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"Uber For X": "Grab as much as you can by playing match-maker for customers and employees you refuse to classify as employees or treat as employees. Works well
by msla 9y ago
"Uber For X": "Grab as much as you can by playing match-maker for customers and employees you refuse to classify as employees or treat as employees. Works well if the system you're replacing is so terrible and ossified people are happy to see it go even though drivers may well be making less than minimum wage once gas and other costs are factored in."
- manigandham 9y ago100% of the thousands of drivers I have ridden with have said they do not want to be employees and that it's one of the primary reasons for driving for Uber. The job of professional full-time employed driver already exists and has for decades. Nobody is stopping anyone from doing so and Uber specifically has their Uber Black ride class for it.
- danans 9y agoYou mean 100% of those you have asked, right? Or do you ask that question to every Uber driver you ride with?
- manigandham 9y agoI've asked all of them except an early few rides in 2012 when it was only Uber Black in Los Angeles. Talking about Uber is almost always how every conversation has started.
- gaius 9y agothey do not want to be employees If thats all it was, OK. But the reality is they also don't want to pay their fair share for road maintenance or the NHS or anything else the country provides.
- manigandham 9y agoWhat do you mean? Not being an employee doesn't mean you don't pay taxes on income.
- aianus 9y agoRoad damage is almost all caused by trucks and subsidized by car drivers (gas taxes go up linearly with axle weight but road damage goes up parabolically).
- ams6110 9y agoThey may not want to be considered employees, but by IRS definitions they probably are. Uber has too much control over the schedule and manner in which the work is performed to claim they are truly independent contractors.
- icebraining 9y agoWhat control does Uber have over the drivers' schedule?
- manigandham 9y agoThen perhaps it's time to make the law around this more clear, the same as transportation rules themselves have to evolve to allow ride-sharing in all places.