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robofire 

to robofire is to use a dark system or algorithm to deprive a person of their livelihood by sending an automated message and stopping them accessing an app they need to use to do their job. Uber, Ola, and other "ridesharing" companies are known to robofire their drivers in response to arbitrary customer complaints made by pushing buttons on thre app, or their internal algorithms.

Robofiring is often done simply as a means to extert control over workers who have done nothing wrong and who have not had a complaint, by automatically robofiring a whole workforce until they all do a required action like accepting new contract terms or repressive invasive collecgion of personal data.

Robofiring never gives the exact reason for the firing, robofired workers face extreme difficulty in redressing any injustice or correcting false information, and are often refusing information about the reasons for the robofiring.
Uber robofired me 6 times this year - 4 times to make me approve new contracts that came up as blank on my app, once 2 hours after I complained about being attacked by 4 passengers, and once because a passenger who wanted to squeeze 4 people into my back seat ( I refused) complained that I had a non-existent fault light flashing!
That time the Uberrobot kept insisting I supply a receipt for fixing the non-existent fault light, for a non existent component the "air suspension warning light."
robofire by driving woman nz September 26, 2022
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a noob in the game of silkroad, he cant even get to level 70
a character in silkroad online mmorpg that cannot level for the world, this is a robfire
robfire by CptSamir January 8, 2009
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