The solution to UberEats

Grubhubflub said:

The customer's barely tip us as it is. They definitely aren't going to tip if they have to walk outside to pick up the order.

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avexingparse said:

Lol... This is a lazy, bad faith response. I honestly don't even think you're worth replying to because you're obviously not trying to have an actual conversation but I'm bored.



1) Yeah, anyone can shoot you anywhere. What's your point. Risk levels fluctuate. My point is, the risk in this new model is equal to rideshare risk, as opposed to being more risky in the current one. What's yours?



2) it's not about being lazy. If you're walking, you're not making money. If you spend 30 minutes trying to find the 3 elevators down the maze of hallways and then back to your car on the 3rd, no wait second, no wait first underground level - you're objectively wasting time lol.



If you enjoy wasting your time, then have at it

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avexingparse said:

You're right. They don't tip, stop relying on tips. If you're always moving, always going to the next destination, you're gonna be making more money more consistently than rolling the slot machines on whose tipping.

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Grubhubflub said:

The customer's barely tip us as it is. They definitely aren't going to tip if they have to walk outside to pick up the order.

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colamacy said:

Almost all Uber Eats offers have tips.

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Funky said:

Are we still talking about this

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SinTaxERROR said:

I can shoot you dead just as quick at my front door as I could with you sitting in your car…

next…

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painfreepc said:

BS, someone can kill you at their front door and get off on manslaughter,
a husband or boyfriend could come home at the same time you're leaving the door
and think you are the other guy fooling around with his wife or girlfriend,
you are some unknown dude walking around on somebody else's property,

driving taxi I would occasionally have a dispatcher tell me to get out and knock on someones door late at night,
was not happening.

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painfreepc said:

BS, someone can kill you at their front door and get off on manslaughter,
a husband or boyfriend could come home at the same time you're leaving the door
and think you are the other guy fooling around with his wife or girlfriend,
you are some unknown dude walking around on somebody else's property,

driving taxi I would occasionally have a dispatcher tell me to get out and knock on someones door late at night,
was not happening.

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avexingparse said:

I made a thread talking about how Uber Eats is not worth our time and everyone should just disable it and do rideshare. But I think I came up with a solution. I'll summerize the problems:

• Its time inefficient. You're constantly getting in and out of your car, walking, waiting, etc.
• Because its so time inefficient, the pay is substantially lower than rideshare.
• Its dangerous. Getting out of your car late at night to wander around an apartment complex looking for the door makes you vulnerable.
• Its bad for your car. Constantly turning your car on and off every time you go in to pick up an order is bad for your car's reliability.
• One off bad experiences with angry customers are frequent.

So seriously, if you're doing Uber Eats, turn that shit off. Its not worth your time. But, I think I know what Uber could do to fix this and I'm curious what your thoughts are:

Uber will designate a drop off point. How they implement this is up to interpretation but at a high level, the flow would be this:

Customer orders food from Uber Eats. Uber eats finds a driver and then says, "your food will be dropped off here". The customer is then required to go outside to the dropoff point. The driver will then hand the food to the customer. If the customer doesn't show within a certain amount of time, the food will just be left there, or if that's considered litering will just be forfeit.

As a consumer, I'd greatly prefer this. It puts me and the driver on the same page. I know where my food is gonna be left, the driver has no excuse for not getting it there, and its still far more convinient for me to take 300 steps to a dropoff location than to get in the car and drive off.

From the driver's perspective, this makes our deliveries far more efficient, less dangerous, better on our car's reliablity, and I think the success rate will conribute to happier customers.

Thoughts?

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Seamus said:

Well you are pretty new so I take it you don't have much experience. What you don't seem to be aware of is back when UE started it WAS what you are describing as the fix! All deliveries were supposed to be curbside, the customer was supposed to be waiting at the curb.

Unfortunately that didn't last too long as customers quickly learned to manipulate that rule and drivers became conditioned to just bring it to the door. Then, the rule went out the window to the point that if someone wasn't doing this back in 2017 they don't even know that was a rule.

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