infernal machines posted:

~nope~

going for a pint.

infernal machines posted:

is there a dialog skip button whereby you play through your masterstorke augment without constant prompting, or does that not give you enough flexibility?

Beast of Bourbon posted:

as a not-poor fat white man (the kind no one wants to rape) who lives and works in san francisco, uber is pretty cool.

get privileged i guess, that's my lesson to everybody who isn't me

Shifty Pony posted:

uber imploding pre-ipo from a "yes your employees are actually employees" ruling would be the best possible outcome.

mostly because ti would also put the writing on the wall for other companies exploiting employees in the same manner.

Nintendo Kid posted:

lol you tried to edit out your giving up. what a puss

ultramiraculous posted:

Wulfolme posted:

Fishmech, what does a ride hailing company do?

Nintendo Kid posted:

contracts drivers that they may not directly employ to provide rides on a contingent basis, which can also include purchasing vehicles for them to use under an expectation they'll pay it back by doing rides. many of them also offer minor courier service with a driver.

many drivers would be on paid staff for a full on taxi company, and if they owned their vehicle they might drive it off hours under dispatch range of the ride hailing company.

and all of this would normally be done under the standard regulations, without a multimillionaire jackass swooping in trying to claim he was disrupting and causing all sorts of legal trouble.

Beast of Bourbon posted:

apparently robert scoble is going in to rehab???

i found this out because i guess i have friends who are friends with him on facebook, also both zucks apparently.

Snapchat A Titty posted:

so you are one of the few people able to hail a taxi and you choose not to. cheers to that i guess.

daft punk railroad posted:

maxima is plural

ultramiraculous posted:

come on, don't leak poo poo like that

Wulfolme posted:

This makes them sound like they have a lot more capital investment in the business and the driver, compared to uber's total lack of any ownership of anything that they use to pretend they have no effect or control beyond the app

The Leck posted:

you mean i used to own multiple nissans?

Mr Dog posted:

probably just a massmail blast to all people who have used uber (maybe in the last x days or more than y times idk)

there's plenty of actual comically evil poo poo to hate about uber without needing to make up more

quote:

Unfortunately, Uber has gone back on its word that it would do "everything" to support Plaintiff in her courageous recovery. Despite knowing Ms. Doe's identity and having the means to reach her, Uber has shunned and avoided all contact with Ms. Doe and her family. Furthermore, as a demonstration of the Company's relentless determination to profit at the expense of anything or anyone standing in its way, Uber ignored Plaintiff's request to be consulted with in regard to any safety reforms Uber undertakes in India, and instead, boasted about reopening its business operations in India, despite a governmental ban.

Nintendo Kid posted:

which can also include purchasing vehicles for them to use under an expectation they'll pay it back by doing rides.

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

uber only breaks the law when they think can get away with it. unfortunately most states do not have aggressive and fearsome attorneys general

Beast of Bourbon posted:

it has like 2000 likes and many hundreds of shares, FB has privacy settings so...

edit: 3000+ shares and he tagged the rehab clinic in the post and thanked people. not exactly a private moment.

BONGHITZ posted:

boober

BONGHITZ posted:

boobr

qirex posted:

I can't remember the name of it but there's already a new service doing only limos and town cars, [e.g. uber's bread and butter] and I'm seeing a lot of vehicles with their stickers on them [it's a bow tie]

all you'd have to do to take all that business over is pay the drivers more

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

and charge lower fares.

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

and charge lower fares.

i'm not at all sure that uber makes money. they keep taking on investment and debt even though their revenues are stratospheric. gotta wonder if profits are above 0

quote:

The drivers contend in the complaints that they’re employees entitled to minimum wage, reimbursement for expenses, overtime and other benefits. At a hearing on Jan. 28 in San Francisco federal court, U.S. Judge Vince Chhabria pointed to court rulings in California finding that delivery service drivers and other workers employed under similar conditions as Lyft drivers were employees, not contractors.

While the judge said that categorizing employees using historical job descriptions and definitions is “woefully outdated” and doesn’t take into account how technology has changed how workers do their jobs, Chhabria told Lyft’s lawyers “you stuck your head in the sand” when it comes to how courts in the most populous U.S. state have defined employees.

“Those cases point to the conclusion” that under state law, workers who do the kind of thing that Lyft drivers do here are employees, Chhabria said, adding that he has to follow the law established in earlier cases. He didn’t say when he will rule.

FrozenVent posted:

lol at the idea of a startup making profits

I think Facebook is turning a profit now? idk. Twitter wasn't last I heard, Amazon is breaking even because they're spending tons on r&d

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

i thought amazon profits at the same rate as any other retailer: 0.5% of sales

ultramiraculous posted:

Mr Dog posted:

probably just a massmail blast to all people who have used uber (maybe in the last x days or more than y times idk)

there's plenty of actual comically evil poo poo to hate about uber without needing to make up more

quote:

87. Just weeks after being savagely raped, and as Yadav's criminal trial was ongoing, Uber contacted Plaintiff directly (despite already knowing that she had retained counsel in connection with this matter) to brazenly taunt her by letting her know that Uber was back up and running in Delhi. Uber remarkably told Plaintiff that it was ready to "serve" and "get [her] moving once again," and audaciously offered her a "flat 25% discount."

88. This sick email from Uber (which conspicuously stated that it was coming from Uber's headquarters in San Francisco, California, like the other communications between Uber and Plaintiff), had the subject line "Uber Back to Serve Again in Delhi," and brashly proclaimed that Uber had listened to the "Delhi rider community," and knows that the community "want[s it] back."

89. However, although Uber had earlier promised to do "everything" to support Plaintiff in her recovery, it failed to involve Plaintiff in any way with the reintegration of Uber into the Delhi market. Plaintiff by this time had made it clear to Uber that she wished to be a part of the consultation process regarding safety procedures to ensure that no other person became a victim at the hands of an Uber driver. Uber, clearly focused on its bottom-line, decided to not only ignore Plaintiff's sincere requests, but chose to add insult to injury by thumbing its nose at Plaintiff, and excluding her from any conversation regarding Uber's attempts to reform its safety procedures in India.

90. However, in spite of Uber's announcement that it was restarting operations in India, the Company was nonetheless still subject to a ban by Indian government officials. Accordingly, Uber's utter disregard for and contemptuous attitude toward India's governmental authorities demonstrates the urgency behind the injunctive relief measures Plaintiff seeks herein.

Sagebrush posted:

Yea I think that's correct...they maintain profits that any other large discount retailer would by dumping money into Bezos' pet projects, but wall street is pissy becausE they don't grow their stock the way a tech company is supposed to