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Hell is other people — and few people know this better than Uber drivers.
The ride-hailing transportation company has transformed global taxi markets, and made it possible to get around with just the tap of a button. But that ease and simplicity comes with a cost — for its drivers.
Uber drivers will often see people at their very worst: Drunk, angry, late, and entitled. We asked Uber drivers to tell us about some of the worst passengers they've ever experienced, from intoxicated carnage to sexual harassment.
These are their stories.
- "I'd rather drive 4 drunk college kids than 1 drunk middle-aged man any day."
- "I might be having an LSD flashback."
- "I know I would be his next target if I didn't stay on my toes."
- "Having someone completely unresponsive in your backseat brings up a number of challenges."
- "He could have got me fired."
- "The sound he made will come to haunt me I’m sure, it was an animalistic grunt that I didn’t know a human could make."
- "They really feel as though they can treat their drivers like a slave."
Article: 'Bratty millennials' and sexual harassment: Uber drivers reveal their horror stories
Comments
I really think they could have picked a better headline. This isn't even about millennials.
Most of them are communist bearded A-holes and they smell like ass cheese from their second hand clothing.
My fave.
"Having someone completely unresponsive in your backseat brings up a number of challenges."
For all the trouble that rowdy passengers can make, sometimes that can be preferable to the alternative.
"One of the worst situations you can find yourself in as an Uber driver is when a bar over serves, calls an Uber for their nearly passed out patron and they put them in your backseat and tell you their home is loaded in as the destination," a Phoenix, Arizona driver said. "The lesson is that drivers have to always lock their doors before allowing anybody into their vehicle.