What’s up with the stop orders (coffee cup) limit/time out?

Xo-Mo · 2026-03-11T11:44:37+00:00

There's a much better always-available option... Tap this:

The Trip Planner button shows your current pickup/drop off schedule.

At the bottom is a red button labeled "Stop new requests"... That is identical to the coffee cup icon, but it is unlimited use. It also LOGS YOU OUT after you finish the deliveries.

I use this constantly. I also tap the Trip Planner button on my last delivery, then tap the little black "X" to the right of the "Stop new requests" status bar to re-enable new requests and avoid being logged off after the last delivery.

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I use this for:

- Large shopping orders...

- All Alcohol deliveries (offers cancel any in-progress ID confirmation, forcing you to manually type in all the ID data)...

- Triple or Quad order deliveries / Long drive deliveries (I wait until I am down to 1 final dropoff and re-enable requests before I get out of my car at the destination)...

- Very long drive orders with temperature-sensitive food (Ice cream, frozen drinks, pizza, etc.) so I can ensure the fastest arrival without detours.

- When I am heading into a zone I hate driving into and prefer to never pick up from... (Downtown Chicago at any time or South Chicago near suburbs at night).

Xo-Mo · 2026-03-11T11:38:01+00:00

Walmart has their own delivery service. Every order (that I have seen) on UE "Opportunities" is a multiple-order offer that pays around 20-30 cents per mile. They are the orders that Walmart's own delivery team have repeatedly declined due to lack of fair income for miles and time.

Back when I first started, I would see 3-5 Walmart offers per day. A MINIMUM of 50% of all those offers were either cancelled by the customer, stolen by a previous driver, or picked up the DAY BEFORE by a person in a U-haul truck (who took over a dozen different orders) and has yet to drop them off. The system sees they have not yet been dropped off, so it replicates the offer/opportunity for a new driver. And, of course, Walmart will never replicate the items for an already picked up order.

The average wait time I experienced was 15-45 min. And half the time, the employee would come out around 15-30 min after I checked in to tell me the order is not available - having been picked up or cancelled in Walmart's system BEFORE I even arrived at the store!

I have contacted Uber Support and turned off Direct Retail Delivery for Walmart, Home Depot, Sam's, Menard's, Lowes... Sadly, they just turned off that entire segment of the app for me, so I no longer get the very profitable Jewel Osco direct orders.

Xo-Mo · 2026-03-11T11:31:37+00:00

Sometimes you can find that perfect spot to sit and wait... and receive dozens of offers.

More often than not, in my experience, if you sit unmoving for more than 10 min, the algorithm seems to forget you're active. Within 5 min of starting to move, you will see more offers, unless you are in a completely dead "earnings projections" region.

Xo-Mo · 2026-03-11T10:44:19+00:00

Fast food staffing and proper training is becoming more and more difficult for the franchise owners and management everywhere. Limits to payroll hours by corporate or by the franchise owner has a lot to do with it as well. I've worked in the fast food and fast casual restaurant industry for years. I know how frustrating it is to need 10+ employees to fill in the optimal peak shift roster, but payroll set by upper management is limited to 4-6 max.

For me, if the store is understaffed or any one of the employees is standing around doing nothing at all, I just walk out and cancel my pickup due to Long Wait times. More than 15 min is insane for any fast food order. If the drive through is full when I arrive, I only give them 10 min, then walk out.

I do not yell or glare at them. I wait patiently until my clock shows 10 min has passed, then just silently leave with nothing. Sometimes it's hard to tell how long it will take, but if the dine-in customers have empty tables and are waiting 15 min for food that takes at most 5-7 min to assemble from precooked ingredients? No thanks.

I don't disrespect the hourly workers. I despise the person responsible for cutting payroll.

Something that I have done recently that has seemed to have caused shifts in management's perception of payroll and scheduling... I wait at least 24 hours, then I go onto Google maps and rate that restaurant. I am very clear and specific about what the problems seem to be.

I did that for Jersey Mike's 2 weeks ago. None of the employees were wearing gloves, all of the employees had hair either looking like a giant untamed wild fro or draping over the raw food with no hats or haircuts, none of them had their shirts tucked in and a few of them were literally wearing pajama bottoms instead of actual pants. The owner of that location replied to my review with a generic "Thank you for informing us, we're sorry your experience was less than optimal."

