[DC1377]

The new tipping feature seems to be working out well for me. Granted, I only do this part time a couple of days a week, mostly as a 'hobby', but now that Uber has included tipping in the app, it is becoming worthwhile for me to drive again. I have gotten quite a few $5 - $10 tips, and the percentage of people tipping has gone from 1 in 15 rides to about 1 in 4 rides.

Now, on to the rant - I loaded 4 guys, late 20's/early 30's Friday night from Gatsby's in Gahanna to the Arena district - About a 12 minute ride down 670. As soon as they get in my car they ask if I have a USB connection in the backseat and if they can plug into it. Yes I do, and I show them where it is. While the one guy is screwing around with his phone, the other three are being just generally loud and obnoxious and all asking me distracting questions simultaneously while I'm trying to drive on the highway. Now, I don't get distracted easily and I was doing fine until the guy in the backseat hands his phone up to me and asks me to plug it in up front because he cant get it to work in the back. As I'm plugging his phone in up front, the guy in the front seat starts dicking with my radio, pushing buttons, turning the volume up etc. I ask him what he's looking for on the radio, and he says "I'm trying to help you get Spotify on here".

Well, I don't have Spotify, never used it, don't really care about it. I tell the guy I don't have Spotify, but I do have XM. Now they all get pissed because they cant listen to their music for the last 3 minutes of the ride and proceed to make comments about how this is one of the worst Uber rides they've ever had and something about not giving me 5 stars. Yeah, whatever. I drop them off, pull up a little, park and get out to check out my backseat only to find 3 empty beer bottles that they snuck into my car and left on the floor.

I avoid campus and late night weekends for this very reason - Idiots that really don't care about their safety or mine and distract the crap out of their driver while he has your life in his hands driving down the highway at 65-70 mph. Not worth it to me. This was the first Friday night I've driven in over a year, and most likely my last.

And I don't understand the whole Spotify thing either. I usually keep my radio on 97.9 or one of the pop stations on XM and that seems to appease 99% of my pax. It's very rare that anyone ever asks to change the station and no one ever brings up playing their own music - Unless I'm on campus or Short North late night loading multiple drunk pax. Then it's all about "Do you have Spotify so that we can listen to 30 seconds of a song while you drive us two blocks down the road?" Gesh, just get in the damn car, be quiet for two minutes and let me get you home safely. You don't get any extra amenities for your $6 fare that you are splitting 4 ways, you entitled millennials.

Another Lyft pax that I loaded was telling me about an Uber ride he had earlier in the week and why he will never use Uber again - He got picked up from a bar at Easton around 1 in the morning. He got in the front seat because the non-English speaking driver had trash in the back seat. The Uber driver changed lanes on Morse road around Menard's and hit another car. He pulled over, got out of the car and started arguing with the guy he just hit saying it was the other guys fault. When the other guy said he was calling the police, the Uber driver got back in his car, ended the trip and told pax to get out and then took off! The other driver starting yelling at pax and then police showed up and wanted to detain pax. He explained the situation to the police and they got his info and the guy that got hit actually drove him home once he realized what had happened. He was still working with Uber on the whole issue.

It's amazing - We have both crazy, stupid pax and drivers out there.

 

[Gooberlifturwallet]

The new tipping feature seems to be working out well for me. Granted, I only do this part time a couple of days a week, mostly as a 'hobby', but now that Uber has included tipping in the app, it is becoming worthwhile for me to drive again. I have gotten quite a few $5 - $10 tips, and the percentage of people tipping has gone from 1 in 15 rides to about 1 in 4 rides.

Now, on to the rant - I loaded 4 guys, late 20's/early 30's Friday night from Gatsby's in Gahanna to the Arena district - About a 12 minute ride down 670. As soon as they get in my car they ask if I have a USB connection in the backseat and if they can plug into it. Yes I do, and I show them where it is. While the one guy is screwing around with his phone, the other three are being just generally loud and obnoxious and all asking me distracting questions simultaneously while I'm trying to drive on the highway. Now, I don't get distracted easily and I was doing fine until the guy in the backseat hands his phone up to me and asks me to plug it in up front because he cant get it to work in the back. As I'm plugging his phone in up front, the guy in the front seat starts dicking with my radio, pushing buttons, turning the volume up etc. I ask him what he's looking for on the radio, and he says "I'm trying to help you get Spotify on here".

