Mind you, he was a journalist working off of leaks, presumably from disgruntled employees (of which there were many in the high attrition era), and he obviously had a journalitically oriented profit motive of his own.
So take it with a grain of salt, I guess.
Have we forgotten how Uber's casual abuse of "god view" was revealed when the then head of Uber New York met the reported he was scheduled to talk to by causally admitting, "I was tracking you." And then it came out that Uber employees were using it track exgirlfriends, journalists and celebrities?
How Uber instituted a vast program to specifically track government law enforcement agents to aid in their wholesale blatantly illegal operations.
How Uber's HR actively protected textbook sexual harassment. Specifically, a manager explicitly and in writing soliciting sex from a direct report?
How Uber's ATG was founded on the theft of Google's (now Waymo's) LIDAR technology.
How Uber execs famously complained that they weren't "killing enough people" with their self-driving tests.
How Uber routinely ignored and denied documented safety concerns in many markets, particularly in India?
But yeah. Anyone that exposes these actions trash, and not the demigods that oversaw and encouraged them.
What I "love" is people talking as if they are subject matter experts on shit they only read about in the news and have no first hand experience with. Gell-mann amnesia and all that.
That’s the unpaid damage control.
And now the very guy that said “take [the documented and admitted gross misconduct] with a grain of salt” is shocked — “shocked”, I say — to be called out on his very actions, ignoring the very words written here visible to everyone?
Amazing!
Nobody is implying any of the scandals were fake, but there was one other comment in the thread wondering about whether superpumped is sensationalized, and these are my two cents wrt where the source material for that book / TV series comes from.
Nobody is implying anyone was lying either. Plenty of people were disgruntled because yeah sexual harassment etc are fucking BS. Doesn't mean they're gonna go around lying about stuff, in fact a number of people built up the guts to come forward w/ their own horror stories after Fowler. But you are only going to hear those stories, not the ones about the board member that got kicked out for sexist remarks or the people that got fired after HR investigations, because those aren't outrage-bait. That's what I mean by taking it w/ grain of salt when consuming media.
Also, whatever damage there may be was already done years ago, so there's nothing to "damage control" at this point anymore. As GP implied, people tend to hold on to weak opinions strongly for stuff that frankly they don't even have any reason to be emotionally invested in, and I sure as hell am not interested in trying to "convince" you of anything.
It’s no different than saying that regular health screenings for preventable diseases are encouraged by doctors, but doctors have a profit motive, so maybe you shouldn’t, but definitely don’t talk to any doctors, because they might be lying to you for money. Or that the idea that smoke detectors should be placed outside of every bedroom is a plot by Big Smoke Detector to sell more smoke detectors.
If you want to insist on thinking that I'm trying to gaslight you or whatever, you're ignoring the forum guidelines ("assume good faith") to the detriment of your HN experience and that's your problem, not mine. I'm going to go touch some grass now, I hope you do too. Cheers.