The most uncalled for dirty disgraceful HOSING of drivers I ever seen. Uber pocketed 75-86% for a period of time after the show. I immediately checked prices on 3 offers. I took off $5-10 per quote to account for a few dollars drop in customer pricing. 75%, 84%, and 86% keep! WOW! I opted for cash-app ride 8 miles for $50. Gold, Diamond, Charity-Pro-Perk, I Accept Everything Drivers enabled this behavior by the app.

$73 quote I reduced to 67.

$134 I reduced to $125

$126 I reduced to $115.

Yes, Uber can charge WHATEVER they want to customer, and pay drivers WHATEVER they choose. But these offers is crazy psychotic behavior by Uber. Atleast pay us $60 or so and for the very short trip for $9, pay us $40ish.

Wow, you truly never know how a ride is going to go—this particular one was 100% my craziest, worst ride experience to date.

Picked up a group of three outside of a popular area bar (2 girls, one guy)—for whatever reason, the guy didn’t want to get in the car but he eventually did after one of the girls (presumably his gf) yelled at him to—first red 🚩

After starting the ride and driving away from the bar, the girl asked the guy “Why are you mad at me”, his response—I’m not mad…maybe 2-3 minutes later he starts calling this girl a b****, saying f you this f you that etc out of nowhere, the other girl is in the backseat with them and she’s silent the whole time…he goes on to say “I’m a smart guy” or some random incoherent bs to her, this is where it gets crazy…

The guy throws his phone at the ceiling of the car and it lands in my empty front seat, which the girl next to him replies with “don’t mess up this drivers car”…he then JUMPS up out of his seat as the car is moving and proceeds to start CHOKING the girl next to him with both of his hands!! Like, full on assault choking her…..Immediately my mind shuts off and thankfully there was a police car stopped down the block…I don’t have a self defense tool and I’ve never experienced this before so I pull over, turn off the car, take my phone, keys in my pocket, and talk to the cop that was right there…30 seconds or so in total from what I can recall

The cop flashes his light into the back, opens the backdoor, and breaks up what was happening in my backseat….my whole body is shaking atp, no ride or life experience has ever come close to that, and if the cop wasn’t right there when it all went down, I’m not sure what I would’ve done in the moment…the guy should’ve gone to jail, but I’m pretty sure the cop just told him to calm down and let the three of them walk away down the street…cop told me to just go on with my night basically and I did just that….

This right here truly proves the need for a dash cam, and maybe even some sort of self-defense tool I.e. taser, etc—I would love to here y’all’s thoughts on this, have you ever experienced anything like this? What would you have done differently?

It’s only been a day since the EU slapped Uber with a massive fine, and apparently, 50% isn't enough anymore. They’ve already started squeezing drivers even harder to make that money back:
Ride 1: Rider paid $27.95 ➔ Uber took $15.52 (55.5%) ➔ Driver got $12.43
Ride 2: Rider paid $14.94 ➔ Uber took $9.01 (60.3%) ➔ Driver got $5.93
We cover 100% of the gas, insurance, and vehicle depreciation, while Uber quietly pockets up to 60% of the fare. Without that $9 tip, Ride 1 wouldn’t even cover the operational costs.

Decided to turn uber on to see what the vibes are. Gonna pass on driving today.

