[Steveasmrie]

I am sick and tired of riders getting into my car and stinking is up with cigarettes and pot smell. And it is never just a little, they reek of it. I have complained so many times to uber that they need to start charging riders who reek of these odors a fee so they will stop doing it. I feel embarrassed going to my next ride and it smelling bad in my car. I myself and not a smoker or user of pot. I have started just rolling all my windows down as soon as they get in the car. I do not care if it is raining or snowing, they can deal with it. I just tell them I am allergic to the smoke. I almost want to cancel when I roll up to someone and they are trying to get in that one last puff before a 10 minute ride.

 

[Soldiering]

Im a smoking OP who smokea outside the car but can understand your plight. Unfortunately we both know guber will do NOTHING about it so as Ms. Merc says suck it up buttetcup

 

[Emptynesst]

I am sick and tired of riders getting into my car and stinking is up with cigarettes and pot smell. And it is never just a little, they reek of it. I have complained so many times to uber that they need to start charging riders who reek of these odors a fee so they will stop doing it. I feel embarrassed going to my next ride and it smelling bad in my car. I myself and not a smoker or user of pot. I have started just rolling all my windows down as soon as they get in the car. I do not care if it is raining or snowing, they can deal with it. I just tell them I am allergic to the smoke. I almost want to cancel when I roll up to someone and they are trying to get in that one last puff before a 10 minute ride.

I assume farting in your car would be out of the question? All joking aside, when I used to drive UberX and I would see people doing that, I would make sure the timer started and then I would pull up about 100 yards, and then I would cancel them and get a fee as well, that’s how I dealt with it

 

[elelegido]

I almost want to cancel when I roll up to someone and they are trying to get in that one last puff before a 10 minute ride.

You should. I don't take freshly-smoked pax.

If they're a-puffin' when I arrive then my wheels keep a-rollin'.

 

[AdoptedTwice]

I am sick and tired of riders getting into my car and stinking is up with cigarettes and pot smell. And it is never just a little, they reek of it. I have complained so many times to uber that they need to start charging riders who reek of these odors a fee so they will stop doing it. I feel embarrassed going to my next ride and it smelling bad in my car. I myself and not a smoker or user of pot. I have started just rolling all my windows down as soon as they get in the car. I do not care if it is raining or snowing, they can deal with it. I just tell them I am allergic to the smoke. I almost want to cancel when I roll up to someone and they are trying to get in that one last puff before a 10 minute ride.

It is a disgusting smell, that is for certain. My sanitizer spray of alcohol and orange oil works wonders. The alcohol neutralizes the smell, kills germs, and evaporates quickly. Add in rolling down the windows and if I can I wipe down the seat, I am good to go.

 

[Shieldzzzy84]

I am sick and tired of riders getting into my car and stinking is up with cigarettes and pot smell. And it is never just a little, they reek of it. I have complained so many times to uber that they need to start charging riders who reek of these odors a fee so they will stop doing it. I feel embarrassed going to my next ride and it smelling bad in my car. I myself and not a smoker or user of pot. I have started just rolling all my windows down as soon as they get in the car. I do not care if it is raining or snowing, they can deal with it. I just tell them I am allergic to the smoke. I almost want to cancel when I roll up to someone and they are trying to get in that one last puff before a 10 minute ride.

A fee because they smell like cigarettes smoke lol, come on really!?!.. I'm not a smoker and I think you guys are being divas. Yes it's stinks but it's not the end of the world and It's still better than someone throwing up in your car right. The smell goes away within a few minutes after they get out. I use the Hawaiian scent febreze fresheners you put on the heater vent and it does wonders. I've had a lot of drivers compliment the nice aroma it puts off. Listen it's not that big a deal. Get some seat covers and that febreze and your good to go, those kinds of annoyances come with the job, I mean really people.

