Strava employee goes crazy on drugs and alcohol in San Fran

Huh, did you or your wife get into something like this and is that why you are trying to somehow salvage this situation? She deserved her punishment. Broadcasting is a powerful deterrent to such awful behavior.

I still stand by my disdain about it all being broadcast. That’s the key, not the filming.

I’m not against her getting punished or forced into treatment. She could easily be punished by the criminal justice system.

People hand over the video to the cops and she gets arrested for assault or disorderly conduct. She hires a lawyer. It gets pled down. Etc.

I’ve long thought about this. Soon we’ll have the ability to record a video of every moment of someone’s life. Would you want a drone following you around and broadcasting it all? Yes, it’s accurate but seems like overkill to me.

I live in Dallas and everything you described is here and I wouldn't say it's paradise.

Dallas has far more green space than SF including the largest hardwood forest in a US major city. Has one of the best research med schools (UT SW). Architecturally SF is both beautiful and ugly which matches Dallas. There are so many houses/condos over the hills in SF with so few trees it really looks like a place that was once beautiful like the north bay. Dallas still has trees even in the ghetto. Dallas has the American clothing brands Neimon marcus and JC Penney.

Dallas has plenty of drugies and homeless people but visibly it's about 1/10th for a city 2x the size of SF. SF is not all that. It was 10-6 years ago but I still chose Dallas when I got my 2 job offers in both cities so glad I avoided having to pay endless rent with a salary of mostly funny money and a company that had rampent sexual favors for promotions (Uber).

Dont get me wrong I could spend a long time complaining about Dallas too but if I'm gonna have to pay an arm and a leg to live in northern California SF and parts of Oakland are where I would avoid living and just about everywhere is IS paradise up there

Pretty funny

Keeping it classy. Nah, man, she's whacked on the Junk. She started it with the phone in their face. People have this weird idea that if they record something they will get rich. She got what she wanted, just the wrong phone.

According to the article, the server identified they were intoxicated and "perhaps on some other substances". My money on why Strava fired her is drug abuse, not her public behavior.

First of all the restaurant worker should be done for assault. He pushed her over at the end of the video.

Secondly the man in the red jumper should have just dragged her out of the restaurant straight away.

Thirdly, they all probably record their runs in km. Strange people.

This is Orwell’s 1984 and we (collectively) are big brother. Cameras are everywhere… front door, traffic lights, Uber dashcam, drones, inside stores peering into the cash register, baby monitors, sidewalks, hotel lobbies, airports… everywhere. It’s more than just folks with cellphones.

Come on. She was out of control and ended up being violent. Furthermore, she was taping the employees trying to ruin their lives. I consider myself an empathetic person but its hard to find any sympathy for her.

That's right, and we are collectively willing in our compliance. Carrying around tracking devices and filming each other for the authorities as well as the vigilante crowd. It sucks but it's too late to put that genie back into the bottle.

And soon it will be smart glasses live streaming 24/7.

No surprise that rojo agrees with the perp's sense of entitlement, either.

Everywhere except the Brown University campus apparently.

Whether you like it or not, the rules for public behavior are different when employed by a company that has a massive image to protect like Strava. If she was some midlevel supervisor at a manufacturing company in North Dakota (sorry to pick on you ND) she'd still have job, because her employer is meaningless. So if you want to work for a splashy company that looks good on a resume, just be aware different societal rules apply for your behavior. Which at this point, I thought we all knew, but I guess not.

Wow you are so stupid it hurts. Let’s start with your most crazy statement because you literally can not focus for sht on what actually happened. The guy you are calling the bouncer is the bartender. The one she assaulted and refused to let go of his hair. She then came back to attack him again and he defended himself from that. Seriously how can you not tell that is the same person? You should not be allowed to just attack people and face no consequences. I’m guessing you have had a few drinks in your day because if not something has to have effed your brain to be as stupid as you are. I’m filming someone accosting employees too. I’m on the good people’s side. Not the drink people trying to ruin it for us normals. Seriously hang ‘em up because your last 2 weeks on this board have been Mitch McConnell level stupid.

Probably Impalas

Agree with all of this. Sure she was drunk and belligerent but this happens the world over every night. The staff actually escalated the situation, particularly the woman who tackled her in the restaurant and the guy who later tripped her. Also, agree about the people filming her just stirred the pot. None of it was helpful and it helped aggravate the entire situation. This is something a sober, mature adult could have handled in about 5 minutes by simply walking her outside and calming her down outside all of the provocation. A UK type de-escalation police officer would managed this easily. People in the U.S are so unsettled at the moment that they seem to be itching for a fight or for something dramatic. Where is just normal human decency when someone is clearly off the rails for a bit? Finally, corporate America certainly cuts people loose. How is this in any way related to her job? If no one had posted where she works, this would would have just been a regrettable night instead of something she will have to explain forever moving forward with her career. Imagine trying to find a job in this marketplace now. Not at all defending her behavior, which was awful, but pointing out that the responses were completely exaggerated and reflective of our social and corporate culture at the moment where no one looks out for each other.

Yes! I agree!

In all seriousness, a few things after studying this and thinking... in case any of you care:

-The guy in the red sweater... her partner, presumably... was so messed up that he probably thought he was in Disneyland. He couldn't have done anything, and I think that is why no one really messed with him. In most drunken situations, this woman's guy would have gotten cold clocked by someone at the bar who just likes hitting people. They are out there, believe me. But he was clearly in another world and it looks like everyone kind of realized that he was not a threat and probably more of a liability should he get hurt.

-The lady is on some sort of upper like coke or meth because she got absolutely drilled into the ground inside the restaurant and popped right back up and kept on going... a drunk (that isn't a common bar fighter) would have been on the ground a while and likely called it a night after that first leg sweep.

-I have zero sympathy for the footage going viral because she started it by shoving her camera in their faces and threatening them.

-In general, I am VERY against filming this kind of thing. I hate smart phones and I am starting to hate most people in general. I don't like the internet, social media, smart phones, Spotify, any of it...

-Long-hair guy was fine tossing her at the end of the video, albeit he could have been a little less forceful. But she literally pulled him outside by his hair - you can tell he loves talking about his "very long hair" in the article/interview btw, and they are sweet locks - and she struck him and other employees/customers numerous times. I would not have done it myself, because she is a woman and he could have just stiff-armed her. But he is allowed to defend himself against an attack.

-My guess is that this relationship is not going to last. She told him to "be a f---ing man" after she was thrown to the ground and he came crawling over to see if she was okay. You don't come back from that. Watch the Swedish film Force Majeure to see how these situations work out. Even though she was in the wrong, he can't come back from that. It is now set in stone.

Great job cancelling your Strava Subscription!

Welcome to the club!

I quit years ago and never looked back. Your running will improve, the quality of your runs, i.e. your perception of what a gift running is, and enjoying the fresh air, the trees, will also improve.

Dont worry there is high quality running life after Strava.

if you’re on the fence about Strava, ditch it completely. A small tweak to make your lifestyle simpler will make a big difference.

Agree with you 100% Rojo. I really don’t like a world where any mistake, low point in life, etc. could easily be recorded, published, circulated around the internet, etc. and cause permanent damage. It sucks, but maybe we get to a point where enough people have ~some~ bad PR on the internet that most people are able to look past it.