How about that title for HYPOCRISY! But seriously, welcome to the REAL WORLD!
I have only driven about 35 times. And so far, in that time, I have transported a *****, a Stripper, a Drug Dealer, a runaway teen and one guy who threw up all over the side of my Silverado Truck. But I take it all in stride! Why?
Because I worked for Enterprise Rent A Car for a year, and I KNOW what people do to cars that are not theirs. Pay? I made a SALARY of $1,200.00 a MONTH and worked a minimum of 50 hours a week!!! With that, I paid $750 a month in rent for an apartment, with a roommate.
Driving a car takes NO SKILL at all, I drove a pickup truck all over my Uncles farm when I was 12 years old! I have been driving all over the Los Angeles area for 35 years with NO CITATIONS!! My truck cost me fifty cents a mile to drive, including the depreciation, purchase price, repairs, tires, fuel, etc.... And if I make a dollar, that is fifty cents in my pocket. If I drove at 6o MPH for an hour, I make $30.00 But that does not happen, or even close. At most, I make $10 a hour, and more likely $8. I knew ALL of that going in.
Bad passengers, low pay, damage to my vehicle, it is all PART of this gig. So don't be surprised if it works out just like THAT! And Passenger ratings! I think the UBER system needs a LOT of adjusting. I hear they even send drivers with low ratings to a class. I think they should send PASSENGERS with low ratings to class. None of us can control what a passenger does with their ratings. If UBER wants to lose an UberX driver who is driving a nice vehicle, that is their choice! I will just go on my merry way with Uber having one less driver. I do a good job at a very cheap price, which I knew going in, so I am OK with that.
Uber, as with ANY NEW TECHNOLOGY, is going to have some very ROUGH patches. You should have seen Bill Gates First Operating System!!! Heck, I paid $5,000.00 for an IBM PC=XT with a 20 Mb Hard drive and 640K RAM, in 1984. I could have bought a very nice used car for that. BUT, it was NEW technology and I wanted to experience it. Uber is New Technology, merging several different aspects of Cell Phones, GPS, Smart Phone Apps and transportation. It is going to take some time to iron everything out. But don't expect to make a $100,000 a year driving your car. It isn't going to happen!
Are there changes I would like to see Uber make? Absolutely. I bet they get thousands of ideas every day, of which 99% are unworkable, unrealistic and just downright stupid. But the 1% are probably discussed and discussed, and over time, good changes will come. This is a money cow for them and they want to keep it going. So just accept the fact that you will get low pay and some poor/idiotic customers. You should see what tenants do to my rentals!!!!
I have only driven about 35 times. And so far, in that time, I have transported a *****, a Stripper, a Drug Dealer, a runaway teen and one guy who threw up all over the side of my Silverado Truck. But I take it all in stride! Why?
Because I worked for Enterprise Rent A Car for a year, and I KNOW what people do to cars that are not theirs. Pay? I made a SALARY of $1,200.00 a MONTH and worked a minimum of 50 hours a week!!! With that, I paid $750 a month in rent for an apartment, with a roommate.
Driving a car takes NO SKILL at all, I drove a pickup truck all over my Uncles farm when I was 12 years old! I have been driving all over the Los Angeles area for 35 years with NO CITATIONS!! My truck cost me fifty cents a mile to drive, including the depreciation, purchase price, repairs, tires, fuel, etc.... And if I make a dollar, that is fifty cents in my pocket. If I drove at 6o MPH for an hour, I make $30.00 But that does not happen, or even close. At most, I make $10 a hour, and more likely $8. I knew ALL of that going in.
Bad passengers, low pay, damage to my vehicle, it is all PART of this gig. So don't be surprised if it works out just like THAT! And Passenger ratings! I think the UBER system needs a LOT of adjusting. I hear they even send drivers with low ratings to a class. I think they should send PASSENGERS with low ratings to class. None of us can control what a passenger does with their ratings. If UBER wants to lose an UberX driver who is driving a nice vehicle, that is their choice! I will just go on my merry way with Uber having one less driver. I do a good job at a very cheap price, which I knew going in, so I am OK with that.
Uber, as with ANY NEW TECHNOLOGY, is going to have some very ROUGH patches. You should have seen Bill Gates First Operating System!!! Heck, I paid $5,000.00 for an IBM PC=XT with a 20 Mb Hard drive and 640K RAM, in 1984. I could have bought a very nice used car for that. BUT, it was NEW technology and I wanted to experience it. Uber is New Technology, merging several different aspects of Cell Phones, GPS, Smart Phone Apps and transportation. It is going to take some time to iron everything out. But don't expect to make a $100,000 a year driving your car. It isn't going to happen!
Are there changes I would like to see Uber make? Absolutely. I bet they get thousands of ideas every day, of which 99% are unworkable, unrealistic and just downright stupid. But the 1% are probably discussed and discussed, and over time, good changes will come. This is a money cow for them and they want to keep it going. So just accept the fact that you will get low pay and some poor/idiotic customers. You should see what tenants do to my rentals!!!!