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Re:Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture by mindcrime on Thursday February 23, 2017 @05:25PM (#13718420)
all I hear seems to be about how completely poisonous the company is.

Stories about how everything at $COMPANY is just hunky-dory, with the employees sitting around holding hands and singing kumbaya by the campfire, etc. don't get reported. As the old saying goes "if it bleeds, it leads". Or to rephrase a bit "If it's negative, it leads". So of course you're going to hear more negative stories, and the news media is going to amplify whatever negative stories exist, because that generates more clicks.

Note that I'm not defending Uber here... I don't know or much care about what's going on at Uber in general. I just wanted to make note of how little it may mean that we only hear negative stories about $X.

Re:Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture by Mz on Thursday February 23, 2017 @05:45PM (#13718580)
I was also thinking of Stallman's analysis of the company, which I saw previously via HN. Having worked for a Fortune 500 company, some of what we know they do looks pretty damning to me, sexism or no sexism.

https://stallman.org/uber.html