Comment Re:Nope... Nailed It (Score 1) 186
Late is not allowed. Managers don't get bonuses.
Instead, features get 'minimized'. And work very poorly. ie edit xml config file instead of GUI with controls. For a customer of a GUI product.
Late is not allowed. Managers don't get bonuses.
Instead, features get 'minimized'. And work very poorly. ie edit xml config file instead of GUI with controls. For a customer of a GUI product.
Yeah, my company does that.
75 features to be implemented by the end of the quarter.
2 weeks in, cut it down to 50
1 month in, cut it down to 20.
Actually deliver 12 features.
Planning & prioritization are all over the place for the first month. And code freeze is 2 weeks into the second month.
Every single quarter. Why don't the people expecting 75 features every quarter get fired?
I'm just glad I'm not a developer here.
Outside of our national borders, we shouldn't be doing anything with our military. That's the non-arbitrary subset.
Fund the red cross, food banks etc. if we want to help.
But why the military?
You're willing to sit on the sidelines while ISIS engages in a campaign of genocide and ethnic/religious cleansing?
Why were we fine with doing this when the warlords of Africa were doing it? Or Bosnia?
Or anyplace else on this list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
In the US, they'll know where the voters & rabble rousers are.
Yeah, no. Not even close.
Thanks jackass.
He said the 'press said it's bad' ie he believes those incidents didn't happen, they made stuff up.
It's called smearing. Look that up.
Was the dialogue guided to this point by the reporter?
Considering the executive apologized to her personally, fuck yes it was.
Making all your bullshit logical shortcircuits laid bare.
So, you're saying those incidents didn't happen? Because the press is questionable?
WTF kind of logic is that?
So the "blame the rape victim" mentality is ok with you?
No wonder you posted anonymously.
And what I'm saying is that it IS a bad company. And the press pointing that out doesn't make them bad.
uberthreatened
You might want to go read this:
http://pando.com/2014/11/17/th...
Back in 2012, Paul Carr first raised serious concerns about the company’s view that both riders and drivers are disposable commodities in an all-out Randian battle to maximize profits. He uninstalled the app when he wrote that piece, and he started a drumbeat of press around these concerns.
Then, in 2014, Carmel DeAmicis exposed that an Uber driver accused of assault had a criminal record that should have been uncovered by the background checks Uber claimed to do. She further documented a “blame the passenger” culture at the company when such complaints came up.
It started to snowball: An investigation at The Verge exposed cut throat competitive tactics that the company has taken against its primary competitor Lyft.
Then, a few weeks ago, I wrote a story about the outrageous sexism woven deeply into the culture of the company. We’ve seen it in the company’s PR team discrediting female passengers who accuse drivers of attacking them by whispering that they were “drunk” or “dressed provocatively.”
We’ve seen it in CEO Travis Kalanick’s comments that he calls the company “boober” because of all the tail he gets since running it.
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. -- Thomas Jefferson
