Unicorn Riding Scooter In Fatal Crash

Editor's note: This is an excerpt of Planet Money's newsletter. You can sign up here. In late March, the scooter-sharing company Bird invited about a third of its employees to attend a thirty-minute "COVID-19 update" via Zoom. The meeting only lasted about two minutes, and it wasn't really an update. With what one employee later described as a "robotic-sounding, disembodied voice," an executive told the 406 employees they were fired.