Thread regarding Nike Inc. layoffs

As a victim, the greatest thing you can do is accept, acknowledge, learn, grow, and then stand. Stand up!!! Am I clear? Stand up!!!! Can I hear a whoop? Stand up! Stand up! Because NO ONE ELSE WILL!!! STAND UP!

Main character syndrome like I’ve never seen before

Thank you to the person who asked, 'What are you even hoping comes out of this?' The answer is to help (decentralized) organizations like the YMCA, Special Olympics, and Boys & Girls Clubs through my idea called Social Ingenuity. There are so many positive benefits that could come from my dream. Chapter 9 lists some of the other reasons too. Also I hope that stuff like what I went through doesn't continue to happen; it shouldn't happen. "What response are you expecting from the execs you’ve emailed?" My response I was expecting was that they'd want to do the right thing and try to help me with my dream - which they financially backed for a time of employment, a dream I later sold into another group in 2020, and captured genuine interest from senior mgmt. Fun fact: Two VERY high up execs have my back and are shocked at what happened. Another offered hope and empty promises for years (not days, weeks, but YEARS); a senior team was exposed to these empty promises by the thread of emails. Basically, I'm hoping some good can come from what I went through. "Dream Crazy" Nike says...perhaps I am.

What are you even hoping comes out of this? What response are you expecting from the execs you’ve emailed? Genuine question

Thank you to the anonymous writer who called me JF for reading my story. You have helped me raise my voice, I am now up to 61k page views. I think it's very important to point out - I was not se-----y as----ted. I think the most important quote in my story is at the beginning of Chapter 5, called 'HR "Help"' -- I wrote, "I soon had to meet with HR as an official investigation was now under way about the “se-ual harassment” - that I didn’t know was se-ual harassment – that my mentor reported, not me." Read that again.
And again, I thank the women who came forward in 2018 who inspired me to chase my dream again - I thought it was dead in 2009, they brought it back to life 9 years later. They gave me hope and so did Nike's senior mgmt. I thought things were really changing and there has been a lot that has happened that I haven't written about just yet, but plan on doing so. But again - those 4 women coming forward in 2018 might prove that this type of mistreatement has affected many people and ruined many jobs and many dreams throughout the years. Thank you again for reading my story, Anonymous.

What JF went through was in no way traumatic and is bread and butter stuff for Corporate America, especially in the lens that this was 15 years ago. The fact that this total non~story is still being fought up does nothing to support true victims of se-ual as----t. Total narcissistic behavior and likely personality disorder which I hope is being treated professionally. It’s clear from the this persons post-Nike “career” that they have zero aptitude to succeed in an organization as complex as Nike. Nothing wrong with that - just don’t need to dry about it for 15 years and let it dominate your life. Let it go

Ha, thank you “anonymous troll” for your comment. Yeah, I’m in a good spot, thank you. I politely disagree with you though on your thoughts of it not being traumatic. I don’t wish anyone going through what I did. Not even the people who did it to me. Thank you for reading my story.

I know, I’m just an anonymous troll on the internet, so I’m glad you don’t take the words to heart. The truth is, what you went through was not traumatic in my opinion. It sounds like you’ve been able to grow, move on, and find hopefully happiness.

Thank you to the anonymous commentator who listened to my story. I find it odd how you started off describing me as good-looking. I'm not sure that working three jobs a day and living in a hostel are considered "priviledged" - but okay. I personally know the importance of being handed a jersey and becoming a part of a team. Sports change lives. My idea would help foster that. I got my job at Nike taking a leap of faith - (is faith okay to write, or is that too spiritual?) - living in a hostel, working 16+ hour days, not really making any money, and not knowing I would get in. I met a woman on-site, she introduced me to her husband, and then I applied and got in after 4 rounds of interviews. I got the job based on the fact that I've worked hard all my life and that summer job was just one instance. And "FURIOUS"? Well, yeah - and scared too. To be fair, right after it was reported, my life did become he-l - so it was a valid concern. And when someone that is second-in-command at Nike says, "why haven't we done this before?" about your idea - you're onto something. Also, I was financially backed to pursue this idea as evident in my trip to meet the Y, so there's that too. And finally, I had a feeling some readers/listeners might be turned off for me talking about my faith - but that's okay. I'm not pushing it on you. I'm just sharing my own beliefs. I do often wonder though - if the same criticism that is pointed toward me is also pointed to professional athletes when they say a prayer before they walk onto the field or score a goal? Thank you again for listening to my story.

