In Japan, company struggles are first blamed on the management chain. Not the employees, not bad luck. The people in charge. If new management can’t sort things out then it must be they workers.

This also appear to apply to subsidiaries in other countries. Given the way Uber has been going, next year is going to get interesting. Given Uber’s struggles, if SoftBank follows the playbook, they won’t touch anything for a full fiscal year. If things don’t improve, expect to see multiple executive heads roll in the second fiscal year, all on the same day. In the third if profits haven’t improved, expect a layoff of regular employees to make the numbers work.

After that, depending on how aggressive they have to get, there could be a whole other set of reasons not to want to work at Uber...