Discussion: Uber CEO: Suggestion To Smear Journalists Was 'Terrible'

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Never ceases to amaze me that executives in cyber-based companies really don’t understand how the internet works, and how that anything and everything they say or do can go viral.

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If Kalanick doesn’t fire Michael immediately, his serial tweets are all clearly just BS.

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They must be getting pounded on Twitter. 11-part tweet.

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I am a bit surprised he took to twitter with this, honestly. They should already be in the process of terminating his employment right now, and such remarks only cloudy the situation from a wrongful firing lawsuit position.

So from that perspective, it looks like he won’t be firing him. Yet on the other hand, I don’t think he is going to have much choice once the corporate lawyers have a discussion about potential legal liabilities going forward, let alone what the marketing and PR people are going to be screaming about.

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And yet the man who wants to smear a woman reporter, who he named, still has a job… hmm. It does mean the atmosphere at Uber has not and will not change.

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I want to earn your trust by retaining and protecting the person who doesn’t reflect the company’s values.

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re 9/“Our riders”? I thought they were claiming to be ‘just an app’ in order to evade regulation as a transportation provider.

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This is GOET, reporting exclusively on the TPM comment board that Uber CEO has literally raped, via twitter, Uber executive Emil Michael over insensitive remarks about Sarah Lacy, reporter for news outlet “PandoDaily.” This reporter feels that Emil should resign though Uber CEO did not commit to any such action.

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His avatar is Hamilton? Really?

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It is not about what he said, it is about what he intended to do. This dude has some serious stink on him and if they don’t fire him soon they will be the next Spotify . . . . .

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GOP often misses this as well. But not to our amazement.

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My favorite part was the Twitter apology from the guy. An apology. Via Twitter. How could anyone stay mad?

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Uber keeps striking me as the Craigslist of taxi cab companies. Or whatever the hell it does.

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Seriously. And his avatar should have been a kitten. Who can stay angry at a kitten?

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Even if he does fire the guy (and immediately is no longer an operative word in this case), his tweets are still clearly BS.

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So do the right thing and fire the guy. But I still won’t patronize a scab cab service.

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As a responsible journalist, I am glad to see that you sourced your material.

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“Okay, WTF Is The Matter with Uber?”

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It’s. That. Fucking. Simple.

People who used to be nice and humble and all about making the better mouse trap and innovating and providing a better service, etc., suddenly find themselves richer than they ever imagined and it turns them into fucking c-nts. It’s a fundamental truth of the universe.

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Have seen this @Josh_M, San Francisco Magazine’s Ellen Cushing on Uber’s tactics:
http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/uber-employees-warned-san-francisco-magazine-writer-executives-might-snoop-her