[Daniel Powell]

I had two rides requests back to back. One was a pickup at a grocery store. When I got there two women with a cart full of groceries were waiting. I told them I felt it unsafe to have three people in the car and the large load of groceries. If I am having to sanitize my own few groceries then a carload of possibly contaminated bags is not what I a willing to transport. One of the women started cursing me so I cancelled the ride.

The next passenger was at Walmart. She had a cart piled high and on the bottom with groceries AND two kids. I told her the same thing...four people and more groceries than my car can hold.

I informed both that even before the coronavirus that passengers should request a vehicle large enough to accommodate their needs. Is that correct?

As I have complained about in the past, I transport people. I am not a grocery delivery man. Invariably the passenger takes a long time loading and unloading the groceries and the ride is usually not far from the pickup to their destination. I don’t feel drivers are paid enough for these type rides.

The bottom line is that stores are asking that only ONE member of the family cone into the store. It is rude and unsafe for these people to bring extra people and expect me to risk my life for $3.00.

I enjoy helping people but passengers are increasingly taking unfair advantage of drivers. The passenger at Walmart was a great distance away.

 

[TemptingFate]

They have no child care options otherwise they wouldn't be bringing their kids to Walmart.

Yeah I agree those rides were awful even in the pre-corona period but realistically, how much would be worth risking your life? $20? $50? Now what's reasonable for the average Walmartian? $10? $15? And Uber takes half.

Just stay home. It ain't worth it.

 

[Uber's Guber]

The damn filthy paxholes are trying to turn our vehicles into petri dishes on wheels.
🤧😷🤧

 

[Another Uber Driver]

pickup at a grocery store. When I got there two women with a cart full of groceries were waiting. I told them I felt it unsafe to have three people in the car and the large load of groceries.

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Were there two, or three people?

One of the women started cursing me so I cancelled the ride.

If they talk like that, of course, cancel the job. Was this on Uber or Lyft?

Walmart. She had a cart piled high and on the bottom with groceries AND two kids. I told her the same thing...four people

Were there three or four, total?

As I have complained about in the past, I transport people. I am not a grocery delivery man. Invariably the passenger takes a long time loading and unloading the groceries and the ride is usually not far from the pickup to their destination. I don't feel drivers are paid enough for these type rides.

People need a ride home from the grocery store. They used to call or hail cabs. Now, they summon Uber or Lyft. Despite that, it is never worth running after one of these things because they are usually minimums and usually ZERO tip. This is what cab drivers always hated about large grocery orders.

If you got these from Lyft, usually it tells you what kind of business it is, so if it is Pathmark, Wally World, CostCo or whatever, simply decline the ping.

If you are somewhere in Jersey and you are not familiar, even the map that Uber shows you when it offers you the ping is not much help. I get burned like this in the suburbs. In the City, though, I know what I am doing, so, I know which ones to accept and decline.

The bottom line is that stores are asking that only ONE member of the family cone into the store. It is rude and unsafe for these people to bring extra people and expect me to risk my life for $3.00.

Two passengers is not unreasonable. In the Capital of Your Nation, the Mayor has issued an order that only two people (plus the driver) are allowed in a TNC vehicle. The suburban jurisdictions have not issued similar orders, however. Since the lock downs began, I have had few two passenger trips and only one three. The three was in the suburbs. One of the guys wanted to sit in the front and I told him "no". If I see four, I keep going. If I see more than two in the City, I will keep going, but, that has yet to happen. Two? You should take them. We do not have the one family member rule here, Y-E-T. There are limits per square foot for each grocery store and you must wear a mask. They have socially distant queues outside some of the stores.

Welcome to YouPeaDotNet.

 

[JohnnyBravo836]

I think it took me about two weeks of driving before I came up with the following two rules:

(1) No grocery store pick-ups. I learned my lesson quickly when I realized how much of my time was wasted by paxes loading and unloading all their freakin' groceries.
(2) No Walmart. Ever. Never worth it. I probably picked up paxes there three times before strict enforcement of that rule began.

They will not respect your time, and will treat your vehicle like a U-Haul if you let them.

 

[Classified]

I had two rides requests back to back. One was a pickup at a grocery store. When I got there two women with a cart full of groceries were waiting. I told them I felt it unsafe to have three people in the car and the large load of groceries. If I am having to sanitize my own few groceries then a carload of possibly contaminated bags is not what I a willing to transport. One of the women started cursing me so I cancelled the ride.

The next passenger was at Walmart. She had a cart piled high and on the bottom with groceries AND two kids. I told her the same thing...four people and more groceries than my car can hold.

