Uber Fires Anthony Levandowski

Re:Uber Fires Anthony Levandowski by sillysaurus3 on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @03:22PM (#14447762)

There are many ways to make an employee's life worse without doing anything illegal. You tend to see them in dysfunctional companies.

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Re:Uber Fires Anthony Levandowski by jacquesm on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @03:40PM (#14447914)

Yes, but usually not in the middle of lawsuits that spell 'doom' in large letters for the eventual loser(s).

Uber has one and one chance only to get this behind them: to play by the book and to ask 'how high' when the judge tells them to jump. If they try anything funny they can expect the ROI of that to be substantial and negative.

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Re:Uber Fires Anthony Levandowski by sillysaurus3 on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @04:03PM (#14448111)

I agree, but the topic had diverged somewhat.

OT, have you noticed an increase in superfluous downvoting? I'm not really complaining, just trying to figure out if I'm imagining it or if it's randomness doing its thing.

Since HN has become so much bigger, I wonder if the mods could scale down the effect of downvoting. E.g. make it take two downvotes to make a comment appear at 0.

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Re:Uber Fires Anthony Levandowski by jacquesm on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @04:18PM (#14448210)

Happens all the time, I wouldn't worry about it, just ignore it.

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Re:Uber Fires Anthony Levandowski by sillysaurus3 on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @01:53PM (#14454514)

Ok, I wrote a tampermonkey extension to hide the effects of being downvoted: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/9d681310f4714277a37832643c...

It removes scores from your comments and replaces your karma counter with "(9999)".

HN is much more pleasant now.

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Re:Uber Fires Anthony Levandowski by jacquesm on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @02:44PM (#14454912)

Hah, that's a cool solution.

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Re:Uber Fires Anthony Levandowski by sillysaurus3 on Thursday June 01, 2017 @07:36AM (#14459432)

I submitted a better version at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14456200

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Re:Uber Fires Anthony Levandowski by tjalfi on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @11:41PM (#14450282)

Here is an example from a previous job.

The location was a factory for a company you have heard of. Temporary employees were 99 and 44/100% of the workforce. One staffing agency, call it Agency A, had the main contract for the site and they were required to give some of the work to their competitors. It was policy to assign temps from other agencies impossible schedules so that they would quit and be replaced by temps from Agency A.

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