Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is taking some time off to work on Travis 2.0, which will probably involve a trip to Burning Man or something.
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is taking some time off to work on "Travis 2.0," which will probably involve a trip to Burning Man or something. BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGES

It’s been hard to keep up with the utter shit storm of Uber issues these days. It seems as if the beleaguered ride-sharing company’s sexism and scandals have reached crisis mode: last week, two top executives were fired or left after their mishandling of a rape case in India, and Tuesday’s board meeting ended with one board member's resignation.

Here’s a breakdown of some of the most recent turn of events as Uber careens down the highway to hell with no exit ramps in sight:

David Bonderman is OUT. At an already uncomfortable meeting on Tuesday, the Uber board member made an inappropriate and sexist comment about an incoming board member. Part of that meeting was focused on the ongoing investigation of Uber’s corporate culture of persistent sexism by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder (which was sparked by former Uber employee Susan Fowler’s scathing dispatch about her time there).

Here’s a transcript of his remarks at the meeting:

While speaking, [Arianna] Huffington pointed out that Uber was adding a woman to its board, Wan Ling Martello.

“There’s a lot of data that shows when there’s one woman on the board, it’s much more likely that there will be a second woman on the board,” she said around six minutes into the recording.

“Actually, what it shows is it’s much more likely to be more talking,” Uber board member David Bonderman said.

“Oh. Come on, David,” Huffington responded.

Dang, dude. You made a sexist comment AT A MEETING ABOUT HOW TO DEAL WITH SEXISM. To Arianna Huffington, no less. Don’t you know better than to fuck with a female mega-media-mogul who probably got a better night’s sleep than you? Needless to say, Bonderman resigned faster than you can say “Siri, get me an Uber.”

And last week, Asia’s top Uber executive Eric Alexander was fired for obtaining (possibly illegally) the medical records of a 26-year-old woman who was sexually assaulted by her Uber driver. It’s already more than wrong, but if it’s true that he did this as an effort to discredit the victim—then it’s also incredibly disturbing, to say the least.

In the wake of that firing, Emil Michael, Kalanick’s right-hand man, left suddenly last week, and no one seems to know if he resigned or was fired. Does it even really matter which, at this point? Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, guys. But be sure to hold it open for…

CEO Travis Kalanick, who is taking a leave of absence from the company he helped start back in 2008. The embattled CEO told employees on Tuesday that he was taking an indefinite amount of time off to grieve for his mother, who died in a tragic boating accident in May. He said he’ll be taking the time to reflect and work on himself: “If we are going to work on Uber 2.0," he wrote, "I also need to work on Travis 2.0 to become the leader that this company needs and that you deserve.”