized to Daniel and promised not to make similar remarks again, but he did not mention the point of how to deal with it.

According to Daniel, this is not the first time for this situation, Apple seems to have an office culture where similar harassment occurs everywhere. Mr. Daniel repeatedly complained to the manager, but he says that something is not dealt with specifically and he says that "rape / joke" has exceeded the limit. The next day, Mr. Daniel sent an email explaining the circumstances to Apple's top Tim Cook, not the manager, "I can not feel safe in a company that allows employees to jest at rape I appealed. In the time that Mr. Cook received this mailDirectly reply to Apple customer's inquiriesAlthough it was reported that I did, I did not reply to Daniel.

In this way, even if appealing to the direct superior or the top of the company to improve the harassment is still going to be neglected, Mic quoted Mr. Daniel's mail and set up a thread, Apple's current employee · There were 50 reports from former employees.

ByUN Women Asia and the Pacific

In the story of a woman who retired from Apple, he attended a meeting where there was only one woman among ten or more members, saying that the content of the discussion became "a complaint of his wife or girlfriend". While a male colleague treats it as "everyone's wishes", the woman became very unpleasant feeling, but the manager said that he did not take any measures to stop chat unrelated to the business is.

In the case of a female employee other than the above, he said that when he tried to pass near the male manager, he was ordered to "smile when walking by me". Instead of protesting, the woman worked off the light with the motion sensor of the office and reported "I did a night shift in the dark." It is said that such minor discrimination against women is reported most frequently in this thread.

A woman who was interviewed by Apple said to the interviewer, "You are not very technical". The woman says, "If you carefully looked at my career you should not say such a thing", and instead of replying it seems to have discussed the "theoretical foundation of advanced learning theory and design pattern", but women It seems that it was not adopted. If you have the appropriate skills, it could be said that Apple's "toxic office culture" appears to the outside world as well.

Men's wife discrimination is not limited to women, and reports from male Apple former employee who was called "feminine guy" from colleagues in the workplace are also reported. A man is like saying "a feminine guy is obviously" weak "or" not emotionally stable ", and in particular it is said to be" men's physiology " "It is said that the woman was remarked to impose a state of irritation at the cycle of menstruation.

Claire (pseudonym) reported that as a result of seeking to improve harassment, he was in retaliation for male employees. Mr. Clair suggested to his boss about work environment like these in the past so far, but instead of improving the workplace environment, the boss replied to Ms. Clae "I will stay in the current position or income will be lower We are given a choice to transfer to the team of Mr. Clare, and Mr. Claire has indeed offered to transfer to another team.

Despite Amanda's (quasi) having sufficient qualifications, he can not give the opportunity to be promoted to the above position and reports that another male employee who does not have the post got the post . Amanda is taking legal measures through the Equal Employment Opportunities Committee to assert the voice of the woman, and treatment of female employees of Apple is contested in trial. Another female employee also reported that "white male privilege" exists and it is said that various harassment and discrimination are infested in Apple's office.

ByKeoni Cabral

Apple's spokesperson refused to comment on specific complaints, but "Apple is committed to dealing with everyone's problem with grace and respect, accepting complaints seriously and asserting We will investigate the content thoroughly, and if actions that hurt our value are confirmed, we will take action immediately. "