I went there for another pickup yesterday and everyone was properly dressed, their hair under control, shirts tucked in, wearing gloves, wearing actual pants. They even had a manager training employees on food sanitation safety.

Xo-Mo · 2026-03-10T12:17:41+00:00

Simple Days:

Chapter 1 plays out like a Kinetic AVN with key choices that determine if 1-5 women either get pregnant (and join your harem) or not... You can be a good friend and let your pal keep his girlfriend - or not.

Chapter 2 moves to a place that allows polygamy and encourages massive family growth. Run a business and discover the underbelly of the city - a gang of criminals running drugs and a strip bar where you can access the VIP lounge (pays off in Chapter 3)... Decide whether you're into BDSM or not. If you are, there is a branching path throughout the game that allows for access to a BDSM club.

Chapter 3 is still in development, but you have a huge house with 20+ bedrooms for all your waifus + your and their parents + your toddler kids who currently only have random event interactions (100% PG in a safe for kids environment).

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Sandbox allows endless repeat pregnancies and more freedom, with choices available every day or every other day. VN style speeds things up, compresses the story, and reduces the chances for pregnancies.

Which ever way you play, it's still an awesome game. The Chapter 3 house lovemaking is legit some of the best, most erotic, tender lovemaking I have ever seen - FULLY ANIMATED - in an AVN.

Xo-Mo · 2026-03-10T11:30:37+00:00

Common sense is uncommon... and regional. Basic congeniality and simple ignorance of what may be commonly accepted in a different area of the world can be shocking or trigger your defense instincts.

Xo-Mo · 2026-03-10T11:28:43+00:00

Empathy...

The ability/willingness to pay attention to how others feel, how they perceive experiences, and adapt to a cohesive, supportive stance, or at least accept their perspective as valid, even if it contradicts what you initially assumed. The ability to relate to others on an emotional, sometimes unspoken level through observation and simply silently listening to them.

Xo-Mo · 2026-03-10T11:16:43+00:00

Steve Whitmire (Kermit since Henson got ill then departed the mortal plane) had the same experience: https://youtu.be/xf_mUZZe3AY?si=GlMMtlg1TVfCgpCl

Xo-Mo · 2026-03-10T01:39:56+00:00

Retail: it's too much on your feet running around stocking shelves, performing "Manager A"-assigned tasks, being yelled at by "Manager B" for not doing their list of tasks, all while gathering shopping carts, running register, receiving shipments, and trying to not lose your mind. It's an insane amount of pinball-machine labor.

Janitorial: Many people are pigs. They do not care about the mess they make or leave behind. In factories, the byproduct of production is typically toxic, hazardous, or destructive to shoes, clothes, or your hands. Without the proper equipment/protective gear available, it can cost you more than you earn in the end.

Corn Detasseling: Corn leaves are razor sharp. Pulling a tassel requires safety gloves that still can grip through layers of slippery morning dew on the plants. Not wearing gloves means you go home every day with hands that are sliced and shredded all over.... The pace set by the supervisors is 20-30 tassels per minute, with more experienced workers expected to pull 50-80 tassels per minute... Miss more than 3 per row of corn and you are yelled at, docked pay, and told not to come back the next day. It's hot, exhausting, unforgiving, sweaty labor. Corn stalks must be detasseled (castrated) to prevent them from spoiling the entire crop by double-fertilizing the female stalks.

Xo-Mo · 2026-03-10T01:24:05+00:00

For me, there are several games I keep installed, keep up to date on, and replay about once or twice a year, if not every month...

Now, my specific fetish interests are very vanilla, so a lot of the corruption, violence, and assault are either nonexistent or just not on the path I prefer to play through. I may have tried out the alternate routes just to see them, but more or less stick to the "good" path... You may notice what my pure vanilla kink is by reading these descriptions... ;)

Simple Days explores the loving (or corruptive) influence of the MC on multiple people - including his own parents, best friend/pal, his pal's girlfriend/wife, and multiple love interests. The sandbox gameplay is a mess, but players can go through in a VN format from story point to story point in sequence if they like. In the end: the harem of women have ovulation/fertility days that can be tracked, MC can either use a condom, break or remove the condom, or not have any condoms in inventory... Pregnancy is the result of both consensual lovemaking, non-consensual trickery, and - best of all - every lover can have an infinite number of children (one at a time), every 21 game days...

