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Re:Lyft laying off 13% of staff by darkwizard42 on Thursday November 03, 2022 @01:39PM (#33454605)
I believe the bike-share is their most profitable division. Would it make sense to spin that off? It has a de facto monopoly in many markets it operates in
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Re:Lyft laying off 13% of staff by jeffbee on Thursday November 03, 2022 @02:07PM (#33454980)
That's cool, I am just vaguely concerned about it. They seem to have tacitly abandoned it in the East Bay area.
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Re:Lyft laying off 13% of staff by shoshoshosho on Thursday November 03, 2022 @05:01PM (#33457471)
The maintenance for Citibike is also basically nonexistent, many bikes that feel like peddling through mud
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Re:Lyft laying off 13% of staff by darkwizard42 on Sunday November 06, 2022 @04:28PM (#33497416)
Huh, I feel the opposite. Feels like more and more I get the "next-gen" e-bikes in Manhattan. The older gen e-bikes do feel like they are on their last legs.
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Re:Lyft laying off 13% of staff by darkwizard42 on Sunday November 06, 2022 @04:29PM (#33497427)
From my past time at Lyft, there was a much larger loss and theft issue with East Bay's bikes. Not sure if they figured that out. Used to hear about bikes regularly being pulled out of Lake Merritt.
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Re:Lyft laying off 13% of staff by janeerie on Thursday November 03, 2022 @06:05PM (#33458488)
The one specific person I saw that was laid off today was in their bike-share division, so it apparently is involved in the layoffs.
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