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I once took an uber with a driver who was deaf and couldn't speak english. In a normal situation, these two qualities were forgivable: but when he drove away w
by hitekker 9y ago
I once took an uber with a driver who was deaf and couldn't speak english. In a normal situation, these two qualities were forgivable: but when he drove away with my luggage, I struggled to even communicate, let alone chase him down.
Being told in clipped, broken, heavily-accented sentences: "Go to Uber", "call Uber", "it's with Uber". But Uber where, exactly?
While I was calling all the nearby Uber locations, I kept thinking, "If this guy got 4.6 stars, do the stars mean anything? At all?"
I would retrieve my stuff, finally, when his daughter took the phone explaining that he accidentally took it and then dropped it off at his local Uber... two-or-three cities away.
All in all, an unpleasant eye-opener.
- tmalsburg2 9y agoWhat do you think we should learn from this anecdote (especially given that we don't know what the driver's rating was)?
- hitekker 9y ago>this guy got 4.6 stars, do the stars mean anything? At all?
- tmalsburg2 9y agoAh, I interpreted the "if" (missing in your quote) as a true conditional (not implying that he actually did have 4.6). Thanks for clarifying. In my experience, anything below 5 is potentially a red flag on Uber/Lyft.