EXCLUSIVE: 'Today will be your last working day with Uber.' Watch as choked up executive tells 3,500 rideshare employees they are being laid off effective immediately over a three-minute ZOOM call

UK Daily Mail ^ | May 11, 2020 | Matt Clibanoff

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Thousands of Uber employees learned that they were being laid off in a three-minute Zoom call last week. The ride-sharing company informed 3,500 people who worked in customer service and recruitment around the country that it would be their last day working for Uber on the live call. Uber's Ruffin Chaveleau was tasked with breaking the news that the app was 'eliminating' thousands of jobs on the call, obtained by DailyMail.com. Chaveleau heads Uber's Phoenix Center of Excellence - the term the company uses to describe its customer service office. Chevaleau told staff: 'Our rides business is down by more than half. There is not enough work for many frontline customer support employees. [As a result] we are eliminating 3,500 frontline customer support roles.

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I worked at an ISP called Earthlink. In 2003 the ceo came out and held large group meetings and told us the place was closing down. I remember he was flanked by large body guards....
I also sat next to the actor Edgar Buchanan’s son at the time.