Uber and Lyft Can't Find Drivers Because Gig Work Sucks

[Conan]

You're hiring the time and energy of a whole-ass person, with a decent car, with expenses to operate that car, and you have to account for all the time that person spends working and driving trying to get a fare without someone actually in the seat paying his way.

Honestly, for virtually any service that takes a significant portion of another person's time, the only reason it WOULDN'T be really expensive is if we attach far less value to their time than we do our own. We deeply believe that we deserve X dollars per hour for our own work, but balk at paying the same to a "mere driver".

I get and agree with your point, but I'd be shocked it the driver actually saw 50% of that after expenses and Uber's cut.

 

[FaTaL]

I get and agree with your point, but I'd be shocked it the driver actually saw 50% of that after expenses and Uber's cut.

It’s probably much less then 50%

 

[Professor Emeritus]

I get and agree with your point, but I'd be shocked it the driver actually saw 50% of that after expenses and Uber's cut.

Of course. I tried to point out that there were a lot of expenses, of which hiring another person's full-on time is simply the largest single expense. The vehicle, the gas, the technology, organizational overhead, etc. all add up too.


If we don't want to pay a ton of money to be driven around then we need to support mass transit. Paying slave wages to immigrants will only get us so far.

 

[DJ Paul's Arm]

I remember my cab driver in Manhattan ranting about Uber drivers and how they got beef like bloods and crips. An Uber driver pulled up next to him trying to cut us off. Cab driver stopped him and they started cussin each other out for a good 20 seconds.

 

[Spliff]

Motherboard argues that the degrading working conditions, as well as the poor pay, "are structurally necessary for ride-hail companies. They were necessary to attract and retain customers with artificially low prices, to burn through drivers at high rates that frustrate labor organizing, and bolster the narrative of gig work as temporary, transient, and convenient. It's no wonder, then, that drivers aren't coming back."

 

[AquaCityBoy]

I drove Lyft for a bit when I was in grad school.

The money was really not worth the wear and tear on my car and most of my rides weren't that long (just to and from the airport, or from a hotel to downtown). Plus I wasn't trying to pay $200 for a business license.

I honestly wouldn't recommend it unless you live in an area that's super spread out.

 

[Conan]

I remember my cab driver in Manhattan ranting about Uber drivers and how they got beef like bloods and crips. An Uber driver pulled up next to him trying to cut us off. Cab driver stopped him and they started cussin each other out for a good 20 seconds.

In other countries it's actually real beef. Taxi drivers in Johannesburg would chase Uber drivers away from mall entrances with bats and machetes

 

[num123]

In other countries it's actually real beef. Taxi drivers in Johannesburg would chase Uber drivers away from mall entrances with bats and machetes

shyt got real in France over Uber:

 

[DEAD7]

They had their run

 

[phcitywarrior]

In other countries it's actually real beef. Taxi drivers in Johannesburg would chase Uber drivers away from mall entrances with bats and machetes

This. I couldn’t even hail an Uber at the Pretoria train station. All the Uber drivers would cancel / ignore my request. Cabbies had em SHOOK

 

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proff wolff speaks

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

I was in DC last week, and one of our Uber drivers had over 9,000 rides

 

[bnew]

I’m rooting for the cabbies. I’ve known too many in my life. Sure, they might act like they own the road sometimes, they might not always stop for nikkaz, and it might not have the smoothness of Uber or Lyft but fukk that I’m still gon root for my dusty ol cabbies.

rooting for them because these ride hailing apps have aided in the erosion of privacy in transportation.

these companies got photos of millions of passengers and data on where they frequent. I'd rather pay cash to get to my destination and the driver or their employer not caring to know my name.

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

I'm rooting for them because fukk taxis. My shyt is personal. Can't tell you how many early mornings, I had to ask drunk white girls to get a taxi for me in DC when cabs would just pass me by.

This

This-this-this-this all day

 

[mastermind]

I'm rooting for them because fukk taxis. My shyt is personal. Can't tell you how many early mornings, I had to ask drunk white girls to get a taxi for me in DC when cabs would just pass me by.

This happened to me a few times too

But rideshare is worse for labor