If the guy is dumb or arrogant enough to get drunk and make off-the-cuff offensive jokes about the press in front of the press and his boss then he should be fired promptly. That he wasn't speaks volumes.
Senior executives of billion-dollar companies do not accidentally have dinner with reporters. The dinner was part of a PR effort. Maybe the guy's really a rube or a loose canon. But personally, my guess is that he "joked" about harming a journalist whose coverage they didn't like because he wanted other journalists to think twice about giving them bad coverage.
Re:We Can't Trust Uber
by droopyEyelids on Monday December 08, 2014 @01:58AM
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People in positions of power are held accountable when they don't take things they're responsible for seriously.
You could joke about fucking with people's privacy because you don't have a huge database of abortion clinic visits and one night stands and children's daycare locations. As soon as you did, people would start holding you accountable.
Re:We Can't Trust Uber
by FlyingSnake on Monday December 08, 2014 @02:58AM
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>Come on people, we make offensive jokes all the time.
>I'm not trying to defend Uber with any of the other stuff
Sorry to break it down to you, but you're infact defending Uber.
in vino veritas
Re:We Can't Trust Uber
by sparkzilla on Monday December 08, 2014 @02:07AM
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His comments were not a joke, but a direct threat against a particular journalist and her family.
lol when will people learn not to drink & make stupid jokes in public ;)
I'm not trying to defend Uber with any of the other stuff, I just think that one particular thing was blown up a little bit more than was necessary.
I prefer Lyft anyway.