#AppleToo publishes first five stories of harrassment, discrimination

The first batch of stories collected by the #AppleToo movement has been published by the internal Apple organization, giving a glimpse at the company's internal work environment.

#AppleToo organizer Cher Scarlett published the stories on Medium Monday. There are five personal anecdotes of harassment and discrimination in the first #AppleToo digest.

"This will be the first set of stories to be shared," Scarlett wrote. "I have selected the stories based on the common threads to prove a systemic issue that needs to be addressed."

Among the stories are specific recollections of harassment incidents, as well as more systemic problems.

The Apple employee organization said earlier in August that it had collected nearly 500 instances of workplace discrimination or harassment since calling on current and former staffers to share their stories.

Scarlett, who was involved in the creation of the #AppleToo movement, recently said that she is being accused of "ruining" Apple for her work in the organization. The #AppleToo movement was formed earlier in August with the goal of exposing patterns of racism, sexism, inequality, and other abuses within the Cupertino tech giant.

13 Comments

spock1234 163 comments · 11 Years

About 3 years ago

“Stories” That sounds about right!

gregoriusm 517 comments · 17 Years

“internal Apple organization.” This is not an internal Apple organization.

fastasleep 6450 comments · 14 Years

spock1234 said:

“Stories” That sounds about right!

That's literally what they are. If you're implying they're untruthful, there's no evidence of that.

fastasleep said:

spock1234 said:

“Stories” That sounds about right!

That's literally what they are. If you're implying they're untruthful, there's no evidence of that.

Any proof that they ARE truthful? Shouldn’t we check before spreading garbage gossip about people?

Hey World, Fastasleep is a booger-eater! Let’s create a website and invite everyone with an axe to grind to post their stories there. Maybe, I’ll make a few bucks in the process.

As for you, don’t come back until you have 24x7 video proving that you are not eating boogers.

JWSC 1203 comments · 7 Years

This is a potential hornets nest of PII spills that are just begging for lawsuits. Does this organization have a law firm on retention? I think they’re gonna need one.