I last worked with Uber as an in-between gig 11 years ago. Back then I liked it. It was honestly the best job I've ever had. All I did was drive around the city at night waiting for a fare. I never tried too hard and was earning between $180-250 per day before gas. I had no problem hitting every incentive they offered and was easily hitting $1500 per week working six 12 hour days. Time flew by quickly, it never felt like a real job. I spent a lot of time just sitting in my car shitposting on 4chan.I am currently in-between jobs again; unemployment is only giving me $300 a week.I have a nice car perfect for Uber Black.Anyone working at Uber/Lyft currently mind sharing their experience?I'm seeing drivers saying the hourly earnings are between $20-30 after gas, which is a lot better than funemployment.
>>28923042>I am currently in-between jobs again; unemployment is only giving me $300 a week.Shit, dude. That's more than I made working $16/hr because health insurance is expensive.Maybe I should file for disability, I have a failed organ and have to take 3-10 injections a day to stay alive. I have made over $300 a day before, but $300 / wk with paid insurance is livable without fear of dying.From what I understand they have made it less profitable for drivers over time. Also you have to get commercial insurance if you want to be protected if someone hits you on the clock.And you have to have a 4-door car from the last 10 years. Maybe you already have one, but maybe you don't.
$1500 working 72 hours a week is shit. Is that even accounting for gas, depreciation, tires?
>>28923042I drove for Uber in their xchange program for a year about 10 years ago during the worst hours (like Friday and Saturday nights and weekday graveyard runs) and the best part of the job was flirting with the drunk girls. I heard driving for them kind of sucks now
>>28923063no. but like I said, I worked nights, and didnt try hard. I probably spent about 3 hours per day just shitposting online between 3-5am when iit was dead.>>28923059I got a nice 2023 4 door car. >>28923074ive picked up drunk girls and ended up fucking 2 of them. there are some super thirsty hoes at 4am leaving a party trying to get some dick.
>>28923088seems like a good way to go to jail for "rape"
I work for a regional taxi company in Eurostan.Its still a low wage job, but your earning% is going to be higher than if you worked for somebody else.But its not that viable long term due vehicle costs. But short term its most likely very comfy.
>>28923042>I am currently in-between jobs again>I have a nice car perfect for Uber Black.Sell the car
>>28923042It's viable if you maintain the car yourself, the wrenchlets like me paying $200 an hour for labor are gonna lose money or make less than minimum wage if I am making anything, and you can't have older than a 15 year old car that must be a sedan if you're gonna rideshare, so that's money as well, it's so retarded because a lot of sub 15yo cars are super neglected with shit tires and brakes, but whatever.
>>28923042not an uber driver but a food delivery guy with ubereats, i make about 1200 a week 50 hours a week, not bad for where i live. You can also drive whatever you want so i dont have to worry about depreciation, i'm on my 3rd under $5k prius after doing this for five years. I like doing it
>>28923042It's still alright, I've been doing it for weekends for the last 3 years. I cannot say about daily cause I have a normal 9-5 and honestly I would burn out quick if I did this daily for months. I do around $500 working 16-18 hours. Like anything else where you work for tips there's good days and bad days, there's days when I make almost $400-$450 on a single 8 hour workday, there's entire weekends when I'm lucky if I hit $300 for both days. Days when you're getting ride after ride, and days when you're literally cosplaying Instacart for Uber cause there's nothing else but doing people's shopping for the weekend.The most important thing is to know what the fuck you're doing. Know the area you're driving on, know what areas are good, which ones are sketchy, which areas are nothing but stoplight hell, which areas everyone drives 15 miles over the speed limit cause no one cares at all, etc.
