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UBER CEO MAKES DUBIOUS CLAIM OF ALMOST WORLD RECORD AT WII TENNIS by Rafiki 04/27/2017, 10:23pm PDT
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04/was-ubers-ceo-really-the-second-best-wii-sports-tennis-player/

If you weren't certain Uber was a terrible company with awful leadership, here's 50+ paragraphs and thousands of words in the most asinine investigation ever published:

Last weekend's New York Times profile of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick had plenty of important revelations about Kalanick and the company he runs, both of which have been facing some tough PR lately. But there was one incidental, almost throwaway line buried in the piece that made me stop in my tracks:


"In other personal pursuits, he once held the world’s second-highest score for the Nintendo Wii Tennis video game."


"Time stopped. I slumped back in my chair and unfocused my eyes towards the middle-distance and began contemplating whether this world was real or if I was merely living in a dream."

What's more, the paper of record doesn't hedge its declaration with a "he said" or "he claimed." Kalanick's "Wii Tennis" high score is stated as a fact, and one that piece author Mike Isaac said on Twitter was "triple sourced." (Isaac didn't respond to further request for comment on his basis for the line [because that would be retarded -ed].)



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Uber seems like a terrible place to work. by Johnny Fivedicks 02/26/2017, 9:09am PST NEW
    Yet another reason to push back against Uber lobbying by Silicon Valley 02/26/2017, 1:52pm PST NEW
        Some context by blackwater 02/27/2017, 1:44pm PST NEW
            Well, their SVP of Engineering is gone, semi-related to this by Kenny Mayne 02/27/2017, 3:36pm PST NEW
                Recode is just a pawn, not a player here. by blackwater 02/28/2017, 11:54am PST NEW
                    "Self-drivibg cars will be safer!" by Johnny Fivedicks 02/28/2017, 2:58pm PST NEW
    Women that have been in software dev for 10+ years: "This happens literally NT by everywhere." 02/26/2017, 1:59pm PST NEW
        Corollary: 35+ yrs this literally didn't happen everywhere NT by Concentration and fragility 02/26/2017, 3:29pm PST NEW
            You're a woman with 35+ yrs of engineering experience? by Ryn And 02/27/2017, 8:27am PST NEW
                Re: You're a woman with 35+ yrs of engineering experience? by I am 02/27/2017, 11:28am PST NEW
                    Thank you for everything. NT by Johnny Fivedicks 02/28/2017, 2:59pm PST NEW
    Re: Uber seems like a terrible place to work. by Oom Shnibble 02/28/2017, 11:40am PST NEW
    What a shitty, shitty company. by Johnny Fivedicks 04/24/2017, 5:59am PDT NEW
        Re: What a shitty, shitty company. by Johnny Fivedicks 04/24/2017, 7:12am PDT NEW
    UBER CEO MAKES DUBIOUS CLAIM OF ALMOST WORLD RECORD AT WII TENNIS by Rafiki 04/27/2017, 10:23pm PDT NEW
 
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