{"id":287010,"date":"2021-06-30T00:56:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T21:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bill-gates-was-an-office-bully-who-opposed-diversity-efforts-report-claims\/"},"modified":"2021-06-30T00:56:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T21:56:56","slug":"bill-gates-was-an-office-bully-who-opposed-diversity-efforts-report-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bill-gates-was-an-office-bully-who-opposed-diversity-efforts-report-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"#Bill Gates was an office bully who opposed diversity efforts, report claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Bill Gates was an office bully who opposed diversity efforts, report claims<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Bill Gates was an office bully who brushed-off diversity initiatives as attempts to \u201cdestroy\u201d Microsoft \u2014 and was once seen lying on top of a woman at a company event, according to a new report.<\/p>\n

A former Microsoft executive told news site Insider<\/a> that he saw Gates lying on top of a woman at 5 a.m. during a Microsoft retreat at a French Alps ski resort in 1988.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The two were \u201cjust snuggling,\u201d the ex-executive said \u2014 but the alleged cuddle session occurred the year after Gates started dating his wife-to-be Melinda.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the report, former Microsoft board member Maria Klawe accused Gates of dismissing diversity efforts during profanity-laden board meetings in the 2010s.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When board members suggested considering more diverse candidates for future executive roles, Gates would reportedly reply, \u201cAre you trying to effing destroy the company?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Bill Gates is described in a new report as an office bully and womanizer. <\/figcaption>
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\u201cThe message was, \u2018Caring about diversity has nothing to do with the success of Microsoft,\u2019\u201d said Klawe, a board member from 2009 to 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Another former Microsoft executive told Insider that Gates was an equal opportunity berater.<\/p>\n

\u201cBill yelled at everyone the same,\u201d the executive said, adding that they app<\/a>reciated the founder\u2019s straightforwardness.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Other Microsoft insiders attributed at least some of his undesirable behavior to mere awkwardness. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t know how to joke really or how to connect with people,\u201d one former executive said. \u201cIf he told you he liked your hair, he wasn\u2019t trying to flirt with you. He just actually liked your hair.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report on Gates\u2019 questionable behavior comes as the world\u2019s fourth richest man navigates a messy divorce from his wife of 27 years. <\/p>\n

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Criticisms of Bill Gates\u2019 office behavior come as he wades through a divorce from his wife Melinda<\/figcaption>
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The divorce comes amid questions about the Microsoft founder\u2019s ties to dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and reports that he left Microsoft\u2019s board last year amid a probe into his alleged affair with a subordinate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gates has denied any \u201cbusiness partnership or personal friendship\u201d with Epstein, saying their meetings were purely tied to philanthropy. But the Daily Beast has reported that Gates visited Epstein\u2018s Manhattan townhouse as a \u201crespite from his marriage.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Microsoft, which did not immedia<\/a>tely reply to a request for comment on the report, has sought to distance itself from Gates\u2019 alleged misbehavior.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Microsoft of 2021 is very different from the Microsoft of 2000,\u201d CEO Satya Nadella said in May, adding that the company will investigate allegations of misconduct even if they are decades old.\u00a0\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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