I somehow missed this
excellent Breitbart backgrounder on the Ellen Pao lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins from Milo Yiannopoulos, containing many details that the sycophantic tech industry press could be counted upon to omit. Some choice excerpts:
Kleiner maintained that Pao was let go not because she was a woman,
but because she was an unpleasant person to work with. ... Kleiner’s attorneys didn’t have to look very far for evidence of
Pao’s horrible personal failings. Emails from 2009 show Pao critcising
her assistant for taking time off work to help her landlord, a
non-English speaker, who had been in a serious car accident. Pao’s response to the domestic crisis was as follows:
“It’s great that you want to be
helpful to your landlord. It would be better for me if you could come to
work on time. Let me know if you think differently, but I think your
job should be your priority.”
...[S]he kept a chart listing “resentments” that she held over her
colleagues at Kleiner Perkins. She also admitted to sending negative
e-mails about coworkers behind their backs, and acknowledged that she
had once bullied a colleague to tears.
... Ellen Pao isn’t the only one who’s been involved in
high-profile legal disputes recently. Her husband, Alphonse Fletcher, is
in deep legal and financial trouble too. His asset management firm was
declared bankrupt in 2012, and he is currently being sued by
three Louisana public pension funds. They allege that Fletcher’s asset
management defrauded them of up to $145 million, and are now seeking to
recover the funds.
How much was Pao seeking from Kleiner Perkins in damages? Oh. $144 million.
Pao is a brittle, despicable character in a landscape rotten with them. She was not nearly as good a grifter as the con artists she attacked in court, or those in business.
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