Patrick M (PattyMelt)

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  Uber Car Bursts Into Flames

  https://wgntv.com/2019/04/30/driver-charged-in-fatal-uber-crash-fled-in-separate-ride-share-car-police-say/ I am honestly not sure what makes me more angry about this story. Watch the video and read the …
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  Diamond Nerf

  Soooooo ... in predictable Uber fashion they announced a significant change to the UberPro Diamond perk that offers 6% more …
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  Uber Destination Mode Paying 30% Less

   Uber apparently has been taken over by Bernie Sanders. They don’t want us using destination mode anymore so instead of …
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  Declining Long Distance Short Rides

  Many drivers like myself drive for multiple companies to reduce downtime. Since Uber recently added trip duration to the ride …

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   5 years ago in  Why do YOU think Uber is dropping the destination filter in some cities and changing the pay rates on destination rides in other cities?

   It makes me feel like we all need to drive for a new rideshare company. Ideally one that cares more about it’s drivers. Uber on it’s current trajectory is going to have drivers living in their cars.

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   5 years ago in  Uber Destination Mode Paying 30% Less

  Sorry bud :/

  Seems like Uber lately has been trying to get the seasoned drivers to hang up their spurs. Their target driving base is clearly the newbie that doesn’t know until tax time that he has been giving free rides all year or all quarter if he is filing properly.

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   5 years ago in  Sting on Uber drivers picking up street hails

  If no TNP license then it is a private transaction between two parties. But if you try to advertise yourself you would be assumed to be an unlicensed commercial enterprise. I’m not a lawyer of course but it seems feasible.

  It’s why the cops in the sting video are targeting TNP cars not random opportunists or samaritans. I imagine the citation on a TNP is pretty big too. Does anybody know roughly the citation amount?

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   5 years ago in  Sting on Uber drivers picking up street hails

  If that anyone you speak of has a TNP license that specifically prohibits street hails then yes. No TNP license no problem.

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   5 years ago in  Uber Destination Mode Paying 30% Less

   I don’t see how something that can only be used twice a day is being overused. Sometimes Uber sends me 80 miles away from my home usually not one long trip but multiple trips.  It is a pretty far stretch to the far north suburbs of Chicago. I already eat those dead miles typically coming back but at least with destination mode there is a small chance I could get a ride. Now it will be a charity ride apparently after Bernie takes his 30%.

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   5 years ago in  Sting on Uber drivers picking up street hails

  This happened to me last Saturday night in Naperville, IL I was smart though I said hell no.  The narc even tried to bully me into taking it he said I’m going to give you $20 you are only going to get probably seven dollars from your actual fare.  He was right too I only got like seven dollars for the legit ride.

  The reason I know it it was a sting is they got the next driver to fall for it and me and my pax all watched.

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   5 years ago in  As a driver or passenger, have you experienced any thing during a rider share experience that REALLY made you angry? I mean ready to pop mad!

  It isn’t about what I think it is rather the whacky world we live in.  Who is to say you are not walking right smack into a nasty lovers quarrel? Are you familiar with the situation in Florida where the man aggressively cut off the Uber driver that had his girlfriend in the car?  He ended up getting shot and killed by the Uber driver as a justified shooting.  He still ended up getting removed from both Uber and Lyft for violating multiple policies particularly the no carrying firearms policy.

   I’m sure you mean well but God forbid you put yourself into a syndicated news coverage situation you damage the reputation of rideshare companies which ultimately increases the likeliness of less pay for me and most other drivers here. 😂

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   5 years ago in  As a driver or passenger, have you experienced any thing during a rider share experience that REALLY made you angry? I mean ready to pop mad!

  https://madamenoire.com/290330/14-gestures-we-wish-men-knew-are-just-creepy/

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   5 years ago in  If you were the new CEO of Uber, with absolute power, what would be the first thing you'd change?

   I can guarantee you I deal with way more filthy riders per day than you have to deal with filthy drivers per year. 

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   5 years ago in  Uber Instant Pay Glitch. What are your thoughts on the "compensation"?

   they should have left well enough alone. Offering me a couple of $.50 discount only makes me more angry. They were holding $500 of mine hostage for nearly 3 days. 

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   5 years ago in  New scam allows criminals and unlicensed drivers behind the rideshare wheel

   OK ignore my previous comment I clicked on the wrong link LOL. Yes identity theft should scare the hell out of everybody. There are something like 30 million illegal immigrants in this country and a lot of them are using purchased credentials. 

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   5 years ago in  As a driver or passenger, have you experienced any thing during a rider share experience that REALLY made you angry? I mean ready to pop mad!

   Despite your alleged good intentions riding all over offering people free rides especially to women is soooo creepy. I bet people call the police on you often.

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   6 years ago in  What Do Ratings Mean for Rideshare Drivers?

  1) Absolutely yes

  2) Yes there is I think poc have a preference towards poc drivers especially at night in Chiraq

  3) It seems the only two choices are to adopt a whites only policy or get deactivated for low ratings. Awful choices but it's my only source of income so guess which one I'm choosing.

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   6 years ago in  What Do Ratings Mean for Rideshare Drivers?

  I was servicing the north side of Chicago but I recently moved to the south side and south suburbs. I don't want to get deactivated over bigotry this sucks.

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   6 years ago in  What Do Ratings Mean for Rideshare Drivers?

  My rating dropped from 4.9 for the past year servicing affluent areas to 4.5 in just two weeks servicing low income areas. I feel like I'm being forced to discriminate here if I want to keep driving. Such a sad state of affairs quite frankly.

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