<story><title>I am an Uber survivor</title><url>https://medium.com/@amyvertino/my-name-is-not-amy-i-am-an-uber-survivor-c6d6541e632f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jastingo</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not in the business of defending Uber - quite the contrary - but reading through the comments it seems that most people are assuming that this post by an anonymous person is 100% true.&lt;p&gt;These types of posts are worrying to me.  Why could this post not have been crafted by someone at Lyft?  Or one of Uber&amp;#x27;s many other detractors?  Given the PR nightmare that Uber is in why not pile on while the public seems primed for that type of information and stretch out the negative news cycle?&lt;p&gt;Just thought I&amp;#x27;d throw out a word of caution: we know literally nothing about the credibility of this person.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>enraged_camel</author><text>She posted anonymously, BUT also went out of her way to provide an awful lot of information about herself. Information that her ex-coworkers could presumably verify and figure out her real identity (especially since Uber seems to have very few women in engineering positions).&lt;p&gt;Based on the article, she is:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  1) A woman in her late 20s
  2) who used to work at Uber in Engineering working on database and networking scalability
  3) went to a top private college
  4) has a Masters in Information Systems
  5) previous to Uber worked as a Data Analyst in a tech company in the Midwest and left when it was acquired by a Chinese firm
  6) is 5 foot 7 Caucasian with dark hair
  7) never wears high heels
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
So yeah, the target demographic of the article is almost certainly her ex-coworkers. It seems to be a call to action of sorts.</text></comment>
<story><title>I am an Uber survivor</title><url>https://medium.com/@amyvertino/my-name-is-not-amy-i-am-an-uber-survivor-c6d6541e632f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jastingo</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not in the business of defending Uber - quite the contrary - but reading through the comments it seems that most people are assuming that this post by an anonymous person is 100% true.&lt;p&gt;These types of posts are worrying to me.  Why could this post not have been crafted by someone at Lyft?  Or one of Uber&amp;#x27;s many other detractors?  Given the PR nightmare that Uber is in why not pile on while the public seems primed for that type of information and stretch out the negative news cycle?&lt;p&gt;Just thought I&amp;#x27;d throw out a word of caution: we know literally nothing about the credibility of this person.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eropple</author><text>To be frank? Uber gets the benefit of the doubt when they demonstrate that they&amp;#x27;ve earned it. Every bit of smoke I have seen, both online and in my social circles, has had fire behind it. &lt;i&gt;Every one&lt;/i&gt;, without exception.&lt;p&gt;So I&amp;#x27;m going to believe this until I have a compelling reason not to, and &amp;quot;but it could be fake&amp;quot; isn&amp;#x27;t one.</text></comment>