High-flying AI scientist claims unfair dismissal following pregnancy leave
  • Cyborganism@lemmy.caEnglish
    85·
    7 months ago

    “Hello, we’re <insert multi billion mega corporation here>. Laws and rules do not apply to us. Go ahead. Give us a fine. Sue us. Whatever amount you request is mere crumbs to us.”

  • RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    7 months ago

    Ghaderi claims Krishnakumar later pressured her into delaying the start of her maternity leave from the planned date of November 7. Agreeing to the request, she worked until November 15, 2022, “the day she was forced to undergo an emergency C-section,” according to the filing.

    What the actual fuck!?

    • Isoprenoid@programming.devEnglish
      43·
      7 months ago

      delaying the start of her maternity leave

      “Hey, can you give birth a little later? It’s totally going to hurt our performance metrics this quarter.”

      • RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        7 months ago

        The thing that gets me is that it doesn’t even hurt performance metrics. The performance of this type of employee is not measured in hours worked. That extra week made zero difference to the company but had an immense impact on her.

      • orbitz@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        7 months ago

        Soon it’ll be, ’ give birth in our facilities then you can work when you’re finished with labour, don’t worry we can provide education and daycare as long as you sign an indentured servitude for you and the new employee’.

  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.deEnglish
    51·
    7 months ago

    "Amazon specifically told me to ignore IP laws. That’s wild, right?

    On an unrelated note, did you know that there’s now a torrent with infohash 5e007531c6e7c8d23a957f0ccaba20d4c57b5078 that compiles all Kindle books and Prime videos? Crazy stuff!"

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    42·
    7 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    The allegation emerges from a complaint [PDF] accusing the tech and retail mega-corp of demoting, and then dismissing, a former high-flying AI scientist after it discovered she was pregnant.

    Part of her role was flagging violations of Amazon’s internal copyright policies and escalating these concerns to the in-house legal team.

    In March 2023, the filing claims, her team director, Andrey Styskin, challenged Ghaderi to understand why Amazon was not meeting its goals on Alexa search quality.

    A German-born doctor of electrical engineering, Ghaderi also made a series of allegations relating to her treatment by Amazon following the disclosure of her pregnancy.

    Marcu admitted to Ghaderi that he was changing her reporting structure ‘temporar[ily]’ so he would not have to ‘worry’ about managing her team during her leave," the court documents allege.

    The filing continues that she subsequently requested to be moved to another team, but, allegedly, her line manager said because she was on the Focus plan she was ineligible for a transfer.

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    • applepie@kbin.social
      314·
      7 months ago

      Highly doubt anybody ever “asked”

      She did it and she knew not to say stupid shit to legal so they don’t flag it.