Uber, even today has a FAR higher success rate with my personally. Even two weeks ago I had a driver telling me his card reader wasn’t working until it magically did when I started threatening to simply not pay and walk away. This has happened to me multiple times even with my reduced cab rate.
The worst I’ve ever dealt with in Uber is waiting and cancelled pickup despite using it far more often.
The problem isn’t the user experience, same as with Amazon, it’s the abusive relationship the company has with its employees. That it deliberately tries to avoid labor laws that protect workers via legal technicalities.
If uber had simply been an app that handled payment and calling for service, it would have been a panacea to almost all of the problems taxis used to have. Unfortunately they also took the opportunity to screw over their drivers and now that they seem unstoppable they’re taking the opportunity to screw over their customers too.
But its success is based on taking jobs that at least had living wages attached to them and replacing them with jobs that are ultra-precarious. The proliferation of jobs like driving for uber is one of if not the most pressing issue with the economy today, where people are employed but they’re not being paid enough.
No. The can industry still sucks ass today, even with the apps. They are all independent with little accountability. Uber fixed that and forced those fuckers out of their service. Uber is just a flat out better service.
All of you pre Uber zealots are adorably naive. The cab industry is scum.
Uber is also scum tho. Seems there’s always going to be something dodgy about getting into cars with random strangers.
Uber, even today has a FAR higher success rate with my personally. Even two weeks ago I had a driver telling me his card reader wasn’t working until it magically did when I started threatening to simply not pay and walk away. This has happened to me multiple times even with my reduced cab rate.
The worst I’ve ever dealt with in Uber is waiting and cancelled pickup despite using it far more often.
The problem isn’t the user experience, same as with Amazon, it’s the abusive relationship the company has with its employees. That it deliberately tries to avoid labor laws that protect workers via legal technicalities.
replacing scum with even scummier scum? like, taxis were bad but they were fucking regulated.
If uber had simply been an app that handled payment and calling for service, it would have been a panacea to almost all of the problems taxis used to have. Unfortunately they also took the opportunity to screw over their drivers and now that they seem unstoppable they’re taking the opportunity to screw over their customers too.
Uber needed a HUGE pool of labor to draw on for its success, traditional cab companies couldn’t handle it even if they weren’t fucking scummy.
I hate Uber but I’m not crying for the cab industry. Fuck those guys too.
But its success is based on taking jobs that at least had living wages attached to them and replacing them with jobs that are ultra-precarious. The proliferation of jobs like driving for uber is one of if not the most pressing issue with the economy today, where people are employed but they’re not being paid enough.
Agreed.
No. The can industry still sucks ass today, even with the apps. They are all independent with little accountability. Uber fixed that and forced those fuckers out of their service. Uber is just a flat out better service.
well put.