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re: Baton Rouge Uber drivers to strike Friday before Mardi Gras
Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:28 am to Maynard James Keenan
Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:28 am to Maynard James Keenan
I drive from time to time for just side money to put in my travel fund. Do it 3x a month or so and so after a few months it basically pays for a trip. The big appeal is the flexibility and no way should this be a full time job for anybody. These people need to realize that. It's a pick your poison kind of deal, flexibility or a few extra bucks an hour...I'll take the flexibility any day.
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Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:28 am to c on z
You must be an Uber driver? 
Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:29 am to Kcrad
Not how it works. "Strike" for Uber just means that some drivers won't sign in to the app and make themselves available. Other drivers will, and will reap the benefits of higher rates due to surge pricing and more available riders.
"Striking" as independent contractors is incredibly dumb. The people proposing this have zero grasp on the real world.
"Striking" as independent contractors is incredibly dumb. The people proposing this have zero grasp on the real world.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:30 am to saint tiger225
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You must be a former Uber driver
FIFY
Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:30 am to c on z
Damn DP
This post was edited on 2/2/16 at 8:39 am
Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:31 am to Navajo61490
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The big appeal is the flexibility and no way should this be a full time job for anybody. These people need to realize that.
I would imagine that there's way more part timers than full timers out there.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:35 am to Maynard James Keenan
Okay, well why wouldn't everyone just take cabs instead and teach the idiots a lesson? Why wouldn't Denham or Plaquemine drivers come over and steal their fares? Free market economics would be nice to teach these people
Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:39 am to Large Farva
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Taxi drivers are turning into ubers.
I've been seeing that as well.
Uber will be as shitty as cabs, soon enough.
The convenience of the app will be the only difference.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:41 am to VetteGuy
Especially in a city like BR, where yellow taxis were never really big anyways.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:43 am to VetteGuy
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Taxi drivers are turning into ubers.
I've only seen this in other cities and NOLA, but BR didn't have taxi drivers to begin with.
I understand Uber decreasing rates to increase demand, but those rates just don't make sense for a driver.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:44 am to TigerWise
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I warned you people
Despite the bitching in this thread, Uber is still 100x more convenient, reliable, and just downright better than taking a cab. I haven't gotten in a cab in over a year.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:46 am to lsu480
a friend does Uber on the side and only goes in when there is surge pricing.
Which he said is pretty often.
Which he said is pretty often.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:46 am to VetteGuy
United has an app. I have an account with them, but haven't ever been sober enough to use the app. I either call, or use Uber now.
Everyone is right, it's a crap shoot on who you get. I saw someone last weekend get picked up in an almost brand new King Ranch F250, followed shortly by someone getting picked up by a 1994 Ford Windstar missing a hubcap with a loud exhaust leak. They didn't look happy
Everyone is right, it's a crap shoot on who you get. I saw someone last weekend get picked up in an almost brand new King Ranch F250, followed shortly by someone getting picked up by a 1994 Ford Windstar missing a hubcap with a loud exhaust leak. They didn't look happy
Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:50 am to Hammertime
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picked up by a 1994 Ford Windstar missing a hubcap with a loud exhaust leak. They didn't look happy
That's why you rate them low and Iberia will take them off the road after enough bad ratings.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:52 am to GeeOH
Also, my average is about 20...and the driver makes 80%...$16
Gas is 1.49 in Lafayette......bull shot if that's not good money for giving me a 10 minute ride.
Gas is 1.49 in Lafayette......bull shot if that's not good money for giving me a 10 minute ride.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:57 am to LSUAfro
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but BR didn't have taxi drivers to begin with
Wat.
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I understand Uber decreasing rates to increase demand, but those rates just don't make sense for a driver.
First of all, that is just the typical Uber rhetoric that they try to sell to drivers.
What truly happens when they drop rates, and keep them there for the year until the next rate cut is that there are initial drivers who quit after a rate cut, new drivers somehow eventually getting on board not knowing anything about the rate cuts taking fares that some of the older drivers are smart enough to not take (these fares (non-surge of course) are either very short fares or fares where they had to drive a long way to get to that rider).
When these drivers go after these useless fares (driving an insane amount of miles in the process), that allows Uber to justify the rate changes. Personally if drivers old or new still want to do that, that is their business. I'm simply pointing out what happens here.
This post was edited on 2/2/16 at 9:00 am
Posted on 2/2/16 at 9:17 am to c on z
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but BR didn't have taxi drivers to begin with
Wat.
Wat? Sorry...they had a few, but there was an obvious taxi deficiency in BR. Unless you had a direct line, you could easily wait 30-45 minutes after 11:00 on a Thurs-Sat waiting on a cab from the dispatch center.
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First of all, that is just the typical Uber rhetoric that they try to sell to drivers.
They try to sell "those rates don't make sense for the drivers"?
I'm thinking that probably isn't their approach.Posted on 2/2/16 at 9:24 am to LSUAfro
What I was saying earlier is that they are selling the "increased demand" angle.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 9:27 am to LSUAfro
I always had that guy named Red pick me up in BR
Posted on 2/2/16 at 9:30 am to Maynard James Keenan
We took an Uber from Michigan Avenue to O'Hare yesterday and with a $20 coupon it cost us $6. A total fare of $26 to go from where I was on the street to the airport in 20 minutes. You really can't beat that.
This post was edited on 2/2/16 at 9:31 am
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