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"bad drivers" as in "not making money" drivers. When you go out of town you stay there and take rides or set your direction home and pick up rides in that direc

"bad drivers" as in "not making money" drivers. When you go out of town you stay there and take rides or set your direction home and pick up rides in that direction. Drivers who say they don't get paid coming back are ignorant.

djur 6y ago
Or the drivers could be paid a wage and it wouldn't be a problem. It sounds like the current system for compensating drivers creates an incentive for bad service in this instance, not good.
- okareaman 6y ago
  How is taking rides on the way home bad service? Why should I get the same wage as a sub par driver?
  - dmitriid 6y ago
    As someone said (quoting from memory) "The greatest con corporate America has pulled is that poor people don't ask for better wages and job conditions, but get triggered when someone else asks for that".
  - mrguyorama 6y ago
    >How is taking rides on the way home bad service Does uber guarantee that there will be paying rides to bring you back home? Otherwise you are driving on your own dime >Why should I get the same wage as a sub par driver Because that's not how the world works. It isn't some meritocratic paradise that fairly pays people for their work. Besides, nothing says uber can't pay you more for being a better fully employed driver. If you truly are a better driver, surely you could get a raise right?
dmitriid 6y ago
> When you go out of town you stay there Stay as in? Spend the night? Just stay there on the curb side hoping for a chance that someone will need a ride back? How is that "making money"? > or set your direction home and pick up rides in that direction Drivers already do that. Additionally, - A driver who lives west of town will not pick a ride to the east of town on the off chance that there will be a ride back if only he stays there long enough. - A driver only needs to go home at the end of their shift. So why would he pick rides in the direction of his home at any other time? Hoping for a chance to pick a ride on the way back? > Drivers who say they don't get paid coming back are ignorant. As I've just demonstrated, it's not the drivers who are ignorant.

djur 6y ago

Or the drivers could be paid a wage and it wouldn't be a problem. It sounds like the current system for compensating drivers creates an incentive for bad service in this instance, not good.

okareaman 6y ago
How is taking rides on the way home bad service? Why should I get the same wage as a sub par driver?
- dmitriid 6y ago
  As someone said (quoting from memory) "The greatest con corporate America has pulled is that poor people don't ask for better wages and job conditions, but get triggered when someone else asks for that".
- mrguyorama 6y ago
  >How is taking rides on the way home bad service Does uber guarantee that there will be paying rides to bring you back home? Otherwise you are driving on your own dime >Why should I get the same wage as a sub par driver Because that's not how the world works. It isn't some meritocratic paradise that fairly pays people for their work. Besides, nothing says uber can't pay you more for being a better fully employed driver. If you truly are a better driver, surely you could get a raise right?

dmitriid 6y ago

> When you go out of town you stay there Stay as in? Spend the night? Just stay there on the curb side hoping for a chance that someone will need a ride back? How is that "making money"? > or set your direction home and pick up rides in that direction Drivers already do that. Additionally, - A driver who lives west of town will not pick a ride to the east of town on the off chance that there will be a ride back if only he stays there long enough. - A driver only needs to go home at the end of their shift. So why would he pick rides in the direction of his home at any other time? Hoping for a chance to pick a ride on the way back? > Drivers who say they don't get paid coming back are ignorant. As I've just demonstrated, it's not the drivers who are ignorant.