[UberDad55403]

It is not the evil uber machine that is killing people. It is moron drivers flooding in and out of the platform at will. Uber’s genius is knowing how to absolutely control every aspect of what people do. I don’t blame them for that because it works. This morning there were two surges DT/UT, one at 2.0 and one at 2.6. Both of these were gone in less than three minutes each. Weekday mornings used to be surge after surge. You could set your watch to it as people headed to the airport. Now, uber thrown out a shitty incentive (my quest this week 18 trips for $18, 70 trips for $100) and drivers just sit online. It is like feeding pellets to caged animals. It does not take a genius to figure out that you could make an extra $100 on surge trips way faster than completing 70 trips. Stay offline, play the surge. This has, however, become irrelevant as the small fraction of people on here know that, or have their own system, and everyone else just stays online all the time. It is sad that the on line all the time folks have destroyed surge and all Uber has to do is throw a little bone and people are like OOOOOHHHH, an extra $1.43 per trip to destroy my car - SIGN ME UP!!!

Crap morning, just needed to vent.

Exactly.

 

[UberDad55403]

You are correct, Mondays have become the worst.

 

[UberDad55403]

That’s the thing. I don’t know how their strategy works to their benefit. We work in percentages. Higher fare totals equals better bottom line. They need riders to like and keep using but surge to 2.0 is still cheaper than a cab