[MeshugeMikey]

I sense that theres a management problem of massive proportions about to explode over at uber

[cicero2k]

Who’s surprised?

Uber will attract people shunned from employment because of arrest / conviction record.

Is this bad?

If not Uber, these people can only become wards of the state, or commit more crimes.

At least they know to have good Facebook rep, and good reviews.

[Eddie01]

so what

[bgill]

Who knew there was a criteria that taxi drivers had to meet?

[MAexile]

Hmmm, I wonder how many cab drivers have criminal convictions that would bar them from driving a cab, yet they’re still allowed to do so?

[Flick Lives]

The criminal histories recently came to light when a representative of the taxi industry presented a city official with a binder containing citations and court records for eight Uber drivers who were cited for minor violations at the airport over the last 18 months.

There is absolutely no bias involved in the taxi industry. Nope. None whatsoever. By the way, how did the taxi industry collect such an extensive database of info from the police on citation records? Is that all publicly available? If so, one should mine the same info for infractions by taxi drivers.

[centurion316]

If Uber has a problem with their drivers, they will address the problem, or they will be out of business. Criminal checks are readily available as well as other screening techniques. I’ve never used Uber, but I suspect that drivers that receive complaints might find themselves out of the pool before long. That’s how business work. That is not how government and the union works, so once taxi drivers have a medallion or a union driver job, killing a customer is usually the first cautionary threshold. Multiple homicides will might even bring your taxi career to an end.