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Re: I am an Uber survivor

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Post by taw24 »

gkya wrote: post #647
specialist wrote: post #635

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So. Eich funding discrimination is free speech, whereas OK Cupid blocking his browser is not. Because why? Aside: great insights into the victimhood mentality of the free speech zealots. https://psmag.com/on-the-milo-bus-with-the-lost-boys-of-amer...

There's no discrimination issue here. Just like one can support a given law, they can oppose it too. OK Cupid's move has nothing to do with free speech at all, and I believe in neither the sincerity nor the aptness thereof. Eich's actions were legal, peasurable or not, and within the protection of basic human rights. (WRT same-sex marriage issue, I believe that civil unions should replace all kinds of marriage we've…

Ahh, you're one of those "libertarians" who claims that the market will correct all social ills and then suddenly gets offended when the market starts correcting those social ills.

Re: I am an Uber survivor

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Post by Bombthecat »

leggomylibro wrote: post #132

>Travis is well known to protect high performing team leaders no matter how abusive they are towards their employees. The HR team was known to be deftly[sic] afraid of Travis’s tendency to blame and ridicule the women and yell at HR whenever they went in with complaints of abuse. I heard about Travis personally congratulating Mike#2 for meeting strict deadlines months after I complained to HR about my abuse. This is…

One wonders if something from the investors world view went into uber..

Re: I am an Uber survivor

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Post by user5994461 »

ryandrake wrote: post #699
djsumdog wrote: post #372

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I think you mean 1 ~ 2 months. In places like the Valley, Seattle, NYC .. the market is insane. You can pick up new jobs insanely fast.

I guess if you literally don't care what job you get, you could pick up a new one insanely fast. If you're targeting a handful of companies, or a better role than you have, I don't think the market is as rosy as you describe.

Depends on you current position and your salary.

There are really a lot of opportunities, if you have nothing outstanding it's not hard to get better.

Re: I am an Uber survivor

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Post by Arizhel »

ralfd wrote: post #754
rsp1984 wrote: post #364

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I personally know someone who went through this (related to IP, not sexual harassment). I understand the lawsuit dragged on for about seven years. He finally got awarded about eight million dollars in damages but hasn't been able to collect a single cent of it. When Peter Thiel says "single digit millionaires have no effective access to the legal system" [1] on the surface that sounds laughable and out-of-touch but I…

How does that work: He got awarded the money but can't collect it?

That's completely typical in the US court system. Winning a judgment is completely separate from actually collecting that judgment, and entails extra legal work to go after the assets of someone who refuses to pay the judgment.

Re: I am an Uber survivor

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Post by daveguy »

uberengineer123 wrote: post #752
daveguy wrote: post #641

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> Practicality aside, how stupid do you think I would have to be to start a massive witchhunt against somebody who has had allegations made against them by an anonymous person? They weren't talking to you they were talking to the person who asked for the witch hunt. Although somebody does know exactly who this is and never should have let it slide. Those of you with your head down, it's time to go over your boss's he…

>They weren't talking to you they were talking to the person who asked for the witch hunt. That's the same person I replied to. I think you took my comment to be in reply to another comment of the same depth.

My bad. I misjudged the indents.

Re: I am an Uber survivor

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Post by erikpukinskis »

grandalf wrote: post #724
uberengineer123 wrote: post #692

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Thanks, this is pretty much exactly what I'm going through, especially because I personally know Susan. It is outrageous to hear what has happened to her, and has affected me quite personally.

It's great to hear that Susan's experience is not the case on every team. Uber clearly does a lot of things very well, and although I posted in a different comment that perhaps Travis should go I think that the best outcome would be that the company can learn from these events and become better as a result.

> It's great to hear that Susan's experience is not the case on every team.

What? No it's not. If it was like that on every team, you would basically be describing hell. "Better than absolute hell" is nothing to celebrate.

Re: I am an Uber survivor

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Post by erikpukinskis »

ralfd wrote: post #763
revscat wrote: post #465

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Have you seen who is President these days?

To be fair, it is more nuanced. While everyone knows Trump "is sexist and makes comments and stuff like that" (quote from the linked article) at the same time he has glowing testimonials by women who worked for him and who he promoted to top jobs in a "boys club" industry. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-a-champ... > The picture many current and former employees paint stands in contrast to the bl…

> While everyone knows Trump "is sexist and makes comments and stuff like that" (quote from the linked article) at the same time he has glowing testimonials by women who worked for him and who he promoted to top jobs in a "boys club" industry.

Finish the sentence please? Are you suggesting that one cancels the other out? Or that maybe he's just a great guy after all and just the victim of smear campaigns?

Re: I am an Uber survivor

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Post by uremog »

jastingo wrote: post #257

I'm not in the business of defending Uber - quite the contrary - but reading through the comments it seems that most people are assuming that this post by an anonymous person is 100% true. These types of posts are worrying to me. Why could this post not have been crafted by someone at Lyft? Or one of Uber's many other detractors? Given the PR nightmare that Uber is in why not pile on while the public seems primed for…

> Why could this post not have been crafted by someone at Lyft?

After all the shady campaigns Uber has used against their competitors, even if this were true, I'd be fine with it.

Re: I am an Uber survivor

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Post by grandalf »

erikpukinskis wrote: post #816
grandalf wrote: post #724

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It's great to hear that Susan's experience is not the case on every team. Uber clearly does a lot of things very well, and although I posted in a different comment that perhaps Travis should go I think that the best outcome would be that the company can learn from these events and become better as a result.

> It's great to hear that Susan's experience is not the case on every team. What? No it's not. If it was like that on every team, you would basically be describing hell. "Better than absolute hell" is nothing to celebrate.

> "Better than absolute hell" is nothing to celebrate.

Well I think that it's useful in the midst of stories like this to realize that yes, most people are nice, kind, etc. Perhaps most Uber employees are like that. It should give hope to anyone who is working somewhere that should be better who is inclined simply to quit vs trying to make it better.

Re: I am an Uber survivor

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Post by rrauenza »

jakobegger wrote: post #392
diebir wrote: post #354

Without getting into any details this: "Once in a group chat, team members referred to a new Asian American recruit as slanty eye joe" seems very strange to me. The Uber tech org is like 80%+ foreign born, this makes pretty much zero sense. Disclaimer: I work for Uber.

Racism isn't limited to locals. Foreign born people can be just as racist as everyone else. For example, it's suprisingly common to hear immigrants complain that there is too much immigration now.

I don't know if you realize it, but you are conflating anti-immigration sentiments with racism.
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