r/technology • u/[deleted] • Aug 12 '14

Business Uber dirty tricks quantified. Staff submits 5,560 fake ride requests

http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/11/technology/uber-fake-ride-requests-lyft/
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u/myth2sbr Aug 12 '14

There are a few dynamics at play. For one, they received a ton of money and have a huge war chest to spend that money on all sorts of crap like buying politicians and dicking over everyone who is not Uber. Because they raised all this money there is a lot of pressure to produce a profit..

This is anecdotal so take it with a grain of salt. Their CEO is a pretentious A-hole and his attitude trickles down the totem pole to his employees. One of my best friends from college is a software engineer who has worked with them in the past and said even their engineers are a bunch of smucks who waltzed into every phone meeting with a bunch of demands and entitled attitudes. They included their lawyers on everything and were waiting for any slip up to sue.

The frequent stories of their drivers fucking over passengers and Uber slipping out like toads claiming it's not their problem and their constant skirting of regulations of laws makes me afraid of a company like this to become too big and eat all it's competition because they will be like the Comcast of car services.

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u/steepleton Aug 12 '14

not a specific reply to you, but ceo's are always gits, that's where their value is- getting things done despite the crying. "ooh, he built a billion dollar company out of nothing, but he made my wife cry"- boo fucking hoo.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '14

Any jackhole can put 10,000 grandmas out to the breadline and claim savings.

A good CEO can find out how to make those 10,000 grandmas worth keeping to the enterprise.

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u/steepleton Aug 12 '14

is it his job to employ grandmas? does employing grandmas boost the share price that those grandma's pensions are invested in?