Uber Offering Lyft Drivers Free $50 In Gas, Signing Perks To Switch Teams

Re:Uber Offering Lyft Drivers Free $50 In Gas, Signing Perks... by erex78 on Thursday December 12, 2013 @02:09AM (#6893222)

Does this bother you? Aggressively targeting your competitor's employees? Imagine if Google went to your startup and offered everyone 100K signing bonus to leave. Would this be OK, within the bounds of acceptable competition?

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Re:Uber Offering Lyft Drivers Free $50 In Gas, Signing Perks... by jamesaguilar on Thursday December 12, 2013 @02:11AM (#6893231)

As an employee, I sincerely hope companies are doing this.

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Re:Uber Offering Lyft Drivers Free $50 In Gas, Signing Perks... by praptak on Thursday December 12, 2013 @05:18AM (#6893729)

As an employee I say it depends. What if they just wait after the competitor dies or just loses the contracts and fire the employees afterwards?

Even if I know that the company making the offer has such plans I'm still in a nasty tragedy of the commons with my coworkers.

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Re:Uber Offering Lyft Drivers Free $50 In Gas, Signing Perks... by sliverstorm on Thursday December 12, 2013 @02:11AM (#6893228)

Google and Facebook were doing that to eachother for a while, until they reached a gentleman's agreement to stop poaching eachother's employees.

If memory serves HN was very angry, saying it was collusion to keep developer salaries below true market value.

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Re:Uber Offering Lyft Drivers Free $50 In Gas, Signing Perks... by jamesaguilar on Thursday December 12, 2013 @02:12AM (#6893234)

So was the government. They sued these companies, apple also.

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Re:Uber Offering Lyft Drivers Free $50 In Gas, Signing Perks... by crbnw00ts on Thursday December 12, 2013 @03:11AM (#6893414)

Slight correction: the government went after them for anti-solicitation agreements[1], and then they were sued for salary-fixing by former employees[2].

[1] http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2010/September/10-at-1076.html

[2] http://www.macworld.com.au/news/apple-and-google-face-salary...

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Re:Uber Offering Lyft Drivers Free $50 In Gas, Signing Perks... by CaveTech on Thursday December 12, 2013 @02:20AM (#6893263)

That's almost exactly what recruiters do...

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Re:Uber Offering Lyft Drivers Free $50 In Gas, Signing Perks... by johnhok on Thursday December 12, 2013 @02:38AM (#6893324)

Yup. I recently got a Google recruiter who emailed me at my work email which is not publicly available anywhere.

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Re:Uber Offering Lyft Drivers Free $50 In Gas, Signing Perks... by whywhywhy5 on Thursday December 12, 2013 @04:07AM (#6893550)

As an employer we would be furious. As an employee we would be delighted.

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Re:Uber Offering Lyft Drivers Free $50 In Gas, Signing Perks... by rodgerd on Thursday December 12, 2013 @03:35AM (#6893459)

Why wouldn't it be?

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