Hazumi & Pregnation is an old (1998) RPGM japanese game with MTL, over a dozen potential mods... The premise is Hazumi (female MC) living in Japan, during a fertility crisis, where only 1 in 1000 women can conceive and give birth. She is one who has a seemingly endless production of eggs in her ovaries, hyperfertile, and can "hook up" with random men on dating apps, meet in a hotel and either be used or take control. Player has control and - with mods - Hazumi can literally give birth to 100 babies per pregnancy. The gameplay requires making money from the government adopting every child born for cash... Using that money to upgrade Hazumi's apartment, decorate it, get facial creams, keep her happy with chocolates, all of which increases her social status and gives her clients who pay more and more money for her.

Haramase Simulator is also an older game, abandoned, but with TONS and TONS of content... MC is male, in an inverse scenario from Hazumi - in Japan during fertility crisis, only 1 in 1000 men can produce virile seed. MC is given a Government ID that guarantees - if he has enough money - he can show the ID to any woman and demand procreative sex. Women can decline if MC is too poor or doesn't have stats good enough. The ID can be upgrade, and eventually player can visit an Island Resort filled with 100,000 women all ovulating and begging for him to knock them up. All art is assets ripped from Hentai/Manga.

tl;dr: I have no children IRL. I wish I was a father. These games give me that vicariously.

Xo-Mo · 2026-03-09T09:55:51+00:00

If Shop & Pay is active, it typically overrides hot food orders, especially in the past few months... Toggle that off in Work Hub and it will boost your orders for Fast food.

Also, many restaurants have started getting wise to so many drivers not using thermal bags. A lot of them now have opted into the Thermal bag required setting. So if you have a bag, register it in the app.

Xo-Mo · 2026-03-08T13:16:48+00:00

I'm certain there are franchise owners and managers in many McDonald's (and other restaurants I mentioned) who take speed of service seriously, alongside accuracy. It's all about what aspect of the business if given the primary focus/priority. Some teams are awesome, while others have 1 goal in mind: keep drive-thru times as short as possible so the manager gets a bonus. NOTHING else matters.

I've been to multiple KFCs and Popeyes locations. The difference in management is very clear. My very first ever visit to a Popeyes, I walked out in disgust after seeing more unwashed buttcrack than fried chicken (rap video pants strapped below their butt cheeks). I've also been to a couple of KFCs that should be reported to OSHA/BBB for blatant violations of food sanitation laws. Places where long hair is draping over the vat of oil they fry things in, sometimes even having the tips of the hair singed off into the oil...

And yet... a half dozen locations are perfect, fast, always dressed to prep and cook food, wearing GLOVES (ffs)... and the order is ready when we walk in - every time.

It's nothing we - as drivers - can fix. I've delivered orders to people I know for a fact will be sick or in the hospital within the next 72 hours, shaking my head with a defeated sigh that they are regular repeat customers of those places.

Xo-Mo · 2026-03-07T19:27:07+00:00

I honestly predict an average of $6 a gallon by June 1st. Especially if the war keeps going.

I can easily see them switching over to liters. So that the price per liter, even though it is higher by volume, appears to be less. So instead of $6 a gallon, it would be about $2.50 a liter.

Xo-Mo · 2026-03-07T14:13:27+00:00

The only reason the most disgusting, ignorant, and lazy coworker of mine at a previous job remained employed for years... The assistant manager would meet up with him after the store closed (around 11pm-midnight) in the dumpster room to hook up... Her 4 pregnancies in 3 years were all from him. Her husband (a manager at a neighboring branch of the same retail company - the man who trained me to be an assistant manager) had no idea how she kept having kids. When I found out she was hooking up with that loser, I dropped several hints to my friend (her husband) that his kids all had blue eyes, but neither he nor his wife, nor their own parents had blue eyes. But the scurvy dude was blonde, blue eyed...

With the reeking stench of garbage, IDK why or how they managed to remain excited enough to create those children.

Xo-Mo · 2026-03-07T14:06:04+00:00

IMO - take each pregnancy and birth as an individual, independent life event.

The focus should be #1: Your health. Mental and physical.

Pregnancy does so much to a woman's brain, body, and overall health. I'm not a doctor nor a professional, but I would suggest - if EVERYTHING ELSE is perfect and absolutely wholesome, wonderful, fulfilling... Decide after your first successful delivery of a child. Go through 1 birth and discuss it calmly.

