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Have you perhaps considered they have an office in Berlin which is staffed by Berliners, and also the drivers who most certainly aren't from San Francisco eithe
by Grue3 12y ago
Have you perhaps considered they have an office in Berlin which is staffed by Berliners, and also the drivers who most certainly aren't from San Francisco either.
- Xylakant 12y agoHave you perhaps considered that the few people in Berlin, even including the drivers (and even including their passengers) represent but a tiny tiny fraction of the people in Berlin or Germany? Probably that sample is not exactly representative either. I mean, Walmart also had an office in Germany and employees, even much more than Uber will likely ever have and retired after clashing multiple time with German labor laws. It took a couple of years, but they eventually packed up and left because their way if doing business was incompatible with what a majority of us regard as proper business ethics. Disruption and all.
- CaptainZapp 12y agoWalmart's Germany problem started with the fact that they installed an American director, who didn't speak a word of German. You may get away with this in Switzerland, but to try this in Germany is just outlandishly stupid.
- Xylakant 12y agoYes, that's where it started. It could have been forgiven. But clashing with the labor unions over obviously illegal practices, now, that's what I call outlandishly stupid. Especially in an already tight market.
- raverbashing 12y agoAs they say: "Culture eats strategy for breakfast"
- Vik1ng 12y agoThey also did not at all understand what German customers wanted. Like no I don't want you do fucking bag my groceries. And no I don't need some strange greeter when I enter the store. WTF..
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- ddeck 12y agoI'm sure they do, but I'd hazard a guess that the staff there are operational in nature and that the decision of how and when to launch there was not done locally.