Lol you're probably a brainwashed wal-mart employee but ok.
Wal-mart did not single handedly create the trend to shrink packaging sizes they did however pressure the supply chain not "single handedly" despite the impression you might have gotten by their massive PR campaign to improve their image right around that time.
Except that for most things you spend more when you buy at walmart because the quality is much lower.
And this is a problem because? Sometimes you want something cheap. Sometimes you don't. I buy the shows I go to the office at walmart for less than $20. Cheap pair of docker and polo shirt knock offs (or from Target) and voila, business casual for an industry (software) that doesn't typically give a shit about what you wear.
Now, for running shoes, a nice pair of trekking sandals, or for dress shoes to go with my business suites (when I have to be formal) I spent a lot more on that.
Additionally, some people cannot afford to buy anything but cheap and rely on walmart for bulk purchases or the dollar store. That shit you are spouting right there is kind of dogmatic, spouted from a position of privilege.
I never buy anything from walmart either because of this and because of how shitty they treat not only their employees.
Sure they are shitty in terms of pay, but 1) employees are not forced to work there or, say, McDonalds (disclosure, I worked at McDonalds 26 years ago), and 2) is it really solely's Walmart's fault?
We have a society where every fucking body exercises an "everyone for himself, I got mine, fuck you very much attitude." Everyone. Including SWJs.
We have no reasonable health care system separated from employment (be it single payer or government regulated.) Furthermore, we have no reasonable pension system either (no, social security ain't it.)
What's worse, people on the receiving end of inequality keep voting against their own interests either by action or inaction.
By action like those flyover country imbeciles who are now panicking after realizing their beloved ACA/Medicaid expansion benefits were one and the same as the hated Obamacare free shit handouts that (supposedly) inner city moochers were getting.
By inaction, like those many blue voters who were also dependent on government programs, who understood the threats posed by promises of mindless, absolutist "small government" government, but who could not fucking bother to go vote because they didn't like the major candidates.
So here we are, from bad to worse if you are poor. Of all the rich countries in the world, we are the ones were being poor is really fucking catastrophic.
Companies like Walmart simply operate in a culture and governance that represents people's attitudes. We are fucking complacent with the many problems that plague us, but we do nothing about it other than bitching about "evul corps".
Corporations do not have an obligation for social engineering. Government does (and ergo, by the people who vote or choose not to vote.)
This is the richest country of poor people the world has ever seen. By design, by the people. Them wounds are self-inflicted.
The whole "I ain't gonna buy from Walmart hurr durr", that's bullshit. It changes nothing (since the problem is not there), and it hurts employees who obviously rely on a store's ability to sell to make a paycheck.
Sure, delude yourself into thinking you are standing up to something by choosing not to buy at Walmart. That'll show them meanies.
those engineering activities are/will be moved to India. You need to hold upper management accountable.
People keep repeating this shit over and over. Some of it goes offshore. Some does not. And new stuff certainly doesn't, at least not until it gets mainstream.
It will change once China and India become more entrepreneurial and innovative (it's not a matter of IF but WHEN). But for the time being, and for a good while, roll with the punches and stay ahead of the curve. If you do the same job after 5-10 years, expect your work to go to wherever.
The last right-leaning, conservative Republican president was Eisenhower. All presidents since then, be they Republican or Democrat, would best be described as neoconservatives or progressives, both of which are left-leaning political ideologies. The Republican ones haven't leaned as far to the left as the Democrats have, but they surely haven't been leaning to the right, either. This is what people mean when they describe both parties as being the same; both are considered to be left-leaning, just at slightly different angles. Neither leans to the right. America today would be very different had there been actual right-leaning presidents in power since Eisenhower.
This statement is both axiomatic and unsubstantiated.
Same here - we have 1 laptop running Vista (only Windows system in the house, generally secure network, and it doesn't leave the house typically - IOW, security risks are minimal). We missed the upgrade to Win7 - in part b/c we had Vista Ultimate and there was no equivalent upgrade any Win7 product. However, now I'd like to swap the HDD for an SSD but Vista makes that impossible (Vista could use a flash for some things, but not the primary OS; the optimizations for that didn't hit until Win7, so if you do use an SSD with Vista you're chewing up the disk life.).