I informed both that even before the coronavirus that passengers should request a vehicle large enough to accommodate their needs. Is that correct?

As I have complained about in the past, I transport people. I am not a grocery delivery man. Invariably the passenger takes a long time loading and unloading the groceries and the ride is usually not far from the pickup to their destination. I don't feel drivers are paid enough for these type rides.

The bottom line is that stores are asking that only ONE member of the family cone into the store. It is rude and unsafe for these people to bring extra people and expect me to risk my life for $3.00.

I enjoy helping people but passengers are increasingly taking unfair advantage of drivers. The passenger at Walmart was a great distance away.

Don't mean to sound harsh, but -
First you chose to work. You don't have to,
Second, you accepted the trip then chose to go to the pick up spot knowing it was a store. It's pretty obvious they would have groceries, they don't go to a store to buy nothing.

I don't usually take those sort of trips. But since it's soo quiet. I'm doing them, any trip is better than no trip,
plus you have to take your own protection, if you want to protect yourself if you choose to work, hand sanitizers, disinfectant spray, optional supply riders with a mask,

according to ubers rules. Possibly the same there.You can only take 3 riders not 4. And they all must sit in theback

 

[Big Lou]

I had two rides requests back to back. One was a pickup at a grocery store. When I got there two women with a cart full of groceries were waiting. I told them I felt it unsafe to have three people in the car and the large load of groceries. If I am having to sanitize my own few groceries then a carload of possibly contaminated bags is not what I a willing to transport. One of the women started cursing me so I cancelled the ride.

The next passenger was at Walmart. She had a cart piled high and on the bottom with groceries AND two kids. I told her the same thing...four people and more groceries than my car can hold.

I informed both that even before the coronavirus that passengers should request a vehicle large enough to accommodate their needs. Is that correct?

As I have complained about in the past, I transport people. I am not a grocery delivery man. Invariably the passenger takes a long time loading and unloading the groceries and the ride is usually not far from the pickup to their destination. I don't feel drivers are paid enough for these type rides.

The bottom line is that stores are asking that only ONE member of the family cone into the store. It is rude and unsafe for these people to bring extra people and expect me to risk my life for $3.00.

I enjoy helping people but passengers are increasingly taking unfair advantage of drivers. The passenger at Walmart was a great distance away.

You are a saint!

 

[GreatWhiteHope]

I had two rides requests back to back. One was a pickup at a grocery store. When I got there two women with a cart full of groceries were waiting. I told them I felt it unsafe to have three people in the car and the large load of groceries. If I am having to sanitize my own few groceries then a carload of possibly contaminated bags is not what I a willing to transport. One of the women started cursing me so I cancelled the ride.

The next passenger was at Walmart. She had a cart piled high and on the bottom with groceries AND two kids. I told her the same thing...four people and more groceries than my car can hold.

I informed both that even before the coronavirus that passengers should request a vehicle large enough to accommodate their needs. Is that correct?

As I have complained about in the past, I transport people. I am not a grocery delivery man. Invariably the passenger takes a long time loading and unloading the groceries and the ride is usually not far from the pickup to their destination. I don't feel drivers are paid enough for these type rides.

The bottom line is that stores are asking that only ONE member of the family cone into the store. It is rude and unsafe for these people to bring extra people and expect me to risk my life for $3.00.

I enjoy helping people but passengers are increasingly taking unfair advantage of drivers. The passenger at Walmart was a great distance away.

Yeah that's ****ing bullshlt man I agree

They have no child care options otherwise they wouldn't be bringing their kids to Walmart.

Yeah I agree those rides were awful even in the pre-corona period but realistically, how much would be worth risking your life? $20? $50? Now what's reasonable for the average Walmartian? $10? $15? And Uber takes half.

Just stay home. It ain't worth it.

There's always gonna be like you that excuse rude inconsiderate behavior and etiquette

just because theyre irresponsible parents doesn't make it acceptable behavior

They're taking advantage or trying to - and they can walk home

 

[JohnnyBravo836]

I enjoy helping people but passengers are increasingly taking unfair advantage of drivers. The passenger at Walmart was a great distance away.

