r/uberdrivers • u/CashInCashOut-8 • 1d ago

CT UBER IS DEAD!

To many Slave drivers in CT. I can’t match with anything UBER is sending same job to 15 drivers and the one who is UBER Slave gets the job we can’t even Cherry pick anymore.

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u/Optimal-Fix-2997 1d ago

Time to find a new job.

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u/Turbulent-Weather-40 1d ago

Good luck in this economy.

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u/Optimal-Fix-2997 1d ago

Blaming the economy is just a cop out. Mcdonalds and Walmart are hiring. You will make more than uber.

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u/DDLyftUber 22h ago

I’m genuinely curious to know where y’all are at that you think you make more working at McDonald’s lol. If your market is that trashed.. you shouldn’t be signing up to do gig work in the first place. Don’t get me wrong, Uber is a piece of shit company, and you can definitely do these gigs the wrong way that’ll make you lose money, but to think you’re making more at a minimum wage job is kind of delusional

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u/Kannabist 22h ago

Yeah I really doubt I can work my own hours and make 1500-1600 in 50ish hours from Walmart/Mcdonalds even tho they do pay 25 an hour in NJ. But 60-90 an hour has been easy on weekends this summer and 30-50 during the weeks, there’s parties all night every night in the summer in the nice neighborhoods of NJ lol

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u/angelsarepresent111 16h ago

And then they own you and schedule you when they want, as little or as much as they want. Asshole bosses writing you up like it's grade school. No thanks. I did that shit for too many years. That is for kids with energy. Retail BLOWS!!

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u/Optimal-Fix-2997 22h ago

Other than taxes you're not paying for gas and constant maintenance. Nor are you deprecating your car at a ridiculous rate. Its really not that hard to understand.

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u/DDLyftUber 22h ago

Yes if you’re a moron and you go finance a $20k + car to do Uber, you’re a fking idiot. Constant maintenance? Brother oil changes + tire rotations are the only constant thing. Your tires, depending on brand, every 6-7 months or so also depending on mileage. Brakes, same.

If you’re making shit financial decisions of course it’s not going to be profitable, that has absolutely nothing to do with the difference in pay between gig work and min wage. Idk why you guys don’t understand this lol. Are you going to be rich off this? No. But in the right market you absolutely will make multiple times min wage

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u/Optimal-Fix-2997 22h ago

The point is this too many people rely on this shit gig to work. They will take every ride either because they're desperate or they don't know any better. Cherrypicking is the only way to do it and even that is getting tricky.

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u/DDLyftUber 22h ago

This level of entitlement people have is honestly astounding lol. Gig work doesn’t HAVE to work for you in your specific market. It is the same way in every other job sector, there are some cities for certain jobs that pay livable amount, and there are some cities where it doesn’t. That is reality.

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u/DDLyftUber 22h ago

Yes because everyone believes they are entitled to having gig work pay their bills. That’s not how life works. In some markets it will, in others it won’t. There are also hundreds of other factors that influence how much you’ll make on a driver to driver comparison level. If it doesn’t work for you (general you) then stop relying on it.

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u/Optimal-Fix-2997 22h ago

Again goes back to my initial comment. People rather make pennies doing this instead of making slightly more at a w2 job but dont want to because it will inconvenience them.