>>28923120I had internal dashcams, and I got vid of her trying to blow me as I drove.im good.>>28923268and then what? buy another car again? im not that broke.>>28923334I am my own mechanic.>>28923376thanks good info. i usually stay away from downtown to ghettos.and ive definitely taken some riders to drug deals before at 2am. all good tho, I know how to handle myself.at some point some nignogs tried to give me the run around and take me to different places under one ride. i drove near a busy intersection and kicked them out
>>28923059Holy shit. That sounds like a disability to me, and you wouldn't even have to get a bogus diagnosis. Good luck, bro.
>>28923042If they're pulling in over 50 billion a year they probably aren't paying their employees very well. Meanwhile all the courier companies are desperate for drivers. They pay well and you don't have to destroy your personal vehicle to make the company money.
>>28923088This post is very brown coded. You have to go back.
>>28923638i wonder if there's any sort of market for "oh shit i need X right goddamn now but it's 1 am and my engine is halfway out the car" kind of deliveries
>>28923042Ride sharing since 2020+ is a trap to exploit Brown people anon.You think Jews would allow you to make decent money?
>>28923074I remember hearing from the mercenary drivers (who work for all rideshare apps, depending on daily fare structure) I've ridden with that Bolt is better than Uber pay-wise, but they have some extra restrictions on what one can and cannot do. The thematic/premium apps (name differs depending on your location) pay best, but they have loads of requirements.
>>28923059>I have a failed organ and have to take 3-10 injections a day to stay alive. Oh no nigga TF u doin. Go get that disab certificate.
>>28923042can you make money in uber if you live in the boonies?
>>28923042It's shit now, it had a boost during covid when everyone was buying food and drivers were afraid to take passengers so there wasn't much competition. I was making about $30/hr then. Past 2023 it became less than minimum wage after gas expenses, and I drove a Prius that only burned about $5/hr. With an efficient full gas car and these gas prices you're looking at burning like $10/hr and my average pay was barely over $20/hr. People stopped tipping outright once inflation hit. You're looking at maybe 1 in 9-15 customers tipping, and when they do it's a generous $1. It just was not worth it, no wonder only jeet slaves do it.
>>28923615It is recognized as a disability by the ADA. I literally die in 3 days without medicine. I'm actually not legally allowed to drive or join the military or work manual labor. But you can't get disability in the US for it until *another* organ fails. I've tried for disability multiple times with lawyers. I was dxd with autism in the 90s, dead pancreases. Nope, I can't get disability but lashawnda with "depression" can get the equivalent of a $20/hr job AND get free health insurance for nothing while my insurance premium is $860/month.. Fuck this place.
>>28926107Just bought a $13k insulin pump and pay over $1k on average in medical a month.... For something I was born with that is at most $30/mo in every single country in the world except the US. Oh gee, I wonder why I like cheap cars. And Aus and Canada don't take single white men over 30, I've tried.
>>28926118A single tomahawk missile is $2-4 million. Yet you can't provide basic medical care for your people like even African countries do? My disease that I was born with costs over $1k/mo in the US and at most $40 in any other country on earth. But we don't penalize people for being obese. I'm tired, boss.
>>28926107>>28926118>>28926126Well, look in the mirror for who you need to blame. All those wonderful, cheap healthcare systems outside of the US are government subsidized and funded. And the reason they are is that all of their citizens pay more taxes. Most average people in the US top off on the 37% tax bracket, most citizens in the average european country end up paying around 50% or more, half of your income at a minimum.Unlike the Liberal cucks surfing on an Eat the Rich message for funding medicare for all or some other pie in the sky dream, that shit will not happen unless ALL of us pay more taxes. And none of us want to pay more taxes. As a mater of fact, we look for ways to pay even less, via deductions and other, less legal paths.
>>28926158They pay more in taxes because it's immortal to charge people more for something they were born with and everyone throws into the pot.1/4 of medical spending in the US is from obesity which is a fucking choice. And those motherfuckers get marketplace plans for less than 100/mo. 860 is genuinely the lowest I was offered.Fatties do it to themselves and we shouldn't all have to pay for their addictions.If you say natural selection how's about I shoot you? That's natural selection.
