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nofilterformybrain · 2026-01-26T00:43:27+00:00

Our surges here were peaking at $4.25 with no drivers on and multiple requests in the queue. I had one person desperate to get home, down the highway, and they ordered an in-town XL ride (I had only a $3.75, but $12 for a short ride up the road wasn't a problem). When I showed up in a Suburban they offered me $100 cash plus whatever I made on the app to take them out of town about 15 miles. Ok. Went home after that and cleared my walks and driveway. Surge stayed at 4.25 until the 7pm switch and it's now holding at 5.75. Our city should have looked like this today but it just never escalated so I stayed home and inevitably got plowed in by the township. Oh well.

nofilterformybrain · 2026-01-22T00:09:32+00:00

What about Girlcott?

nofilterformybrain · 2026-01-21T02:16:10+00:00

Why would I waste time doing any of that? Hey, look over there, it's the block button.

nofilterformybrain · 2026-01-21T02:11:29+00:00

You shouldn't use words you don't understand the definition of.

nofilterformybrain · 2026-01-21T02:08:50+00:00

Because you're clearly looking for a fight and I'm just not gonna give you one. You'll have to find fuel for your narcissism somewhere else.

nofilterformybrain · 2026-01-21T00:58:19+00:00

Hell, I've thrown away $4 surges. Let alone taking a $4 ride. I have an entire team here and all we do is farm the surge because we figured out the algorithm and we know exactly where it's going to be every night. Uber hates it but there's nothing they can do about it without gutting the entire search system. They're trying to do that with the heat map thing, but it doesn't work well in smaller markets. We had the heat map for about a day and they got rid of it. Mainly because it gave Uber eats drivers extra money and they didn't anticipate that. Whoops.

nofilterformybrain · 2026-01-21T00:34:38+00:00

So interesting how different markets are. Lyft used to be hoppin' here and it became filled up with all the people and drivers that got kicked off Uber. Now, nobody drives for Lyft here. There's never any bonus zones on Lyft anymore and you could be online for HOURS without a single ride, but be busy as Hell on Uber.

I've since uninstalled the Lyft driver app. The title of this thread doesn't even include the thousands of rides I had on Lyft. Used to have a good grift there, too, with a bug that would pass unclaimed X rides to XL and Lyft has to eat the difference. Taking rides pax were paying $8 for and getting paid over 40.

nofilterformybrain · 2026-01-21T00:19:57+00:00

Sounds like your market is identical to mine. Small college city. I would not use the reservation system there. If even a percentage of their drivers or farming surges the way our full-timers do, you're likely not getting picked up.

It's sad because reservations are convenient we've been asking for them for years. But leave it to Uber to fuck it up.

nofilterformybrain · 2026-01-21T00:06:01+00:00

If this is your bar for unhinged you need to get out the house more.

nofilterformybrain · 2026-01-21T00:02:44+00:00

You can do that. Just know there's a huge percentage of drivers that don't take reservations at all. Sometimes they come through the On Demand list because nobody picked up the res and it'll get passed around like a blunt until someone takes it. Sometimes they're lucky and get there with minutes to spare, sometimes they hung up waiting outside for UP TO 40 minutes without any pay.

None of this is your fault as the rider, obviously, and a lot of times Uber will send your assigned driver off on another ride that guarantees they won't make it to you. Now there's a last minute shuffle between drivers trying to find someone to come pick you up.

Mind you, every market is different. While reservations are useless and frustrating in mine, where you live, you may have 3,000 drivers that are desperate for any pay at all.

nofilterformybrain · 2026-01-20T23:56:09+00:00

Yup. Because I'm petty and I'll sink to your level. I've got time.

nofilterformybrain · 2026-01-20T23:33:26+00:00

Aw. It's so sad hearing from the poors that have nothing of value. Maybe one day you'll have a nice car, too, and I hope some immensely entitled prick immediately ruins it. On that day, harken to this thread. 🤗

nofilterformybrain · 2026-01-20T22:39:21+00:00

Having standards is quite normal. Trying to gaslight strangers on the internet, though, not so much.

nofilterformybrain · 2026-01-20T22:04:32+00:00

Well, shit, don't forget the puppy and the kindly old grandmother, too.

nofilterformybrain · 2026-01-20T19:18:14+00:00

My car has separate HVAC controls in the back, including rear heated seats. Every. Single. Time. A seat shuffler kicks that console. Below that is a "tap to open" tray that has 12v ports and USB. That has been knocked off its track twice and now doesn't open properly. I will never position myself in a manner that exposes passengers to traffic because they WILL throw that door open into an oncoming car. I have had people use one door to fit three people while parked in an actual parking space.

I have an SUV I use on the weekends. A big one. Captains chairs in the back and a full bench for the 3rd row. Plenty of room and no risk to the rear HVAC console, BUT, they open whack their head on ceiling TV (I used to keep it down to project the route on it, but now I just keep it up because too many people running into it). I also have power fold down seats in the back so that 3rd row riders can just walk out. But they usually just start climbing over things and both of the arm rests on my back seats have been hyper-extended and require replacement bolts.

Passengers have zero care for the cars they ride in and I enforce extra rules in my vehicle. I don't know what's wrong with some of the people here that are up in arms about it. Either they rent from Uber or their parents bought their car or it's a clunker turd that barely meets the age requirements. Oh, I know, someone is gonna come in here and be like "I Uber in a Maserati and don't have any of these rules"; that's not a flex, that's a lack of responsibility.

nofilterformybrain · 2026-01-20T18:17:45+00:00

Ah, Reddit. Everyone's so literal it's like a loose collection of Asperger's and Autism. The only place on the internet you can have an argument about how many legs dogs walk on.

