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What does the alternative look like? A contract for 10 rides? A contract for one week at a time? What if the driver wants to serve one ride, and then never agai
by ttymck 6y ago
What does the alternative look like? A contract for 10 rides? A contract for one week at a time? What if the driver wants to serve one ride, and then never again: what contract models allow that single ride to fulfill a "contract"?
- Swizec 6y agoThe alternative is traditionally called a retainer. You hire the contractor for “various tasks over a set period of time up to N tasks and at least M tasks” This is the indie version of being salaried. Very common among software engineers, for example.
- fooker 6y agoContracts can be pretty arbitrary. "Independent contractor -- except can't turn down a ride."
- ng12 6y agoGreat, next time I take a consulting gig I'll be sure to turn down the jira tickets I don't want to do.
- CarbyAu 6y agoIf you were to have a separate contract for every Jira ticket that would be your call to make. Unusual, but fine.
- prepend 6y agoFirst, Uber doesn’t have separate contracts for every ride. If a contractor had a contract to accept or decline every jira ticket (although I don’t see anyone ever forming that contract), if they declines too many tickets they would no longer have the option to pick.
- SubuSS 6y agoCould this be simply solved by having their star rating influenced by % ride drops? Uber can provide its price estimate as just that - a kelly blue book value so that riders can compare and contrast? Most customers will search for a range of rating + price - so the market can regulate itself. I mean we accept amazon displaying user ratings - so I don't know why this won't work.