In the leaked video, Ruffin Chevaleau, the head of Uber's Phoenix Center of Excellence in Scottsdale, Arizona, is seen telling viewers that Uber's business is down by more than half."With trip volume down, the difficult and unfortunate reality is there is not enough work for many front-line customer support employees," she said."As a result we are eliminating 3,500 front-line customer support roles. Your role is impacted and today will be your last working day with Uber.
Viewers would remain on payroll until a date in their severance package, she said. "I know that this is incredibly hard to hear," said Chaveleau, who appeared to get emotional."No one wants to be on a call like this. With everyone remote and a change of this magnitude, we had to do this in a way that allowed us to tell you as quickly as possible so that you did not hear it from the rumor mill.
"We're focused on navigating through this crisis that absolutely leaves us in a position, a stronger position, as the world starts to recover," Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said Monday during a call with analysts. He has said he would give up his base salary due to the crisis. He went on to say the company faced"tough decisions like reducing costs … decisions such as refocusing some of the investments that we're making to make sure that we're focused in our core. And it is our belief that ride-sharing as a category is going to bounce back when the recovery starts and will be one of the early services that bounces back as cities get going again."
Crass big time.
Hopefully just temporary as they will be needed again when things get better.
Now the employees felt how uber drives got when their account was deactivated for no reason. Sad