4 ms·
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
by 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 agoDid you just use question marks as quotation marks?
- coffeevradar 9y agoWhat's wrong with doing that"
- c3534l 9y agoI've never seen it before.
- mandevil 9y agoSeems a reasonable text symbol for sarcastic air quotes.
- scott_karana 9y agoNot 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 agoEven worse: he interrupted her talking about research results and started with "Actually, what it shows..."
- icpmacdo 9y agoBasically : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyC_NKEz62A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyC_NKEz62A
- gregpilling 9y agoat least they have new limits on the use of alchohol and illegal drugs at company events! (from WAPO article )