The laptop, however, is near EOL entirely (2006/2007 purchase IIRC). It might get a new life with Linux but as it needs a new battery and only has 4 GB RAM total (max'd out) that is not likely.
Unfortunately, I really don't want to give my wife Win10 on any new system we buy. I'd much prefer giving her Win7 but we won't likely have a choice.
One option would be to find a used Win7, Win8.x laptop somewhere, and buy it for cheap. As a media consumption, it'd be perfectly fine. That's what I'm looking right now.
This is actually going to be the real problem here.
Retiring Vista is no biggie. I don't know anyone who didn't immediately replace Vista with Seven as soon as it became available.
* Raises hand *. Me.
I have an old HP laptop that could not upgrade to Windows 7, and it's been running Vista since I bought it in 2008. My wife uses it for e-mail, photography, web browsing, google docs, and stuff. As it is, it is a good media consumption machine for her needs. It is also the laptop where my daughter does her computer-assigned work.
For what it is being used, we'd never had a reason to spend money in upgrading.
I know that this day was going to come, but it still sucks. I need to find a new laptop for her since 1) using it after the *doomsday date* will surely get compromised the moment my wife or my daughter connects to the web, and 2) not having a laptop is going to affect their day-to-day activities.
Ugh, not the expense I was planning to do anytime soon. A few hundred bucks is still a few hundred bucks. Oh well.
Struts was the only thing available for a long time back in the dark ages of J2EE. So a lot of smart people were drawn into doing stupid things because that was the only thing available.
By the time Struts 2 came about it was about the time most smart people realised how stupid the whole J2EE thing was and abandoned it and starting trying out better things. Most stupid people went on to Struts 2.
That's an axiomatic, self-fulfilling statement. Congratulations.
dude.... you are confusing Struts and Struts 2. They have nothing in common but the name.
No, I just never cared to call them Struts and Struts 2. Both are fine, having worked on them both. I can see why why my lazy wording would confuse people, though.
Whoever chose struts 2 back then probably deserve it
Maybe not for the 6 months in which it was relevant, but for the 13[1] years where all java sweatshops kept on using that piece of shit yes, they deserve it.
[1]not a precise number
Struts 2 is fine. It works fine. It with JSP/JSTL is all you ever need in the general case. Everything else is sugar (except few problem domains where you truly need something new.) I like Vaadim and Stripes, but I've seen enough sites VERY WELL built with plain old Struts and JPS/JSTL to know it is the wielder, not the tool.)
If you have a decently built system that runs well on Struts, why change it? Just to try something new? That's not engineering, that's playing on someone else's dime.
Every damned software worth a damn has experienced a critical security bug. This is no different. And a solution is already available (patch it.)
Moreover, the exploit is only significant if you are not running your containers and httpd servers with least privileges (as nobody and/or chroot jailed/dockerized, with a user that has no login access, etc.)
Do that and your chances of getting 0-exploited drop dramatically regardless of what software you use.
I thought of an elegant retort, but I think it's best if you were simply told to get raped with a fire poker.
Feel free to include me in your repressed sexual fantasies if that makes you feel like a winner. I won't be the one standing between a wretch and happiness.
Thank you for proving that the Bushes were not conservatives, but actually liberals.
With an axiomatic statement like that, there is no fucking way to respond to it.
But I'll try. See, the political center has gone so fucking to the right that Reagan would be considered a commie by today's standards. That is why only stupid people use labels like "liberal" or "conservative" in absolute terms.
So... don't be stupid. Leave the dogma aside, travel the country and the world and talk to people with views different from yours, be them to your left and right.
You'll find your dogma to be quite narrow-minded in short order.
If you're working someplace and all the most senior operations people 'step back to spend more time with family' at the same time. Get ready, cause shit is coming.
Quoted for eternity.
The best time to look for a job is when you have one.
For most of us outside of the region, the terms are use interchangeably, regardless of geographical correctness. It's just a good moniker to describe the entire job market in the region.
Yes, that's all we need is crowd sourcing to help determine the truth. Popular opinion should matter more than actual facts.
