Will this do anything?

Who's striking?

online groups are organizing a strike to try to cripple uber

So independent contractors are going on strike and think they can't easily be replaced? Do they not recognize that they're basically doing what the taxi companies have done and it's why taxi companies are being replaced?

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Surge pricing will foil their plan, the second it goes up to 3x the drivers will start accepting rides trying to make that coin.

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Yep.

This must be as a result of the 6 or 7 part series the Chronicle hit piece on Uber.

I hope it's not on one of those days where you don't buy gas to show the oil companies they're not in control or we're all fooked.

If the a small percentage of fast food workers also strike this could be the end of America as we know it.

Thanks Obama.

Is this about that thing where Uber drivers want to be considered employees instead of contractors?

It's about putting a tip feature in the app if a passenger so desires and not flooding cities with so many drivers.

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It's about putting a tip feature in the app if a passenger so desires and not flooding cities with so many drivers.

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Interesting. Houston is expecting to license something like 5,000 drivers.

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It's about putting a tip feature in the app if a passenger so desires and not flooding cities with so many drivers.

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Interesting. Houston is expecting to license something like 5,000 drivers.

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There are already over 5000

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It's about putting a tip feature in the app if a passenger so desires and not flooding cities with so many drivers.

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Interesting. Houston is expecting to license something like 5,000 drivers.

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There are already over 5000

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I meant in the next year. Sorry.

they should unionize...

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From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty (rule of law);
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage (rule of men).

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Try bottle alley or tha harbour...

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It's about putting a tip feature in the app if a passenger so desires and not flooding cities with so many drivers.

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Some cities have a tip feature already. But it's pre-set. You have to log in to your account and reset the percentage you want. So you don't get to base your tip on service. It's always the same %.

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It's about putting a tip feature in the app if a passenger so desires and not flooding cities with so many drivers.

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Some cities have a tip feature already. But it's pre-set. You have to log in to your account and reset the percentage you want. So you don't get to base your tip on service. It's always the same %.

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Uh, maybe on lyft but not uber

Edit: it's available on uberTaxi. Very limited and is a licensed taxi service. A normal taxi cab is what comes if you order this apparently.

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Uber charges $9/hr plus $1.10/mile plus a buck for their cheapest option before surge pricing. Drivers get 80%.

Get fked if you think your high school diploma and Toyota corolla makes you deserve more than that.

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The buck goes straight to uber and they take 22% of the rest (2% goes to city of Houston). On a minimum fare ($5.10) the driver gets $3.20. There is no $9/HR. Subtract depreciation of your car and gas costs...

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Some cities have a tip feature already. But it's pre-set. You have to log in to your account and reset the percentage you want. So you don't get to base your tip on service. It's always the same %.

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Uh, maybe on lyft but not uber

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Yeah, Uber. Not UberX or Uber Black, but certain cities have UberTAXI which has a 20% default tip. Found out though my sister when she was asking me about what % tip I had set up with Uber. I was very confused.

see that's the beauty of uber and it's independent contractors. anyone that passes can do it. and they can set their own hours. sorry *****es a strike ain't doing ****.

i was in Midland 2 weeks ago. rental car situation can be a mother at times. so, i had to uber to and from my first meeting before i could get a company pool car.

the dude driving me was an interesting cat. according to him, uber was literally the best way for him to get out of the house and talk to people in real life. he has a successful online retail business and is a long recovered alcoholic. he realized he was spending way too much time in house alone. so, he started driving.

that's what these idiots are fighting. do you really think that guy is going to go protest for you? you're independent contractors that get to set your own ****ing hours. as jayelbee said, get bent.

Okay, as a customer, somebody explain to me how Uber is different from a regular cab company. Is it because I get to use an app that doesn't work on my phone, instead of just calling the cab company? Or is there something even cooler that I'm missing?

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Okay, as a customer, somebody explain to me how Uber is different from a regular cab company. Is it because I get to use an app that doesn't work on my phone, instead of just calling the cab company? Or is there something even cooler that I'm missing?

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When you book on uber, it tells you exactly how long it will take for the driver to show up. They are usually right to within 2 minutes in my experience.

When the driver arrives, they're in a clean, newer model car. It may be something modest like a Corolla, but it's always clean. Uber drivers are, across the board, actually good at the thing they do for a living: driving.

What never happens is that you spend 10 minutes waiting on hold for a taxi dispatcher to wait another 30 minutes for Habib (non-english speaker) to arrive in his 1998 Plymouth Grand Voyager that has a completely wrecked suspension and an interior that smells like a combination of soiled diapers and burning tires driven by the worst drivers on the road.

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i wish I could get 100 stars for this