Apple fires Ashley Gjøvik, a senior employee who claimed to be sexist at work

Apple fired Ashley Gjøvik, a senior engineering program manager who spoke candidly about her experiences working for the tech giant. Gjøvik said she experienced sexism and a hostile work environment while working for Apple and spent months talking to the company about it. According to tweets of by Gizmodo Dell Cameron, Apple asked Gjøvik to speak this afternoon. When she requested that the conversation take place by email so that there was a paper trail, Apple replied that she had “chosen not to participate in the discussion.” She was then fired a few hours later.

In a Tweeter From early August, Gjøvik said she was placed on indefinite paid administrative leave after raising concerns about sexism in the workplace and its dangerous and hostile working environment. Moreover, she was discouraged from using the Slack company where she had openly criticized Apple. His complaints against the tech giant include asking him to make his tone less bossy during presentations. She was also reportedly told he was “okay” with her receiving complaints about her diversity training, including complaints that she was “too hard on the white man.” The former Apple engineer also said in a Tweeter that the company told him it was “good” that a colleague director offered to have a drink and talked about cheating on his wife and mistresses all the time.

At the end of August, Gjøvik filed a complaint against Apple with the United States National Labor Relations Board, alleging 13 cases of retaliation against it. In her file, she stated that she was the victim of harassment at work. She also said that her supervisory responsibilities were reassigned to co-workers, as she was given unwanted tasks.

In a statement she said The edge, it seems he was not badly prepared to be fired. She said: “When I started raising concerns about workplace safety in March and almost immediately faced retaliation and intimidation, I started to prepare myself for exactly something. like this to happen.I’m disappointed that a company that I have loved since I was a little girl would treat their employees that way.

When news of Gjøvik first broke, Apple said in a statement, “We are and always have been deeply committed to creating and maintaining a positive and inclusive workplace. We take all concerns seriously and thoroughly investigate whenever a concern is raised and, out of respect for the privacy of anyone involved, we do not discuss specific employee matters. “