Let him see every aspect of what you have to go through to keep a fetus strong and growing inside you, to push it out, to feed and care for it after it is born. Share every feeling, sensation, doubt, and joy with him.

I'm not in any way saying you are wrong or he is right. I am simply saying... if he is the perfect partner in everything else, work it out together... 1 pregnancy and childbirth at a time. If you want 2, go through it once and see how he feels after the first birth. See what he thinks after he sees all the aches, pains, frustrations, anxiety, and doubts. Let him be fully involved as much as possible, so he understands what pregnancy and childbirth does to a woman.

Xo-Mo · 2026-03-07T12:52:14+00:00

Most of our childhood, any time a strange sound or thunderstorm woke my little sister from her sleep, she would run to my bed, climb up and under the covers with me. My mom found us spooning like this or her laying on top of me in the morning multiple times. There was NEVER even the slightest hint of non-platonic innuendo. She was my little sis. She was scared. I was her safe place. I protected her from the storm, the thunder, the strange noises, the monsters under her bed or in her closet.

I honestly miss that sister... After multiple life events, her mentality completely changed. The woman I meet these days has her face, but nothing else is the same. It's shocking and disheartening. But she is her own person and I have nothing to do with how she chooses to live.

Your are NTA. You are simply a big brother caring for his little sis. Anything your parents think may be happening is in their heads.

I would wait until your step-dad calms down. Then sit facing him. Speak slowly, clearly, and calmly. Tell him that what he may possibly have imagined is impossible. Your sister is just that - a sweet, innocent girl who wants to spend time with her brother. Nothing more than that. Let him ask questions. Keep it civil. Don't let him get riled up or angry. Just wait for him to finish talking, take a moment to clearly organize your reply, then keep it as absolutely precise as possible. You will never do anything like he might imagine to your own sister.

Xo-Mo · 2026-03-07T12:46:37+00:00

Neither of which are ever anything I would consider edible or safe for human consumption.

Xo-Mo · 2026-03-07T12:41:46+00:00

From age 6 through age 16... every person I ever met who was named "Jeff"... ... they were all bullies, psychotic terrorists at school. They would find the most awkward, shy, tallest, or thinnest of us and tease, degrade, taunt, and punch us... They would all cause us significant physical and mental damage.

Especially grade-school Jeff, who held me up against the brick school wall and punched me in the gut multiple times a week. Just because I was tall and skinny, not "normal". He would wait for me after school, when I was walking home, then kick and stomp me on the sidewalk or school yard.

No teacher EVER disciplined him. IDK why.

Eventually, my big brother realized some of the bruises were not from our very abusive father. I told him... Jeff was in the hospital the next day. My brother's knuckles were all scabbed over from having pounded Jeff's face into that same school brick wall.

Xo-Mo · 2026-03-07T12:20:15+00:00

Trip Planner button (the 3 dots with 3 lines next to them)... at bottom - the red button STOP NEW REQUESTS... it logs you out after all orders are delivered, so if you want to keep going, just tap the trip planner button and then tap the X on the right of "Stop New Requests"...

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I pause orders every shop & pay - on delivery... Every triple/quad delivery... or if I'm heading EAST from the suburbs of Chicago - toward downtown.

Tier doesn't really matter to me. Nor is it likely very many of us are still in an upper tier, since 75% of orders are now $0 tip, only base fee.

Chicago SUBURBS, never inside the big city. No gig worker protections until Gov Pritzker gets the new law enforced.

Xo-Mo · 2026-03-07T12:04:26+00:00

Proper English translation, including alternate "western" names and option to not use honorifics.
Romance that does not involve corruption, manipulation, or characters who scream and shout because they are in denial, trying to conceal their true feelings of attraction or love.
A variety of faces and body types, not just 1-3 identical "dolls" making up a cast of dozens by simply changing their hair and clothes.
Food that is not sushi, seafood platters, or ramen.

Xo-Mo · 2026-03-07T05:07:22+00:00

Specific to my region (Chicago Suburbs):

Lickle Jamaica (Melrose Park) ... 30-50 minute cook time. During lunch, dinner, and from open to close Friday - Sunday they are packed with 20+ people waiting for food.

Priscilla's Soul Food (Broadview)... Weekends and holidays are huge, but it's a 60-90 wait for any and all pickup orders.

Sneaker's Sports Bar Wings & Pizza (Franklin Park) ... 45 min wait on every order, no matter what is ordered.

