I don’t feel safe commuting to work in NYC

yes, their deaths were tragic and the people responsible for them should be in prison for the rest of their lives, but a sample size of 2 in a city of millions is statistically insignificant. In 99.999% of circumstances my aforementioned advice is sufficient. 

Okay, but statisically, the MTA is pretty safe. The odds of you randomly getting shot on the train are incredibly low. Even knowing that, I understand why people are afraid, and I am also a little bit afraid as well, but that's just life. 

You’re exponentially more likely to have a deadly car accident than get attacked by a stranger. Imagine if there was a newspaper article everytime someone died in the car… people need to stop being so naive and ignorant.

It's so easy to take individual cases such as Daniel's and Michelle's to create an outcry of an overpowering dangerous subway environment, but if you just take a second to look at contextual evidence, you should realize that things are not as bad as it seems. You don't get an article everytime there is a death by accident in NY. 

You are much more likely to die commuting to work every day by car than by taking the subway. Just in the first three months of 2022, "At least 59 people have been killed by vehicular collisions" in the city. Finding similar say for subway-related fatalities is more difficult, as you need to isolate suicides for example, but in the span of 4 years, there were only 211 subway-related deaths (I'm sure we can do the math to realize its a much lower chance). Add on to this fact that just last Thursday, 3,413,579 people rode the metro to work. There is a very small chance of something fatal happening. 

For sure, there's the risk of non-fatal things like assaults, but even then cases are unlikely especially in heavily populated metro lines and just using basic street smarts. There's evidence that even if there's a minor uptick in crime now, its far below not too far back levels of violence: "There were 335 major felonies this year, compared with 697 during the same time in 2020 and 559 in 2019, according to police statistics. During a higher-crime era, the numbers were a lot higher, with 1,449 major felonies in the first quarter of 1997." [Link]

For such a data and analytics oriented industry, its fascinating how prone people still are to sensalization and bias despite evidence showign the contrary 

Is crime a growing problem, yes it certainly is. But if it’s really bothering you that much you could get active and convince people to stop voting for absolute lunatics who think letting criminals with a dozen arrests walk on $1 bail is the ethical thing to do. Otherwise, I think you’ll be fine.

I am not a leftist. I oppose leftists 90% of the time. Its just ridiculous that people are blowing a statistical anomaly like the referenced events completely out of proportion. Literally 3 million people ride the subway every day. You're telling me that you are justified in worrying about an event with this likelihood?

Pretty sure the odds of dying in an uber (or any car) are higher than dying on the subway. 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! What planet do you live on dude?

The company pays you cash. You decide how to get to work and how much to spend and whether that is worth it relative to the compensation. Real simple man.

Do they need to provide you with lunch as well or do you think that you can handle that? Welcome to becoming an adult!! 

I only mentioned that I'm a small girl because it's not uncommon for us to encounter alarming situations while on the street. I want to stress that things have gotten drastically worse, though, over these past months.

I said that thinking you’re a dude, but even as a small girl you need to sack up. People just like you take the subway with no issue, just don’t be a dumbass

So I’ve always been a person that said things like “sack up, it’s a giant urban city and public transit is statistically safer than almost anything else.”  But I’ve started commuting and talking about commuting with my GF (a small girl) and the amount of shit she gets on the train is astounding. It’s like a different experience than what I get as a guy. Homeless people approaching her at 10x the rate it happens to me, annoying guys sitting next to her and trying to talk, etc. idk exactly where I’m going with this but just want to say that your concerns are valid but that most guys don’t appreciate it until they’ve seen it. 

When tech giants get company ping pong tables, bean bags, gyms, kombucha bars, we should get company chartered buses that makes a stop at the middle of maybe 3-4 popular neighborhoods in the morning on a schedule between 8am -10am. Only destination is the office so these buses would speed by compared to MTA. And you’d have to swipe in with your company ID card to board. This is genius, someone forward to David Solomon et al.

From the article: "The fare will be based on Uber’s pricing and policies, including surge pricing, which can significantly increase the cost at peak times."

what i meant was just yellow cabs but taxi company developed an app on their own rather than Uber.  

You bring up points related to topics I'm actually very passionate about.

I am also pro-capitalist, but I don't believe capitalism was or is meant to exist in a vacuum. Capitalism was meant to exist in unison with morality.

Human centered capitalism… Yang 2020

 I don’t support the progressive left. They offer the hint of extra crumbs for their constituents at the cost of having freedoms sacrificed. Their entire ideology requires a sacrifice of power to a large centralized government in exchange for ambiguous monetary benefit. The national government as is is already bloated as is and has too much power. There are endless historical examples as to what happens when a large centralized government is given sole power to “fairly split” essential goods (see Stalin, Mao, etc.)

Trying to pass along added fees in a slower market is going to lead to client loss.

You also have to remember that providing morning Ubers means a lot of middle/back office people who weren’t previously covered under the night Ubers would need to be and they can’t just be expensed on to an unrelated IB client. 
 

The bank will be losing money no matter what path is taken to expense the rides. 

You’re trying to construct a slippery slope where none exists. OP isn’t asking for work clothes or food to be paid. OP is simply asking to be provided some sort of safe transportation (can even be a company bus) to and from the office so she can actually make it to work safely and not get shot at, assaulted, or robbed in the process. Buying a car is unrealistic because a lot of buildings which juniors can afford don’t have enough (if any) parking spaces due to the density of the city and even the office may not have enough parking in reasonable proximity. 

yeah its over like a 12 year period so not to alarming. But I also live in Queens so this is not really directly where I live.