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Uber is one of the worst companies on the planet. Their culture seems related to the huge amount of cash the House of Saud dumped on them ($3.5 billion initial
by photochemsyn 5y ago
Uber is one of the worst companies on the planet. Their culture seems related to the huge amount of cash the House of Saud dumped on them ($3.5 billion initially). Their pricing and employment models are blatantly exploitative and their business model seems to be using a huge pile of cash to drive the competition out of business so they can achieve monopoly status:
> "Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said in a statement that the company is partnering with Saudi Arabia to support its economic and social reforms. Uber first began operating in the kingdom in 2014.(businessinsider 2016)."
Their drivers are the absolute worst in my region - see someone driving erratically and staring at their phone and doing Crazy Ivan manuevers in traffic, it's an Uber driver 90% of the time. They're poorly trained and dangerous to everyone else - pedestrians, other drivers and bicyclists.
If there was ever a boycott movement I'd get behind, it's a boycott Uber movement. Might be able to leverage the Ukraine war for this as well, as the Saudi princeling MBS is so in bed with Putin at present (MBS won't take Biden phone calls, but will take Putin phone calls, according to press reports).
- onionisafruit 5y agoUber drivers’ most consistent bad habit of is stopping mid block to drop off or pick up a passenger. If it isn’t a parking spot or a traffic light, you shouldn’t be stopping there.