Back to topic. If your rider complains about having to wait long for a ride, tell them to order priority. (Uber not lyft)
Upfront tip option is desperately needed.
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Well it’s been 6 years or so since I was globe trotting, so things may be different in a lot of areas…but America is generally more of a “rat race” life if you are not middle-upper class or above. The lower class to middle-class are contending with a relatively high cost of living compared to people in the same classes living in many of the poorer countries. Our high GDP should lead to security and prosperity, but we lack the social safety nets that people living in other first-world countries have.That's then. Now is a different story.
King dollar is making everything more expensive these days in poorer countries. Siri Lanka for example.
But I do get your point. 👍
I’ll let the thread go back on topic tho 😅 .
Rat race is at every bigger cities. Competition for survival is the name of the game for most.“rat race”
Thou I live in LA now, I'm preparing myself to leave the rat race.
😂 🤣 😂 Wanna bet?A big mouth like myself will not survive there.
In this forum, I think I have been banned more than anyone else.
Where you going?Rat race is at every bigger cities. Competition for survival is the name of the game for most.
Thou I live in LA now, I'm preparing myself to leave the rat race.
(sets iPhone timer on)😂 🤣 😂 Wanna bet?
Up front tipping for food delivery is different.
I wouldn't up front tip a driver if I don't know how the driver drives, if the car smells or perhaps the driver is a total nut job.
No I don't think up front tipping for rideshare would have many takers.
I wouldn't up front tip a driver if I don't know how the driver drives, if the car smells or perhaps the driver is a total nut job.
No I don't think up front tipping for rideshare would have many takers.
Yeah it can be less of a rat race if you live in the country areas…but I’ve been to a lot of places where there’s not that rat race vibe even though you’re still in a decently populated area.Rat race is at every bigger cities. Competition for survival is the name of the game for most.
Thou I live in LA now, I'm preparing myself to leave the rat race.
We shouldn’t have to live in some “middle of nowhere” town in Idaho or Alabama to relax 😅
We were having a conversion about logic on another thread. Won't you join us there.Up front tipping for food delivery is different.
I wouldn't up front tip a driver if I don't know how the driver drives, if the car smells or perhaps the driver is a total nut job.
No I don't think up front tipping for rideshare what have many takers.
Who the hell knows in this crazy world.Where you going?
Time will tell.
Uber has been experimenting with upfront tip, it's called Priority Pickup, passanger pays extra and it goes to the driver. You should see it on some trips here and there. But it will be rolled out to everyone in the future.
But then, there would be tip baiting.
nypost.com
UberEats driver ‘disgusted’ by under-tipping trend: ‘I went the extra mile’
She was shocked when her tip was decreased after delivery — and appalled when she learned about “tip baiting.”
nypost.com
To illustrate her point, Sarah — a stay at home mom who delivers for UberEats and DoorDash — recounted an instance when she’d accepted an order for a woman within a five-mile-radius, offering a $15 tip.
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“After that hour went by I looked at my earnings and I did not make $15 off that order,” Sarah said. “You know what I made? $2.”
Yeah, I was going to mention priority pickup, but it’s’ not fully like a tip since the passenger can’t set the amount.Uber has been experimenting with upfront tip, it's called Priority Pickup, passanger pays extra and it goes to the driver. You should see it on some trips here and there. But it will be rolled out to everyone in the future.
That's the thing, it's not a tip. It's a bid to get a driver to pick you up fast.Yeah, I was going to mention priority pickup, but it’s’ not fully like a tip since the passenger can’t set the amount.
Lux line can take up to 6 hours from 40th Place sometimes. Especially when the front four cars keep jumping ahead of the line because of all the short El Segundo/ playa vista trips. There’s actually a strategy to airport trips that you can no longer take advantage of since there’s no bonuses anymore.I’m just starting to get comfortable with almost never chilling at the airport with the Lux only grind. I can understand why people in higher tiers do it though, since getting trips involves waiting and the airport can become a comfortable/familiar place to wait.
It’s never made sense to chill at the airport for Uber X drivers though when you can leave and get a ping within a minute or 2 max the majority of the day.
I’ve seen it. I thought it was lower than X so I never picked it up. I’ve seen some decent payouts recently. Still payouts fall short of my standards for distance.Uber has been experimenting with upfront tip, it's called Priority Pickup, passanger pays extra and it goes to the driver. You should see it on some trips here and there. But it will be rolled out to everyone in the future.
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in China, most of the food is still alive and kicking when they’re eating it. And some of the dishes I’ve seen still have the head and legs on them when they’re on the plate. Don’t get me started on the bats.That's assuming "world news" does not lie. People automatically believe everything bad happening in China "because it's China", that's already very dangerous. For example, do you instantly believe all the accusations MSM reported against the party / the candidates you support? No, you will think twice or call it fake news. But when it comes to China, everything negative must be true, regardless how ridiculous or against common sense it is, from concentration camps to slave labor solar panels or cotton in XJ.
