SF News Nurse Sues El Camino Hospital In Mountain View, Says Manager Assaulted Her at Work Party A nurse is suing El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, claiming the hospital ignored her report of a sexual assault by her manager because the incident happened off-campus — during a retirement party at Morton’s Steakhouse in downtown San Jose.
Arts & Entertainment More Creepy Allegations Surface About Coppola’s Behavior on ‘Megalopolis’ Set, Now Accused of Kissing 13-Year-Old Girl The legacy of Francis Ford Coppola’s mega-flop “Megalopolis” may be the number of sexual misconduct allegations Coppola’s on-set behavior has generated, as now we have claims that he kissed a 13-year-old girl.
Business & Tech Woman In Driverless Waymo Harassed By Bros Wanting Her Phone Number It’s the second incident in two weeks where misbehaving pedestrians effectively held someone hostage in an SF Waymo, as two bros stood in front of the self-driving car and persistently demanded the phone number of the woman riding it.
SF News SF District Attorney Staffer Fired After Sending Offensive Email to DA Brooke Jenkins About Her ‘Panties’ A victim advocate in the San Francisco District Attorney Office’s sent District Attorney Brooke Jenkins and the entire office an email Friday morning asking what color panties she had on, leading to his immediate termination.
SF Politics Former SF Supervisor Turned State Treasurer Fiona Ma Is Headed to Trial For Sexual Harassment Charge California State Treasurer Fiona Ma had hoped to get charges against her dismissed in a sexual harassment suit that dates back to early 2020, calling the charges "baseless" when they were filed two years ago. But a judge in Sacramento has ruled that Ma will have to stand trial.
Business & Tech Lyft Rolling Out Feature Allowing Women to Request Women Drivers The rideshare company that once put pink mustaches on cars is launching a new change intended to lure women and nonbinary riders and drivers, as those riders can now specifically request a woman driver in San Francisco and San Jose.
SF News Sexual Misconduct Lawsuit Hits SF Catholic High School, Multiple Victims Lodge Allegations On the heels of the local SF Catholic Archdiocese declaring bankruptcy over sex abuse lawsuits, one prestigious prep school affiliated with the archdiocese is facing a lawsuit alleging that a teacher kissed and groped multiple students.
SF News Serial Groper Bill Gene Hobbs Sentenced To Five And a Half Years In Prison At a Thursday morning sentencing hearing frequently interrupted by Bill Gene Hobbs mercilessly heckling his own victims, the convicted sexual assault suspect received a jail sentence totaling five and a half years.
SF News Alleged Serial Groper Bill Gene Hobbs Somehow Has All-Male Jury In Sexual Assault Trial The trial of accused serial groper Bill Gene Hobbs is now underway, and in an odd development, the man accused of groping and fondling 13 different women got an all-male jury for his criminal trial.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Sexual Misconduct Charges Arrive; Allegedly Exposed Himself and Propositioned Flight Attendant “Elongate” dropped early Thursday night, with a report that his SpaceX company paid a flight attendant $250,000 to buy her silence over an incident where Musk allegedly exposed himself and offered her a horse if she would “do more.”
Business & Tech Meta Already Has a Sexual Harassment Problem In the Metaverse In a development that's surprising to absolutely no one, Facebook/Meta is already having to address groping and sexual inappropriateness in the Metaverse, even though there is no real Metaverse yet — there's just a beta version of a very early stab at it.
Arts & Entertainment Dickens Christmas Fair Faces Backlash and Boycott Over Racism, Harassment Allegations More than 200 Dickens Fair cast members, and thousands of attendees from years past say that the annual holiday festival has been a bleak house of racist behavior toward performers of color.
SF News Tesla Fremont Plant Employee Sues Over ‘Rampant Sexual Harassment’ At the Facility An employee at the Tesla Fremont plant says she was routinely groped, catcalled, and propositioned on the job, even by her superiors, in a new sexual harassment lawsuit.
SF News High-Profile Tech Bro Robert Scoble Faces Barrage Of Sexual Harassment Allegations The only enduring legacy of the stupid Google Glass fad of 2013-14 is the image of fanboy Robert Scoble wearing the contraption in the shower. While the Glass device has mercifully been more
SF News #MeToo Campaign Highlights The Widespread Commonality Of Sexual Harassment On Twitter over the weekend, women began sharing stories of sexual harassment and assault using the hashtag #MeToo in an effort to illustrate the magnitude and commonplaceness of the problem across many corners
SF News Uber Sued Again By Jilted Investors, Harassed Female Riders Travis Kalanick may be out as Uber CEO, but he’s still being named in fresh new lawsuits against the rideshare giant. In what may be the most financially significant lawsuit yet against
SF News SoFi Headed To Court Again Over Yet Another Sexual Harassment Lawsuit SoFi is looking down the barrel of another lawsuit, the third to be filed against the company within the last few months. Like the other two, this lawsuit alleges that SoFi's notorious "frathouse"
SF News Is Marissa Mayer In Line To Be Uber CEO? She Defends Kalanick: 'I Don't Think He Knew' Marissa Mayer, the former CEO of Yahoo, took the stage at the yearly Stanford Directors' College at Stanford Law School yesterday and defended embattled Uber founder Travis Kalanick, whom she calls a friend.
SF News San Jose Swim Coach Arrested For Totally Inappropriate Texts To Underage Team Members The assistant coach of the Quicksilver Swim Team in San Jose has been arrested for allegedly sending wildly inappropriate text messages to team members of both sexes. KRON 4 has the details on
SF News Travis Kalanick Sent Uber Employees A Memo About Having Sex With Each Other, Twice The latest tidbit to trickle out from Uber's sexual harassment/culture-of-inappropriateness probe is an email, known internally as "the Miami letter," obtained by Recode, that CEO Travis Kalanick sent out to all Uber
SF News Uber Exec Fired Over His Handling Of Rape Victim's Case In India Following Tuesday's bloodletting at Uber in the wake of a company-wide probe into hundreds of claims of sexual harassment in which at least 20 employees were terminated Recode has learned that a high-level
SF News Uber Terminating More Than 20 People In Sexual Harassment Probe Uber's overall reputation has taken a lot of hits in 2017, not the least of which were allegations in February of widespread sexual harassment and an overall culture of sexism from a former
SF News Uber Lost 'Only' $708 Million Last Quarter, Top Finance Exec Resigns The Montgomery Burns of tech companies, Uber, revealed their 2017 first quarter earnings Wednesday, and lost $708 million says the San Francisco Business Times. But that’s “actually good by Uber standards” according
SF News Uber Exec Who Left Previous Job At Google Over Sexual Harassment Allegations Is Fired Uber's woeful month continues with the ignominious departure of senior vice president of engineering Amit Singhal, forced to resign by company CEO Travis Kalanick after tech publication Recode started asking questions about Singhal's
SF News Uber Did A Bad And Is Very Sorry, Okay? Since Sunday, when a widely circulated account from a former company engineer shed light on an alleged culture of harassment and HR failure within Uber, senior leadership at the ride-hailing giant, most notably
