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Didn't Uber used to do this to Lyft et al whenever they show up in a new town?
by berbec 9y ago
Didn't Uber used to do this to Lyft et al whenever they show up in a new town?
- guelo 9y agoNo. Uber didn't use to have lone rogue sales people that were immediately fired when the company learned about it.
- chris_wot 9y agoYeah, but this could break some restaraunts. OpenTable should be compensating those restaraunts affected, at the very least. And this is different in that it didn’t just affect OpenTable’s rivals, affected the third party business directly.
- vamsipk 9y agoIf it was not sanctioned by OpenTable, why should they compensate? If a government employee does this, should the government compensate?
- eridius 9y agoIt was not sanctioned by them, but they're still responsible for the actions of their employee.
- matte_black 9y agoWhat if it was a customer trolling a restaurant they didn’t like?
- cozzyd 9y agoI mean, Chicago pays something like 100 million dollars a year in police misconduct settlements...
- scythe 9y agoYou mean such as in the case of e.g. police brutality or mishandled prosecution? The government is indeed on the hook. It is OpenTable's responsibility to ensure that it hires ethical people and that it encourages them to behave ethically and verifies they are doing so. Anything else would be insanity.
- astura 9y agoYes, the government pays out settlements due to employee misconduct too.
- inetknght 9y agoTake this source from 2014 as you decide, but there have been mainstream news articles in the past stating contrary: http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/11/technology/uber-fake-ride-requests-lyft/index.html http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/11/technology/uber-fake-ride-re...
- tomjakubowski 9y agoguelo's point is that Uber's actions were institutional, and the organization didn't even make appearances to do anything about it
- srtjstjsj 9y agoYou and others missed parent's dry humor. FTA: > it's not just a rogue employee or two
- mc32 9y agoIf true, I don't see the equivalence. If we take OT's response as credible, then it'd be the product of one rogue employee whereas you're claiming Uber did this as company strategy. Time will tell if this was one OT employee's doing or if it was a don't tell and we won't ask policy that accounted for these actions.
- nkokonas 9y agoLikely not credible.
- ChuckMcM 9y agoYes, it is the kind of move Uber has been alleged to do. I give OpenTable props for just firing the person responsible.
- DamnYuppie 9y agoWhy do people always believe the story that there was a solo perpetrator who acted alone and without the consent of the organization? Most likely they were nothing more than a sacrificial pawn in this scheme.
- imron 9y agoI'm just surprised they admitted it was an employee and not an 'intern' or 'third-party contractor'.
- geomark 9y agoThat brought to mind Sunday's Dilbert comic. http://dilbert.com/strip/2018-03-04 http://dilbert.com/strip/2018-03-04
- nkokonas 9y agoCorrect. They have a pattern of this behavior IMO. See my Medium post on this subject, linked in the Eater article.
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- calt 9y agoWhich brings up the topic of responsible disclosure of security vulnerabilities and leaked credentials.
- xkcd-sucks 9y agoScrewed over a rival, and got to fire that dude who's a bad cultural fit.
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- pfarnsworth 9y agoUber and Lyft both did it to each other during the early days.