20 or more fired at Uber after internal probe into sexual harassment and discrimination

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That’s a rather Orwellian requirement. Would you like to be fingerprinted at your job?

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Yeah i don’t care. But i understand why others would have objections to it. In my case i need my job and i can’t say that i would walk away just because they wanted to check my prints against a database.

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Right, most people do, which is why “requests” from an employer are never voluntary.

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Ask all nurses and doctors in Texas.

Ask any member of the Armed forces.

Lots of jobs require fingerprinting.

Welcome to the Future

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Same for traveling, i have family members that need to supply their prints at the airport when entering the US.

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I don’t know if armed forces is a job, per se, but that’s rather fucked up about nurses and doctors. I mean, why?

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I’m just going to leave this damning report involving the top leadership and sexual harassment and discrimination here; because I don’t even know how to snark at it.

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makes me glad I’m doing Lyft now. They aren’t quite as evil as Uber, but they align with my values for the most part.

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Lyft is okay. Several people who I have picked up while doing Lyft say they like it better than uber.

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Because they are highly trained professionals who handle the health and life of others and you don’t want them to be impersonated by someone unqualified?

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How would fingerprinting them help with that?

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As a woman who travels frequently for work, I’ve been encouraged to use Uber and other local such services (including Ride Austin – used it several times) by my employer because they are generally cheaper than taxis. It was with no small trepidation that I climbed into a man’s personal car by myself. It may be just as unsafe to climb into a taxi alone, but for whatever reason, it doesn’t feel so. I have no issue with fingerprinting in this case. Uber includes a feature where you can alert someone that you are getting into the car and they can follow your progress to your destination. Again, as a woman who travels alone on the regular, I want fingerprinting, tracking features and anything else that discourages any type of nefarious behavior.

Also, I’ve yet to encounter a female Uber or other similar service driver, and I use these A LOT.

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Identification.

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How do you identify someone by their fingerprints in situ?

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Database.

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So someone dressed in scrubs is walking passed you. How does that go?

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I don’t understand what you mean. At all.

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I’ll repeat; how do you identify someone by their fingerprints in situ? You see someone, how do you verify them in the moment by their fingerprints in a database?

Let’s be honest; the only reason to collect fingerprints is to manufacture circumstantial evidence against them in criminal proceedings so they can be sucked into the prison-industrial complex as slave labour.

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[quote=“namenotreserved, post:39, topic:102257”]
I’ll repeat; how do you identify someone by their fingerprints in situ?[/quote]
By matching their fingerprints to those in the database. What is it that you don’t understand?

Edit: what do you mean by “in situ”? What context are you speaking about?

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So again, how do you actually do that? Are you going to have people randomly spot checking the fingerprints of people dressed in scrubs in hospitals?