優步（Uber）首席執行官特拉維斯·卡蘭尼克的前女友加比·霍爾茨瓦近日披露了這家拼車公司職場文化的更多細節。

在接受《赫芬頓郵報》采訪時，這位曾經與卡蘭尼克約會三年直至去年8月的音樂家和業務發展經理表示，優步有著貶低女性，摧殘心靈的環境。

霍爾茨瓦現年27歲，談起與硅谷這群男人為伍的經歷，她表示：“你每次去參加活動，都會有一大群模特涌入。他們喜歡和模特玩。差不多就是這樣了。”

她補充道：“作為一名缺乏安全感，努力維護身體形象的女性，我最好的做法就是離開那個規則令人難以忍受的不健康環境。”盡管她也感謝卡蘭尼克協助她從飲食失調中恢復過來。

接受《赫芬頓郵報》這次采訪之前，她曾對The Information網站表示，優步的幾位高管（只有一位是女性）曾在2014年造訪首爾的卡拉OK酒吧，還點了幾位身上有號牌的女性陪侍。

霍爾茨瓦說，她和卡蘭尼克還有那位女性高管沒有留下來看之后發生了什么。不過這件事讓那位女性高管投訴了優步的人力資源部。

霍爾茨瓦聲稱，她本無意透露此事。不過優步業務部門的高級副總裁埃米爾·邁克爾幾周前給她打電話，請她對2014年的事情保守秘密。據說，由于職場歧視導致優步的公關形象大損，邁克爾擔心泄露這件事會讓優步雪上加霜。

她對《赫芬頓郵報》表示：“我不想保持沉默或是對別人說謊。這讓我感到不適。為保守他們的秘密，我這三周過得很艱難。”

但是邁克爾不認同她在The Information的報道中對于電話的描述。

他對該網站表示：“考慮到現在輿論形勢緊張，我認為有必要找到她，讓她知道記者可能會試圖直接聯系她。我認識她很長時間了，把她當作朋友，不希望她對此措不及防。她對這段對話的看法與我很不一樣。我打電話的本意被誤解了，對此我表示非常遺憾。”（財富中文網）

作者：Aric Jenkin

譯者：嚴匡正

Gabi Holzwarth, the ex-girlfriend of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, has revealed even more details on the ride-sharing company's workplace culture.

Holzwarth, a musician and business development manager who dated Kalanick for three years up until last August, said the environment surrounding Uber was misogynistic and psychologically damaging in an interview with the Huffington Post.

“You go to an event and there’s just a bunch of models they’ve flown in,” Holzwarth, 27, said, regarding her experience with the men of Silicon Valley. “That’s what they like to play with. That’s pretty much it.

“As a woman struggling with my own insecurities and body image, the best thing for me was to leave that unhealthy world of impossible standards,” Holzwarth added, though she credited Kalanick with assisting with her recovery from eating disorders.

Holzwarth's interview with HuffPo comes after she told The Information that several Uber executives — all but one of them male — went to a karaoke bar in Seoul in 2014 and selected escorts wearing tags with numbers to join them.

Holzwarth said that she, Kalanick and the female Uber executive did not stay to see what happened, but the incident prompted the female executive to file a complaint with Uber's human resources department.

Holzwarth said that she had no intention of speaking out until Uber senior vice president of business Emil Michael called her several weeks ago asking her to keep quiet about the 2014 incident. Michael was reportedly afraid that the story might leak with Uber in the midst of a PR meltdown over workplace discrimination.

“I don’t want to be silenced or lie for somebody else. It made me feel uncomfortable,”Holzwarth told HuffPo. “[It was a] tough three weeks of hiding their secret.”

But Michael disputed her account of the phone call in The Information's report.

“Given the intense news cycle I thought it was the right thing to do to reach out and let her know that reporters may try to contact her directly,” Michael told the site. “I have known her for a long time, consider her a friend and did not want her to be taken by surprise. Her recollection of this conversation was different from mine and I am very sorry if the purpose of my call was misunderstood.”