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No. Not logical and harmless. Yes, you might very well text the execs to find out what is going on, in plain English, like, "what the fuck is going on"? What yo
by Bud 9y ago
No. Not logical and harmless. Yes, you might very well text the execs to find out what is going on, in plain English, like, "what the fuck is going on"? What you would not do is to send a cryptic, pre-arranged signal, which is what happened here.
- paulcole 9y ago> What you would not do is to send a cryptic, pre-arranged signal Where are you getting this from the article? How do you know it is "cryptic"? Of course it is pre-arranged. Uber is known to run into problems with the government (which includes law enforcement). I'm not surprised there's a protocol for what a manager should do in this situation. If I was hired to work there my first question would be WTF do I do if the police show up? I hate Uber as much as the next fickle HN commenter, but the idea of sending a text/paging a number doesn't feel that odd.
- dane-pgp 9y agoMoreover, we should remember that Uber operate in countries whose police likely have a worse reputation than Canada's, so if the policy of "Page this number if the police (or people claiming to be the police) turn up" is applied uniformly across jurisdictions, that may be perfectly reasonable and a lot safer than Uber trying to make politicised judgements of which offices should be left to deal with the legal and security situation by themselves.