that concerned claims of gender discrimination and sexual harassment against its female employees.
One male supervisor refusing to talk to female employees and instead required anything a female had to say to him be relayed through a male employee. Hosting “cube crawls,” where male employees would get drunk and “crawl” from cubicle to cubicle, acting inappropriately toward female employees. When female employees complained to human resources, they were often transferred, chosen for layoffs or had work taken away from them. One reason retaliation was so common was because human resources did not keep complaints confidential.