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Uber Apologizes—And Offers an Explanation For—Its Insanely Racist Tweet on Twitter
It seems like every time I turn around, Uber is in the news for all the wrong reasons. There’s the resignation of their head of HR over how discrimination complaints were being mishandled, various assault accusations, that whole #DeleteUber fiasco, and a bunch of other shit I don’t have the time to point out. Yet…
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Man Leaves 2 Pounds of Weed in Uber, Tries to Retrieve It From Cops
A Pennsylvania man who was clearly trying to spread joy to the world during the holiday season discovered that securing the bag was not as easy as it looks. After he tried to retrieve two pounds of marijuana he allegedly left in an Uber, he found himself in handcuffs. WXPI reports that the driver of…
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Watch: Boxer Adrien Broner Continues Quest to Become Undisputed Champion of Assholes
Adrien Broner was once a promising boxer with an oversized personality, now he’s just a mid-level boxer and a world-class asshole. The one-time, self-proclaimed heir to the vacancy left when Floyd Mayweather retired has now been banned from Uber for life after he and some friends harassed and terrorized a driver to Travis Scott featuring…
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Uber HR Head Resigns Over Her Handling of Discrimination Complaints; Allegedly Disparaged Black Execs
I guess Uber’s “chief people officer” was not here for all of the people. On Tuesday, Liane Hornsey, who was, for all intents and purposes, the head of the ride-share company’s human resources department (and one of the firm’s top spokespeople on diversity and discrimination issues)—resigned after a news agency contacted the company about an…
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#RidingWhileBlack: Former Teen Vogue Editor Says an Uber Driver Assaulted, Called 911 on Her
This is America. For scores of black women here—there is always gendered and/or racial violence lurking around the corner. Fortunately, some black women, like former Teen Vogue editor and current media maven Elaine Welteroth, have a huge platform and friends in high places. And because Welteroth does have those things, perhaps her story will inspire…
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Why Do Some of You Suck So Much at Parking?
Every day I get reminders about the inadequacies of public driving instruction in this country. It never fails. I’ll come home, preparing to park my behemoth Suburban along my street—I have on-street parking—and some individual for whom parking in a neighborly way is more inconvenient than economical will put a tiny-ass car smack in the…
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Omarosa Fired From White House for Using Executive Car Service Like a Personal Uber: Report
Who didn’t see this coming? Seriously, I tried to warn y’all that Omarosa Manigault Newman was in the White House like the friend of the guy who got drafted first round in the NBA. You know the friend whose job it is to be the friend. He’s the guy who gets paid to coordinate the…
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Hannibal Buress Asked Cops for an Uber—Then Got Arrested for ‘Disorderly Intoxication’
What a difference an Uber ride makes. Comedian Hannibal Buress’ arrest in Miami this past weekend may have stemmed from a request for the ride-sharing service. TMZ got its hands on the Buress-arrest affidavit, which says that Buress came up to one of the arresting officers with alcohol on his breath and bloodshot eyes and…
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Do You Use Uber? Do You Drive for Uber? If So, Your Information May Have Been Compromised
Last fall, Uber was the target of a massive data breach in which hackers stole the personal information of 57 million people—both users of the ride-hailing service and its drivers alike—and the company hid the breach from the public as it tried to pay the hackers to delete the information they stole. The information stolen…
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Jameis Winston Under Investigation in Grabbing of Uber Driver’s Crotch
Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston is under investigation by the NFL since allegations have surfaced that he groped an Uber driver in 2016. According to BuzzFeed, Liesa Friel, the NFL’s special counsel for investigations, sent a letter to a female Uber driver, identified only as “Kate,” informing her that the league is investigating an…