 

[Volvonaut]

I thought the whole point of Ubering was to afford some top shelf cigars so I can kick back after my shift. Hell I probably became interested in them after picking up some cool staff from the cigar lounges or the really money gourmet Mexican lounge downtown which got me some $100 tips. I even let a chick smoke out my window once because she was kinda hot and believed she was like the next Amy Winehouse. I dunno smells will never stick to my car the way I air it out overnight I don’t care. But I got one of those dime a dozen “just moved to Texas” riders weird little foreign kid who’d never heard of deodorant in his life, I’ve been rolling the windows down on anyone like that praying they get a clue. I don’t think smokers deserve shit they get plenty of it the more emasculated society seemingly becomes but all other forms of hygiene are a real crime.

 

[elelegido]

I'm not a smoker and I think you guys are being divas.

Quite possibly. But, here's the thing: it's my car and if I want then I'll be a diva in it. If I don't like the look (or smell) of you during my pre-ride curbside inspection of you, you're not coming in. It's as simple as that.

Yes it's stinks but it's not the end of the world

It's not necessary for something to be the end of the world in order for it to be unacceptable.

and It's still better than someone throwing up in your car right.

This is the appeal to worse problems ("not as bad as") fallacy.

The smell goes away within a few minutes after they get out.

Not in my car. They don't actually get in, so the smell doesn't have to go!

Listen it's not that big a deal. Get some seat covers and that febreze and your good to go, those kinds of annoyances come with the job, I mean really people.

Sorry, request denied. I'll keep refusing smoked pax.

 

[NauticalWheeler]

The weed smell bothers me because of what subsequent pax may think.

 

[Jst1dreamr]

All of you pansies are in the wrong business. You took a job transporting people and that means any people that pay the fee. Maybe your cologne or hair spray or car deodorizer stinks to a lot of pax but you would whine if they complained about you or your car stench. Do everybody a great deed and get a life.

 

[Emptynesst]

All of you pansies are in the wrong business. You took a job transporting people and that means any people that pay the fee. Maybe your cologne or hair spray or car deodorizer stinks to a lot of pax but you would whine if they complained about you or your car stench. Do everybody a great deed and get a life.

Your projecting your problem and assuming the rest of us are like you , if you use deodorant , maybe your pax won’t complain about how you smell , your welcome

 

[elelegido]

You took a job transporting people and that means any people that pay the fee.

Pax make this very same mistake. Some incorrectly believe that because they're paying the driver a few bucks, they own both the driver and his/her car for the duration of the trip. No siree Bob! That's a huge misconception. I own the car, I pay all its expenses and I decide who rides with me and who does not.

Maybe your cologne or hair spray or car deodorizer stinks to a lot of pax but you would whine if they complained about you or your car stench.

Does not apply; I don't wear cologne, use hair spray or have a car deodoriser. I prefer to just shower every day, I don't have enough hair to be worth spraying with anything, and regular cleaning keeps my car fresh.

Do everybody a great deed and get a life.

I'm sensing anger. Anyway, no; if you think that electing not to take smelly pax means that drivers have no life then that's up to you, but whatever the case, request denied.

 

[AdoptedTwice]

If pax are allowed to be sooooooooo picky, then why can't us drivers be just as picky?

I'm not as picky about who I give rides to as a lot of people on this forum, but I have no problem with a driver not wanting to give a ride to a pax who reeks of tobacco/weed. This is a free country.

 

[Big man xl]

I assume farting in your car would be out of the question? All joking aside, when I used to drive UberX and I would see people doing that, I would make sure the timer started and then I would pull up about 100 yards, and then I would cancel them and get a fee as well, that’s how I dealt with it

Farting is an automatic 1 star. I don't fart in my own car why would I let someone else. The last person who farted in my car was with his girlfriend and I embarrassed him. I said( bro I hope you didn't shit yourself) he tried to laugh it off. Then him and his girl started whispering to one another.

