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I happen to know that the former country manager of Uber in Malaysia used driver personal information to bully and then swindle a gig worker at another (but not
by mys_throwaway 9y ago
I happen to know that the former country manager of Uber in Malaysia used driver personal information to bully and then swindle a gig worker at another (but not competing) gig-economy startup.
Long story short, he pressured the worker into doing a gig for free if he could guess his birthday. Not quite a fair gamble considering he knew the guy's birthday from when he'd signed up as a driver for Uber.
This would still be a terrible misuse of confidential information if he'd stopped at the poorly executed joke, but the highest ranked Uber employee in Malaysia instead insisted the marginally employed freelancer hold to the agreement.
- 0xB31B1B 9y agoWhat does this have to do with lyft?
- mys_throwaway 9y ago- The linked article alleges employees at Lyft abused information. - Lyft is a direct competitor of Uber. I think my account of an employee at Uber, and not just any employee, but a country manager, committing a worse abuse is fairly relevant to the topic.