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Have you ever used Uber/Lyft (1 Viewer)

Have you ever used Uber/Lyft

  • Yes

    Votes: 157 58.8%

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    Votes: 110 41.2%
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nirad3 said:
I've ditched Uber.  Lost my job end of January and thought I'd give driving a shot.   Signed up to drive folks around and for Uber Delivery, where you pick up and drop off packages and the like.  I was explicit, however, that I wanted *no* part of Uber Eats (where you pick up and deliver food).  I've done that sort of thing before and wanted no part of Uber's version.

So, what does Uber put me in?  That's right, Uber Eats and nothing else.  After 4 days of back and forth with obviously offshore support staff, I gave up.  Took me 5 minutes to sign up for Lyft and drove for them for a bit until I learned that I couldn't do it and get unemployment simultaneously.  

Oh, and 2 weeks later I get a food delivery bag from Uber and found that they had canceled my rider account. :lol:
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How does uber food work for the driver? We were discussing this today. You just drive to restaurants and grab food?

 
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Capella said:
How does uber food work for the driver? We were discussing this today. You just drive to restaurants and grab food?
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Yeah.  Places like Chili's and Macaroni Grill where they have dedicated "to-go" counters or have a large to-go following.  There are services that have been doing this for a long time, but I know they charge way more than Uber.  And supposedly you just alert the customer that their food has arrived and they are supposed to come out to get it.  No money changes hands.  

 
I've used both, had good experiences with both.

I used Lyft initially because a friend was a driver and there's some type discount when you use a driver's name to sign up, or something like that. I forget exactly why, but I got $10 off my first ride. 

These apps come in handy when you're pissy drunk and need to get back to your home/hotel/whatever. One time me and 3 friends were wasted and annoyed the hell out of our driver. He didn't say much, but I could tell he was rather angry at our annoying questions. 

 
I was thinking about spending about week in a city and seeing how much I could make driving during the day. 

I've heard different things about being a driver. Someone told me it ends up equating to a $10/hour job if you do it regularly. 

 
I just used Uber Eats for the first time last night. Wife an I felt lazy and didn't want to go get food or make food, so I pulled up the app, found a restaraunt nearby, ordered some food, and it showed up at my door about 45 minutes later. It was awesome, and I now really have no reason to ever leave the house.

 
I had a really $hitty encounter with an Uber driver today.  During the downtown lunch hour the sidewalks are pretty packed with pedestrians waiting to cross.  The light turns Red and this Uber driver continues to block 3/4 of the crosswalk, which is packed with people crossing perpendicular on their green walking light.  I'm passing by this Uber car on the right side (in the effing crosswalk) to cross in the crosswalk and my pants catch on his broken and busted front right bumper and gives my pants a nice sized tear.

  :ptts:

 
Gachi said:
I was thinking about spending about week in a city and seeing how much I could make driving during the day. 

I've heard different things about being a driver. Someone told me it ends up equating to a $10/hour job if you do it regularly. 
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During the day you won't make much. There's just too many drivers online, so even though Uber gets a ton of overall requests during the day, your share of them is too small for you to make much. 

To make more than minimum wage you need surge fares, or work the bar scene on weekends. 

 
Walking Boot said:
I think I read somewhere, at least maybe here in LA, the new thing is that there is no restaurant in the middle, either Uber Eats, or one of the competing services (GrubHub?).

Instead, there's a central kitchen that makes the dishes, and they license the recipes from the restaurants. So you can order a dish thinking it's from Daily Grill or Versaiiles or wherever, but, it all comes from one kitchen and dishes you think are coming from different restaurants might actually be made side-by-side.
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I'm not buying that.

 
Gachi said:
One time me and 3 friends were wasted and annoyed the hell out of our driver. He didn't say much, but I could tell he was rather angry at our annoying questions. 
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:lol:  I think if you drive nights, even weeknights, you kinda gotta know that this is an eventuality.  

I am no longer driving for Lyft - but may start back up on Friday/Saturday nights.

Still using Lyft to go out, when I actually get a chance.  The $20 or whatever is worth it as opposed to a DUI.

 
I'm exclusively a Lyft customer now. Too much crap with Uber.
Like that Lyft has a fare calculator so I know if it's cheaper to take Lyft or train.