That's not what he said. Your logic sucks (or your reading comprehension... or both.) Stop putting words on other people's mouth. Pay attention to what they are saying. It will do your life good.
(like this French restaurant which my wife and visit everytime we go to Tokyo)
Can you recommend a good sushi restaurant in Paris?
Never been to Paris, so I cannot comment. I'm sure you are mocking the idea of a good French restaurant in Tokyo, but I guess in the largest metropolitan area of Earth, with its enormous economy and diversity of thought and tastes, everybody over there just eats sushi and ramen noodles.
Libertarians tend to weigh everything in monetary terms, and tend to overvalue the contributions of people with higher wages, which allows them to dehumanize low wage earners.
As a libertarian, I value freedom and liberty. I think you have a fundamental right to live your life free from outside meddling to the greatest extent possible.
When I talk about choices, it's easy to talk about possible outcomes in terms of dollars. But that's not the only important measure. Individual happiness and satisfaction are the real end goals. I don't presume to know what will make you happy and I'd prefer you let me make my own decisions about that, thank you very much.
My experience lo these many years shows that increasing liberty and trusting people tends to lead to greater happiness, serenity, and wealth for the most people. Meddling seems very frequently to be motivated by moral/ethical judgement, paternalism, tribalism, fear, and greed. At this point, I just don't trust anyone who's saying they need to butt in for someone else's good. I'm always looking for their ulterior motive and too often, I find one.
Since we live in an imperfect world of scarcity, it seems inevitable there will be those who aren't happy and aren't wealthy, for many reasons. As someone who likes to think of himself as caring and compassionate (and I know I'm fooling myself), I get great fulfillment helping those people out.
You experience? Your experience doing what? Seeing what? Measuring what and how?
Olive Garden is cheap industrial Italian food. You went to a mass-market corporate restaurant and got treated like you went to a mass-market corporate restaurant. It ought to be expected, like the sodium.
Yeah, that post reminds me of people who think Red Lobster or PF Chang are examples of Haute cuisine:/
No I don't think so. When you go to a restaurant part of what you're paying for is the service you can't get at home. Creating a full robot-based restaurant isn't really why people go out to eat at a sit-down restaurant.
And for that, I'd go to a real restaurant where the chef prepares a full course for you (like this French restaurant which my wife and visit everytime we go to Tokyo), not the Olive Garden or Cheesecake Factor or Red Lobster or whatever.
For that, shit man, give me a tablet and let me pick and choose (which as the OP said, most restaurants in Japan have it.)
From everything I see, that is not what happens, and not what I got from the driver either. Uber's spend is on investors backs, they are pretty much subsidizing the drivers as well to get market share from their investors. The driver is mad that he signed with the Uber lease for his car while passenger rates were higher, then Uber cut those rates such that he could no longer afford his lease, in order to get more Uber market share. Uber is spending more on advertisements, and subsidy programs like the Uber lease than they get from drivers. Without investor money, even without the Autonomous driving development Uber's model (at current rates) is not sustainable.
I'm trying to sympathize with the driver, but I can't. He made a business decision to lease (to fucking lease) a car to driver for Uber? Where does that make sense? And let's supposed that it did. Businesses go up and down, and flop all the time when 1) market forces changes and 2) they faced a cash flow issue when #1 happens.
Kalanick could have handled better, and his company needs to acknowledge there is a human cost on Uber's partners when you let your company race to the bottom. Good CEOs and managers know that, know how to take the human factor into consideration. He should have known better.
And the driver should have known better also. Leasing a car for Uber driving, that was a business decision, and businesses flop. Moreover, I fail to see the wisdom of such a decision. Who knows, maybe the driver was in a really bad position, and out of desperation thought this was a good idea. Who knows. But it was a bad idea no matter how you cut it.
Lesson learned. If you buy a car or lease one, it's because you already have the cash flow needed to make the payments. As an individual. As a business, we'll, shit can go bad when cash flow runs thin.
My advice on the driver (from personal experience) is to return the lease, pay the fine and/or take a credit score hit. He can recover from that. If you are bleeding money, the best think is to clamp that artery, count your loses and go back to the board. The longer you postpone this, the worst you will end up being (and the harder it will be to recover financially.)
