{"id":180251,"date":"2017-06-13T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T01:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/13\/quote-of-the-day-62\/"},"modified":"2017-06-13T20:41:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T01:41:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/13\/quote-of-the-day-62\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

One day we will look back at what will hopefully be the smouldering wreckage of Kalanick\u2019s career and ask how a person so lacking in basic human and corporate ethics was allowed to run a company for so long.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014Kadhim Shubber<\/a> at the Financial Times<\/i><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It looks like the story that Travis Kalanick either tacitly or actively approved the theft of medical records of a rape victim by one of his executives in an apparent attempt to discredit her account.<\/p>\n

It should be noted that the Uber driver who raped her had a record before he began driving, and was convicted of the rape and sentenced to life in prison.<\/p>\n

Of course, we’ve know what Kalanick was ever since he embezzled tax withheld from employee paychecks to keep  an earlier startup of his afload.  (Why didn’t he go to jail?)<\/p>\n

It looks like this might finally catch up with him though, given that the Board of Directors has fired his chief lieutenant and put him on an indefinite leave of absence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They are promising to fix the psychopathic culture of the company, but given that a member of the all hands meeting at which the changes were announced, a board member made a blatantly sexist joke<\/a>, I’m not inclined to believe that there will actually be any change.<\/p>\n

Uber is not a company which has a cancer in its culture, it is a company where cancer IS<\/b><\/u> its culture.  (My opinion is shared by many current and former Uber employees<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The thing is that sh%$ flows downhill, and not only has this amoral culture thoroughly captured the executive suite, it has worked its way down to the drivers.<\/p>\n

Case in point: Drivers has taken to colluding to trigger surge pricing by simultaneously logging out of their apps<\/a> in order to stick it to “The Man”, which conveniently ignores the fact that this actually increases Uber profits by screwing the customers.<\/p>\n

As a final note, read Paul Carr’s essay on this<\/a>.  It is brilliant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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