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Bill Gurley Is Leaving Uber’s Board

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198 points 101carl | 1 comments | 22 Jun 17 00:23 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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johan_larson ◴[22 Jun 17 01:32 UTC] No.14609498[source]▶
I remain flabbergasted by all of this upheaval at Uber. What's happening is the sort of housecleaning I would expect if the company had to file for bankruptcy or got caught flat out bribing judges or something. But really, what triggered all this was acting like jerks.

It seems to me, what should have happened (a long time ago) was that they got shut down for systematically breaking the law, or encouraging others to do so. That would have made sense.

But instead they are getting flayed alive by not much more than bad press for being jerks. Makes no goddamn sense.

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stale2002 ◴[22 Jun 17 02:39 UTC] No.14609754[source]▶
Sexual harassment and retaliation against employees for reporting it is not "just being jerks".

It is illegal.

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013a ◴[22 Jun 17 04:50 UTC] No.14610189[source]▶
No it is not. The word "illegal" gets thrown around way too much; it has a very specific definition in law, and nothing you described is illegal.
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1. guelo ◴[22 Jun 17 04:59 UTC] No.14610220[source]▶
Huh? Sexual harassment and retaliation are both illegal under the Civil Rights Act.