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I drive for lyft/uber (https://chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=339642)

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Originally Posted by KCrockaholic (Post 15960035)

It's not a big deal. Some of us never saw this thread the first time it was made.

No it's not. It's just kind of funny.

Had a buddy telling me one of the worst things for him was something called a dead route? Basically when you pickup someone from a highly busy area like an airport and take them 25-30 miles out to the suburbs. But then, there is little to no business going back. So you have to use your time, mileage and gas to get back to a profitable area.

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Originally Posted by TLO (Post 15959678)

This drives me insane. Stupid bot bumps an old thread with a barely coherent sentence, then the next 10 people just reply on like the thread was just created.

I thought it was an odd bump as well but didn't really look into it yesterday. Now that I have, the guy definitely has a odd posting history, all in broken English and shows IPs from all over the world. No spamming though, but definitely not here to talk about the Chiefs. No idea wtf he's up to.

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Originally Posted by Bugeater (Post 15960103)

The thing that stands out to me the most as something people don't consider is when he talks about how spending that much time on the road increases chances of something bad happening. Getting into an accident where you're at fault is something that can continue to haunt you even if you stopped driving for them. The icing on the cake is at the end where he explains how Uber is basically using today's drivers as a way to finance their development of autonomous vehicles. That alone should keep people from wanting to work for them.

Exactly! I drove for them out of necessity when I started doing it as a side gig, and it did help me out for the first few years (probably not as much I as I think it really did...but I'm not going to go back and do all of that math--though I did check my fares to see how much Uber was taking from time to time and a few years ago, the percentage was acceptable). It was only in the last year after I bought a brand new car and was driving that, and started hearing that Uber was taking a higher percentage of the fare than they used to, and once I verified how that had changed, and once I got a raise at my regular job...I stopped driving and won't go back. Now, if anyone asks me about it, I try to discourage them from driving if they can help it.

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Originally Posted by TLO (Post 15959678)

This drives me insane. Stupid bot bumps an old thread with a barely coherent sentence, then the next 10 people just reply on like the thread was just created.

You complaining about a thread bump is like DeBerg complaining about someone starting a shitty thread.