>>28926101Dang I use Uber very little but I always tip. I should stop altogether also. I use it 2-4x a year to go to the airport.
>>28926164Yeah, sorry to break this to you but... Europeans are getting fat too.That's for one, for two, it's "Immoral" not ImmortalFor three, I am all 100% for fat shaming, regardless of whatever beef you have against fat people yourself.For four, no one is bringing up natural selection.And lastly, for five: Thank you for making my point. You provided a reason why you are against getting charged more money for a universal healthcare system when you're bitching about paying more for fat people. The entire point of a universal health system is that all get the benefit, that would include you and the fat people you claim to hate. That's the "universal" part. You cannot go around putting asterisk exceptions for fat people because the moment you do, greedy people at the top will absolutely just turn it into the fucked up shit we have right now in the US, they're gonna use that justification for other pre-existing conditions, and next thing you know, it's YOU getting fucked again by the system.
>>28926211>Yeah, sorry to break this to you but... Europeans are getting fat too.Oh yeah, well I'm not! I shouldn't have to pay $1,000 /mo for being born with type-1 diabetes when fatties do it to themfucking selves.I just want to live. EVERY other country has insulin for fucking nothing without insurance. ALL of them. Why do I have to pay for fatties and boomers with cancer? I just want to make a life of my own goddamnit.
>>28926219>EVERY other country has insulin for fucking nothing without insurance. ALL of them.Yeah, and they have it for ALL people. No exceptions. That's the point.
If I lived in Germany with my income, I'd pay 50% tax rate. I pay 15 here. It's pretty based. My health insurance is pretty good too. 0 copay
>>28926230Yeah, as it should be.... Did you mean to say something else? Insulin costs nothing, it's only expensive in the US.
>>28926234And the reason it does is exactly what I told you. That in the US, we make exceptions. Those exceptions pave the way for abuse, and that's why you pay more than you have to. As far as I'm concerned I'm all for your insulin to be the exact same price as worldwide insulin as well, All I'm saying is that the reason why we don't have it here is ourselves, and pointing out that YOU are a cog in the machine that keeps those prices away from you when you want it for yourself, but not for "fatties and boomers with cancer"Just cutting your nose to spite your face
>>28926245Dude, learn to write.What abuse? Why? >and pointing out that YOU are a cog in the machine that keeps those prices away from you when you want it for yourselfWhat does this even mean? I'm saying I was born this way and shouldn't have to pay a fucking grand a month just to live, at minumum, I just bought a $13k insulin pump - didn't even factor that in there. People who are obese or have type-2 diabetes do it to themselves. Type-1, despite being an entirely different thing, is treated the same legally because it has the same name despite that being anachronistic.
>>28926250You learn to read. Once again, the entire point of universal healthcare IS the universal part. Whether they do it to themselves or not is inconsequential. You are allowed to feel victimized by the prices you have to pay, because that shit IS predatory. The reason why I refer to you as a cog in the machine is because you're using that legitimate anger and unfairness to say "Why would THEY get it better?"And it's those arguments that will keep universal healthcare away from the US, because people like you raise that objection, and the people who are fine overcharging you thousands for insulin, and pumps for your insulin, will use that exception to argue against the very thing that would equalize and ultimately lower your expenses.
>>28926257If I just give in like a bitch I'll be living with my parents and unemployed with a kidney failure, near-blindness, and one foot amputated at best when I'm 50, but they had me at 40 and won't last that long.I should not have to pay 20x what someone else does. I didn't smoke, I didn't get overweight or even obese. I don't use physical therapy or some weird hormone shit - why don't they pay 10-20x higher premiums?What are you expecting would "lower my expenses?" You don't have any idea. You're full of shit. What would lower my expenses is universal healthcare with added fees for self-inflicted shit like smoking or type-2.There are literally people paying $40 on the marketplace. Again $860 was the lowest offered to me and I'm a fit non-smoker. I weigh 140.
