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Google will acquire them. They already own shares from a Google venture round

Who would want to acquire a company like that. They'd have to fire all the employees and management to get rid of the bad seed.

The customer and driver network is probably substantially more valuable.

Ha. Probably 70-80% of both customers and drivers are doing business with Lyft, simultaneously. That's the rub of "contract employees".

Why crap on the employees for the lousy behaviour of the execs? You think the average programmer or office manage or designer at Uber is at fault?

The exec influence goes down to the employees. Expect most mid managers and the upper hierarchy to be modelled by the top.

Then about the bottom employees. Think a minute about what employees are left in that kind of environment and the psychological baggage they might carry.

That's silly - it's like saying you guilty of being a citizen of the US under Trump.

And about half of us are

You don't get to pick your president and you can't change it.

However you pick your job and you can leave it anytime you want.

Technically yes. Practically, no.

It isn't so much about crapping on the employees as recognizing reality. Nobody wants a piece of Uber for the office managers or designers.

Why, someone just paid a lot of money to train Uber employees on Google technology

They can rebrand it as Goober afterwards though

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