An employee spoke out on Glassdoor. Now the EEOC is suing his company

Not long after Adrian Scott Duane posted a comment on Glassdoor.com that said his companys managers "do not know what the word discrimination means, nor do they think it matters, the 32-year-old transgender workers desk had been cleared and he was fired.

By Erin Mulvaney | Updated on June 08, 2017

Not long after Adrian Scott Duane posted a comment on Glassdoor.com that said his company’s managers “do not know what the word ‘discrimination’ means, nor do they think it matters,” the 32-year-old transgender worker’s desk had been cleared and he was fired from a Silicon Valley-based education technology company.

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