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I was planning on going to School and was looking for part time work. I was wondering how Uber was for part time work. Any goons Uber drivers or use Uber a lot?
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Oct 13, 2015 22:53
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From how I understand it it's not much different from being self-employed if you've ever done that. I've heard that how good it is really depends on where you live; for most of the country apparently it's at or barely above minimum wage so like $7.50 an hour or so, the few people making $30+ are in New York or some poo poo exclusively. Depending on how much gas you need that might end up in the red if you make $7.50/hr, but I'm sure someone around here has actually driven before and can fill in the details. I've never looked too far into it but I've heard varying info that you might need a car made within the last 5 model years to qualify depending on where you do it? I don't know for sure though.
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Oct 14, 2015 05:54
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http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3718047&pagenumber=1 There's a recent A/T thread. It links to a subreddit where drivers gripe about how they make peanuts and people destroy their cars. Sounds like a good time edit: I'll add too this link https://www.reddit.com/r/uberdrivers/comments/3ol0ux/this_is_a_salty_group_does_driving_suck_that_much/ and the thought that the only jobs I hear advertised on the radio are for call centers and for Uber drivers, so it is probably a call center tier quality job canyoneer fucked around with this message at 06:46 on Oct 14, 2015 |
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Oct 14, 2015 06:43
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I'm currently writing a paper about Uber, "independent contractors" and employee abuses. Deliver pizzas instead; you'll earn the same hourly wage without the fear of bankruptcy when you're involved in an accident with a family in your car.
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Oct 14, 2015 06:47
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Seems like a horrible idea to me. But it'd be cool to be able to tell your grandchildren you were a taxi driver, back in the day when humans still drove cars and some people's sole job was to drive. They'll be amazed.
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Oct 14, 2015 15:15
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Thank you for the input, I will look into other jobs.
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Oct 14, 2015 15:53
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Rick Rickshaw posted:Seems like a horrible idea to me. But it'd be cool to be able to tell your grandchildren you were a taxi driver, back in the day when humans still drove cars and some people's sole job was to drive. They'll be amazed. This is awesome.
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Oct 14, 2015 20:34
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Aliquid posted:I'm currently writing a paper about Uber, "independent contractors" and employee abuses. Deliver pizzas instead; you'll earn the same hourly wage without the fear of bankruptcy when you're involved in an accident with a family in your car. Plus if you're not a wuss, you can pick up a very lucrative weed business on the side.
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Oct 14, 2015 21:51
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Aliquid posted:I'm currently writing a paper about Uber, "independent contractors" and employee abuses. Deliver pizzas instead; you'll earn the same hourly wage without the fear of bankruptcy when you're involved in an accident with a family in your car. While this may be the case...you are just as likely to find insurance delivering pizzas as you are being an Uber driver. Insurance companies HATE using your own car for work driving.
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Oct 22, 2015 16:58
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OssiansFolly posted:While this may be the case...you are just as likely to find insurance delivering pizzas as you are being an Uber driver. Insurance companies HATE using your own car for work driving. It's different with Uber. Because they cover you when you have a passenger. You're not covered when you're trolling for customers. Insurance company hate gypsy cabs more than delivery.
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Oct 25, 2015 16:52
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I work with a guy (a Harvard MBA, even!) who used to drive for Uber. He stopped because the only time you make any real money is on the weekend bar scene, and he'd rather be a weekend bar consumer. This was also several rate drops ago. He noticed that last time he renewed his insurance, there was a specific question asking if he was using his car for a "ride sharing" service.
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Oct 26, 2015 22:21
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Uber is starting to run television ads, not for the service but to recruit drivers. It feels about like a university of phoenix ad, you see it and just know its a bad idea.
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Oct 27, 2015 00:32
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Down in El Paso, a buddy of mine grabbed an Uber driver that was trying to get him to cross the border to Juarez, Mexico. He kept telling the guy "no, I want to go to *this address in the USA* and the guy was like "okay okay... you have passport with you?" He ended up calling the cops on the dude. So I guess Uber is hiring cartel members trying to capture americans. Good to know.
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Oct 28, 2015 20:29
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MurderBot posted:Down in El Paso, a buddy of mine grabbed an Uber driver that was trying to get him to cross the border to Juarez, Mexico. He kept telling the guy "no, I want to go to *this address in the USA* and the guy was like "okay okay... you have passport with you?" He ended up calling the cops on the dude. Yeah, I'm going to need a little more detail on this.
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Oct 28, 2015 21:56
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Uziduke posted:Thank you for the input, I will look into other jobs. You have chosen wisely. (Stay away from Vector Marketing.)
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Oct 28, 2015 21:57
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greasyhands posted:Uber is starting to run television ads, not for the service but to recruit drivers. It feels about like a university of phoenix ad, you see it and just know its a bad idea.
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Nov 1, 2015 16:17
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greasyhands posted:Uber is starting to run television ads, not for the service but to recruit drivers. It feels about like a university of phoenix ad, you see it and just know its a bad idea. Yeah if you have to advertise your job openings on TV then something is up.
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Nov 5, 2015 21:35
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Moridin920 posted:Yeah if you have to advertise your job openings on TV then something is up. Why is that? The more drivers the better the service and more money they make.
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Nov 5, 2015 22:04
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Omits-Bagels posted:Why is that? The more drivers the better the service and more money they make. Yeah but if driving was a great deal for divers then people would just go straight to uber already without the need for them to advertise on TV. Very few buisnesses need exmployees that badly that they need to hire on TV...those that do you have to wonder what makes them different then the other thousands of companies out there that find employees just fine without putting out radio and TV ads. The answer is generally they don't pay very much, are an extremely lovely place to work for or both.
