This guy was very helpful and informative, and there was a really bad accident on the other side of the highway he was going to have to deal with on the way back. I was going to tip ~60% but apparently I’m restricted to about ~30%.
It’s very unfair and corrupt that a corporation of Uber’s size can limit tips to the workers that are the entire reason they exist.
Uber is shitty and absolutely steals tips in inventive ways, source I am an Uber driver. But I know they don’t limit it to a percentage because I get plenty of $10-$20 tips on ~$10 rides.
Tip cash?
Very very rarely.
I used to do food delivery for Uber/DD/Grubhub, etc. so I kind of know how it goes… I also never use Uber personally except for the few times I’ve been to foreign countries without good public transport, so this is the first time I’ve seen asshole behavior on the customer side of Uber.
I’m well aware of how shitty they are to their drivers. I remember getting $4usd orders some days. It just makes me feel ill knowing that he probably got a shitty cut of the full bill, and I can’t tip him what I feel is fair.
Possibly to reduce “rides” that are just drug deals. But equally possible just Uber being shitty.
Or scams, theft, or literal extortion. I’m not saying the limit should be 30%, but no limit would be extremely reckless.
Or even a simple feature against misclicks
This ^.
It’s anti fraud.
Take a taxi, don’t give your cash to a company who s on the BDS list.
So I went down a rabbit hole on this… Yes, it’s complete bullshit technicality.
It’s called a “controlled tip”, because it flows through the company payment process via credit cards or payment method. In case anyone was wondering. At least as far as I know.
Legally, tips are 100% property of the employee.
It’s always a good idea to carry cash around, for circumstances like this
“Or add more in cash.” Honestly, I don’t believe that Uber doesn’t steal from tips so cash tipping is what I’d do if I was rich enough to use Uber.
Uber drivers should start hauling around ATMs in their cars.
They could get one of those little credit card terminals that attach to your phone but that’s kind of a pain to have to pull that out if someone wants to tip more. Easier would probably be just listing their cashapp or Venmo or whatever username and having it posted somewhere in the vehicle. But then you’d probably get that one customer who ruins it for everyone by like reporting it to Uber like ‘i felt pressured to leave an extra tip’
A cab ride cost you $400 before tipping???
The taxi ride I’m going to make today will probably cost that much. 20 miles, Germany. But my health insurance pays.
I think I would buy a bike, ride it there, and abandon it at my destination for that price!
but my health insurance pays
I imagine that might have something to do with why he’s taking a cab
I have a bike, but I can’t ride it because I’ve had an operation.
It looks like it is in Mexican Pesos. 250 pesos is about 13.50 usd.
Ah. That makes more sense. Thank you!
It really didn’t occur to you that MX$ isn’t USD?
Yes. I don’t use Uber, so I did not know what MX$250.00 meant in that app.
It did not occur to me to refer to another country’s currency in terms of dollars, which is how that looks to me (MX$ = “MX Dollars”).
Also, thank you for correcting me, but you also come across as a bit rude.
Mexican Pesos have existed long before Uber, lol. “MX$” isn’t unique to the Uber app…
$ was used for pesos before the U.S. existed. It evolved from an abbreviation of ps for Spanish peso.
TIL. Today’s lucky 10,000. Thanks!
There are a lot of countries that use a currency called “dollars”, Canada, Australia, NZ, Hong Kong, Singapore, Fiji, I’m sure there’s way more that I don’t know or remember.
It’s very unfair and corrupt that a country of USA’s size has an artificial culture of voluntarily paying people whatever because you can’t just agree on an upfront price like rest of world.
Buddy, the screenshot is in Mexican Pesos. Why are you talking about the USA?
Buddy, I’ll be you four pesos that whoever made that post and is using their phone in English and needing info from the driver is a visitor from north of the wall.
It’s very annoying that people from the USA assume everyone else is. This coming from a USAian. The screenshot literally shows Mexican pesos
USAian
JFC lol
Figured I’d specify in this case since Mexico is also American, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Mexico is even technically a US of A, because they’re the officially (when translated to English) the United Mexican States, and in America
Touché
Stop. Please stop. The only people who like tips are the ones who receive them.
It’s a coming of age to all of us who did work for tips when we realize just how much more we made when that was the obligation.
I did not make as much money per hour as I made as a 16 year old until several years after people called me doctor.
As my European colleagues ask “why don’t you do it like us?” We do. Constantly. Well we try, but all the good people leave because they can make more money elsewhere.
And yes. This “feature” is to prevent money laundering. Not tipping.
So what you’re saying is that wages are too low, got it.
Agreed. Everyone everywhere thinks that they don’t get paid enough.
That’s not saying that wages aren’t too low. That’s just saying that that’s not a good argument.
