Breaking: Adria Richards fired by SendGrid for calling out developers on Twitter All of Silicon Valley Is Scandalized Over a Stupid Dongle JokeEvery once in a while a company does the right thing and fires someone like this! This lady is a bully and she deserves all the grief that is coming her way! Making a big deal out of nothing is not the way to go. If someone says something you find offensive, let them know that you are offended and explain to them WHY you are offended. If this airhead had taken the time to do that she probably would have realized that the joke was completely harmless and that she had no reason to be offended. Instead she blew things way out of proportion and wound up getting herself fired!
A thread on Hacker News (which is where angry nerds go to vent) decried Richards's claims of sexism as a "false positive," and, Silicon Valley being Silicon Valley, at least one commenter used the episode to imply that tech companies shouldn't hire women. Then Anonymous and 4chan jumped in, and Richards's company was sent a creepy note threatening to harass its clients if she wasn't fired.
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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/03/silicon-valley-dongle-scandal.html