My uncle runs a lab for nearly two decades and they use a lot of exchange PHD scholars from China, fewer and fewer seeks to stay after their exchange period, that says a lot about how much US is "a much better place". I'd say you make more money in the US, cars and gadgets are cheaper, houses are bigger, but China definitely has better food, infrastructure, transportation and security. You don't get your car window smashed, wheels stolen, shot, robbed, kidnapped in most decent countries other than the US, seeing a specialist is also much easier in China, even with a good HMO it still takes a ****ing month or two to see a specialist.
I have seen so called videos of Chinese eating life rats, except the people in the video clearly speaks Vietnamese. Most westerners can't tell Asians apart, slap Chinese on anything and no one will be the wiser.re
in China, most of the food is still alive and kicking when they’re eating it. And some of the dishes I’ve seen still have the head and legs on them when they’re on the plate. Don’t get me started on the bats.
Life octopus and dog eating videos are pretty much 100% Koreans (also please don't try it, it's very dangerous eating life octopus and many die to it every year). Dog meat is one of the major proteins in Korean and they even have a dog eating festival, obviously less people are doing it right now in the modern days.
I have seen many bat soup videos, some legitly from China some not. But I can assure you it's extremely uncommon in China and you won't find it in 99.99% of the restaurants you go. A lot of videos you found eating life animals were mostly from TikTok because poor streamers without any skills have to do dangerous crazy things to get attention, and a lot of them went with eating dangerous nasty shit as a challenge or stunt, because most Chinese are so against it.
If you don't believe me, just take some Chinese to a steak house, they are going to ask steak well done or medium well because they are scared to eat anything less than medium well because of the "blood" from the steak. Some are against eating sushi because they won't eat raw fish. Also almost no one will touch beef tartare, and that's the norm.
Whatever belief you currently have already showed the level of scary brainwashing in the US, which lead to people believing ludicrous ideas no matter how against logic it is, but then again you already have hundred millions of poor people defending the privilege of billionaires thinking they are going to become one self one day, class solidarity anyone?
Yeah, also, sometimes in Asia and South America…people who eat dog, cat, rats, etc. are kind of like people who eat possum, snakes, etc. over here. Essentially, those are things that people eat if they are more “woodsy” or into exotic/strange foods, but the vast majority of the population only eat regular meats unless they are just trying the exotic meat on a special occasion or because someone dared them.I have seen so called videos of Chinese eating life rats, except the people in the video clearly speaks Vietnamese. Most westerners can't tell Asians apart, slap Chinese on anything and no one will be the wiser.
Life octopus and dog eating videos are pretty much 100% Koreans (also please don't try it, it's very dangerous eating life octopus and many die to it every year). Dog meat is one of the major proteins in Korean and they even have a dog eating festival, obviously less people are doing it right now in the modern days.
I have seen many bat soup videos, some legitly from China some not. But I can assure you it's extremely uncommon in China and you won't find it in 99.99% of the restaurants you go. A lot of videos you found eating life animals were mostly from TikTok because poor streamers without any skills have to do dangerous crazy things to get attention, and a lot of them went with eating dangerous nasty shit as a challenge or stunt, because most Chinese are so against it.
If you don't believe me, just take some Chinese to a steak house, they are going to ask steak well done or medium well because they are scared to eat anything less than medium well because of the "blood" from the steak. Some are against eating sushi because they won't eat raw fish. Also almost no one will touch beef tartare, and that's the norm.
Whatever belief you currently have already showed the level of scary brainwashing in the US, which lead to people believing ludicrous ideas no matter how against logic it is, but then again you already have hundred millions of poor people defending the privilege of billionaires thinking they are going to become one self one day, class solidarity anyone?
The problem with the airport is that it makes Lux drivers act irrationally.Lux line can take up to 6 hours from 40th Place sometimes. Especially when the front four cars keep jumping ahead of the line because of all the short El Segundo/ playa vista trips. There’s actually a strategy to airport trips that you can no longer take advantage of since there’s no bonuses anymore.
1) “Sunk Cost Fallacy” thinking - Not wanting to lose your place in the queue will make it psychologically painful to leave even when better opportunities have emerged. You don’t want to feel like you sat in the queue for 3 hours for nothing, so you will stay there another 3 hours even if you may only get a trip worth $30 😅. Outside the airport, it’s easier for you to decide to move to a better opportunity.
2) Overvaluing airport trips - You might get a good long trip from the airport, but I get the majority of my highest paying trips outside the airport. I think that maybe because you will also get more short trip requests outside the airport, people start thinking that they won’t also get medium and long trip requests outside the airport.
Now I mostly go to the airport when I want a break 😂
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