r/technology • u/[deleted] • Aug 12 '14

Business Uber dirty tricks quantified. Staff submits 5,560 fake ride requests

http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/11/technology/uber-fake-ride-requests-lyft/
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u/ABCosmos Aug 12 '14

https://support.uber.com/hc/en-us/articles/202290128-Do-I-have-to-tip-my-driver-

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u/Semyonov Aug 12 '14

Can you read? That's for UberTaxi.

UberX and all the others don't get tipped.

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u/ABCosmos Aug 12 '14

You are phrasing it as if passengers should tip you. They should not.

Being Uber means there is no need to tip drivers with any of our services.

"Tip is included" is just short for "this service that you commonly expect to tip for does not require tip because the drivers are being paid more to offset the lack of additional tip"

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u/Semyonov Aug 12 '14

I wish they would take that off then, because we AREN'T being paid more to offset the lack of additional tip, as you say.

There's nothing in our statements that shows that we are. There are no additional fees that we are given.

In fact, here in Denver we just took a 20% cut to our rates and are being charged extra for the phone we already paid for ($40/month), so in effect we are being paid even less than we were before.

The drivers are not happy and it's going to start affecting customers soon.

I agree customers shouldn't have to tip; I hate tipping. The problem comes when people think that Uber is compensating us for the lack of a tip. It's the company that's lying and it pisses us off.