Well, I don't have Spotify, never used it, don't really care about it. I tell the guy I don't have Spotify, but I do have XM. Now they all get pissed because they cant listen to their music for the last 3 minutes of the ride and proceed to make comments about how this is one of the worst Uber rides they've ever had and something about not giving me 5 stars. Yeah, whatever. I drop them off, pull up a little, park and get out to check out my backseat only to find 3 empty beer bottles that they snuck into my car and left on the floor.

I avoid campus and late night weekends for this very reason - Idiots that really don't care about their safety or mine and distract the crap out of their driver while he has your life in his hands driving down the highway at 65-70 mph. Not worth it to me. This was the first Friday night I've driven in over a year, and most likely my last.

And I don't understand the whole Spotify thing either. I usually keep my radio on 97.9 or one of the pop stations on XM and that seems to appease 99% of my pax. It's very rare that anyone ever asks to change the station and no one ever brings up playing their own music - Unless I'm on campus or Short North late night loading multiple drunk pax. Then it's all about "Do you have Spotify so that we can listen to 30 seconds of a song while you drive us two blocks down the road?" Gesh, just get in the damn car, be quiet for two minutes and let me get you home safely. You don't get any extra amenities for your $6 fare that you are splitting 4 ways, you entitled millennials.

Another Lyft pax that I loaded was telling me about an Uber ride he had earlier in the week and why he will never use Uber again - He got picked up from a bar at Easton around 1 in the morning. He got in the front seat because the non-English speaking driver had trash in the back seat. The Uber driver changed lanes on Morse road around Menard's and hit another car. He pulled over, got out of the car and started arguing with the guy he just hit saying it was the other guys fault. When the other guy said he was calling the police, the Uber driver got back in his car, ended the trip and told pax to get out and then took off! The other driver starting yelling at pax and then police showed up and wanted to detain pax. He explained the situation to the police and they got his info and the guy that got hit actually drove him home once he realized what had happened. He was still working with Uber on the whole issue.

It's amazing - We have both crazy, stupid pax and drivers out there.

Welcome to the wonderful world of goober Uber. I haven't bothered to look at this particular forum for a while but it doesn't surprise me that nothing has changed with that company. My advice to you is to save your car and your anxiety level and run away from Uber as fast as possible. It is nothing but a test platform for spyware and tracking of humans. There was no other reason for it to be valued at 70 plus billion and have the likes of Goldman Sachs throwing billions more at it. No Corporation can lose 3 billion dollars a year and stay afloat. This one manages to do just that. Ask yourself how that's possible and then walk away from being a pawn for this NSA subsidiary. Have some coffee and pie.

 

[DC1377]

Welcome to the wonderful world of goober Uber. I haven't bothered to look at this particular forum for a while but it doesn't surprise me that nothing has changed with that company. My advice to you is to save your car and your anxiety level and run away from Uber as fast as possible. It is nothing but a test platform for spyware and tracking of humans. There was no other reason for it to be valued at 70 plus billion and have the likes of Goldman Sachs throwing billions more at it. No Corporation can lose 3 billion dollars a year and stay afloat. This one manages to do just that. Ask yourself how that's possible and then walk away from being a pawn for this NSA subsidiary. Have some coffee and pie.

Huh? Oh, I remember you...

 

[MothMan]

I have a lot of PAX change the station.

Spotify has never come up. First I've heard about it.

 

[swingset]

I hate it when they don't ask or treat your car like it's their rental. I'll put up with some BS, but it's my car and you're a guest. I don't take orders. No job is worth being ordered around by a drunk millennial.