Okay.. so the writer of the article posted it here to get the word out.. so I heard her out and listened to all the audio.

Here is my summary:

A conventionally good-looking and privileged student athlete asked god to guide her in her career, and god told her her “life’s purpose” was to work for Nike and get them to supply uniforms to the YMCA.. kind of an odd “purpose” but okay, moving on

She gets a job at Nike by networking, someone’s husband had an open job and hooked her up. After staring the job, someone at work makes a crude and inappropriate comment to her. She tells her Mentor and is FURIOUS that he wants to report to HR.. like what?

After this event, she feels everyone is against her. She pitches an idea to a senior manager one time, and the validation she got made her think her idea was god-given (literally). The truth is, her manager didn’t think it was a good idea.

Instead of moving on to another role or company, she suffered and told everyone she encounters she was miserable.

Tl;dr false sense of victimhood, overly sensitive and not cut out for corporate world.

First, I'm horrified at the thoughts of what you went through. It sounds terribly painful, I am very sorry. I think it's sad that the comments about my story are focused on the lack of what happened to me se-----y - it should be focused on the fact that when there is a formal se-ual harassment case (no matter what was done!), you are not protected from HR. You actually become a target at that point. I lost my job, my home, my career - after enduring months of bullying and retaliation from HR and my colleagues - and it stole my dream. My emotional and physical health was shot then too. So, it actually was a lot, I don't know how this could be considered trivial? But my story is not only about me either. My dream could still help millions today. I'm fighting for them too. And in 2018, when those 4 Nike women came forward, I knew the problem was bigger than I had originally thought. So I'm also fighting alongside them just in a very different way. We all fight back differently, don't we? It's also been incredibly healing that other Nike women throughout the years have connected with me - our treatment by HR and colleagues was very similar. And also amazingly, Nike employees have reached out to me wanting to help implement my dream too throughout the years. Which I find to be incredibly hopeful.

PS: do realize that your post could be a bad trigger for those that were truly victimized? Good job Jessie. I’m glad it’s all about you.

Clearly obvious that “you” Jessie posted this. Your story sucks, but it’s lame. I know a MILLION times worse true abuses than yours. Stop being a victim. You can help more as a survivor. The world doesn’t revolve around you and your one bad experience about 15 years ago. Be grateful it wasn’t worse. Have you thought about that? Or about actual true victims of se-ual as----t or harassment? I am one. You offend me. Damn what I would give for my story to be a question on whether I got some. You need therapy. I don’t mean that offensively; just an observation. It saved my life.

Hi again everyone, Jessie Fream here. I'm not sure why my previous reply was taken down? I did not delete it. To reply to the anonymous writer's reply to the original post - like I said before, there is no expiration date on dreams. There is nothing pathetic about chasing a dream and wanting to help people. The only thing that is pathetic is getting attacked for doing so. In 2018, when Nike women came forward about how they were being poorly treated at Nike - I thought perhaps, Nike would really want to change and this would be the perfect opportunity for them to do so, while helping millions of athletes worldwide with a new idea - so I sent them my story with my idea. They gave me hope - Nike's head of HR asked me to be patient with them. This went on for years (empty promises) so I sold it into a different department at Nike (plan works-also, my teammates stole my idea and implemented on their own, so it shows proof of concept). I was told from this other dept they would implement my idea, but they couldn't pay me anything - I said okay, and they found another reason to back out. The jocks you mentioned are 3 other women that were sitting at the same table as me and one of them told the guy to knock it off. I did not report anything - my "mentor" did and my life became a living he-l when HR got involved. There's a current lawsuit happening showing mistreatment of Nike women in the recent years - my story proves it has gone on since at least 2008 (with just my story, there have been others). I thank the women who were brave enough to come forward in 2018 - they gave me the courage to share my story and chase my dream again - which is to help the most people I could ever imagine helping. So, thank you for reading my story - every time you do, you're raising my voice. It just grew to 60,000 page views as of last night with my original reply.

I read this story. Frankly what is shocking is how trivial and nonsense this story is and how someone is still so obsessed with it 10 years later. Essentially some id--t made a lewd comment in a meeting (Which I agree should never happen) in an environment 10 years ago which was dominated by jocks. The rest of the story was this individual completely ignoring and disregarding her teammates based on a flawed and failed business plan which Nike has never followed (Because it doesn’t work). The fact that this individual is still stringing out this pathetic story 10 years later says a lot more about them than it does Nike. It’s actually pretty sad. If you’re going to go “big” then at least have a story and experience worth writing about ~ not this school yard nonsense.