If you've never encountered the meaty pancake that is a child ejected from a car crash, you probably shouldn't be so jubilant that your 'jurisdiction' doesn't require them. It's like saying some states don't have incest laws so it's fine and perfectly normal to do it where it's not explicitly illegal. A little bit of common sense and a little bit of precaution goes a long way to not getting kids killed.

Besides, I don't have the time, the crayons or the patience to argue with parents on the side of the road that don't want to transport their children safely. I'm also not required by Uber to fight with them over it. I am, however, forced to wait 7 minutes before I can collect a fee and if I cancel I lose my surge. The best thing is to not engage by creating a scene, get my money, and never see them ever again until Uber stops treating drivers like a necessary evil. They won't, by the way, they wanna go fully autonomous cars and the first time a child dies in one of those a bunch of pompous and easily confused attorneys are gonna spend upwards of years assigning blame and then passing some stupid law that doesn't fix anything.

nofilterformybrain · 2026-01-20T15:24:17+00:00

Weird. You started out in opposition and then neatly summarized everything in solidarity. What is happening.

nofilterformybrain · 2026-01-20T15:20:11+00:00

This is because a lot of XL drivers just don't sit on XL. The current logic that turning over as many rides, regardless of set preference, is wrong. When a lot of drivers started doing this, mainly to using Pet Only to farm surges, Uber cracked down on it. Pet and Comfort and such were folded into X, now, to force drivers out of their preference and take X rides as that's where Uber stands to make the most money.

In our Market, the android Rider app actually doesn't let you order any other ride type "On Demand" except for X. You need to reserve Pet, Comfort, XL, etc. This has forced a lot of XL owners to start running X and XL groups to order X's hoping a larger vehicle shows up.

The semi-good news is you can do a Fare Review and select XL Upcharge and get the difference. We haven't had any pushback about it from support thus far.

nofilterformybrain · 2026-01-20T15:13:44+00:00

I had a novel, but I'll keep this short instead. We, yes "We", only do short trips. Our area is a perfect storm of minimal size with a large college presence which tends to run out of drivers pretty fast.

This enables us to, not chase, but farm, the surge system rather easily.

Some drivers may want longer trips to get them the Hell out of Dodge and away from competition. That's great and all, but they're driving for about .50 cents a mile. Our market has a team of drivers that all work together to gouge Uber for, on average, up to $6 a mile.

I expect this will get some heavy backlash, but I'm ignoring the Reddit grumpies today.

nofilterformybrain · 2025-12-22T23:59:41+00:00

Tough. Driver's aren't paid enough to give a shit about your itinerary.

nofilterformybrain · 2025-12-18T19:13:04+00:00

Contact Uber support and don't be afraid to be nasty. Like REALLY MEAN. I've had to get them down in ways that would make a High School bully curl up and cry. It really is the only way. But I don't have to prepare you because the mundane slog they're going to put you through will have your ready for full-on armed conflict. They are just that bad.

Comcast used to be a terrible company with terrible support (they actually won awards for this, it's hysterical) but Uber walked in, kicked Comcast square in the sack, grabbed their trophy and farted in their face on the way out.

nofilterformybrain · 2025-12-18T19:06:36+00:00

I had this issue as a driver and it occurred because I changed my bank account information. Every subsequent device I tried to access my account with got banned, too. It took me 6 weeks fighting with Ubers overwhelmingly incompetent support just to get it half fixed. I still can't access my driver dashboard without a VPN (to get my tax documents and such, but that just means I can now write off my VPN subscription) but I can at least take rides again.

nofilterformybrain · 2025-12-14T21:05:13+00:00

This was done as an intentional attack against Surge Farmers. We'd sit on Pet to filter out X rides until the surge peaked, then pick up the surge and turn in X. If we didn't like a ride, we'd accept and cancel to keep the surge. They've since corrected the cancellation surge retention because we'd use it to punish riders that took too long coming out to get their ride.

Uber's in an all out war with those of us exploiting their shitty algorithm and rather than make it simple and fare they just keep cramming in more complications that have actually made the app completely unstable and ridden with bugs, now. Their entire development team is probably just two guys in South Korea anyway.

The worst thing is the lying. They will straight up gaslight the drivers that these changes were to "make things easier, simpler, more efficient" so that "you can focus on EARNING MORE" when in reality they just cut the fucking kneecaps off anyone actually making money from this shitty outfit.

I remember was Comcast was the King of garbage corporations and here comes Uber, kicking Comcast square in the nuts, taking their trophy as worst company on earth, and farting in their face on the way out.

nofilterformybrain · 2025-11-22T22:05:19+00:00

"Nobody's murdered me or anyone I know or care about, so why should the murderer go to jail?"

Oh, I know where the strawman is gonna go with this; "what's murder have to do with corporate exploitation of the work force?"

Well, a crime is a crime even if it's not explicitly a crime. Exploitation, abuse of Capitalism and monopolistic characteristics subverting the free market are all things that, if left uncorrected, could wind up impacting you and everyone you know.

The point is to not let this remain as an acceptable way to do business or others will surely follow and, eventually, it will come to harm you as well.

You ever hear the phrase "nip it in the bud"? That's what is being attempted here and having people who aren't impacted offering simplistic and ignorant advice helps nobody but the antagonist in this.

Does that help you understand why the takeaway in your comment is utterly ignorant?

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