I wish there were a betting site that could put money on this, because I know I wouldn't put a dime on uber and it could make me a rich rich man. I'd bet the house.
Indeed. People act as if this lady is/was the only person bringing accusations of harassment, and all other accusations are just a fabrication, a collective conspiracy against... I dunno... man rights or something.
Libel is NOT a crime, it's a civil matter. The government isn't going to put her on trial for libel, but the entity she lied about can take her to civil court for damages. The only really part the government might play here is (apart from supplying the court) is to assist somebody in collecting a judgment.
My point here is that if she's lying, her best out now is to plead for mercy from those she harmed and try to get a settlement that doesn't ruin her professional and financial prospects further. Even if she's not lying but doesn't have a provable claim she can file on Uber, she'd be well advised to "man up" and let this go, sooner rather than later. However, if she thinks there is enough evidence, then she needs to file suit NOW....
It's put up or shut up time.
By her claims, she has documentation, emails and chat logs, plus there is a whole bunch of other engineers testifying of similar harassment situations, with male employees also backing their female coworkers in their complaints.
So, Occam's Razor unless there is solid proof that 1) she is lying, and 2) her lies debunk the accusations brought forward by all those other engineers.
what if she's a lying sack of shit and none of the stories she tells were true?
There is a whole shitload of workers at Uber, men and women alike, who are saying her claims are true. Unless every motherfucker involved in this is collectivelly lying (and someone shows me proof of it), then I will assume she is not.
The nature of Uber as a company is now in the open, the CEO has just admitted it. The only way for her to lie is to be lying about *her* own harassment which would no longer contradict everything else that has come up to the open. The cat is out.
People don't generally buy apartments. Unless you're buying a whole building full of them, apartments are rented.
Not true. There are lot of apartment owners in high rises designed specifically for buyers, in many cities. It might be unusual in one city, but certainly not in another.
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Lol you're probably a brainwashed wal-mart employee but ok. Wal-mart did not single handedly create the trend to shrink packaging sizes they did however pressure the supply chain not "single handedly" despite the impression you might have gotten by their massive PR campaign to improve their image right around that time.
^^ In summary, LOL hurr durr.
Except that for most things you spend more when you buy at walmart because the quality is much lower.
And this is a problem because? Sometimes you want something cheap. Sometimes you don't. I buy the shows I go to the office at walmart for less than $20. Cheap pair of docker and polo shirt knock offs (or from Target) and voila, business casual for an industry (software) that doesn't typically give a shit about what you wear.
Now, for running shoes, a nice pair of trekking sandals, or for dress shoes to go with my business suites (when I have to be formal) I spent a lot more on that.
Additionally, some people cannot afford to buy anything but cheap and rely on walmart for bulk purchases or the dollar store. That shit you are spouting right there is kind of dogmatic, spouted from a position of privilege.
I never buy anything from walmart either because of this and because of how shitty they treat not only their employees.
Sure they are shitty in terms of pay, but 1) employees are not forced to work there or, say, McDonalds (disclosure, I worked at McDonalds 26 years ago), and 2) is it really solely's Walmart's fault?
We have a society where every fucking body exercises an "everyone for himself, I got mine, fuck you very much attitude." Everyone. Including SWJs.
We have no reasonable health care system separated from employment (be it single payer or government regulated.) Furthermore, we have no reasonable pension system either (no, social security ain't it.)
What's worse, people on the receiving end of inequality keep voting against their own interests either by action or inaction.
By action like those flyover country imbeciles who are now panicking after realizing their beloved ACA/Medicaid expansion benefits were one and the same as the hated Obamacare free shit handouts that (supposedly) inner city moochers were getting.
By inaction, like those many blue voters who were also dependent on government programs, who understood the threats posed by promises of mindless, absolutist "small government" government, but who could not fucking bother to go vote because they didn't like the major candidates.
So here we are, from bad to worse if you are poor. Of all the rich countries in the world, we are the ones were being poor is really fucking catastrophic.
Companies like Walmart simply operate in a culture and governance that represents people's attitudes. We are fucking complacent with the many problems that plague us, but we do nothing about it other than bitching about "evul corps".
