<story><title>Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber</title><url>https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s with all the &amp;#x27;this is unbelievable&amp;#x27; comments here?&lt;p&gt;This is absolutely believable, Uber has pretty much made it their standard to break the laws where-ever they can, why should work place conduct be any different? In for a penny, in for a pound.&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;d never hear something even close to this from Stripe or some other company run by upstanding folks.&lt;p&gt;Fish rots from the head.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>I fully expected this thread to be a shitshow, but comments here are overwhelmingly supportive of Fowler, and except perhaps for the very bottom of the thread, I don&amp;#x27;t see much much &amp;quot;this is unbelievable&amp;quot; at all. I&amp;#x27;m pleasantly surprised.</text></comment>
<story><title>Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber</title><url>https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s with all the &amp;#x27;this is unbelievable&amp;#x27; comments here?&lt;p&gt;This is absolutely believable, Uber has pretty much made it their standard to break the laws where-ever they can, why should work place conduct be any different? In for a penny, in for a pound.&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;d never hear something even close to this from Stripe or some other company run by upstanding folks.&lt;p&gt;Fish rots from the head.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brudgers</author><text>If taking a billion dollars from the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia says something about a company&amp;#x27;s stance regarding women&amp;#x27;s equality, what it says is not terribly inconsistent with Fowler&amp;#x27;s story.</text></comment>