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The most effective way of combating this for Uber would be to start doing deeper background checks, live interviews, in-depth assessments, customized testing on
by tavavex 8mo ago
The most effective way of combating this for Uber would be to start doing deeper background checks, live interviews, in-depth assessments, customized testing on their drivers. Mandate video and audio recordings in the car that's streamed to them. Impose harsh penalties on harassment, including immediate dismissal and mandatory police reporting. You know, act like a real employer.
Right now they have all the reasons in the world to be as hands-off on their checks as they can be. They don't behave like a business with employees. It costs nothing to accept almost anyone and then just weed out the worst of the worst to avoid brand damage.
But making these changes would cut into the bottom line too much. They want all the unemployable and dangerous people to work for them because they're so desperate that they'll accept the meager pay. So instead of making any deep, difficult structural changes, they ask the software team to add a checkbox to the app. The checkbox itself is fine by me, but it's just them taping over an issue that stems from the way they do business.
- kelseyfrog 8mo agoThat sounds like a great solution. In the time between now and when that gets implemented, I'm more than happy with the stopgap. Dear readers, if you wish to get rid of the stop gap, advocate for this.
- scoofy 8mo agoYou don't get to say "these people's rights are inconvenient, so until we make it more convenient, I say we ignore their rights." We either care about sex discrimination everywhere, or we don't care about it anywhere.
- kelseyfrog 8mo agoQuick question, are you attracted to one gender?
- scoofy 8mo agoIndeed I am.
- kelseyfrog 8mo ago[flagged]
- scoofy 8mo agoSex discrimination is about equality employment and housing rights. Not about who you have to be friends with.
- kelseyfrog 8mo agoAll I'm hearing is carve-outs and exceptions. "But when I do it, it's ok." If you're excluding people based on sex/gender it's discrimination. We either care about sex discrimination everywhere, or we don't care about it anywhere. Everywhere includes public and private life.
- scoofy 8mo agoAll I’m hearing is bad-faith nonsense built on intentionally ignoring the concept of civil rights. Why go on the internet and do this? Honestly. You know that your line of argumentation doesn’t even remotely care about being serious, yet you make it anyway. Why? To waste my time?
- kelseyfrog 8mo agoBro, your argument is a joke. What should a woman in this position do? Look at the options and think to herself, "I could choose a woman driver, but I won't because that is discriminatory to men and I should accept the risk"? Put yourself in her shoes. I don't mean this metaphorically. Put on women's clothes, makeup, and order an uber. In the time it takes for it to arrive, notice the thoughts that appear in your mind and get back to me.
- xiphias2 8mo agoThere are even simpler things: the rating system. There's no guarantee that the driver won't see what I rated him, so I won't report them. There are ways to report if a man has been sexual with a woman, but they somehow just don't get kicked out of the driver network. Also just a simple example: Uber engineering blog is full of examples of how they rewrote their app in native Android then web then native again, but nothing about how to solve the real problems humans experience when driving with them. It just feels that they view Uber as a simple logistic problem where drivers / riders are interchangeable and less like Tinder that tries to match people with similar scores abd kicks out the worst.