A sexual harassment lawsuit that has rocked Silicon Valley has taken another turn, with the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner who filed the suit saying the firm told her on Monday to “leave and not come back.”
The firm, however, said she was still an employee.
“I have been terminated from my job at KPCB,” Ellen Pao wrote in a post on the question-and-answer site Quora late Tuesday.
“On Monday afternoon, senior management told me to clean out my office, leave, and not come back.”
Kleiner Perkins, however, said Pao remains on staff for now. “Because of long-standing issues having no relationship or bearing on the litigation, Kleiner Perkins approached Ms. Pao to facilitate her transition, over an extended period of time, out of the firm,” a Kleiner Perkins spokeswoman said in a statement.