“Drivers... want to keep the freedom to choose if, when and where they drive.” “If drivers were classified as workers they would inevitably lose some of the fre

“Drivers... want to keep the freedom to choose if, when and where they drive.” “If drivers were classified as workers they would inevitably lose some of the freedom and flexibility that comes with being their own boss." Lol. These companies are still pushing this blatantly false propaganda that you can “make $25+ an hour” and that you’re free to just pop in and out if the system whenever you want to achieve that. Here’s the reality - you’re only going to make that kind of money on a few select hours. Namely - late nights, early mornings, and weekends (again mostly nights). The reality is most hours of the week you may be looking at making <$15 an hour, and that’s before you consider wear and tear, gas, extra insurance, tickets (given enough time you will get fined doing this kind of work one way or another), and all the other little costs that come up (bring tissues and water bottles and candy for your passengers!). There’s virtually no freedom in this unless you’re literally just trying to make beer money for a night and work for 2-3 hours a week. If you depend on this for consistent work (read: not a career, but a full time fill in between jobs) - you’re going to be raked over the coals. You don’t get a choice in when or where you work. Hell you don’t even really have the choice to decline rides unless you’re willing to drive all the way to a person (up to 15 mins away), THEN the app tells you where you’re headed, and at that point you probably have a person standing there looking at you. You can drive away and cancel, but these companies know that the empathetic nature of most people makes that extremely painful. Plus you’ve wasted your time and gas (unpaid) getting here, so you’re paying for this “freedom”. You can’t set boundaries for where you work - you might end up hours from home and again, you now have to subsidize the cost of getting home again. So basically every claim these companies make about the value they give to their workers is bullshit. You don’t control “if” you drive, any more than you control “if” you eat. You don’t control where you drive... pretty much at all. And you don’t control “when” you drive unless you’re willing to work below minimum wage. I would love if these assholes get buried and have to pay back all the drivers historically for the wages they deserve and give compensation for the psychological manipulation they’ve orchestrated. I can’t believe that in 2018 we still permit these shenanigans that systemically restructure themselves to squeeze through clearly illegal employment methods that would be handled in any other industry.