Corporations do not have an obligation for social engineering. Government does (and ergo, by the people who vote or choose not to vote.)
This is the richest country of poor people the world has ever seen. By design, by the people. Them wounds are self-inflicted.
The whole "I ain't gonna buy from Walmart hurr durr", that's bullshit. It changes nothing (since the problem is not there), and it hurts employees who obviously rely on a store's ability to sell to make a paycheck.
Sure, delude yourself into thinking you are standing up to something by choosing not to buy at Walmart. That'll show them meanies.
those engineering activities are/will be moved to India. You need to hold upper management accountable.
People keep repeating this shit over and over. Some of it goes offshore. Some does not. And new stuff certainly doesn't, at least not until it gets mainstream.
It will change once China and India become more entrepreneurial and innovative (it's not a matter of IF but WHEN). But for the time being, and for a good while, roll with the punches and stay ahead of the curve. If you do the same job after 5-10 years, expect your work to go to wherever.
There is a lot to like about pretty much any language.
Err, have you ever worked with PICK Basic?
The last right-leaning, conservative Republican president was Eisenhower. All presidents since then, be they Republican or Democrat, would best be described as neoconservatives or progressives, both of which are left-leaning political ideologies. The Republican ones haven't leaned as far to the left as the Democrats have, but they surely haven't been leaning to the right, either. This is what people mean when they describe both parties as being the same; both are considered to be left-leaning, just at slightly different angles. Neither leans to the right. America today would be very different had there been actual right-leaning presidents in power since Eisenhower.
This statement is both axiomatic and unsubstantiated.
Same here - we have 1 laptop running Vista (only Windows system in the house, generally secure network, and it doesn't leave the house typically - IOW, security risks are minimal). We missed the upgrade to Win7 - in part b/c we had Vista Ultimate and there was no equivalent upgrade any Win7 product. However, now I'd like to swap the HDD for an SSD but Vista makes that impossible (Vista could use a flash for some things, but not the primary OS; the optimizations for that didn't hit until Win7, so if you do use an SSD with Vista you're chewing up the disk life.).
The laptop, however, is near EOL entirely (2006/2007 purchase IIRC). It might get a new life with Linux but as it needs a new battery and only has 4 GB RAM total (max'd out) that is not likely.
Unfortunately, I really don't want to give my wife Win10 on any new system we buy. I'd much prefer giving her Win7 but we won't likely have a choice.
One option would be to find a used Win7, Win8.x laptop somewhere, and buy it for cheap. As a media consumption, it'd be perfectly fine. That's what I'm looking right now.
This is actually going to be the real problem here.
Retiring Vista is no biggie. I don't know anyone who didn't immediately replace Vista with Seven as soon as it became available.
* Raises hand *. Me.
I have an old HP laptop that could not upgrade to Windows 7, and it's been running Vista since I bought it in 2008. My wife uses it for e-mail, photography, web browsing, google docs, and stuff. As it is, it is a good media consumption machine for her needs. It is also the laptop where my daughter does her computer-assigned work.
For what it is being used, we'd never had a reason to spend money in upgrading.
I know that this day was going to come, but it still sucks. I need to find a new laptop for her since 1) using it after the *doomsday date* will surely get compromised the moment my wife or my daughter connects to the web, and 2) not having a laptop is going to affect their day-to-day activities.
Ugh, not the expense I was planning to do anytime soon. A few hundred bucks is still a few hundred bucks. Oh well.
I think you just admitted you fall under the "you deserve it" and "stupid people" categories as pointed out by the various posters above.
I'll say yes to that if it makes you feel... I dunno, accomplished? Sure, go for it, you win.
Struts was the only thing available for a long time back in the dark ages of J2EE. So a lot of smart people were drawn into doing stupid things because that was the only thing available.
By the time Struts 2 came about it was about the time most smart people realised how stupid the whole J2EE thing was and abandoned it and starting trying out better things. Most stupid people went on to Struts 2.
That's an axiomatic, self-fulfilling statement. Congratulations.
dude.... you are confusing Struts and Struts 2. They have nothing in common but the name.
No, I just never cared to call them Struts and Struts 2. Both are fine, having worked on them both. I can see why why my lazy wording would confuse people, though.
