EXCLUSIVE: A New York City software engineer is suing former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick over claims that he publicly degraded her at a company-wide party, leaving her mortified before a room filled with colleagues and top executives.
Abrol, who is Indian American, also accuses two of her former bosses, who are also of Indian descent, of discriminating against her “on the basis of her ethnicity as a Punjabi-speaking person from northern India.”
The complaint alleged the two set Abrol up to fail and tried to “gaslight [Abrol] to make her think she was incompetent, and to make her appear incompetent.” Abrol says she found herself suffering from PTSD symptoms so acute that her therapist recommended she take medical leave., is a three-minute walk from the New York Stock Exchange, said she can hardly fathom the idea that such things are still allegedly occurring in modern corporate America.
It’s not the first time Uber has found itself on the wrong end of a lawsuit, and even past litigation doesn’t seem to have changed things at the ridesharing service. In 2019,stemming from a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation that found the company permitted a culture of sexual harassment to proliferate, and retaliated against those who deigned to speak up.
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