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A former employee of Wikipedia’s parent company has filed a federal lawsuit alleging she was fired after reporting her direct supervisor for gender discrimination and harassment.

The woman, Kayla Mae, was hired by the Wikimedia Foundation in November 2022, where she worked as a software engineer for nearly two years.

Her role allowed her to work remotely from Texas, and she was assigned to work on a team managed by Dennis Mburugu, a Wikimedia employee based in Kenya.

Within the first few months of her employment, she encountered problems with Mburugu, according to her complaint. Among other things, Mburugu asked her inappropriate questions about her sexual identity — she is a transgender female — and inquired about her medical history, Mae wrote in the complaint.

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[-] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 21 points 2 weeks ago

Interesting read but got to call out one part that made me think this reporter is at least partially nonsense:

Mburugu did not respond to an e-mail sent late Wednesday evening.

This article was published on Thursday. Late Wednesday night is most likely midnight or later in Kenya. Essentially the author gave zero time to reply.

[-] wikipediasuckscoop@lemmy.world -5 points 2 weeks ago

That's doesn't mean that the story isn't credible though. Here's a PDF to the court document.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 12 points 2 weeks ago

yeah but its still a dick move by the publisher.

[-] tonytins@pawb.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

Still raises a lot of eyebrows.

[-] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

I didn't say that's what it meant.

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