MickDorsey

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  For drivers, is it true that Uber pays the drivers less for destination filters?

  Adding to the list of things Uber does to nickel-and-dime the drivers, I heard there's a trend that they pay …
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  After seeing an elderly veteran living in squalor, an Uber driver stepped in to help

  Don’t mind a feel good story about an Uber driver once in a while. https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/13/us/uber-driver-helps-89-year-old-veteran-trnd/index.html
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  Trashy Pickups - Kids don't count as people on an UberX

  I saw this circulating. Typical story as an Uber driver, of course.   However, there are two elements to do this …
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  Drivers, do you still charge/claim the "Loss Item Return Fee" if the passenger pays you a tip in cash?

  Is this an ethical drama? or is this obvious?If your passenger leaves his or her phone in your car, …
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  TRYP (a new ridershare company) promising $500K a month?

  I was reading up on TRYP as they are fiercely recruiting drivers right now. Have you guys heard of them? …

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   3 years ago in  What history books will say about Uber

  Not surprised. In fact, expected

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   4 years ago in  Uber Deactivation for Safety Concerns

  Did you ever figure this out?  These types of stories freak me out and give me nightmares. It's like constantly working/living in fear that you can lose your job at any point, and it isn't even your fault. You can be the best worker and you can still lose your job completely, and there's no severance or benefits that you can leverage. You are just completely cut off. 

  I have family to feed. and I feel so helpless that this can happen at any point for no reason or by some random whim of a passenger.

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   4 years ago in  What Every Uber Driver Should Know About Accident Insurance

  Thanks.  You guys busy?

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   4 years ago in  ride

  Yes.

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   4 years ago in  Uber Deactivation for Safety Concerns

  Are you suspecting by “safety concerns”, you think this could be a Covid related thing?  Like not wearing a mask?

  Their warning is so vague. That’s ridiculous. This is our livelihood here 

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   4 years ago in  Epic Thread between Uber and an Angry Driver

  It's interesting to guess where exactly things went wrong. I think at first Sergio was trying to be accepting of the feedback. "Tell that passenger to stop defrauding Uber!"

  Then somewhere along the way, despite their attempts, they went into a full battle.

  Winner = Passenger.

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   4 years ago in  Uber Drivers: How Far Will You Drive To Pick-Up A Fare Not Knowing Their Destination?

  Prices started dropping because this was never a viable business mode. The economics never worked. 
  This is what happens when you pretend to reinvent an existing and mature business. What a wreck Uber left behind at the cost of the drivers, investors and consumers. Few got richer while many suffer.

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   4 years ago in  This 23-year-old Uber driver earns $25,000 a year—but has ‘everything I could want right now’

  Isn't this article supposed to be a beautiful story of a young man who doesn't need much to be happy? (and has all the flexibility in the world?)

  Today, the 23-year-old, who lives just outside of Baltimore, spends part of the year working in a tax preparation office and the rest driving for Uber and Lyft. He expects to earn about $25,000 total in 2020, before taxes.

  But he’s not stressed about his low salary: He spends his free time investing, studying money, business and science, and planning his next move.

  
  

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   4 years ago in  Lyft driver cancelling

  The dude must have realized there was surge in effect. I hope you didn't get the same a**hole driver when you booked it again.

  Covid seems to provide all the excuses in the world for some shameless people.

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   5 years ago in  Lyft lowering rates to 43.5 cents a mile in Florida & Vegas

  OMFG.

  Sergio, great job on comparing this to the per mile IRS deduction.  That REALLY puts it into perspective.  Whatever they do to justify or calculate the IRS's mileage rules should be pulled up and compared against how Lyft justifies their own rates.

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   5 years ago in  A researcher rode more than 5,000 miles with Uber and Lyft and discovered the biggest differences between the two ride-hailing giants.

  Yeah? Are you saying this is a good book?  (And a crappy article?)

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   5 years ago in  A researcher rode more than 5,000 miles with Uber and Lyft and discovered the biggest differences between the two ride-hailing giants.

  This article is so poor. After 5000 miles, these are the findings?  And it admits I fo came from online forums. 

  "Among most drivers I meet in person, and the countless number I've observed in online forums," writes Rosenblat, "there is a near-universal consensus that Lyft treats its drivers better than Uber."

  And seriously, this is all anecdotal. No data  

  Then there are the passengers themselves. 

  "It's not uncommon for drivers to describe Uber passengers as higher class," writes Rosenblat, "but also as stuck up, and to say they prefer Lyft because the passengers are more friendly or engaging."

  I’d be so pissed as an editor if my writer brought me this. There no way I’m signing that expense reimbursement request. 

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   5 years ago in  Hiring Freeze in US and Canada. Uber paused its hiring of engineers.

  They’ve been spending so much R&D on things like UberAirports. I guess this is the step in the right direction to STOP hiring. 

  I think the right move is to can those projects. I’m all for innovation but not at the cost of starving the drivers. 

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   5 years ago in  What are ways Uber drivers make money besides driving?

  What’s a cubby hole in a car?

  I’m the same way with how I feel about selling stuff or having a tip jar. Too much pride to stoop to those levels. Haha. Don’t mind an occasional $10. In cash. 

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   5 years ago in  What are all Rideshares in Long Beach CA?

  Did you try the RideGuru calculator. Just enter Long Beach as the starting location and enter a random destination. You should see your options. 

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   5 years ago in  Have you ever been in a Uber, Lyft or taxi that got pulled over for speeding?

  Well, yes, but I was the driver.  Does that count? Haha. 

  And it wasn’t for speeding, it was for being at the airport without the proper stickers displayed. Dumb. 

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   5 years ago in  Employee vs. Contractor. Has everyone considered the downside of becoming an Uber employee?

  Ironically though, they will lose control over certain things when we become employees. For example, bow much they pay us, giving us vacation days, benefits, basic employment rights. 

  The flexibility goes both ways. While we current have freedom as contractors, Uber also has an ability to specify any prices and fire (deactivate) is whenever they want for whatever reasons.  They also don’t have to tell us how we exactly are compensated. These are some freedom Uber enjoys right now. 

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   5 years ago in  Riders are more likely to take an Uber when it's surging 2.1 times than 2.0.

  WHAT THE HELL

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   5 years ago in  If you could start the process of becoming a driver again what would you do differently?

  I would have bought a black car (meaning a black-colored car), because then I would qualify to drive for UberBlack and make more money. 

  I never knew UberBlack actually had to be black before I started driving. 

  Thank gosh UberSelect is now available here, but it doesn’t pay nearly as much as UberBlack. 

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   5 years ago in  Has anyone else on here just completely stopped caring about their rating?

  I actually stopped paying attention to it but don’t get me wrong. I still care about providing good service. 

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   5 years ago in  Employee vs. Contractor. Has everyone considered the downside of becoming an Uber employee?

  Ironically though, they will lose control over certain things when we become employees. For example, bow much they pay us, giving us vacation days, benefits, basic employment rights. 

  The flexibility goes both ways. While we current have freedom as contractors, Uber also has an ability to specify any prices and fire (deactivate) is whenever they want for whatever reasons.  They also don’t have to tell us how we exactly are compensated. These are some freedom Uber enjoys right now. 

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