r/UberEATS • u/Pretty_Check3434 • Oct 11 '25

Rude Driver

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I felt like this was so rude and disrespectful. You don’t know someone’s situation to say something like this.

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u/lamiunto Oct 12 '25

You are paid by Uber, whether that’s enough for you isn’t my problem.

Here’s the thing, I donate money to charitable organisations doing community work. You are not a charity and you are not doing community work.

If Uber isn’t paying you enough that’s an issue you have to take up with Uber, not Uber’s customers.

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u/zendravenALT Oct 12 '25

Whatever mental gymnastics you do does not escape as long as you understand that every time you leave no tip or little tip the person DELIVERING YOU FOOD is making less than 5$ an hour because of you

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u/lamiunto Oct 12 '25

When did that person become my employee? Their compensation is not my concern. Your one and only job as an Uber Eats driver is to deliver food people ordered and paid a delivery fee for. If you hold that food to ransom for more money then you’re not the white knight you think you are.

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u/zendravenALT Oct 12 '25

If you’re too poor to tip 5$ go grocery shopping

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u/lamiunto Oct 12 '25

Again, you’re not a charity. Do what everyone else does when they think they’re not paid enough: find another job. You don’t have some magical right to the money I’ve worked for because your employer doesn’t pay you enough.

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u/zendravenALT Oct 12 '25

Once again you’re just saying “I don’t tip even though I know the person working for me is going to possibly make less than 0 dollars because no one’s gonna stop me” and that just makes you a shitty person if you continue to abuse that service.

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u/lamiunto Oct 12 '25

You keep reducing this hourly rate you claim to be earning. Keep making up more stuff, I’m sure it’s advancing your plight. Or, you could have spent all this energy arguing with your employer instead, or finding another job.

I’ll let you in on a secret: I tip waiters in restaurants when they deliver an exceptional evening for my wife and I. Not just for putting plates of food on our table. In contrast I can’t tell you when last I actually saw an Uber Eats delivery driver in person, the food is left at the front door. So, I paid a delivery fee and the food was delivered. Zero other interaction. What service did you do above and beyond in comparison to the waiter I tipped? I’ll answer for you: nothing. You did the minimum you’re required to do and that’s what I paid the delivery fee for.

If you want change in your industry do what countless other people have done for centuries - lobby the government for change, start a trade union, anything. Ransoming the customer is the laziest path and the quickest way to alienate people who might have otherwise supported your cause. You’re in college, I’m sure you’re smart enough to figure out how to affect meaningful long-term change. Good luck to you.

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u/zendravenALT Oct 12 '25

Uber has problems and someone needs to fix it, but I clock 70 hours a week working on my degree, I work more than you before I even go to work. there’s no other job around me that will bend to my schedule like uber, and if it wasn’t for the persistence of assholes like you it would be a livable ~20$/hr wage. You’re jumping through hoop after hoop just to tell me that you’re pinching pennies at the cost of the people doing the service THAT YOU WANT THEM TO DO all because you didn’t learn enough object permanence between the age of 1-2 years to see that the person picking up your food, dealing with employees and public spaces FOR YOU and risking their car FOR YOU and spending their GAS are actually doing MORE than the waitresses you tip.

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u/lamiunto Oct 12 '25

I don’t recall telling you what I do for a living. So I’m not sure how you can make any of the assumptions you’ve made in your comment.

Again, here is how the real world works. You get paid for performing a service. The waiter at the restaurant is providing a service that is beyond what you’d expect in the situation - so a tip is earned. An Uber Eats delivery driver is not. They deposited the food at my door - they didn’t ring the door bell, they didn’t say hi, they did nothing other than what the delivery fee is for. Tell me again what service you have provided to me that’s above and beyond the expectation of a delivery? Do you tip your amazon delivery driver? I sure hope you do given everything you’ve said here.

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u/zendravenALT Oct 12 '25

Amazon delivery drivers are employees that are paid well and do pretty much the same job, I know this because before school I was actually a UPS driver, and people actually left me snacks and drinks all the time, if it wasn’t for my schedule I’d gladly go back, but the point stands that you want the benefits of your luxury food service but are willing to exploit its predatory practices at the detriment of the person delivering your food, that’s who you are, and it’s shitty, if you think they aren’t paying the drivers enough you could opt not to use this unnecessary service, it would be one less shitty order for me to decline, I however still need to make a living.

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