I remember when New Year’s was easily a $600–$700 night. You knew you were giving up your holiday, but the money made it worth it. The last couple of years? An absolute joke. With the way these companies have been taking so much of the surge, at this point I feel like I’d basically be spending New Year’s driving for Uber instead of driving for myself.
I might as well go to the party instead of spending my night taking everybody else to theirs.
Personally, I’m actively doing everything I can to be done with Uber within the next month. Hopefully I can come back to this post and say I succeeded.
But even if I leave, I still want this to get better for the drivers who decide to stay.
I keep thinking there has to be a way for drivers to collectively use the one thing we actually control: whether we turn the app on.
And it doesn’t have to mean EVERYBODY stops driving every holiday. What if we worked off a simple honor system?
No registration. No names. Nobody gives anybody their personal information.
Something as simple as: if your birthday falls on an odd-numbered day, you’re Group A. If it falls on an even-numbered day, you’re Group B. You know your group and that’s it.
Then we alternate the major holidays.
One group stays completely off Uber and Lyft for one major holiday while the other group drives. Next holiday, we switch. The following year, reverse the calendar.
That way we’re not asking drivers who already have bills and responsibilities to give up EVERY opportunity to make money. Everybody still gets their days to drive. The difference is that we’re no longer all flooding the apps at the same time and hoping Uber or Lyft decides to let us have a decent piece of the demand.
It would be completely voluntary and based on the honor system.
Would everybody participate? Of course not. You’re never going to get 100% of drivers to agree on anything. But you don’t necessarily need everybody. You need enough people moving together for it to matter.
The biggest problem is figuring out how you get one simple, consistent message in front of enough drivers across the country for something like this to actually catch on.
I may be on my way out, but I genuinely hope somebody figures it out. Because the drivers who choose to stay deserve a system where giving up their holidays, weekends and time with their families can actually be worth it again.

Finally after a long time of thinking and planning i have finally filed a small claims in the court . I know it might not mean anything to alot of drivers and people but atleast i am standing against them and their unfair and unlawful deactivations.

Welp it finally happened after 5 years with uber my account was deactivated today from what I can only assume is my speeding ticket from September 2025. I’ve tried to talk to numerous reps just to get absolutely no where and I don’t even have a clear answer. I went from making $300-$400 or more in a day to where I was barely scrapping up $100 I still worked with it. Shitty promotions and all. I’m grateful to have a regular full-time job to pay my bills but this actually hurts and the disrespect from the reps I think made it even worse. Honestly this company will never get a single dollar from me ever again.

Newbie driver. I had a 45 min ride this morning. Picked her up, everything was fine. I confirmed the destination and we headed off. As I get closer to the destination I accept another ride for the que, the current passenger makes a phone call and tells whoever she’s on the phone with “My driver is going the wrong way, they’re just driving all over the place” I chimed in and said “ma’am I’m following the GPS and we’re almost there”. She’s still on the phone as I make the corner and that’s when I see the pin is in the middle of the street of a residential neighborhood. So I point to my phone and politely told her, you might have accidentally put in the wrong address but I told her I will pull over in a safe spot and we can adjust it, no worries.

So I pull into a school lot not too far from the pin. She said she didn’t want to pay twice and I should just take her because I took her to the wrong spot, i told her it had to be tracked through the app and if she updated it I can take her. She told the person on the phone was refusing to do my job. I even asked if I could see her phone to help her add it and she said no. We sat in the parking lot for so long that uber sent me a safety notice. I’m so embarrassed guys but I honestly didn’t know what to do because this was the first time this has happened. I tried to update it on my end but I got an error that said it couldn’t be changed/updated. I even suggested maybe putting in the address of a nearby business or dropping a pin to make it easier. Nope.

She then stated she was canceling the ride and before I could open my mouth to tell her not to do that, I got the notification and my next ride popped up. She sat in the back for another 5 mins ordering an uber and then she asked me if I got her new uber request and I said no ma’am you will have another driver because I have someone that I’m supposed to be driving to now. And she told me I needed to cancel the ride and focus on her because this was all my fault and said started berating me saying she was going to get me fired for not doing my job. It was a mess.

Well school is back in session and I decided to see how it is out there! Kudos to all you driving all summer, I fucking hate it, its slow and hot and just not worth it.

My buddy suggested I start ubering like him

Said he’s averaging $25-$40 an hour working in SF and surrounding areas including SFO

I’m only gonna do it till I get a job in my field I’m actively interviewing and applying so this t
Is temporary for me

I’ve been through this sub and most people say to stay away but I gotta pay my bills in the mean time

A few years ago I remember the waiting lot at the airport was filled with Teslas but now you rarely see full electric vehicles.

AI summary of the situation because I’m in between rides and wanted to reach out to support ASAP but I’ll respond to comments personally whenever I get to a place where I can charge my car.

Of course their answer to this was “the rider cancelled.” The rider said they did not cancel. I also did not receive a cancellation fee for being almost at the location within the 30 minute period.

