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My prediction: the manager gets fired, we are treated to a hand-wringing "What We Learned" Medium post, and the cultural disease behind this particular symptom
by sgentle 10y ago
My prediction: the manager gets fired, we are treated to a hand-wringing "What We Learned" Medium post, and the cultural disease behind this particular symptom continues unabated.
What would be nice instead: A serious and in-depth analysis going from incidental to systemic to cultural, like NASA's "oops we dropped NOAA-19" report - https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/65776main_noaa_np_mishap.pdf https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/65776main_noaa_np_mishap.pdf (summary on pages 8-10)
Most companies could stand to learn some lessons from NASA, where cultural failure means dead astronauts rather than bad PR. When their culture is bad, they change the culture. What will Uber do?
- pedrosorio 10y ago"My prediction: the manager gets fired" Impossible. From Susan Fowler's post: "We all gave up on Uber HR and our managers after that. Eventually he "left" the company. I don't know what he did that finally convinced them to fire him. "
- shard972 10y agoThey can always find another scapegoat.
- khazhou 10y agoWouldn't firing the manager, plus the inevitable internal memo, plus the fact that everyone there will be talking about this tomorrow, enough to cause meaningful change within the company? At the very least, this should dissuade managers from soliticing open-relationship sexual partners, on employees' first day. I consider that a major win! :-\
- LordHumungous 10y ago>What would be nice instead: A chasm opens up and sucks Uber into the bowels of Hell, never to be seen again. The tech industry rejoices. ftfy
- aisofteng 10y agoThis sort of rhetoric does not advance any cause.
- LordHumungous 10y agoOh spare me.
- meta_AU 10y agoMistakes were made (but not by me)
- aisofteng 10y agoYou are assuming that these allegations are true. The allegations mention a wealth of tangible evidence, but no such evidence is presented. It may well still be true, but assuming that it is true is, at this point, premature and probably itself biased.
- M_Grey 10y agoI like how you went from, "Don't make assumptions", to "premature and probably itself biased." In three sentences.
- owebmaster 10y agoYou are assuming that these allegations are fake. The allegations mention a wealth of tangible evidence, but no contradiction is presented. It may well still be fake, but assuming that it is fake is, at this point, premature and probably itself biased.
- aisofteng 10y agoI am not assuming they are fake. In fact, I find it highly likely, given Uber': reputation and the clarity of the exposition given, that it is probably true in substance, if not in entirety. There have also been knee jerk reactions and witch hunts orchestrated via the internet based on one side's story or an incomplete story that were later regretted. I do not wish to sugges to cast doubt, but to give a chance for the full story to be heard.