 
Politician Spock said:
Uber's President and No 2 Executive (2nd only to CEO Travis Kalanick) quit over the weekend stating: "“It is now clear, however, that the beliefs and approach to leadership that have guided my career are inconsistent with what I saw and experienced at Uber, and I can no longer continue as president of the ride-sharing business,”

Here is the running list of 2017 departures at Uber:

  • Jeff Jones, Uber president
  • Brian McClendon, Uber vice president of maps
  • Gary Marcus, Uber AI Labs director
  • Raffi Krikorian, senior director of engineering at Uber’s Advanced Technologies Center
  • Charlie Miller, senior engineer of Uber’s autonomous driving division
  • Ed Baker, Uber’s vice president of product and growth
  • Amit Singhal, Uber’s senior vice president of engineering


To be honest, I'm not sure why this is surprising. If you do a google search on RedSwoosh, the same kind of mass exodus occurred there. Why would anyone expect the next Kalanick run venture to be run any different. He was an ###hole at RedSwoosh. And he's an ###hole at Uber.  :coffee:
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Politician Spock said:
Another executive joins the exodus from Uber.

Rachel Whetstone, Head of Policy and Communications, left yesterday. She led communications of Google for a decade before joining Uber in 2015. Two years trying to hide what an ####### Kalanick is probably took a toll on her. 

To be clear, I like the service Uber provides and I think they could be a great company... if they were led by someone other than Travis Kalanick. He is destroying a great company. 
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Bye bye Uber's Head of Finance... I QUIT!

 
I saw some banks that i know were fighting to get in on the tail end of the Uber bank deal accruing large losses....I wonder if there is something going here.....

 
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT​

If you are flying into Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), do not call for an Uber or Lyft. The lines are extremely long, especially at the later terminal numbers because drivers prefer to take requests at earlier terminals so they can start the ride ASAP. Instead, find the nearest taxi line. There might be a short wait, but it's a 100 times better/faster than the crowded cluster-fck that is the ride share waiting areas. The fare is comparable.

 
I had an Uber driver try to hit me up for a tip recently. Just stuck his hand out, saying "fi dollah, service. fi dollah, service" I had no idea what he was saying since he barely spoke English but once I realized what it was, I shrugged him off. GTFO. I actually do tip on occasion when the service is exceptional and the car is clean but this guy was a horrible driver, had no idea where he was going and his car was a mess.

 
jamny said:
I had an Uber driver try to hit me up for a tip recently. Just stuck his hand out, saying "fi dollah, service. fi dollah, service" I had no idea what he was saying since he barely spoke English but once I realized what it was, I shrugged him off. GTFO. I actually do tip on occasion when the service is exceptional and the car is clean but this guy was a horrible driver, had no idea where he was going and his car was a mess.
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don't knock the hustle

 
jamny said:
I had an Uber driver try to hit me up for a tip recently. Just stuck his hand out, saying "fi dollah, service. fi dollah, service" I had no idea what he was saying since he barely spoke English but once I realized what it was, I shrugged him off. GTFO. I actually do tip on occasion when the service is exceptional and the car is clean but this guy was a horrible driver, had no idea where he was going and his car was a mess.
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Uber has really gone to #### as a result of Kalanick setting the rates so cheap. 

 
Politician Spock said:
Uber has really gone to #### as a result of Kalanick setting the rates so cheap. 
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huh... I've found the regular rates here in NYC to be higher than standard yellow cabs. the cars getting worse and worse, and the drivers even worse- not familiar with the city, relying on the GPS to get around which means they're consistently looking at it instead of the road... too many dangerous near-misses with other cars, bikes and pedestrians.

 
El Floppo said:
huh... I've found the regular rates here in NYC to be higher than standard yellow cabs. the cars getting worse and worse, and the drivers even worse- not familiar with the city, relying on the GPS to get around which means they're consistently looking at it instead of the road... too many dangerous near-misses with other cars, bikes and pedestrians.
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From what I understand Uber rates in NYC have always been significantly higher than Uber rates in other cities.

 
El Floppo said:
maybe so... but they also used to be regularly less (non surge) than taxis. now it seems not so much... and that's if you can ever find them non-surge.
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Probably because the model doesn't work in such a congested city, so there's not enough drivers to meet demand, resulting in surges. Unlike a taxi, Uber drivers can't accept street hails. Which means when they don't have a fare, they need a place to sit and wait for the next request, or else they burn up all their profit driving around waiting for the next request. Not a whole lot of places for Uber drivers to stop legally to wait in NYC, so they get frustrated with the job and quit. 

 
Do you tip UberEats drivers in cash or on the app? I don't want them to think I'm an ####### or anything.

 
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