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Uber really should have an "opt-out" option for small talk...
kitkat22
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Katelyn Devino (kitkat22)
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JWileySmith
What about a little twist? What if the *DRIVERS* have the "opt-out" button. We call it the "QUIET CAR."
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What about a little twist? What if the *DRIVERS* have the "opt-out" button. We call it the "QUIET CAR."
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I like the small talk, most of the time. I, like some passengers, have my days when I prefer not to talk. That being said, part of being a driver is learning how to read your riders. Once you do that, you can pretty much figure them out before you even start moving.
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I agree with this philosophy completely. For some reason it doesn't come easily for everyone.
Mr. Paulson has a cool opinion on this. Something about rules at fancy sushi restaurant.
https://ride.guru/lounge/p/is-it-impolite-not-to-make-small-talk-with-your-driver#comment-1304
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I am thinking this is an option to notify the driver to NOT make conversations during the ride? I am gme with that. Sometimes I appreciate friendly conversations, but sometimes I don't. Maybe I want to just rest, read a book, do emails, etc.
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It's a tough topic, because drivers may be trying to be friendly and making conversations. Lyft shows indications that they encourage the drivers to be more friendly. (They can be rated by passengers, and one of them is, "driver entertaining.") Then there are customers who want to be left alone.
I can see this "feature" pushed down from Uber may be a good solution.
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this is depressing. I love talking to and learning from my riders. People need to get off their phones and interact every now and then!
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The Uber Quiet Mode is here.
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As an Uber driver ,I love to drive in order to have fun get excited to meet a positive cool people with a friendly attitude especially those since of hummer who are funny and chatty keeping me entertained by talking to them treating me as a special making my job happy .But sometimes ,when I pick up those arrogant ,jerks and snappy customers they don't say "hello "and just get in and start giving an orders . Many formal passengers want to ride in silence which is very rude and super awkward, and probably many of the drivers on the contrary likes to chatt for fun .Still, as a human being need to contact with each other showing a human interactions with a nice and friendly attitude treating each other with respect . I always rating those kind of the nice humble riders 5 stars if they are friendly and socialize with a sense of hummer by joking and having a small chatting with the riders trying not ignoring them if they want to talk which m…
As an Uber driver ,I love to drive in order to have fun get excited to meet a positive cool people with a friendly attitude especially those since of hummer who are funny and chatty keeping me entertained by talking to them treating me as a special making my job happy .But sometimes ,when I pick up those arrogant ,jerks and snappy customers they don't say "hello "and just get in and start giving an orders . Many formal passengers want to ride in silence which is very rude and super awkward, and probably many of the drivers on the contrary likes to chatt for fun .Still, as a human being need to contact with each other showing a human interactions with a nice and friendly attitude treating each other with respect . I always rating those kind of the nice humble riders 5 stars if they are friendly and socialize with a sense of hummer by joking and having a small chatting with the riders trying not ignoring them if they want to talk which make me fill having good time doing my job keeping entertained getting treated as a spacial super star which make me so excited and also keeping our vehicle clean with no mess or damages or eating and drinking inside making a mess .if the riders do not engage in conversations I will downrate them with 2 to 3 stars maximum for being formal ,rude and jerks with arrogant behavior acting like they are bossy treating the drivers as a slave especially if they jumped to my car asking me to take them to their destination without saying "Hello" and also if they are not talkative being so quite during the trip entertaining themselves by texting or talking on the cell or people and also if they are talking among to each other with people inside my car ignoring me instead of chatting with me which is really awkward and super rude ,getting frustrating and makes me feel like a machine doing my job which not nice at all to be rude and disrespectful with no reason .Those kind of riders need to understand Uber is a community service not like a taxi cab service taking them from point A to B making a space between the riders and drivers.Also it's very annoying ,super awkward and very rude for being quite not chatty or chatting among to each other keep the driver ignored and also when they ask the driver turning on the radio very loud beside ignoring the drivers chatting among to each other so that they deserve 2 stars for misbehave with no respect for the friendly Uber drivers and their vehicle . So if the riders want to be a good 5 star rating passenger they need to make that " Don't Ignore your friendly Uber driver ".
If the riders are looking for a quite service with a quite formal driver without being sociable and friendly avoiding getting a bad star rating for being formal with a drivers all the time during the trip taking them only from point A to point B just to have a relaxation doing their own privacy by making a space or a wall between the drivers not communicating with them without a friendly atmosphere such as : listening to the music or playing a video on the cell phone and also texting or talking on the phone without an excuse or doing their own entertainment by chatting among to each other ....etc ,it's much better to take a public transport up such as a taxi cab , shuttle , bus or luminous with those formal quite drivers . However ;those cab drivers are unfriendly with their passenger , busy and making a space always who are not talkative with there passenger as long they are looking for a quite and relaxation service like that and also they don't have any friendly greeting their riders like us as an Uber's partners.However;If those arrogant riders ignoring us as a friendly drivers like to have a quite ride with your phone texting ,talking and chatting with peploe with you keeping the uber driver ignored by treating us as a server or slave its will be better for them to take a public transport up such as a taxi cab , shuttle , bus or luminous which is fair enough if they don't show us any friendly treatment with a respect as a human being .
