kate rotondo

@krotondo

less and less code, more and more clay. she/they.

San Francisco, CA
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Aug 16

    first day at my new job! i am now a ceramicist because it lets me have no commute, make my own hours, decide the value of my work, and bring people joy. make no mistake, i wanted to code, but tech fulfilled none of that. so i hand off the baton. please fix tech while i make pots!

    Kate is standing in front of her workspace and shelves at a pottery studio. She is wearing a rainbow tie dye apron and holding a large wide porcelain bowl on a bat. On the top shelf behind her are six freshly wheelthrown mugs from the same clay.
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  2. 36 minutes ago

    this. especially in stack ranked environments where employees have to jockey for position, equality != equity.

    The problem with this are all the non-parents and men whose wives continue to stay home wanting to outshine their co-workers.
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    3 hours ago

    Solidarity with whistleblowers in tech and beyond, always. And remember that there are many more tech whistleblowers whose names we don't know than those whose names we do. So much of what we know about tech and the tech industry is thanks to them.

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    Oct 9

    The OB/GYN “Experiment”: 30 years of majority women entering the field (inclusion) has NOT led to equity. Other fields can avoid our fate by being INTENTIONAL with promotion.

    Inclusion of women has not to date reduced this disparity. OB/GYN continues to have one of medicine's largest despite being a women majority specialty. Our systems still value the care of women more when that care is delivered by men.
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  5. 14 hours ago

    in my xp at apple, peers who were deemed to have earned it with traditional careers were granted remote work around their existing lives. meanwhile i, a single mom glued to my city by coparenting, was forced to mold my life around a commute. maybe just stop gatekeeping this.

    For generations, we’ve organized our lives around our work. Our jobs have dictated where we make our homes, when we see our families, and what we can squeeze into our downtime. What if we reversed that, and started planning our work around our lives?
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    21 hours ago

    The notes on whistleblowing are great. When you're following legal protocols of whistleblowing as carefully as possible, you will be fired for leaking. It's on you alone, and yr savings/career/mental health for years, to prove yourself innocent against a co intent on hurting you.

    Thanks for covering the & the work of . We were pleased to create the legal section () to help whistleblowers be safe and protected.
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  7. 20 hours ago

    ifeoma’s advocacy for whistleblower protections is everything. the silenced no more act and the tech worker handbook are each incredible accomplishments on their own, and together they are game-changing for those coming forward. so honored to celebrate her work.

    handmade this mug and I just can’t get over how beautiful it is to commemorate this win, that means so much to both of us, in this way. Thank you so very much, Kate. ❤️
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  8. 23 hours ago

    The next step, [Leyva] said, is to make sure workers throughout California know about their new rights. “We know that making sure people know they have that right can be a challenge.“

    Great report by . Non disclosure agreements for harassment and discrimination are now illegal in CA. Do you know ? She's the driving force behind the change. And thanks to the author of SB331-Silenced No More Act-.
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  9. Retweeted
    Oct 8

    any time you critique an oppressive system, people come to you demanding a perfectly articulated step-by-step plan for creating a flawless alternative system, today. as if the system we are currently locked inside of were meticulously designed from the top down. it wasn't.

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  10. 24 hours ago

    beware ERGs. they exist for HR to monitor and shut down employee organizing. it’s DEI washing that says “we support <women>” when what they mean is “we support you in assimilating into our white supremacist patriarchy as long as you don’t try to question or change anything.”

    On July 26th, 2021, Ashley Gjøvik, a senior engineering program manager, posed a question in the women-in-swe Slack channel. “Do we think Apple does a sufficient job at handling employee complaints about discrimination?” she asked. “Do we feel comfortable even reporting issues?”
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  11. Oct 9

    this quote from : “In a practical sense, what I had that was most important was a savings account.” a fuck off fund matters. it’s part of why we need leveling and pay equity—because if you’re underpaid it’s that much harder to store up the financial power to speak.

    Thank you for this thoughtful piece, . And thank you , , , , and many others for reminding me that I'm not alone as a whistleblower. ⁩ ⁦
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  12. Oct 9

    “Just as there were many people who supported me and allowed me to come forward with what happened at Pinterest, there are also so many people who are responsible for the racism and sexism and retaliation I experienced there. And very few, if none… have faced any consequences.”

    There are many faces in the movement for tech accountability. Proud to be one of them. Thanks for lifting us up, ⁦⁩ ⁦. ⁩ In solidarity ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦⁦⁩
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    Oct 9

    “From Haugen to Ressa to Ozoma, it looks like the idea of the silent and satisfied tech worker is a tired trope that might be finally over.”

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  14. Oct 8

    my partner, also an apple employee, did not get any leave either, to care for me physically or tend to his own grief. the miscarriage happened on a friday evening as i waited at the empty office for traffic to die down before commuting home. we were both back to work on monday.

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  15. Oct 8

    my manager at apple did not offer any leave options, nor did he consider my need to recover and grieve reason enough to work fully remotely like the three men he managed. instead, bleeding for the next two months straight, i continued to commute up and down 280 6-10h/week.

    Time off for miscarriage is a policy grey zone among medical leave, disability and bereavement. Because we don't talk about pregnancy during the first trimester—due to the fear of miscarriage—it’s rare to have a clear and specific policy.
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  16. Oct 8

    alt: twelve ceramic test tiles are arranged in a circle on a banding wheel. as the wheel spins, the visible tiles shift from red to oranges to yellow to greens and blue-greens to blue and purples and back to the starting red.

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  17. Oct 8

    celadon test tiles, mixed from varying percentages of red, yellow, and blue, on white nara porcelain. the carvings of different depths help me to see how the glaze pools or breaks over texture. unloading these from the kiln today brought me pure joy 🌈

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  18. Oct 8

    research suggests that in normal circumstances, the option to work remotely is especially helpful for working mothers, giving them the flexibility to excel in their jobs.

    The Great Resignation isn’t a mad dash away from the office. It’s the culmination of a long march toward freedom. Flexibility is more than choosing the place where you work. It's having freedom to decide your purpose, your people, and your priorities.
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  19. Oct 7

    children of these sorts of middle-class divorces — children who experienced downward mobility, and watched their mothers, many of whom had been out of the workplace for years, struggle to regain stability in their own lives — absorbed lessons

    This is a great read that summarizes my own observations of married women with certain socioeconomic / political values and their place in society and how the pandemic is blowing that shit wide open
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    Oct 7

    WE DID IT!😭 Words can't fully capture what this means but we named the bill Silenced No More so I’ll say a bit.😂 Abusing workers then forcing silence - under the threat of lost income and healthcare - is depraved. As of Jan 1, 40 MILLION people no longer have to stay silent.

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    BREAKING: signed / Act! Workers should always be able to speak out—if they so wish—when they are a victim of any type of harassment or discrimination in the workplace. Release:
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  21. Oct 7

    Workers in California will be legally protected for speaking out about discrimination based on race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ancestry, disability, and age.

    California just made it a lot harder for companies to cover up harassment and abuse
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