I have music controls on my steering wheel, so if they touch my radio I mute everything and ask them if they want to hear anything in particular politely (even tho I just put the jarring brakes on their attempt). Fine if we listen to something else (I usually have it on an alternative mix which isn't offensive or loud), but you're not the DJ taking command of my controls, and you don't get the volume knob either, I need to operate the car safely and hear and be heard.

 

[Sabrina_Word]

I hate it when they don't ask or treat your car like it's their rental. I'll put up with some BS, but it's my car and you're a guest. I don't take orders. No job is worth being ordered around by a drunk millennial.

I have music controls on my steering wheel, so if they touch my radio I mute everything and ask them if they want to hear anything in particular politely (even tho I just put the jarring brakes on their attempt). Fine if we listen to something else (I usually have it on an alternative mix which isn't offensive or loud), but you're not the DJ taking command of my controls, and you don't get the volume knob either, I need to operate the car safely and hear and be heard.

I agree with you 100%. The riders are rarely in the car long enough to enjoy even one song so i really don't like it when they mess with my radio or the controls, it is a distraction and then I have to put everything back when they get out of the car. I just moved here from Bowling Green, OH and I stopped driving for Uber until I moved because I could not stand the entitled behavior from college students. A lot of college students (at least in BG) seem to have little respect for other people and their cars. A kid once puked all over the side of my car and then acted like it was just my job to clean it up (I didn't know you could charge for cleanup on the outside of the car). I would also have kids demanding that I pick them up in unsafe locations, trying to sneak open beers into the car, and calling me just a few minutes after requesting the ride to ask where I was as if I was their servant. I find that in Columbus people seem to be a lot nicer but I still try to stay away from the campus area.

 

[gofry]

Face it, you're in a service business (and a minimum wage one at that) and you have to deal with customers. Just like a convenience store clerk, a bus driver, or a shooting baby portraits at Sears. They don't care about you or your car. I'm not excusing rude behavior but get used to it.

The bigger issue you should confront is if you should be wasting time in a job like this or spending it training or searching for something better.

 

[Sabrina_Word]

Face it, you're in a service business (and a minimum wage one at that) and you have to deal with customers. Just like a convenience store clerk, a bus driver, or a shooting baby portraits at Sears. They don't care about you or your car. I'm not excusing rude behavior but get used to it.

The bigger issue you should confront is if you should be wasting time in a job like this or spending it training or searching for something better.

I agree with you 100%. I lost my job a few weeks ago and I am basically just waiting out until the 1st of the year when places start hiring again. I still have rent and a car payment to make. I did pretty good on rides today though and I might keep at it on the weekends when I do get a full time job again. I made pretty good money at my last job and I brought home half of a weekly check tonight so it isn't horrible, UberEats is, but I've had way crappier jobs that paid a lot less. It's also nice to have on hand when you get hit with a big bill or expense you need to take care of ASAP.

 

[Fernando-R]

You should’ve taken a picture of the bottles and claim a cleaning fee from Uber. They charge the passenger up to $150 for very messy situation. You could’ve probably got $50 fee.

 

[occupant]

Face it, you're in a service business (and a minimum wage one at that) and you have to deal with customers. Just like a convenience store clerk, a bus driver, or a shooting baby portraits at Sears. They don't care about you or your car. I'm not excusing rude behavior but get used to it.

The bigger issue you should confront is if you should be wasting time in a job like this or spending it training or searching for something better.

I never had a passenger in my tow truck ask to change the radio station, hook up Spotify, find a USB port, or do anything but sit there and be concerned about their POS dragging on my hook or bouncing on the bed. One reached for my radio once and I glared at her like she was crazy. She retracted her hand like my radio grew two heads and a forked tongue. I expect the same level of respect out of a rideshare passenger.

I am performing a transportation service. I'm not your concierge, DJ, or party host. You want to get from point A to point B. Feel free to have your party at either of those points, but when you ride in my car you will be respectful, keeping your hands and feet to yourself, or you'll find yourself at the nearest open business to wait inside it for your next ride, and you will receive a stern talking to about how you will treat that driver and all subsequent ones.

Do you walk into Sears and demand they change the muzak to Chance The Rapper? No, you hear Mariah Carey and you like it.

