Suicide of an Uber engineer: Widow blames job stress
I think we are missing some information here:
&quot;All suggested that he leave his job, but he was adamant that he could not. &quot;<p>The question is why? what conditions need to occur where a man who most likely can get another job easily enough and who has switched jobs before decides that ending his life his a better course of action then switching jobs.<p>They wrote that he eventually saw a psychiatrist, was he prescribed SSRI medication (I.E. Prozac)? If so, the other articles on HN suggest that that may be the cause, and not Uber&#x27;s work environment.<p>All of that isn&#x27;t to say to Uber&#x27;s work environment is ok, but unless there was some form of coercion to keep the job (debt, noncompetitive wages, medical insurance issues), I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s fare to blame Uber for the suicide. Mass worker exodus or a union is the way to change a company&#x27;s work environment.