PositiveSlateFowler...has released a memoir...that includes a detailed and even grimmer look into her year at Uber ... Fowler revises the Uber story by showing—through exasperating interaction after exasperating interaction with superiors and human resources employees—just how ugly it could be for its workers ... The most eye-opening and maddening allegations in the memoir largely have to do with how Uber’s HR representatives repeatedly stonewalled and lied to Fowler in almost every interaction she had with them ... While other accounts about Uber have tended to focus on Kalanick, he only appears briefly in person at a Christmas party in Fowler’s memoir and doesn’t say a word. Yet the noxious norms of the company he molded are omnipresent throughout the book and seem to shape most every interaction that Fowler describes .... Whistleblower fills us in on how junior white-collar employees struggled to keep the culture he instilled from threatening their sanity, and how one of them was eventually able to tear it down.