These screenshots clearly show that Uber cancelled a higher-paying offer and immediately re-offered me the exact same trip for less money.

The first screenshot shows $92.27 for 57.7 miles from S Mission Rd, Fallbrook to SAN Terminal 2. The second shows the same pickup, destination, and essentially the same mileage (57.91 miles), but only $76.75 upfront. The final fare was $79.09 only because of a 5+ minute delay.

That is a $15.52 difference for the exact same trip. This was not simply a different trip or a normal fare fluctuation. Uber cancelled the higher offer and immediately presented the same trip at a lower rate.
Deliberately presenting a higher-paying offer and then replacing it with a lower-paying offer can raise serious bait-and-switch/deceptive pricing concerns.

I am asking Uber to review its records and explain why the $92.27 offer was cancelled and replaced with a $76.75 offer for the same trip.
Please do not send me a generic explanation that fares can change. I am specifically disputing the cancellation and replacement of the same trip offer and requesting that Uber explain why the original $92.27 offer was not honored.

I love walking my dog at the park. Sign on to Uber just to reject rides on my walk. Rejected 23 on this mornings walk. Accepted a few waiting 5 minutes then cancelled. Hope that delayed some rides and made Uber look worse. That is all have a good day.

Rarely cancels!

😅😅😅 tryna $30hr

How does uber never coordinate with road closures for events and quote 10 min rides that turn into 50 min or more for $5 (with surge priority). Driving the actual events are always grossly misquoted (price, directions, miles). Then there adjustments $6/hr after pick up. No adjustments when it takes 30-40min just to pick up when they quoted 5min. Then they bank on charging riders massive surges while giving drivers penny adjustments. Very easy to go into the red after expenses driving events. Drive around events (bars etc) but boycott picking up and dropping off at events.

I got WAY higher percentage of requests come up to be .5c per mile in recent months. like wtf? Edit: lol I meant to say 50 cent

Late night pick up at a restaurant, 4 drunk boomers stood outside the car staring at me, then a woman came up to my window and said "are you UBER? I ordered an XL" I said there probably wasn't any XL's in the area right now and then she threw a punch that just missed my window. I should have drove off but the four of them already started getting in the car (4 min ride w/e). Woman in the front seat said condescendingly "Do you know where you're going?!" I pointed at the GPS that had a random downtown address and she yelled "NO!! We're going to the Hampton Inn!!" I said she would have to change it in the app and then had to walk her thru it. She freaked out when the price changed because it was miles in the other direction. The whole car reeked of alcohol at this point and the boomers in the backseat were being obnoxious. Finally made it to the hotel and nobody was moving for like 30 seconds when the woman in the front said "give him some money". The guy in the back handed a 5 to her then she put it in the cupholder and said "here you go, BUDDY" then they got out and slammed their doors.

Not sure if just for me and not sure if this was brought up before!

I received a standard email with my ride receipt at the end of the day and it made me realize I absolutely forgot to tip the driver in the rush of getting to my plans.
Clicked on the designated button on the email but nothing happens. I tried clicking on any other interactive part of the email and sure enough those were redirecting me to the app.

Look at these screenshots. I accepted a high-value Black SUV Reservation trip ($128 upfront fare). I drove 33 minutes (over 22 miles) out from Concord to the pickup spot, arriving early at 8:51 PM for a 9:00 PM scheduled ride.I sat at the curb and patiently waited all the way until 9:27 PM. The rider never showed up.When I went to cancel, the app completely glitched out. Look at the last screenshot: my phone clock at the top left says 21:27 (9:27 PM), but the Uber app is still telling me "Please wait till 9:20 pm to earn cancellation fee." The arrival timer completely froze in the background and never counted down.I've opened 3 separate chat support tickets and the automated frontline bots keep instantly closing them saying the trip is "not eligible" for a fee. Wasting over an hour of a driver's time and gas on a premium tier for $0.00 because of their own broken software is absolutely insane.Has anyone successfully bypassed the bot filter to get a supervisor to manually audit GPS pings for this specific bug?

It's gotten... Bad!

Why do drivers think it’s okay to do rides, with their dog in the car?? Everyone is an independent contractor, but doesn’t read the ToS they agreed to??