I assume that you're pretty new to this. Now that I think of it, I've got two more comments:
(1) You're not "helping people" -- they're paying you for a service. Either the wage you're being paid is fair or not. You may enjoy the job, but if you just want to help people, you could probably find more deserving people who need your help through Meals On Wheels. I'm not trying to be snide, just honest: this is not a social service, it's supposed to be a business that makes a profit and pays a fair wage to those who do the actual work.
(2) You should never drive more than a few minutes to pick up a pax. The first time I drove 10 minutes to pick up some jerkoff who was in the car for less than 3 minutes, I realized that that doesn't make any sense. Consequently, I would almost never drive more than 5-6 min to pick up a pax. If you find that you regularly have to drive farther than that to make a pick up, consider the possibility that driving Uber simply isn't worth it in your area.

 

[waldowainthrop]

I don’t think the risk of “contaminated bags” is very high. The risk from sick people is quite high, though.

But yeah, this trip was a bad deal for you, clearly.

 

[doyousensehumor]

It's situations like these I'm a little split.
Above all, the ride only continues if you let it. Both parties consent to doing the trip, if for any reason you don't want the ride, of course cancel.

Just my opinion though despite that: we're transporting the public. This is the type of things the public does... they have groceries. That's not unreasonable.

From your end, what you can influence, is maybe the original problem is not the passenger, it's that you're still accepting grocery runs when that's a obviously a deal-breaker for you........

 

[Soldiering]

They have no child care options otherwise they wouldn't be bringing their kids to Walmart.

Yeah I agree those rides were awful even in the pre-corona period but realistically, how much would be worth risking your life? $20? $50? Now what's reasonable for the average Walmartian? $10? $15? And Uber takes half.

Just stay home. It ain't worth it.

😆 I love it! Walmartian! That's solid...

Also the OP who created this thread should seriously consider retiring from RS or any other gig work as all these have a service component too them. If you can't see or understand that you should not be doing service work.

 

[doyousensehumor]

😆 I love it! Walmartian! That's solid...

Also the OP who created this thread should seriously consider retiring from RS or any other gig work as all these have a service component too them. If you can't see or understand that you should not be doing service work.

Exactly, just a fact of life, that a percentage of the rides will involve extra service. So some drivers just don't think it's "fair", you know, to help someone out with groceries or help out with the walker or wheelchairs or whatever.

Same goes for the Coronavirus. Reality right now is a certain percentage of the rides are going to be infected.

This is another point I'd like to add, is If a driver has a genuine fear of catching the virus, there is little that cherry picking rides is going to do to help that risk. Either the driver accept the risk, and does it, or he should take the initiative and stop driving.

 

[BK3]

if your worried for your life than stay home. It doesn't matter if the ride is 10 bucks or 1000 bucks...if your concerned for your safety than its time to stay home and collect unemployment until this blows over. If you continue to drive...don't handle their bags, that is not your job.

 

[Soldiering]

Exactly, just a fact of life, that a percentage of the rides will involve extra service. So some drivers just don't think it's "fair", you know, to help someone out with groceries or help out with the walker or wheelchairs or whatever.

Same goes for the Coronavirus. Reality right now is a certain percentage of the rides are going to be infected.

This is another point I'd like to add, is If a driver has a genuine fear of catching the virus, there is little that cherry picking rides is going to do to help that risk. Either the driver accept the risk, and does it, or he should take the initiative and stop driving.

For me my ratio falls about 1 in 10 to 20 for the extra service component. The way I see it if you drive with a negative energy that's what the universe gives you as for me I choose positivity. I'll quit driving if I feel negativity creeping in.

 

[WhogivesAF?]

Geez you yanks are such law abiding people. Why do you need so many guns ? Picking up riders is like playing Russian Roulette at the best of times. Don’t want to play the game ? I am sure there are just as many low paying jobs in other industries up for grabs.

 

[sd1303]

Why do you need so many guns ?

It's called the Bill of Rights, not the Bill of Needs.

We don't want to be a member of the
Picking up riders is like playing Russian Roulette at the best of times.

Russian Roulette requires a gun. Preferably a revolver.

Don't want to play the game ? I am sure there are just as many low paying jobs in other industries up for grabs.

You're so clever.

 

[WhogivesAF?]

It's called the Bill of Rights, not the Bill of Needs.

Not as clever as you yanks! I Apparently every lunatic has the right to walk into a school and shoot as many kids as they like. And, elect Donald Trump. Hey it's called democracy. Yep, we understand.

 

[UberTrent9]

but passengers are increasingly taking unfair advantage of drivers all the time.

This is very true. What's sad is that Uber allows them to do this to the drivers.

 

[UberTrent9]

They have no child care options otherwise they wouldn't be bringing their kids to Walmart.

Poor decisions is why she has "no child care options". In other words, it was probably a good idea for her to think things through completely BEFORE having crotch goblins.