No more than four people please

I feel so honored here. I have earned my very first TROLL badge. And from a Taxi Hack/GUber Rider who can't even read his own fu&*ing Partner Agreement because he doesn't have one, or doesn't know how to read English. And then comes into a forum for GUuber drivers, posing as a driver but actually is a Hack/GUber Rider??

Right, like a ten year Taxi veteran is going to pay GUberx cars to drive him around and not a fellow Taxi Pro. Then provides nothing but meaningless GUber propaganda and silly gibberish to support a nonsensical position. That being he's going to throw a temper tantrum to GUber Support if I deign not cater to his every whim. Don't. Make. Me. Laugh. And the freaking robot CSRs have NOT been programmed with a sense of humour so they will just think you are ignorant.

Sire Dousheville II , I have driven A DOZEN GUber Market Managers, picking them up at the local offices here. You think if they wanted me de-activated they might have gotten around to it by now?

Now please, go have a glass of milk and cookies. It's going to all work out soon. Travie's robots are almost ready to take over and then we can all stop pretending to have a real job and go back to stacking boxes in the warehouse. Or whatever. Ok?

ginseng41 said:

I had a great one the other night. Pulled up to 5, rolled the window down and informed them I could only hold 4. One girl was like that's fine, I didn't want to go out anyway. I agreed to take the others since it seemed like they were amicable. After we get in and I get them to tell me the address, I start driving and they start a speel about how all the other drivers take 5. Blah blah blah. It's only a 3 minute trip so I don't throw them out. After parking they go off on me. I tell them all the other drivers are idiots and will loose their insurance and licenses if they're caught or in an accident. When they finally get out they practically ripped the door off and left a gash in my door.

On a side note, uber has still not replied to my serious passenger issue from almost 48 hours

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Feeling your pain brother, seriously. Markets are all different and your appears to have a serious "suck factor" to it. All I can suggest is try and find a different fishin' hole...if you keep getting these same type of riders from this same general vicinity, then there is something seriously wrong with the fish in that pond. If one keeps fishin that hole, then there may also be something wrong with the fisherman, no?

Their proposed "solution", that a GUberx driver should break the law, haul illegal, risk getting fined, not to mention the passenger riding without legal restraint is forfeiting a valid insurance claim in case of accident/injury, all to save a $2 car fare, is just patently ridiculous and possibly one of the dumbest things I have ever heard. Responsible adults do not behave in this manner. So let me go out on a limb here, are these requests mostly from campus denizens from that Institute of Higher Education in Hokieville?

ginseng41 said:

I had a great one the other night. Pulled up to 5, rolled the window down and informed them I could only hold 4. One girl was like that's fine, I didn't want to go out anyway. I agreed to take the others since it seemed like they were amicable. After we get in and I get them to tell me the address, I start driving and they start a speel about how all the other drivers take 5. Blah blah blah. It's only a 3 minute trip so I don't throw them out. After parking they go off on me. I tell them all the other drivers are idiots and will loose their insurance and licenses if they're caught or in an accident. When they finally get out they practically ripped the door off and left a gash in my door.

On a side note, uber has still not replied to my serious passenger issue from almost 48 hours

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Have some respect for yourself and at the same time protect your rating,
we can hate the rating system all we want, but it's no joke, pro tact your rating:

Having to tell passenger, you can't do this or that = Cancel
Passenger with rating rating of 4.5 or under = Cancel
3 or more for uber pool = Cancel
5 or more for my uberX = Cancel
Call or text, to ask "Where are you?" = Cancel
Call or text, with something like "your ETA was 4 minutes 5 minutes a go" = Cancel
Call or text to tell me i passed the location = Cancel
Call or text about wrong pin location, but don't acknowledge your mistake = Cancel
All passenger(s) under 18 yo = Cancel
Asking me to wait for friend that's still in bar = Cancel
call or text with directions to their location = Cancel
Telling me I could have been 1 minutes earlier if i had turned on the other street = Cancel
too many to list all, but you get the picture..

ginseng41 said:

It's the only place I can work within driving distance. I talked to the editor of the campus newspaper about putting an article in with these "rules". My ratings are fine and I do frequently show up when a big group has already ordered several. I'd be an idiot to cancel just on seeing it

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Exactly so. Drive, arrive, assess. Fill orders you think will work. For the others you don;t like, shuffle peacefully away, wait 5/get $5SRF. Easy peasey. And yes, be prepared for the occasional dbag groups that start cool and finish poorly. In my experience this seldom happens. But don't feel bad if you have to eject en route.

When this happens, put them in a safe spot and end the ride. Email support and request to cxl/refund the trip fare. Explain you had to "eject a hostile rider for your safety". You can do this at the destination also. The effect is the same. GUber will cxl the fare and credit the account. Since the trip was cxl'd, there are no ratings. You lose the fare and protect your precious stars. If it is a long trip/high fare, at the end you can decide which has more value to you. The $ that GUber will deposit in your bank account, or the 1* the rider MIGHT deposit into your ratings account. Your choice as the driver either way. Stay in control!