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If I was that driver, you bet I'd be contacting Uber to try and get your friend banned for life. Threatening a driver is never ok, even less so when it's not hi

If I was that driver, you bet I'd be contacting Uber to try and get your friend banned for life. Threatening a driver is never ok, even less so when it's not his fault.

raverbashing 1y ago
Then maybe don't threaten to leave a family in a dangerous area while they're offering to pay it
- seivan 1y ago
  This is the address they gave to the driver,full stop. After the job’s done, you can’t just tack on extra requests like it’s a buffet. He delivered exactly what you asked, not a mind reading bonus round. It’s not his fault you gave the wrong address, he’s not clairvoyant.
- roenxi 1y ago
  I don't think that'd hold up against a legal review. It seems like an unreasonable position that some neighbourhood is so terrible that standing there for 20 minutes is an imminent threat. It might even be true, but that isn't a baseline a judge should really accept. The residents who live there obviously get through the day. It may well have been very dangerous, but realistically it is hard to make dropping someone off in a residential area a crime. Threatening a driver with physical violence is definitely a crime though.
- FireBeyond 1y ago
  The driver is under precisely zero obligation to provide you a service. He provided the service asked for, too.
kulahan 1y ago
Threatening someone for being a complete asshole is always okay, and even cool. I really do not care how uncomfortable it makes the driver to move a family a few extra blocks to somewhere vaguely safe. I’d similarly threaten him if he tried to drop my family off in a forest, or on the side of a highway, even if that’s what the GPS, God’s Position System, tells them to do. If your job ends in a way that someone who was your customer is now in danger, you absolutely deserve to be threatened.
- kulahan 1y ago
  Edit: and if you dislike the fact that you need to have a vague level of care for your fellow man, stop working exclusively with people.
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y ago
  > Threatening someone for being a complete asshole is always okay, and even cool. I disagree, but I wasn’t actually there. I only heard one side of the story.
  - kulahan 1y ago
    You are disagreeing with the concept, and then saying you only heard one side of… what story? I just do not care if my customer service agent has a bad time after putting me in a dangerous situation. Do people not realize that this is how the world works? If you are serving customers, putting them IN DANGER, yes EVEN if it was at their own request, is what is actually wrong. You don’t let someone ride a roller coaster unrestrained. You don’t let someone eat room temperature meat. You don’t drop a family off in an extremely dangerous neighborhood. Any employee would be right to be ridiculed for allowing any of these things - ESPECIALLY when a child is concerned.
    - ghushn3 1y ago
      > extremely dangerous neighborhood I've lived in urban areas my whole life. Including some of the largest cities in North America. While there's places I consider higher risk, and routes I wouldn't typically take, simply existing in some neighborhood in Milwaukee isn't some existential threat to life and limb. Keep your head down and walk a few blocks to somewhere safer and get a cab/uber/lyft out of there if needed. Heck, book another Uber, you know at least one driver is in the neighborhood.
      - ChrisMarshallNY 1y ago
        I lived in Baltimore. There’s some truly scary spots, there. As for booking another Uber, anyone that has lived in less-than-pristine areas, knows that these neighborhoods can be “blacklisted.” You can’t get Ubers or cabs to come in.
bscphil 1y ago
I mean, we're talking about a literal crime here, getting banned from Uber is not an adequate punishment for threatening someone with assault.
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If I was that driver, you bet I'd be contacting Uber to try and get your friend banned for life. Threatening a driver is never ok, even less so when it's not his fault.

raverbashing 1y ago

Then maybe don't threaten to leave a family in a dangerous area while they're offering to pay it

seivan 1y ago
This is the address they gave to the driver,full stop. After the job’s done, you can’t just tack on extra requests like it’s a buffet. He delivered exactly what you asked, not a mind reading bonus round. It’s not his fault you gave the wrong address, he’s not clairvoyant.
roenxi 1y ago
I don't think that'd hold up against a legal review. It seems like an unreasonable position that some neighbourhood is so terrible that standing there for 20 minutes is an imminent threat. It might even be true, but that isn't a baseline a judge should really accept. The residents who live there obviously get through the day. It may well have been very dangerous, but realistically it is hard to make dropping someone off in a residential area a crime. Threatening a driver with physical violence is definitely a crime though.
FireBeyond 1y ago
The driver is under precisely zero obligation to provide you a service. He provided the service asked for, too.

kulahan 1y ago

Threatening someone for being a complete asshole is always okay, and even cool. I really do not care how uncomfortable it makes the driver to move a family a few extra blocks to somewhere vaguely safe. I’d similarly threaten him if he tried to drop my family off in a forest, or on the side of a highway, even if that’s what the GPS, God’s Position System, tells them to do. If your job ends in a way that someone who was your customer is now in danger, you absolutely deserve to be threatened.

kulahan 1y ago
Edit: and if you dislike the fact that you need to have a vague level of care for your fellow man, stop working exclusively with people.
ChrisMarshallNY 1y ago
> Threatening someone for being a complete asshole is always okay, and even cool. I disagree, but I wasn’t actually there. I only heard one side of the story.
- kulahan 1y ago
  You are disagreeing with the concept, and then saying you only heard one side of… what story? I just do not care if my customer service agent has a bad time after putting me in a dangerous situation. Do people not realize that this is how the world works? If you are serving customers, putting them IN DANGER, yes EVEN if it was at their own request, is what is actually wrong. You don’t let someone ride a roller coaster unrestrained. You don’t let someone eat room temperature meat. You don’t drop a family off in an extremely dangerous neighborhood. Any employee would be right to be ridiculed for allowing any of these things - ESPECIALLY when a child is concerned.
  - ghushn3 1y ago
    > extremely dangerous neighborhood I've lived in urban areas my whole life. Including some of the largest cities in North America. While there's places I consider higher risk, and routes I wouldn't typically take, simply existing in some neighborhood in Milwaukee isn't some existential threat to life and limb. Keep your head down and walk a few blocks to somewhere safer and get a cab/uber/lyft out of there if needed. Heck, book another Uber, you know at least one driver is in the neighborhood.
    - ChrisMarshallNY 1y ago
      I lived in Baltimore. There’s some truly scary spots, there. As for booking another Uber, anyone that has lived in less-than-pristine areas, knows that these neighborhoods can be “blacklisted.” You can’t get Ubers or cabs to come in.

bscphil 1y ago

I mean, we're talking about a literal crime here, getting banned from Uber is not an adequate punishment for threatening someone with assault.

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