Do you take your empty beer bottles and throw them in the aisle at the convenience store? No, you put them in the bin at the front door or pump island.

Do you yell across the vehicle at the bus driver asking him how long he's been driving a city bus, and if he makes good money, and if he thinks your shirt is dope? OK, maybe that last one if you're brave. But who does that? Only ******bags. And that's why I call them out on it.

I still have a 4.91 rating on Uber (23xx rides) and 4.83 on Lyft (871 rides). But I live my life by a simple code and one of those codes is...

DO NO HARM, TAKE NO SHIT

 

[gofry]

You are some tough guy.

 

[occupant]

You are some tough guy.

Nope just a big teddy bear but I'm not putting up with your crap.

 

[Derpdederpdederp]

The new tipping feature seems to be working out well for me. Granted, I only do this part time a couple of days a week, mostly as a 'hobby', but now that Uber has included tipping in the app, it is becoming worthwhile for me to drive again. I have gotten quite a few $5 - $10 tips, and the percentage of people tipping has gone from 1 in 15 rides to about 1 in 4 rides.

Now, on to the rant - I loaded 4 guys, late 20's/early 30's Friday night from Gatsby's in Gahanna to the Arena district - About a 12 minute ride down 670. As soon as they get in my car they ask if I have a USB connection in the backseat and if they can plug into it. Yes I do, and I show them where it is. While the one guy is screwing around with his phone, the other three are being just generally loud and obnoxious and all asking me distracting questions simultaneously while I'm trying to drive on the highway. Now, I don't get distracted easily and I was doing fine until the guy in the backseat hands his phone up to me and asks me to plug it in up front because he cant get it to work in the back. As I'm plugging his phone in up front, the guy in the front seat starts dicking with my radio, pushing buttons, turning the volume up etc. I ask him what he's looking for on the radio, and he says "I'm trying to help you get Spotify on here".

Well, I don't have Spotify, never used it, don't really care about it. I tell the guy I don't have Spotify, but I do have XM. Now they all get pissed because they cant listen to their music for the last 3 minutes of the ride and proceed to make comments about how this is one of the worst Uber rides they've ever had and something about not giving me 5 stars. Yeah, whatever. I drop them off, pull up a little, park and get out to check out my backseat only to find 3 empty beer bottles that they snuck into my car and left on the floor.

I avoid campus and late night weekends for this very reason - Idiots that really don't care about their safety or mine and distract the crap out of their driver while he has your life in his hands driving down the highway at 65-70 mph. Not worth it to me. This was the first Friday night I've driven in over a year, and most likely my last.

And I don't understand the whole Spotify thing either. I usually keep my radio on 97.9 or one of the pop stations on XM and that seems to appease 99% of my pax. It's very rare that anyone ever asks to change the station and no one ever brings up playing their own music - Unless I'm on campus or Short North late night loading multiple drunk pax. Then it's all about "Do you have Spotify so that we can listen to 30 seconds of a song while you drive us two blocks down the road?" Gesh, just get in the damn car, be quiet for two minutes and let me get you home safely. You don't get any extra amenities for your $6 fare that you are splitting 4 ways, you entitled millennials.

Another Lyft pax that I loaded was telling me about an Uber ride he had earlier in the week and why he will never use Uber again - He got picked up from a bar at Easton around 1 in the morning. He got in the front seat because the non-English speaking driver had trash in the back seat. The Uber driver changed lanes on Morse road around Menard's and hit another car. He pulled over, got out of the car and started arguing with the guy he just hit saying it was the other guys fault. When the other guy said he was calling the police, the Uber driver got back in his car, ended the trip and told pax to get out and then took off! The other driver starting yelling at pax and then police showed up and wanted to detain pax. He explained the situation to the police and they got his info and the guy that got hit actually drove him home once he realized what had happened. He was still working with Uber on the whole issue.

It's amazing - We have both crazy, stupid pax and drivers out there.

I have pulled over and kicked guys out for this same reason, I'll ask them very politely to not distract me when I'm driving and if they can't respect me then it's GTFO