Uber's Shower Gate Scandal

I thought neurotypical people were supposed to understand Theory of Mind[1] and comprehend how people perceive them.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind

Nikki Krishnamurthy - the center of this scandal - came there from Washington Mutual, one of the most famous implosions from the 2008 Big Crash along with Bear Sterns and Lehman Brothers. How she's employable at all is beyond me.

As an aside, does anyone make employment decisions on policies like promised sabbaticals after $x years of service? Everywhere I've seen them, the policies usually have something like a 5yoe cliff, and also are usually revoked in less than 5 years, so it's only really some existing employees close to the cliff that ever get to benefit. Which makes me wonder why they offer this policy in general.

(Even before the post-covid attempt for employers to reassert control, this was a commonly rug-pulled policy)

This comes across as naivety to the point of trolling their own employees. It might be worth following where those particular executives go, and to maybe avoid being involved with those companies with services and the like if you have options.

Reminds me of a friend who was an attorney at a boutique Manhattan firm during the lockdown. Their managing partner was very old and traditional and as soon as legally able demanded every associate return to the office. He, of course, continued to work remotely from his Long Island home.

From the recently hired Senior VP that was giving an award to a regular VP and had the following exchange,

"Charlie, I hear you like Audis. How many do you have?" "I have 2" "Just 2? I have 4"

To the Senior VP who was running that week's all hands and asked "anyone else going to the regatta at X yacht club this weekend?"

And the exec suite getting steaks and salmon delivered on china on the regular while the rest of us got sodexo crap on the daily. These hypocrisies and tone deaf statements are the norm, COVID and RTO just better exposed them.

Our c-suite did a tour a year or two back visiting all our offices around the country. We hadn't quite hit the full RTO order yet, but many of us were already in the office 90+% of the time because we work in labs. One of the execs was talking about how great remote work was for about 10 minutes, completely oblivious to the fact that all of us were in the office 4 or 5 days a week.

It was funny in a pathetic kind of way. The stupidity of people at the top.

During our RTO mandates, and after a huge layoff, we had an executive who was broadcasting in front of her glass wine cellar. The head of technology would address entire rooms full of people from his $5m mansion’s custom engraved kitchen and tell us we weren’t going to have performance based bonuses that year (he was paid double).

I’m fucking sorry, but Elon saying “excess empathy is a societal problem” is one of the most evil things I’ve heard from someone with significant power this century.

This is Sesame Street, preschool, kindergarten level values and morals that people somehow still safe to flaunt. They all walk this path at their own peril.

We all knew that RTO is a layoff. More confirmation is nice, though