Former SendGrid Developer Evangelist, Adria Richards was let go from her techie job because she decided to speak up against fellow developers who were sitting behind her at PyCon, making crude jokes about “big dongles.” Richards heard the gentleman and their junior high jokes and decided to report them to the powers that be at […]
It was this tweet that cost former web developer for SendGrid (who calls herself a developer evangelist), Adria Richards her job…and her normal life. While attending the US PyCon developer conference in California, Richards noticed an inappropriate conversation carrying on behind her. The men at the conference made explicit jokes about “forking” and “big dongles,” […]