 

[UberBastid]

I am sick and tired of riders getting into my car and stinking is up with cigarettes and pot smell. And it is never just a little, they reek of it. I have complained so many times to uber that they need to start charging riders who reek of these odors a fee so they will stop doing it. I feel embarrassed going to my next ride and it smelling bad in my car. I myself and not a smoker or user of pot. I have started just rolling all my windows down as soon as theHy get in the car. I do not care if it is raining or snowing, they can deal with it. I just tell them I am allergic to the smoke. I almost want to cancel when I roll up to someone and they are trying to get in that one last puff before a 10 minute ride.

Who do you think you are?
You are a cab driver .. pretty low on the social scale.
You put your PERSONAL family car IN CAB SERVICE.
That puts you lower on the social scale than a cabbie ...

Do your job.
You don't like the way people smell, go to work at the animal shelter.
Karen.

 

[elelegido]

Who do you think you are?

He's an Uber driver who owns his car, and/or pays all the expenses on it. Next question.

You are a cab driver .. pretty low on the social scale.

His position in the social hierarchy is irrelevant to and does not affect his ability to decide to take smelly pax or not.

You put your PERSONAL family car IN CAB SERVICE.

Yes, you have mastered the concept of Uber - drivers use their own personal vehicles to drive people around. Well done, you!

That puts you lower on the social scale than a cabbie ...

Again, this is of no relevance - social prestige of drivers has no effect on their prerogative to reject undesirables.

Do your job.

Maybe you haven't mastered the concept of Uber after all. Rideshare is not a job. It is a series of discrete contracts which each driver is free to accept or reject as he sees fit. You have been driving a while - I find it very surprising that at this stage you would confuse this with a job.

You don't like the way people smell, go to work at the animal shelter.

No, you misunderstand. Have a re-read of the post - the OP is saying that he doesn't like the way smokers smell immediately post-cigarette. There is no evidence that he does not like the way that people in general smell, as you claim.

Embellishing what the other person said in order to have more to rail against is very common here for some reason, but it's pointless.

Karen.

You can name-call all you want, but it doesn't change the fact that each driver has the free choice to accept or reject any pax he/she chooses. This is not a world where everyone has to do as you tell them. People who believe it is a world in which others have to do as they say are known as... Karens.

Anyway, regarding drivers exercising their rights to decide who they have in their cars, you're just going to have to like it or lump it, I'm afraid!

 

[PukersAreAlwaysYourFault]

Get some Cherry Tree freshener. The biggun. Hang it from your rear view.

 

[painfreepc]

I think I'm going to go work at a child daycare center even though I hate kids and shity diapers wish me luck

 

[elelegido]

I think I'm going to go work at a child daycare center even though I hate kids and shity diapers wish me luck

This is a faulty analogy, for the obvious reason mentioned above: Uber drivers are not employees, but workers who assess and then accept or reject separate offers of work on a rolling basis. The difference between an employee and a pseudo-IC gig such as Uber should be clear to drivers who've been doing it a while, but clearly it is not.

Anyway, given that we are not employees and, while we are not full independent contractors (we are pseudo-IC), we do indeed have the ability to pick and choose which people we give service to and which we prefer to pass over and decline to provide service to. Such separability of clients into serviceable (those who are not freshly-smoked) and non-serviceable (those who are freshly-smoked) does not exist for daycare workers - they do not get to pick and choose which children they will service (possibly those without soiled diapers) and those they will not (those with soiled diapers). In short, providing care for children with soiled diapers is part of, inseparable from and a condition of a job as a daycare worker, while being obliged to take undesirable pax is not part of or a condition for being a rideshare driver. This is where your analogy stumbles and fails.

The analogy is also faulty because there is no evidence in the OP's (or any other poster's posts in this thread) that we hate pax in general. You're trying to introduce hate into the equation, which is a new suggestion in your argument made by you and only you.

 

[UberBastid]

I think I'm going to go work at a child daycare center even though I hate kids and shity diapers wish me luck

Better yet, open your own daycare ... and fine the parents of kids that shit themselves.
A 'cleaning fee for shitters'.

right @elelegido ??