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Lost my job late last year so thought I'll sign up for Uber. Took 35 days to get the ok from Uber. Thanks for that.
25 to 30 years ago while at Uni I drive a Taxi part-time and then for a short period full-time so I know and understand the business.
I live in Wollongong and have only Ubered in Wollongong.
My average per hour take on the "meter" is $20.04. Only those who are honest to themselves can work out the fuel and tax elements in that equation. You know who you are, or do you?
The bigger problem is per km earnings. Unfortunately I have not tracked every km but two examples should explain things here in Wollongong.
Yesterday morning, Thursday. I live Fairy Meadow, 7.05am 15 min after logging on. I get a job from Woonona 8km to Wombarra 10.56km that pays me $16.72. Ok so now I'm in Wombarra, chances of a fare are zero, so I drive towards Wollongong. The speed limit here in Wombarra and for a good deal of the trip is 40 and dose not exceed 50 until past Thirroul. So by the time I get to Wollongong it's taken me 65 min and I've driven 32km.
This morning, Friday and the reason I'm at home drinking beer never to Uber again. I planned to log on at 11am thinking that with a break later in the day I would work until about 1am next morning. So at 10.40am I was on my way to clean my car in Corrimal and (nor logged on) the Uber app was showing a surge in Corrimal right next to my position of 3.2, so I logged on. A few min later whilst still heading north I gives me a job in My Keira, some 9km south. Yes I should have knocked it back. Unknown to me and unknown to Uber (thanks again) some two or three hours earlier a truck caught fire on the M1 and closed the Motorway. I drove down Railway Ave onto the M1 and stopped. It took me one and a half hours to get to the pickup address, I messaged the rider many times and told him the situation and how long it would take but he told me he was not in a hurry and this was the second Uber he'd and he would wait. The fare ran $7.82.
That's not the worst part.
Yes I understand traffic issues are part of daily life but the Uber app should have known about the traffic and showed red. I would have been alerted and could have made route changes. Siri was fully aware, why can't I use Siri to navigate?
I got another job before dropping off the passenger and that job again was 10km to pickup $12.41 job but this time when I swiped to end the job and give a passenger rating I had to do it no less than five times and errors came up and I whilst I had the next job address (another 7km) the Uber app would not navigate. When I picked up the riders and swiped to start I had to do it again four or five times and it would not navigate. When I dropped them in the city for $8.82 my previous days earnings, such as they were, disappeared.
10.45am to 1.30pm for $29.05.
Uber is treating us all, well you all now, like ****ing idiots.
25 to 30 years ago while at Uni I drive a Taxi part-time and then for a short period full-time so I know and understand the business.
I live in Wollongong and have only Ubered in Wollongong.
My average per hour take on the "meter" is $20.04. Only those who are honest to themselves can work out the fuel and tax elements in that equation. You know who you are, or do you?
The bigger problem is per km earnings. Unfortunately I have not tracked every km but two examples should explain things here in Wollongong.
Yesterday morning, Thursday. I live Fairy Meadow, 7.05am 15 min after logging on. I get a job from Woonona 8km to Wombarra 10.56km that pays me $16.72. Ok so now I'm in Wombarra, chances of a fare are zero, so I drive towards Wollongong. The speed limit here in Wombarra and for a good deal of the trip is 40 and dose not exceed 50 until past Thirroul. So by the time I get to Wollongong it's taken me 65 min and I've driven 32km.
This morning, Friday and the reason I'm at home drinking beer never to Uber again. I planned to log on at 11am thinking that with a break later in the day I would work until about 1am next morning. So at 10.40am I was on my way to clean my car in Corrimal and (nor logged on) the Uber app was showing a surge in Corrimal right next to my position of 3.2, so I logged on. A few min later whilst still heading north I gives me a job in My Keira, some 9km south. Yes I should have knocked it back. Unknown to me and unknown to Uber (thanks again) some two or three hours earlier a truck caught fire on the M1 and closed the Motorway. I drove down Railway Ave onto the M1 and stopped. It took me one and a half hours to get to the pickup address, I messaged the rider many times and told him the situation and how long it would take but he told me he was not in a hurry and this was the second Uber he'd and he would wait. The fare ran $7.82.
That's not the worst part.
Yes I understand traffic issues are part of daily life but the Uber app should have known about the traffic and showed red. I would have been alerted and could have made route changes. Siri was fully aware, why can't I use Siri to navigate?
I got another job before dropping off the passenger and that job again was 10km to pickup $12.41 job but this time when I swiped to end the job and give a passenger rating I had to do it no less than five times and errors came up and I whilst I had the next job address (another 7km) the Uber app would not navigate. When I picked up the riders and swiped to start I had to do it again four or five times and it would not navigate. When I dropped them in the city for $8.82 my previous days earnings, such as they were, disappeared.
10.45am to 1.30pm for $29.05.
Uber is treating us all, well you all now, like ****ing idiots.
