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Pregnant CEO Steph Korey of luxury suitcase start-up Away steps down from her post just days after explosive report revealed company's 'cutthroat culture', including ban on paid leave and 3am rants
UK Daily Mail ^ | December 10, 2019 | Faith Ridler

Posted on 12/10/2019 6:26:03 AM PST by C19fan

Away CEO Steph Korey has stepped down from her post just days after a damning report exposed the company's 'cutthroat culture'.

Pregnant Korey, who co-founded the travel and lifestyle brand with Jennifer Rubio in 2016, will be replaced by former lululemon executive Stuart Haselden in January.

Korey will remain on the company's Board of Directors as Executive Chairman.

Her decision to step down comes after an investigation by the Verge was published Thursday, in which a number of former employees described a 'toxic' environment at the brand.

They revealed how the company's founders Korey and Rubio worked them to the bone while allegedly underpaying them and asking them not to take time off.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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But but....I was told by feminists that women CEOs would be more compassionate and like.
1 posted on 12/10/2019 6:26:03 AM PST by C19fan
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Women should not be CEOs before menopause. They ruin their corporations via PMS syndrome.


2 posted on 12/10/2019 6:28:31 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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Empowerment


3 posted on 12/10/2019 6:28:46 AM PST by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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“ban on paid leave”??

This article is basically BS. If you go to the underlying article, you can see that the CEO was complaining that two managers of the same team each took a vacation day on the same Monday and customers were left hanging. The CEO then says don’t take vacation days unless you are sure the rest of the team can handle the workload.

I’ve never worked in a company that didn’t have that policy.


4 posted on 12/10/2019 6:38:16 AM PST by edwinland
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An evil man caused this!!!


5 posted on 12/10/2019 6:38:29 AM PST by devane617 (Kyrie Eleison, where I'm going, will you follow?)
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To: C19fan

Women are far more vindictive then men.
A guy might call you an a-hole to your face,
but a woman will destroy you behind your back.


6 posted on 12/10/2019 6:38:35 AM PST by EEGator
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Banning 3 am rants went too far.


7 posted on 12/10/2019 6:45:35 AM PST by treetopsandroofs
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Awful news site layout. Good grief, f’g coders.


8 posted on 12/10/2019 6:46:31 AM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: EEGator

Girly men will do the same - like Comey.


9 posted on 12/10/2019 6:48:15 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: C19fan

I should Direct Message this article to Amy Klobuchar.
“See what happens when the top person gets too big for their britches?”


10 posted on 12/10/2019 6:53:28 AM PST by lee martell
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she will blame all this on the fetus and/or drugs and then have it aborted due to stress . ..


11 posted on 12/10/2019 6:59:33 AM PST by ßuddaßudd ((>> M A G A << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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100%

If a woman doesn’t want to work with you she won’t. All of a sudden people that used to work with you will start avoiding you so they don’t anger the “queen.”

They will destroy you politically. It doesn’t matter how good you are at your job or how much you have helped them in the past.


12 posted on 12/10/2019 7:10:10 AM PST by Ainast
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“but a woman will destroy you behind your back.”

During my years driving long haul I worked for three different companies. By far the worst experience I had was the one company where I had a woman dispatcher. She was mean, vindictive, backstabbing and prone to fits of temper for no reason.
I only lasted two years with that company because of her.


13 posted on 12/10/2019 7:22:56 AM PST by oldvirginian (Punishment, to be effective, must be both cruel and unusual. Otherwise it is not feared.)
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I think it comes down to their insecurity and feeling they have to prove they are tough, or something. Not all female CEOs, but some. And has nothing to do with their menstrual cycle.


14 posted on 12/10/2019 7:31:38 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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I remember seeing a few months ago that this company signed a letter opposing Georgia’s new abortion ban. Glad to see that the hate and hypocrisy has caught up with them.


15 posted on 12/10/2019 7:48:31 AM PST by bfkirk
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Most females are evil, backstabbing, vindictive, insecure bitches when given power. I have met a few great exceptions - but in general - yeesh.

I think the threat of physical violence moderates the behavior of most men. My bosses always knew that if they stepped too far out of line there would be direct consequences.

But that isn’t the only factor. Logic vs. emotion. Both have their place.

On the other hand the new generation of men seem to have more estrogen than most women....


16 posted on 12/10/2019 8:02:37 AM PST by TheTimeOfMan (The Eloi unexpectedly protected the Morlocks from rogue Eloi as they themselves prepared to be eaten)
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To: EEGator
There's a book In the Company of Women: Indirect Aggression Among Women: Why We Hurt Each Other and How to Stop (2003) (Not to be confused with a fluff book with a similar title from 2016), the authors offer advice to women about how to deal withn other women in the workplace.

Any man reading the book is likely to come away with the idea that it may be a bad idea to hire women. The authors go into great detail about the tendency of women to take things personally, to hold grudges forever, and to engage in petty vindictiveness.

17 posted on 12/10/2019 8:08:54 AM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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I’m a White male in a White male dominated profession, so I just try to avoid females in my company and career field. I’m like VP Pence is for my job...


18 posted on 12/10/2019 8:13:30 AM PST by EEGator
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Boss chicks try to prove they’re tougher than guys.

And given the whininess of the modern “male,” maybe they’re right.


19 posted on 12/10/2019 8:46:42 AM PST by karnage
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My husband had to endure an almost surely psychotic female project manager for 6 months. She was probably undiagnosed with SOMETHING. A few weeks into this mess, I tried to tell him and a few of his male workmates that some women just should not be in upper management. I was shot down with “oh I have had bad male bosses, etc”. Welp....it turned out very different. She was most likely hired because she was a woman, not for any particular amazing management capabilities. She took things personally, bore grudges, and was a flat out bitch who “pounded down and sucked up”. They would have taken any number of terrible male bosses rather than this freaking psycho hose beast.


20 posted on 12/10/2019 8:57:01 AM PST by ZinGirl (Now a grandma ....can't afford a tagline :))
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