Whoever chose struts 2 back then probably deserve it
Maybe not for the 6 months in which it was relevant, but for the 13[1] years where all java sweatshops kept on using that piece of shit yes, they deserve it.
[1]not a precise number
Struts 2 is fine. It works fine. It with JSP/JSTL is all you ever need in the general case. Everything else is sugar (except few problem domains where you truly need something new.) I like Vaadim and Stripes, but I've seen enough sites VERY WELL built with plain old Struts and JPS/JSTL to know it is the wielder, not the tool.)
If you have a decently built system that runs well on Struts, why change it? Just to try something new? That's not engineering, that's playing on someone else's dime.
Every damned software worth a damn has experienced a critical security bug. This is no different. And a solution is already available (patch it.)
Moreover, the exploit is only significant if you are not running your containers and httpd servers with least privileges (as nobody and/or chroot jailed/dockerized, with a user that has no login access, etc.)
Do that and your chances of getting 0-exploited drop dramatically regardless of what software you use.
I thought of an elegant retort, but I think it's best if you were simply told to get raped with a fire poker.
Feel free to include me in your repressed sexual fantasies if that makes you feel like a winner. I won't be the one standing between a wretch and happiness.
Thank you for proving that the Bushes were not conservatives, but actually liberals.
With an axiomatic statement like that, there is no fucking way to respond to it.
But I'll try. See, the political center has gone so fucking to the right that Reagan would be considered a commie by today's standards. That is why only stupid people use labels like "liberal" or "conservative" in absolute terms.
So... don't be stupid. Leave the dogma aside, travel the country and the world and talk to people with views different from yours, be them to your left and right.
You'll find your dogma to be quite narrow-minded in short order.
If you're working someplace and all the most senior operations people 'step back to spend more time with family' at the same time. Get ready, cause shit is coming.
Quoted for eternity.
The best time to look for a job is when you have one.
Also, quoted for eternity.
Uber is in San Francisco, not in the Valley.
For most of us outside of the region, the terms are use interchangeably, regardless of geographical correctness. It's just a good moniker to describe the entire job market in the region.
Yes, that's all we need is crowd sourcing to help determine the truth. Popular opinion should matter more than actual facts.
That's not what he said. Your logic sucks (or your reading comprehension... or both.) Stop putting words on other people's mouth. Pay attention to what they are saying. It will do your life good.
(like this French restaurant which my wife and visit everytime we go to Tokyo)
Can you recommend a good sushi restaurant in Paris?
Never been to Paris, so I cannot comment. I'm sure you are mocking the idea of a good French restaurant in Tokyo, but I guess in the largest metropolitan area of Earth, with its enormous economy and diversity of thought and tastes, everybody over there just eats sushi and ramen noodles.
Libertarians tend to weigh everything in monetary terms, and tend to overvalue the contributions of people with higher wages, which allows them to dehumanize low wage earners.
As a libertarian, I value freedom and liberty. I think you have a fundamental right to live your life free from outside meddling to the greatest extent possible.
When I talk about choices, it's easy to talk about possible outcomes in terms of dollars. But that's not the only important measure. Individual happiness and satisfaction are the real end goals. I don't presume to know what will make you happy and I'd prefer you let me make my own decisions about that, thank you very much.
My experience lo these many years shows that increasing liberty and trusting people tends to lead to greater happiness, serenity, and wealth for the most people. Meddling seems very frequently to be motivated by moral/ethical judgement, paternalism, tribalism, fear, and greed. At this point, I just don't trust anyone who's saying they need to butt in for someone else's good. I'm always looking for their ulterior motive and too often, I find one.
Since we live in an imperfect world of scarcity, it seems inevitable there will be those who aren't happy and aren't wealthy, for many reasons. As someone who likes to think of himself as caring and compassionate (and I know I'm fooling myself), I get great fulfillment helping those people out.
You experience? Your experience doing what? Seeing what? Measuring what and how?
Olive Garden is cheap industrial Italian food. You went to a mass-market corporate restaurant and got treated like you went to a mass-market corporate restaurant. It ought to be expected, like the sodium.
