Shut up Lyft
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Dear Lyft...I have an idea! STOP "allowing" pins to drop on MARKET St precisely where you told us we're not allowed to pickup? How about following CPUC guidelines instead of dinging drivers for cxl'ing rides that aren't worth a ticket?
I have begun taking screenshots of every Market St ride request before cxl'ing.
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Got it yesterday as well. Interestingly enough, I denied the next three pings.
My reply would be, if they allowed a reply, Lyfts failure to pay long pickup fees is the reason we reject pings.
Put that in your "communities" pipe and smoke it fellas.
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Opt out of emails. Problem solved.
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Gotta get my laughs somewhere
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Oh, don't worry, they'll still leave a little sob message in your app.
From my point of view they are telling you that they care more about the pax than the drivers same thing with Uber. They think they're doing a favor to us.
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They want you to be more community oriented and less self absorbed.
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I had a twenty minute pickup on my way to my day job this morning, my day job is 42 miles from home. Since it was in route I accepted but left Uber running in case a better opportunity came up. I picked up a guy who had walked for over 10 miles in the rain and 45 degree weather because there were no Lyfts in the area. His drop off was less than 2 mile down the road. Fair with a 20% PT was $5.43. If this was not on my way it would have been a 45 minute run. Lyft absolutely needs to address this. It worked out though, as the pax gave me a $10 tip in the app, but usually these do not.
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Lyft somehow thinks if helps if they 'scold' their drivers into submission.
Happiness for me is running continuous Fubar riders and leaving Gryft app off.
Too bad people even use it and it seems to help making $, however I can't help but think that every time I have my Fubar app off running a Gryft rider, it's a missed Fubar rider?
Happiness for me is running continuous Fubar riders and leaving Gryft app off.
Too bad people even use it and it seems to help making $, however I can't help but think that every time I have my Fubar app off running a Gryft rider, it's a missed Fubar rider?
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Dear Lyft, As an independent contractor, we drivers are business owner and shall freely decide which pick up is profitable to us. This is our business and your on the street waiting a ride customer is your responsibility. You may need to add up some money for long pick up if you want to comfort your customers.
Thank you.
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got that nastygram text and email today too...
thing is, when I logged on to accept a morning scheduled ride, they bombarded me with nonstop pings 20 minutes away that were NOT my scheduled ride...so yeah, I refused them. then they canceled my scheduled ride, telling me an "error" was made...so I drove nearby where the original pickup was supposed to be and sure enough, I got a ping from the rider, who had no clue that their scheduled pickup had been canceled
just bizarre PITA crap; it was a $30 fare, so I'm glad I just did what I did
thing is, when I logged on to accept a morning scheduled ride, they bombarded me with nonstop pings 20 minutes away that were NOT my scheduled ride...so yeah, I refused them. then they canceled my scheduled ride, telling me an "error" was made...so I drove nearby where the original pickup was supposed to be and sure enough, I got a ping from the rider, who had no clue that their scheduled pickup had been canceled
just bizarre PITA crap; it was a $30 fare, so I'm glad I just did what I did
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What community do they speak of?
The community I work with , the Ants, consider it better to get paid more in order to take the most of the ride requests. It's perfectly ok with us to cancel shatty unrealistic requests.
I'm confused ?♂.
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If Lyft really cared about the app running smoothly for passengers, I agree they would credit drivers a long pickup fee like Uber. Problem is Lyft doesn't care, they only pretend to care by sending these ignorant messages.
Another fix would be a drivers bonus, depending on your acceptance rate. I have no problem with 15-20+ minute pickups once in awhile & 100% acceptance rate, if I'm properly compensated for it: $200 weekly bonus for 100% acceptance rate, $150 for 90%, $100 for 80%, would get me on board. But since Lyft doesn't care & is too cheap to implement, this will never happen unfortunately.
Another fix would be a drivers bonus, depending on your acceptance rate. I have no problem with 15-20+ minute pickups once in awhile & 100% acceptance rate, if I'm properly compensated for it: $200 weekly bonus for 100% acceptance rate, $150 for 90%, $100 for 80%, would get me on board. But since Lyft doesn't care & is too cheap to implement, this will never happen unfortunately.
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I got one from lyft even though I haven't given a ride in a couple months. Mine wasn't even updated it said "missing rides effects your power driver bonus. " lol damn we gave our social security numbers to these companies.
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I used to love the " your the only driver around" thing they would send you attached with a 30 min pickup to try and guilt you into taking the request ?
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LoL
The last time I got this message, I took a screenshot of it. I then attached it to an email and sent it back to them saying- no, YOU guys are affecting the dependability of your platform, by cutting rates so low we cannot afford to drive. You as a company have made this service unreliable. Not us drivers. ??
The last time I got this message, I took a screenshot of it. I then attached it to an email and sent it back to them saying- no, YOU guys are affecting the dependability of your platform, by cutting rates so low we cannot afford to drive. You as a company have made this service unreliable. Not us drivers. ??
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