Ah, the arrogance of the techno-elite āWeāre so important that your public transit stops are of secondary concernā
If you canāt afford it, itās time for you to leave.
Christ
what
an
assHOLE.
(EDIT: So the guy turned out to be a union organizer. I no longer think heās an asshole, but I disagree with what he did. Donāt make shit up: it gives the real assholes ammunition.)
Look, if you can't pay your rent, I'm sorry. Get a better job.
There needs to be a term for this. I think of it as ādeafness caused by privilegeā but thereās got to be something catchier to sum up this level of stupidity.
āturd sandwichā works well.
āI have money; I donāt live in anything as trivial as a world!ā
Wow. How not to win friends and fail to influence people.
I guess Google doesnāt host ācompassion research daysā. In any event, he got me out, so I guess he can rejoice in one victory during that cab ride to Mountain View.
as an ex-15 year+ native of the Mission, I have never been happier that I left, and sadder for my friends still there.
fuck that guy, and his ilk.
Well, you know what, what donāt you go to a city where you can afford it? You know, this is a city for the right people who can afford it. If you canāt afford it, itās time for you to leave.
I donāt think I have ever seen an example of elitism more clearly demonstrated than that utterance. (and Iāll bet he actually thinks heās āpretty coolā.)
I find myself actually wishing for āthe big oneā.
News flash: tech workers are socially inept, kind of dickish when interrupted.
FFS, the Google bus system is one of the most progressive systems for transporting employees in the world, and responsible for taking thousands of cars off the road, and thatās what you protest? Methinks the protestors need to get a better understanding of the actual causes of gentrification. And get on the zoning commission, and force mixed-income development.
Yeah, F that guy for trying to get to work right?
ācorporate use of public stops and streets being a hot-button issue in the city, tied as it is to rapid gentrificationā
It seems that a corporation providing mass transit for their employees to get to work would not only be environmentally sound, but would also serve to alleviate a slight bit of the horrendous traffic problem in the city.
Unless Googleās buses are somehow interfering with the public buses use of the transit stops, I fail to understand the purpose of the protestā¦
Yes, the guy comes off as a bit of a jerk, but heās obviously frustrated and just trying to get to work. On the CWAA scale, heās at a 1 of 10.
Heās also right, it makes sense to live somewhere where you can afford the rent, thatās why I donāt live in San Francisco myself.
The protesters are keeping people from going about their business, blocking the path of a private bus. Whatever the issue, however righteous it is, thatās not right. Iām sympathetic to their overall cause of seeing to it that long term residents arenāt priced out of their own city, but I canāt consider this a good way to go about it.
In a just world, that doucebag would get to work and then be summarily fired under a catch-all clause of āBringing The Company Into Disreputeā - then he could not pay his rent and could move out of the city, having been deemed to be not āthe right sort of personā - and he should be happy about it too. ā Same sentiment might apply for the Union man organising a tedious false flag exerciseā¦.
I get the sense that this might be the start of a very bad week for Mr. Right Peopleā¦
News flash: tech workers are socially inept, kind of dickish when interrupted.
So itās because heās a tech worker that the guyās a dick? Or is there another reason youāre making an excuse for him? Sorry, doesnāt add up.
FAAAAKE.
Iāve updated the post and headline to reflect this:
As someone who was born in SF lives there now and is not in tech .
What points was he wrong about ? im in the transportation industry with what I would assume is much less formal education than this guy and i agree with him , I cant move to Malibu or Manhattan and complain about the cost of living .
āA city of 7 million peopleā absolute evdience this protester is not from San Francisco either !
There are not even close to 7 million people that live in SF
I was thinking the exact same thing. This guy is an a*hole, but what are these protestors accomplishing? Oh, weāll remove one ācorporate shuttleā off the streets, and weāll add 10-15 cars on the road. This will help resolve the issue?!
