Every Lyft user has the occasional awkward ride story, but the one Ellen Pao reported this weekend is really cringe-worthy.
Pao summoned a ride Saturday morning only to find herself face to face with one of the jurors who voted against her in last year s gender discrimination trial against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, CNET reported. Pao lost on every count in March, but she became the face of a subsequent push for gender equality in Silicon Valley.
Pao shared the unlikely Lyft encounter on Twitter, creating a poll that asked followers to weigh in on whether she should tip the former juror.
So my Lyft driver this morning was a juror who voted & spoke against my case, Pao tweeted. He did a great job driving.
She gave followers three options: Tip him as usual, Tim him less, or No tip!
Her followers took the moral high road, with 70 percent suggesting she tip him as usual. The poll had received 1,668 votes and 59 re-tweets Monday.
Followers also chimed in with other suggestions.
Whatever the amount, tip him $0.77 on the dollar, tweeted Mike Ziegler, whose profile lists him as a strategic communications and digital marketing professional.
Tipping him well will make him feel guilty, and that will eat at his soul forever and destroy him! quipped Darryl McAdams, a self-described linguist, type theorist and coder.
Others adopted a more serious tone.
Pay him for the job he did. Not who he is. Same as what you wanted, tweeted Alex Nicholson, whose profile lists her as a social media director.
Pao later reported she tipped and gave the driver five stars – the highest rating. It actually wasn t awkward, she tweeted. We chatted amicably. All good.
Pao sued Kleiner Perkins for $16 million, claiming her superiors failed to promote her and ultimately fired her because she s a woman. During four dramatic weeks of testimony, which sometimes drew a standing-room only crowd to the San Francisco courtroom, Pao s lawyers painted Kleiner Perkins as a boys club where degrading and marginalizing women were permitted. A jury of six men and six women ultimately found Pao hadn t proven her case.
Pao was serving as interim chief executive of Reddit during the trial, but resigned last summer after a flood of criticism from Reddit users.
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