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Good then!
If your company relies on taking advantage of others … maybe the company should not survive. Something the USA needs
If they can’t pay a decent wage, they should file for bankruptcy.
No but see you’re being unkind. These are corpora5e citizens. people. Do you have no heart? Think of the shareholders they’ll leave behind!
Collapse then you parasitic fucks. Maybe real taxis will make a comeback then.
You say this like taxi companies weren’t grossly underpaying their employees as well (for literally decades). LoL 😂
Yeah, well at least they were employees and not ‘contractors.’ Ride share companies are shit and everybody knows it.
yah, do these parascite companies think any of us like them? if i could summon an actual cab from my phone while innebriated, i would. we like your apps you stupid shites. we hate you. pay your fucking workers
In Japan they have the Go app that allows you to hail and pay for a taxi ride directly in the app. You pay all of the regular dates and fees. The app just adds an additional fee on top to pay for the service.
It was incredibly useful and easy to use. You could even see when the taxi accepted the ride, track their progress, and message the driver if there was a question.
I think ride sharing services are forbidden in Japan. But this app seems like the best of both worlds.
I hate to be that guy, but you’ve been able to summon taxis via phone pretty much for as long as either have existed.
But I get what you mean, the app is the game-changer. I’ve had dispatch schedule a taxi for me and then they just didn’t show up. 🤷♂️ No way to track or check the progress…
I mean, not to be glib but if you’ve summoned a taxi that hasn’t shown up, you haven’t summoned a taxi. That doesn’t mean “Fuck it, let private rideshare apps own everything” but it’s easy to see where the shift in consumer behavior might be coming from. Even in low-stakes situations, having your ride not show up is frustrating.
Plus, with the app, there’s transparent up front pricing.
Good luck getting that from an NYC cab.
And, depending on the location, it works in other states/countries as well.
Right, so the difference is that they built a system that actually provides service.
But they aren’t paying the people enough that do the actual work for said service.
Yes, that’s the problem with it.
Seems like it wouldn’t be insurmountable to make an ebay style app to compete.
Contract a law firm for setup
Drivers/Riders indemnify the service
Lord knows there are plenty of services to verify ID now a days.
Programatic driver paid yearly background check Programatic driver paid VIN check
Drivers post their own pictures/profiles. Riders post reviews.
Require in-car video recording.
Riders can blacklist drivers Drivers can blacklist riders.
Drivers set their service area
Since it doesn’t cost jack shit to do the backend, the fees will mainly go to pay minimal operations, insurance and legal coverage and don’t need to scale with the distance.
There’s no reason that most of the fee structure can’t go to the driver, eliminating the need for tipping.
maybe… just maybe… you should rethink your business if your business would collapse because you have to pay people properly.
Please collapse.
If your company cant survive because it has to start paying your “contractors” as actually employees. Then you shouldn’t be in business. Adios!
Then let if fail. Bring back cabs.
And again: if your business model relies on underpaying people it’s not a good business model.
But…but…capitalism?
Guess its a shitty business model if it can’t survive paying fair wages.
If you can’t set your own rate, you’re an employee.
This is actually the best take I’ve ever seen on the entire “gig economy”.
You can set your own rate though? You can refuse as many trips as you want. If a trip is below what you want to be paid, refuse it. You’ll keep getting offers for more. You’re never under obligation to work.
If you’re an employee, you’re required to work and can be fired for refusal.
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Someone who is not an employee can negotiate the fee per mile. You seem to think only accepting longer trips is the same.
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No, you can’t only accept longer trips. The system will punish a driver for attempting to choose which offers to accept, and drivers won’t learn the destination until the passenger is picked up.
Well that’s different from food delivery, where you as the driver see the offer in dollar amount, restaurant location, and estimated time of delivery. You see a $20 delivery but it’s estimated to take 1.5 hours? Just refuse it.
The system doesn’t punish you. You can refuse as many as you want and they just keep coming in.
Refusing pre-defined contracts doesn’t make you a contractor. It makes you unemployed.
Contractors are unemployed by definition. Lots of contracts are tendered as-is and non-negotiable.
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You can accept or decline their rate. That is not setting your own rate, fucking .world in the name and I just know I’m gonna be reading some deliberate misunderstanding chud shit.
“If you you don’t let me abuse the system I will fail 😭”
Oh no!
Literally every company ever.
So…this business model is financially RAPING it’s employees???
What does the stock market say? Good business? As long as they can keep raping.
A lot of 10-99 jobs are really shit deals for people who are hard up and/or bad at math.
Oh no! Good thing we already have this service in the form of taxis you fucking idiots.
As if a taxi would ever show up when you called
They’re good in my city.
That doesn’t help literally the rest of the planet
I mean is it really that bad everywhere else in the world besides Alberta? I’ve lived in every city in this province and never had a problem getting a cab. Even when I’ve travelled the only place I had a hard time getting a taxi was London.
