That being said, this isn't the first time in the last few years there's been a suit against Tesla. Either this isn't been a focus for management, or their remediation has been deficient in preventing this sort of toxicity from flaring up out in the open.
At Google there is a peer bonus benefit. You can peer bonus someone for doing something awesome. Each peer bonus is $150 before tax. You can list your peer bonuses on your promo packet. You can give as many of these out as you want ... within reason. Sometimes at Google they do something called a peer bomb, where many people will peer bonus a single person.
> "I'm sure that Waymo has done some shady stuff too."
TLDR so what? it's completely unrelated to this case. However, because you asked:
Google (in the Alphabet family) is being/has been sued/investigated for:
- gender pay bias (unrelated to this case)
- antitrust by the EU (unrelated to this case)
- James Damore is preparing a lawsuit (LOLLLLLL and he has no case, also unrelated to this case)
- antitrust by Missouri attorney general (unrelated to this case)
- salary fixing with Apple (unrelated to this case)
So top level's comment that Waymo/Google has done shady shit is true but ... what is your point? There's plenty of stuff we have evidence for, but there's no evidence they've done anything shady against Uber. Hell, geo division launched an Uber integration, the ventures arm even invested in Uber ...
This podcast was pretty good. ISIS were using a Turkish Dropbox like service to move files ... except the service was actually based in France, something a whois on the domain could have easily detected. Fighters have also geotagged tweets/instagram/Facebook posts, which led to a drone strike:
I've been using this on Android for weeks. It's super fast, blocks a lot of annoying ads (think jumpy mobile overlays). No bookmarks or tabs, so if you're looking at a recipe for a dish you're making, there's always a chance it gets wiped. Just use Chrome for that. Highly recommend.
What's up with reductionist posts like this every time a company announces layoffs? Scaling out a global business takes a lot more work than it does to run a no-SLA side project. And you hire people to build out businesses that don't yet exist. When you've overreached, or targets are consistently not being met, you re-org, or, if that isn't possible, you scale back.
> It reminds me of Thomas Edison sabotaging Tesla, and yet, here we are, on A/C.
Dangerous position to take. This is pretty much saying that the ends justify the means, given enough time. That because winners write history, that in the moment, doing whatever it takes to win is more important than operating ethically.
This is incorrect. Ask anyone who has had an insider peek of any on-demand company's finances. The largest cost to all of these companies is employee acquisition, which continues to rise.
Take your own advice and do the unscientific thing of talking to the drivers. How many of them are new? How many are old? Surprising how many of those fall into the first category.
I chose to read this author as someone who very much believes in the black-and-white lines of the letter of the law. He's an interesting guy, for better or for worse. On the one hand, he's the guy who is willing to put his own name on the line to take on Facebook and Google (while consulting for Microsoft) on privacy as well as search result neutrality:
But he's also the same person who used his knowledge and position to bully small business owners. If he's done it once, he's probably done it more than once:
Ford: https://www.hometownstations.com/news/ford-employees-say-rac...
GM: https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/16/us/gm-toledo-racism-lawsuit/i...
Toyota: https://auto.hindustantimes.com/auto/news/toyota-says-it-no-...
Honda: https://www.courthousenews.com/honda-plant-accused-of-tolera...
That being said, this isn't the first time in the last few years there's been a suit against Tesla. Either this isn't been a focus for management, or their remediation has been deficient in preventing this sort of toxicity from flaring up out in the open.