Yeah, that post reminds me of people who think Red Lobster or PF Chang are examples of Haute cuisine :/
No I don't think so. When you go to a restaurant part of what you're paying for is the service you can't get at home. Creating a full robot-based restaurant isn't really why people go out to eat at a sit-down restaurant.
And for that, I'd go to a real restaurant where the chef prepares a full course for you (like this French restaurant which my wife and visit everytime we go to Tokyo), not the Olive Garden or Cheesecake Factor or Red Lobster or whatever.
For that, shit man, give me a tablet and let me pick and choose (which as the OP said, most restaurants in Japan have it.)
> because of the money Uber siphons from his work
From everything I see, that is not what happens, and not what I got from the driver either. Uber's spend is on investors backs, they are pretty much subsidizing the drivers as well to get market share from their investors. The driver is mad that he signed with the Uber lease for his car while passenger rates were higher, then Uber cut those rates such that he could no longer afford his lease, in order to get more Uber market share. Uber is spending more on advertisements, and subsidy programs like the Uber lease than they get from drivers. Without investor money, even without the Autonomous driving development Uber's model (at current rates) is not sustainable.
I'm trying to sympathize with the driver, but I can't. He made a business decision to lease (to fucking lease) a car to driver for Uber? Where does that make sense? And let's supposed that it did. Businesses go up and down, and flop all the time when 1) market forces changes and 2) they faced a cash flow issue when #1 happens.
Kalanick could have handled better, and his company needs to acknowledge there is a human cost on Uber's partners when you let your company race to the bottom. Good CEOs and managers know that, know how to take the human factor into consideration. He should have known better.
And the driver should have known better also. Leasing a car for Uber driving, that was a business decision, and businesses flop. Moreover, I fail to see the wisdom of such a decision. Who knows, maybe the driver was in a really bad position, and out of desperation thought this was a good idea. Who knows. But it was a bad idea no matter how you cut it.
Lesson learned. If you buy a car or lease one, it's because you already have the cash flow needed to make the payments. As an individual. As a business, we'll, shit can go bad when cash flow runs thin.
My advice on the driver (from personal experience) is to return the lease, pay the fine and/or take a credit score hit. He can recover from that. If you are bleeding money, the best think is to clamp that artery, count your loses and go back to the board. The longer you postpone this, the worst you will end up being (and the harder it will be to recover financially.)
I wish there were a betting site that could put money on this, because I know I wouldn't put a dime on uber and it could make me a rich rich man. I'd bet the house.
Indeed. People act as if this lady is/was the only person bringing accusations of harassment, and all other accusations are just a fabrication, a collective conspiracy against... I dunno... man rights or something.
Libel is NOT a crime, it's a civil matter. The government isn't going to put her on trial for libel, but the entity she lied about can take her to civil court for damages. The only really part the government might play here is (apart from supplying the court) is to assist somebody in collecting a judgment.
My point here is that if she's lying, her best out now is to plead for mercy from those she harmed and try to get a settlement that doesn't ruin her professional and financial prospects further. Even if she's not lying but doesn't have a provable claim she can file on Uber, she'd be well advised to "man up" and let this go, sooner rather than later. However, if she thinks there is enough evidence, then she needs to file suit NOW....
It's put up or shut up time.
By her claims, she has documentation, emails and chat logs, plus there is a whole bunch of other engineers testifying of similar harassment situations, with male employees also backing their female coworkers in their complaints.
So, Occam's Razor unless there is solid proof that 1) she is lying, and 2) her lies debunk the accusations brought forward by all those other engineers.
what if she's a lying sack of shit and none of the stories she tells were true?
There is a whole shitload of workers at Uber, men and women alike, who are saying her claims are true. Unless every motherfucker involved in this is collectivelly lying (and someone shows me proof of it), then I will assume she is not.
The nature of Uber as a company is now in the open, the CEO has just admitted it. The only way for her to lie is to be lying about *her* own harassment which would no longer contradict everything else that has come up to the open. The cat is out.
People don't generally buy apartments. Unless you're buying a whole building full of them, apartments are rented.
Not true. There are lot of apartment owners in high rises designed specifically for buyers, in many cities. It might be unusual in one city, but certainly not in another.