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Uber CEO on culture: expects weekend email replies, will push out non-performers

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> Even Khosrowshahi sets boundaries around his personal time: Whenever he’s in town, he blocks off two hours to have dinner with his family. > > But just after the meal ends, he’s back to checking his emails at 9:30 p.m., and goes through his inbox again when he wakes up at 5:30 a.m. > > It’s possible to strike some balance while working hard, he insists—but something will always have to give.

"Whenever I'm in town, I carve out two hours to have a family dinner" doesn't exactly scream healthy balance. I suspect that it's mostly off-work time that "will always have to give".

This very much reminds me of the saying that roughly goes "in the end, the only people who remember you working late are your kids/partner".

What a loser

Shoutout to all the CEOs out there putting people through the wringer so they can be billionaires. I’ll literally never take an Uber because of what this guy just said.

Their pay bands aren't too bad, you've made your own million in not too long, or else lived the high life.

...and sell out everyone else in the process? Nah. Hard pass. You're part of the problem. Without people like you playing the arbitrage game, they'd have no co-conspirators to prop up their socio/psychopathic behaviors. They'd have to renormalize. The rest of us may suffer, but you're the one damning yourself and everyone else by being receptive to the manipulation and saying "yes" instead of "no".

Leave these people to muddle their way forward with their hallucinating sycophant machines. Let them turn their large fortunes built on our backs into small ones as the inability of their models to adapt decays, leading them only to madness.

Or, keep doing what you're doing. Trade comfort now for the suffering of your loved one's later. Your choice. Either way, know mine.

I don't work there, my ethics forbid it. Mostly because of their business attitude and history. Turned down an offer during the Travis years.

What does Uber have to do with hallucinating sycophant machines?

Sorry. Was talking a few steps ahead of everyone else not realizing I hadn't filled in the gap.

Was referring to executives fascination with AI to replace human beings. It really doesn't matter the name on the building. There's a type of person elevated to those management positions, and it's specifically for their disconnection from the rest of humanity conferring them the capability to take risks other people bear the cost of. We're going to see a huge uptick in horrible things coming out of non-risk-averse people, because AI tooling won't say "no". As long as they can get away with it without being hindered, the only remaining feedback loop to hold them back is personal blowback. They'll optimize themselves ahead to the point they won't be able to stop the system in the time it takes to realize something is going wrong, and the only thing to warn them that anything is going to happen will be "You're right! Let me get right on that!"

What would you be spending that money on exactly? If you can't afford to unplug on the weekend, spend time with family / friends, then you are poor.

Earlier this year a recruiter contacted me about a staff role there. Within minutes of the call they asked if I’d consider senior instead. I decided not to proceed.

https://archive.is/kSTXg

Uber has employees now ? Since when ?

Sometimes I do genuinely feel sorry for those chasing the dream in Silicon Valley. Its much like Hollywood, where young talent can be taken advantage of easily. The Midwest has its problems no doubt but my lower pay = LCOL and less stress (I know there are plenty of good companies in Silicon valley)

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