>>28926262Prices would go down because everyone would bear the brunt of the costs via taxes, your simpleminded prick. That's how those systems work. You would end up paying less because people like me, who are not fat and don't have diabeetus, would contribute to your costs. and since everyone contributes via taxes, the burden on everyone is manageable, instead of you paying 13K for insulin pumps. The reward for me is that if, for some reason, via illness (Cystic fibrosis, pancreatis, etc.) or a diet of cheeseburgers and milkshakes, I become diabetic, I also get to benefit from being able to afford an insulin pump instead of paying 13K like you do.
>>28926285>Prices would go down because everyone would bear the brunt of the costs via taxes, your simpleminded prick. That's how those systems work. You would end up paying less because people like me, who are not fat and don't have diabeetus, would contribute to your costs.I was born with this. That's why insurance exists, so everyone pays into the pot to pay for random happenstance. It wouldn't be expensive at all if insulin were priced like in any other country. I am being exploited because I need it to live.Type-2 diabetes is a completely different disease and is caused by lifestyle choices, type-1 is genetic. They are only named the same because they involve blood sugar, that's it. I weigh 140lbs, 130 two months ago.
>>28926289Type 2 diabetics don't even need insulin to live. It's just the type-1s that are less than 5% of "diabetic" cases.Look at this map, that shit is genetic as fuck, scandinavia. I didn't ask for this, and it costs NOTHING in every other country in the world. But here in america they can charge whatever they want and it's the only country they're allowed to do so in, not a joke.
>>28926289And once again, that is inconsequential. The reason why it's that cheap overseas is those healthcare systems. Our insurance system allows for all kinds of different brands to make insulin, whereas the reason why those healthcare systems manage to get it that cheap is that since it's government subsidized, the government comes in and goes "ONE of you guys gets to make insulin, so get it done cheap and safely, and the reward for you company, is that ALL of the hospitals get to carry your insulin" Just like the US government comes in and tells Lockheed Martin and Northop Grumman "ONE of you is gonna get to make the next gen fighter jet" and both came in with the F22 and F23, and the government chose the F22. Same exact system at work.
>>28926293>Our insurance system allows for all kinds of different brands to make insulin, whereas the reason why those healthcare systems manage to get it that cheap is that since it's government subsidizedDude, there are only 3 companies in the world that make insulin. 2 Danish, 1 French.
>>28926294So? How does that go against anything I posted? if anything the fighter jet example I provided is still at work since it's not like there's 12 dozen companies vying for the government contract to make the next gen fighter jet. The amount of companies making insulin is not a problem since it's still the government that is taking care of the healthcare system saying that only one of them, the one who goes the cheapest, is getting the contract.
>>28926305Your analogty has abosolutely nothing to do with what I'm talking about.In the US compainies can patent drugs. After some time it runs out. First, they had insulin from pigs, then they had synthetic piggish insulin,then they developed GMO human analogs by modding e coli bacteria to produce human insulin, which could be extracted. Every step of the way, the US would greenlight patents on the new ones and call the old one too dangerous to market so no competitors could join the market. New delivery methods, another round of patents.It's only expensive in the US.The motherfuckers who discovered and extracted it sold the patent for $1 in 1922 because they thought it was too important to charge money for.I pay over $1k a month, I was born with this; that's wrong.
>got accepted into Amazon flex>start my first block tomorrowPray for me, bros.
>>28926427i drove for them for 4 months.it was awful. i dont know about flex but the regular truck drivers, just awful. it does depend on the dsp, but most are shit. trucks are in terrible condition. dirty, nasty, broken radio, ac doenst work, etc.stupid rules, camera monitors everything you do, must engage handbrake at every stop, cant have the sliding door open, etc.as a flex i dont think you have to worry about that shit, ive seen couples drive around in those. you can only fit so much in your car and then you have to constantly go back and reload at the warehouse.what are they paying you? do you get comped for mileage?i was earning $23 an hour and only ever had a full 40 hour week near the holidays.