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Nov 5, 2015 22:25
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duTrieux. posted:Yeah, I'm going to need a little more detail on this. That's I guess the majority of it. He ended up calling Uber to get a ride back from the bar, and when he said he wanted to go to *this address* the dude was like "hey if you want I can take you to Juarez!" My buddy said "No... I want to go to my house. So, take me there." The driver said "okay, I'll take you there.. but you have your passport on you?" At that point my buddy got out of the car, the dude started getting upset and they started arguing, the driver said for him to call the cops, so he did. Cops came, and he gave em the story, the cops were kinda like "uh that's weird" and ran the dude through the system, came up with no marks but they said it was fishy, so they gave my buddy a ride home. I'm inclined to believe him since I saw a cop car pull up and drop him off.
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Nov 6, 2015 09:50
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Ha, something like that almost happened to me near Tijuana in the 90s, apparently cabbies used to convince well heeled looking tourists to come over to Tijuana for drugs/fun/whatever they could pitch and then they'd drive them to their hood where their friends would mug them. Seems slightly less smart with an Uber logfile, but I'm guessing their ability to get anyone prosecuted in Mexico is near zero even in 2015.
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Nov 15, 2015 21:25
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Haifisch posted:They've done the same with radio ads, which just makes it sound even worse. Has a company ever taken out "get a job with us!" ads that didn't lead to something sketchy? It isn't uncommon for my city's transit service to take out ads saying they are hiring people, occasionally a local utility if they have a big project coming up. Stations themselves will advertise for non-air roles on the station because it is essentially free, so why not? And for the OP, become a security guard. If you get lucky, you get posted somewhere you won't have much to do, which means a lot of time to work on homework or at least do course readings. Basically you just want to avoid stores. Office buildings, apartments, factories, all gold.
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Nov 16, 2015 19:41
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One of my favorite jobs in college was security guard. We'd often get contracts to just sit in a car outside some rich person's property and make sure nobody approached the gate/driveway/whatever. It was great for getting coursework done at night. Also rich people are loving weird. One time I recall a Lexus SUV rolling out of one of these driveways and the owner stopped to chat with me a bit and see how it was going. We had a quick chat and then I said hello how are you doing to the rich person's kid in the passenger seat who refused to acknowledge me or even look in my general direction when I said hi, which I thought was strange. The rich mom in the driver's seat then explained "Oh don't do that please, we're trying to teach our kids not speak to the help" and drove off.
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Nov 17, 2015 19:39
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TheGreySpectre posted:Yeah but if driving was a great deal for divers then people would just go straight to uber already without the need for them to advertise on TV. Very few buisnesses need exmployees that badly that they need to hire on TV...those that do you have to wonder what makes them different then the other thousands of companies out there that find employees just fine without putting out radio and TV ads. The answer is generally they don't pay very much, are an extremely lovely place to work for or both. The military advertises that that isn't always a bad deal.
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Nov 17, 2015 20:36
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Minimum wage is surprising. They must not give the driver a very large proportion of the cash or you spend a lot of time looking for fares. I regularly use Uber and a trip downtown is $12 there and usually $20 back on account of surge pricing. The trip never takes more than 10 minutes either way. This is about half the cost of a regular taxi service.
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Nov 19, 2015 21:55
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Omits-Bagels posted:Why is that? The more drivers the better the service and more money they make. Because the only jobs that constantly want new employees that much are terrible ones with high turnover rates, terrible ones that can afford infinity employees because they are lovely enough to employees that pay is tied to number of employees or amount of money earned for the company (such as commissioned sales or MLM marketing), and terrible jobs that aren't able to attract enough workers in the first place and are therefore perpetually understaffed. Uber falls mostly into the second category, though with a fair dose of the first (driver turnover is apparently quite high). The more drivers there are, the better Uber's service looks and the more money Uber makes...but more drivers means each individual driver makes less and gets fewer fares. ManDingo posted:Minimum wage is surprising. They must not give the driver a very large proportion of the cash or you spend a lot of time looking for fares. I regularly use Uber and a trip downtown is $12 there and usually $20 back on account of surge pricing. The trip never takes more than 10 minutes either way. This is about half the cost of a regular taxi service. Although it varies by region, conditions, destination, how long Uber has operated in the area, and other things, the driver probably sees about $9 out of the $12 you paid, before costs such as gas, insurance, and cleaning. However, Uber pay typically declines over time - once Uber has enough drivers in a region, they often cut fares, and surge pricing will become rarer as well.
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Nov 21, 2015 16:58
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Main Paineframe posted:Because the only jobs that constantly want new employees that much are terrible ones with high turnover rates, terrible ones that can afford infinity employees because they are lovely enough to employees that pay is tied to number of employees or amount of money earned for the company (such as commissioned sales or MLM marketing), and terrible jobs that aren't able to attract enough workers in the first place and are therefore perpetually understaffed. Or just, you know, companies that are growing.
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Nov 21, 2015 17:25
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Omits-Bagels posted:Why is that? The more drivers the better the service and more money they make. Already answered well but in a nutshell the only other companies I've ever seen advertising for jobs in such an eager manner are MLM schemes. Not saying that is what Uber is obviously just saying it seems odd. Pryor on Fire posted:Or just, you know, companies that are growing. In this economy you don't need to look very hard to find tons of job applicants.
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Nov 24, 2015 20:03
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Yeah you can use a free job listing site to get tons of applicants and save money on what you spend on TV and radio ads if you have decent jobs to fill
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