{"id":180258,"date":"2017-06-11T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/11\/too-toxic-even-for-silicon-valley\/"},"modified":"2017-06-11T21:04:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T02:04:00","slug":"too-toxic-even-for-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/11\/too-toxic-even-for-silicon-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Toxic Even for Silicon Valley?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>It looks like Uber is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/11\/technology\/uber-holder-report.html\">firing another of Travis Kalanick, brogrammer friends, and giving the Uber president an involuntary vacation<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Facing accusations that Uber executives turned a blind eye to sexual harassment and other corporate misbehavior, the ride-hailing service\u2019s board moved on Sunday to shake up the company\u2019s leadership, ahead of the release this week of an investigation\u2019s findings on its troubled culture.<\/p>\n<p>Uber directors were weighing a three-month leave of absence for Travis Kalanick, the chief executive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/23\/technology\/travis-kalanick-pushes-uber-and-himself-to-the-precipice.html\">who built the start-up into a nearly $70 billion entity<\/a>, according to three people with knowledge of the board\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, a representative for Uber\u2019s board said the directors \u201cunanimously voted\u201d to adopt all of the recommendations made in a report by the former attorney general <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/h\/eric_h_holder_jr\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Eric H. Holder Jr.<\/a>, who was retained to investigate the company\u2019s culture. One of the recommendations included the departure of a top lieutenant to Mr. Kalanick, Emil Michael, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the discussions were confidential.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It appears that there are limits on just how unethical someone can be, and just how much of a sh%$ show that they can make out a company&#8217;s culture.<\/p>\n<p>I would have figured that this would have all been dismissed as &#8220;disruptive&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It does seem to be the rather larcenous ethics of tech startups these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Uber is firing another of Travis Kalanick, brogrammer friends, and giving the Uber president an involuntary vacation: Facing accusations that Uber executives turned a blind eye to sexual harassment and other corporate misbehavior, the ride-hailing service\u2019s board moved on Sunday to shake up the company\u2019s leadership, ahead of the release this week &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[365,368,450,364,471],"class_list":["post-180258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-corruption","tag-employment","tag-evil","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}