Protest at SF City Hall After Soccer Conflict with Dropbox, Airbnb Employees

Selling reservations for fields that often are in use by locals is guaranteed to start fights; what on earth was the parks department thinking?

So... let me get this straight. A group of people (it doesn't make any difference that they were Dropbox/Airbnb employees) show up to play a game on a field they reserved through the proper channels and they find the field occupied so they ask them to leave. Why are they the bad guys here? If a neighborhood family had reserved the field for a soccer themed birthday party for a 6 year old, would they have been blasted like this? Doubtful. But oh snap... we have some techies so let's blast them for following the rules. Stupid.

I&#x27;ve always seen the ability to reserve parks for usage like kickball leagues and the like, but only a few days out of the week were reservable.<p>It looks like this was a similar situation, so why would anyone feel &quot;slighted&quot; because someone made a reservation?

I&#x27;ve just read this and the whole story sounds extremely weird to me... I don&#x27;t know how things are done over there in SF, but from my point of view there&#x27;s no need to go to a City Town Hall to solve this...you book online, show up and play. It looks more a way to feed the Tech Hype rather than a real problem but...

Pretty clueless of Dropbox employees to kick people out of the park.<p>Give up the game, but let people know about the reservation system; offer company funding to book community sessions; get someone else to do the enforcing so it&#x27;s them who look bad.

This is a good lesson in economics for the kids. When something is in demand and it has limited supply, the price increases. Simple as that.

Look, I am a doctor in San Francisco, cardiac anesthesiologist, did my residency at Harvard and fellowship at Mount Sinai. So, I am not a piece of crap. But everywhere I go I repeatedly see smug and condescending behavior from techies toward everyone else, including me. This behavior is everywhere: in bars, restaurants, bus stops, etc, etc. Get a grip, people, you are no better than everyone else!

Must be a slow news day