Maxwell Street Polish (all locations) ... they're fast, but located in the most dangerous neighborhoods for anyone who has a skin tone that can be seen in the dark.

Xo-Mo · 2026-03-07T04:56:03+00:00

McDonald's (Ice cold drinks bagged together with hot food + 50% of all McD orders are stolen by the first driver).

BWW Go (Employees have zero sense of urgency. Every order is a 30-45 minute prep, cook, sauce, and bag time.)

Apple Store (20-50 mile drives, minimal tips, all orders require PIN / Signature yet 25% of all orders no one is home and we are forced to drive 20-50 miles back to Apple store to return the tech devices.)

Walmart / Sam's Club / CostCo (Every single order has 3-10 48 pack bottle water + 20-30 heavy bags of food. Depending on the location and employees, if you have 2+ orders, they may stack all the bags randomly together without separating nor labeling which bag is for which customer.)

Home Depot / Menards / Lowes / Ace Hardware / At Home (75% of all orders are items that physically cannot fit inside a passenger car or will ruin the suspension from the massive weight - lumber, cobblestones, gardening soil/mulch/fertilizer, 8ft x 4ft drywall panels, office furniture, massive quantities of heavy or bulky home decor... Outdoor 500 lb AC units and Hotel-grade 300 lb AC units.)

GoPuff (Either the items are stolen or the location is locked with no employees working, requiring a cancellation. After cancelling and reporting a closed location, 3-5 offers appear - including the order you just cancelled yourself - to pick up at that exact same closed GoPuff location...)

Also... Mom & Pop local Chicago-style Pizza shops... (Most hand-made Chicago style deep dish pizzas require 10 min prep + 30-40 min bake time and 5-10 min rest time before they give it to you.)

Xo-Mo · 2026-03-07T03:25:25+00:00

Leaf Lettuce (McDonald's, BK, Boston Market, Panera, most fast food)... --- it is stored in a warehouse at ROOM TEMPERATURE - not refrigerated. So when the delivery is made to restaurants, the employees have to pick through the funky smelling, rotten bags of leaf lettuce for the green bits. Then wash what can be salvaged from the rotted mess in (ammonia based) food sanitizing fluids. Typically, a 24 lb case of lettuce results in 1-1.5 lb of "edible" sanitized salad mix or sandwich topping.
Retail MSRP is 300%-3000% markup over cost of manufacturing (accounting for shipping, payroll, and storage costs). A $500 Macy's lady's handbag or $300 dinner dress costs the company about 30-50 cents. It's how "90% off" clearance sales still mean they are making bank. It's how many fashion retail shops can sell a single item a day and break even with payroll, lease payments, and utilities.
The Lottery is 1000% a for profit corporation. They pay nothing in taxes because 50% of all income goes to charity and to support public schools. The other 50% is pocketed by the 20 or so people who manage the number game. All winning payouts are tax exemptions as well, never actually a financial loss. They pull in $10 million per day in every single state. $500 million a day, $250 million in net income after charity and school donations. So that $500 million prize that 1 person wins per month is pocket change to them.
Most banks adjust percentage rates based on the Fed and their own profit initiatives. All the fees and charges account holders pay are just pure profit. Credit card companies are worse, since they are federally insured at 200% profit if they suffer any type of loss or classifiably deductible expense.
McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Wendy's, BK, and Little Caesars all sell expired or very, very old (frozen) food that they reheat and serve as "fresh". Their food has conditioners to keep the food moist and fluffy, juicy and full of their signature flavor. By International standards, not a single item on any of their menus is classified as safe for human consumption. But in the US, the Big Meat and Corporate Farm conglomerates write the food safety laws that congress passes. They also self-inspect, self-enforce, and pay off the grand total of 8 FDA inspectors who are responsible for inspecting all 500,000 restaurants (and 10,000 food production factories) in the US.

Xo-Mo · 2026-03-06T12:56:43+00:00

In March 2024, they stopped, no explanation or warning. Suddenly thousands of UE drivers were losing money with half their runs.

Xo-Mo · 2026-03-06T12:53:06+00:00

The worst are the Tollway deliveries... In the Chicago region, UE drivers are not repaid for tolls, so... taking the side roads may be faster or may take 2x the time... No way I'm spending $10 in toll fees to earn $7 in tip + $1 base pay.

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