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According to https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/06/13/a-top-uber-board-member-just-cracked-a-joke-about-women-at-the-worst-possible-time/?hp

According to https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/06/13/a-top-uber-board-member-just-cracked-a-joke-about-women-at-the-worst-possible-time/?hpid=hp_rhp-more-top-stories_no-name%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.5480b857d3c7 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/06/13... One of the Uber board members made a misogynist joke during the company-wide meeting explaining how Uber was going to fix its culture. This is... special.

ljk 9y ago
> fix it's culture its*
- mandevil 9y ago
  Thanks! Fixed.
  - jfktrey 9y ago
    That was fast
Twirrim 9y ago
You'd almost expect that to happen on an episode of The Office.
mandevil 9y ago
Oh God, it gets worse: he interrupted the only female board member to make this ?joke?. His apology has already been emailed to the entire company. This isn't quite a defenestratable offense, but does illustrate the scale of the challenge ahead of Uber.
- c3534l 9y ago
  Did you just use question marks as quotation marks?
  - coffeevradar 9y ago
    What's wrong with doing that"
    - c3534l 9y ago
      I've never seen it before.
  - mandevil 9y ago
    Seems a reasonable text symbol for sarcastic air quotes.
  - scott_karana 9y ago
    Not everyone on the Internet is an Anglophone, nor does every piece of software store and render Unicode correctly. Many languages use different delimiters, and their keyboards might be set up accordingly. Eg, in French one uses ‹single› or «double guillemets», and CJK languages use 《more angle brackets》 or 「corner brackets」. I'm not familiar with question marks being used that way, but let's give people the benefit of the doubt. ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Specific_language_features https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Specific_langua...
- florean 9y ago
  Even worse: he interrupted her talking about research results and started with "Actually, what it shows..."
  - icpmacdo 9y ago
    Basically : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyC_NKEz62A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyC_NKEz62A
- gregpilling 9y ago
  at least they have new limits on the use of alchohol and illegal drugs at company events! (from WAPO article )
avs733 9y ago
To channel Peter Drucker What you see here is culture eating strategies and tactics for breakfast. Recommendations don't change culture, they provide an environment where the cancerous parts of culture can be intentionally removed. Failure to do so just means the cancer comes back as it overwhelms/finds cracks in the recommendations.
chaostheory 9y ago
for anyone against paywalls: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/inside-ubers-hands-meeting-travis-194232221.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/inside-ubers-hands-meeting-tr...

ljk 9y ago

> fix it's culture its*

mandevil 9y ago
Thanks! Fixed.
- jfktrey 9y ago
  That was fast

Twirrim 9y ago

You'd almost expect that to happen on an episode of The Office.

mandevil 9y ago

Oh God, it gets worse: he interrupted the only female board member to make this ?joke?. His apology has already been emailed to the entire company. This isn't quite a defenestratable offense, but does illustrate the scale of the challenge ahead of Uber.

c3534l 9y ago
Did you just use question marks as quotation marks?
- coffeevradar 9y ago
  What's wrong with doing that"
  - c3534l 9y ago
    I've never seen it before.
- mandevil 9y ago
  Seems a reasonable text symbol for sarcastic air quotes.
- scott_karana 9y ago
  Not everyone on the Internet is an Anglophone, nor does every piece of software store and render Unicode correctly. Many languages use different delimiters, and their keyboards might be set up accordingly. Eg, in French one uses ‹single› or «double guillemets», and CJK languages use 《more angle brackets》 or 「corner brackets」. I'm not familiar with question marks being used that way, but let's give people the benefit of the doubt. ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Specific_language_features https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Specific_langua...
florean 9y ago
Even worse: he interrupted her talking about research results and started with "Actually, what it shows..."
- icpmacdo 9y ago
  Basically : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyC_NKEz62A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyC_NKEz62A
gregpilling 9y ago
at least they have new limits on the use of alchohol and illegal drugs at company events! (from WAPO article )

avs733 9y ago

To channel Peter Drucker What you see here is culture eating strategies and tactics for breakfast. Recommendations don't change culture, they provide an environment where the cancerous parts of culture can be intentionally removed. Failure to do so just means the cancer comes back as it overwhelms/finds cracks in the recommendations.

chaostheory 9y ago

for anyone against paywalls: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/inside-ubers-hands-meeting-travis-194232221.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/inside-ubers-hands-meeting-tr...