Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About Previous Pay

Re:Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About... by crdoconnor on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @02:54PM (#12212289)

>Which is why you should be an owner/competitor versus an employee if you know the business well enough.

Uber just lost a war of attrition with Didi Chuxing after throwing a billion dollars at China's taxi market

How much attrition can you afford?

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Re:Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About... by hx87 on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @03:41PM (#12212708)

The reason is simple: Uber did not know the business well enough, at least not in China.

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Re:Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About... by crdoconnor on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @05:00AM (#12216638)

The reason is simple but absolutely wasn't that: they both subsidized their customers' rides to the tune of a billion dollars in a bid to undercut one another.

As it turns out taxi riders care a lot more about price than they do about the company's cultural sensitivities.

This isn't unusual in the transportation sector. In the 80s UK bus companies would undercut each other in a bid to achieve a monopoly. Some even offered completely free buses in a bid to drive their competitors out of business.

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