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Lyft for Work
- anonfunction 12y agoMany startups in SF already offer a reimbursement for work related travel but many employees don't follow up on it due to the inconvenience involved. This is a really good idea and I wonder how long until Uber announces the same.
- kornish 12y agoUber actually came out with "Uber for Business" at the end of July: https://www.uber.com/business https://www.uber.com/business http://blog.uber.com/business http://blog.uber.com/business (the blog post announcing it)
- anonfunction 12y agoI had a feeling they did but my quick search didn't turn anything up. Thanks.
- cvander 12y agoUber business is a good approach. But you'll get individual bills for every trip. I hope Lyft gets you one consolidated bill a month for the company.
- mikemac 12y agoThis is the worst part in using Uber for a company. They won't consolidate on a monthly invoice (like most B2B vendors) so you end up with hundreds of Uber transactions on your credit card statement. It's a real pain to manage.
- killerdhmo 12y agoI disagree. In my personal case, I need to individually account for each of those rides when I file reimbursement. A month does not capture that the first week was billable to client x, the second week was work related travel, Monday I was taking a prospective around, etc. individual transactions let me group them by which expense report they belong in. Maybe this is not true for everyone tho.
- badusername 12y agoThis offering is similar to Uber Perks , which uber has had for a couple years..
- derwiki 12y agoIs this really that common, an employer offering free taxi credits? I've worked at a handful of software companies in SF, and I don't recall any of them doing this.
- jwilliams 12y agoYeah it is. I've also seen it at big end of town. Large corporates can offer transportation to employees that are required to work late – e.g. on a large systems release.
- raverbashing 12y agoYep, this is common If you use public transport you get a taxi home after hours. And the evening pizza usually, but that's more common.
- Animats 12y agoIt's big in New York. Read The Devil Wears Prada. (It's in the movie, but discussed at length in the book.)
- krab 12y agoIt's also common for employees taking business trips. At least in Europe.
- girvo 12y agoWell, here in Brisbane it's definitely offered by a number of agencies I've worked at.
- dragonwriter 12y ago> Is this really that common, an employer offering free taxi credits? Yes, employers paying for work-related expenses is common (and generally required in California, see Labor Code Sec. 2802), and taxi as the employer-preferred form for local work-related transportation (as opposed to the employee driving a personal or employer-provided vehicle and being reimbursed for mileage) is often preferred for various reasons, most especially liability.
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- modzilla 12y agoI am looking forward to the day Lyft announces, "Autonomous Lyft."
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- paultannenbaum 12y agoI wouldn't hold my breath. I refused to use the service when I first discovered it because it was facebook only auth. I believe that has since changed, but user privacy is not a huge concern of theirs.
- spullara 12y agoThis word Autonomous. I don't think it means what you think it means.
- d23 12y agoI know what the word means and still don't get it.
- brianbreslin 12y agoHe is confused with anonymous. The parent was suggesting self-driving Lyft, vs identity-free lyft riding.
- sgustard 12y agoWhy pay to ride on a large land mammal? Cars work just fine.
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- modzilla 12y agoTo clarify the confusion... The definition of autonomous I am using here is: "having the freedom to act independently" [1] And in this context context I mean the car acting independently of the driver. [1] http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/autonomous http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/autonom...
- xyby 12y agoThe whole Lyft site shows nothing without Javascript enabled. Even the title is set via script. Google indexed titles and content for all pages though. How are they doing that? Are the delivering different content based on ip or useragent or something?
- akavi 12y agoGoogle crawlers have been able to execute javascript since at least May of this year[0]. [0] http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ca/2014/05/understanding-web-pages-better.html http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ca/2014/05/understand...
- xyby 12y agoInteresting. The content must have changed recently then. Because I see different text in the Google serps then on the page with js enabled. For lyft.com Google shows me "Lyft is your friend with a car" which is not on the page. For lyft.com/stories Google shows "Discover extraordinary stories from the Lyft community" which is also not on the page. Maybe it's from good old metatags. The have some, but somehow they apply a scripting engine (angular?) to them: <meta property="og:title" content="{{meta.title || 'A ride whenever you need one' }}{{meta.signoff || ' - Lyft'}}"> The "Discover extraordinary stories" text is not in the metatags though.
- fnom 12y agothey dont necessarily give the google bot this version of the page. its perfectly ok to prerender the page with something like phantomjs and send the crawler the prerendered pages. this was , to my knowledge, quite common with angularjs apps that relied heavily on seo/google juice.
- mootothemax 12y agoGoogle crawlers have been able to execute javascript since at least May of this year[0]. As I wrote in another comment, that hasn't stopped Google requested pages via _escaped_fragment_.
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- titlex 12y agoMaybe they should actually find people who know how to drive first. I'm getting sick of these ridershares and their terrible drivers. I'm strictly speaking in San Francisco. It's ridiculous how many times they randomly stop in the middle of the street to pick someone up causing traffic jams or even stopping at a stop sign to drop or pick someone up. Plus all the illegal U-turns and crossing double yellow lines when they're not supposed to. I don't recall having this issue with cabs. It's almost unbearable to drive in the city now.
- elwell 12y agoTwo days ago, my Lyft driver in LA started driving backwards on a busy street because he missed a turn; people were honking and stuff.
- ghshephard 12y agoWhat did you rate him?
- hueving 12y ago99 red balloons
- elwell 12y ago5/5, sorry... I don't have a great explanation why. I think it has something to do with personal interaction. If it was over Ebay or something I wouldn't worry about giving low rating, but when I meet someone face to face and they are nice, then it's hard to rate low.
- ghshephard 12y agoIt's funny - because I've done the same thing. I've had drivers that hit the brakes way too hard, and were kind of annoyingly chatty - that I just didn't have the heart to downgrade, even though I realized that I probably hadn't had a great experience, and, they weren't the safest of drivers. But I just couldn't bring myself to give a black mark to someone who had tried so hard to be friendly.
- hisabness 12y agoif ive been banned from lyft for reasons unknown, if my work signs up for this will i be able to use the platform?
- pacofvf 12y agono IE9 support, and showing a blank page with this message "Hey! Your browser is not supported, certain pages may not render correctly! Try updating your browser at http://browsehappy.com http://browsehappy.com . " ? Many people like me don't have a choice.
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