Uber Plans Millions in Back Pay After Shortchanging NYC Drivers
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Re: Uber Plans Millions in Back Pay After Shortchanging NYC Drivers
#2This company is absolutely astounding.
The objects you hold up as ideals says a lot about the culture of your environment and its values. It is extremely disappointing that Uber is considered a crown jewel of Silicon Valley.
Re: Uber Plans Millions in Back Pay After Shortchanging NYC Drivers
#3That's a huge "bug" not to notice for presumably a long time. I recently had a Lyft driver in NYC talk to me about how he quit uber after doing the math on what his fare should have been when a passenger told him how much they were being charged. He brought it up to uber and then quit when they didn't fix it. Anecdotal story but seems extremely relevant now
Re: Uber Plans Millions in Back Pay After Shortchanging NYC Drivers
#4That's a huge "bug" not to notice for presumably a long time. I recently had a Lyft driver in NYC talk to me about how he quit uber after doing the math on what his fare should have been when a passenger told him how much they were being charged. He brought it up to uber and then quit when they didn't fix it. Anecdotal story but seems extremely relevant now
Hopefully he'll see some restitution too and it won't be only current drivers.
Re: Uber Plans Millions in Back Pay After Shortchanging NYC Drivers
#5This company is absolutely astounding. The objects you hold up as ideals says a lot about the culture of your environment and its values. It is extremely disappointing that Uber is considered a crown jewel of Silicon Valley.
Uber is the physical incarnation of the saying "don't ask for permission, ask for forgiveness".
Re: Uber Plans Millions in Back Pay After Shortchanging NYC Drivers
#6This company is absolutely astounding. The objects you hold up as ideals says a lot about the culture of your environment and its values. It is extremely disappointing that Uber is considered a crown jewel of Silicon Valley.
Uber is the physical incarnation of the saying "don't ask for permission, ask for forgiveness".
"Move fast and break things (and shortchange everyone in the process)"
We're so sorry (again)
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Re: Uber Plans Millions in Back Pay After Shortchanging NYC Drivers
#8This company is absolutely astounding. The objects you hold up as ideals says a lot about the culture of your environment and its values. It is extremely disappointing that Uber is considered a crown jewel of Silicon Valley.
To be honest I'm not so sure its still considered a crown jewel. The negative PR has been snowballing for awhile now.
Re: Uber Plans Millions in Back Pay After Shortchanging NYC Drivers
#9This company is absolutely astounding. The objects you hold up as ideals says a lot about the culture of your environment and its values. It is extremely disappointing that Uber is considered a crown jewel of Silicon Valley.
It is extremely disappointing that Uber is considered a crown jewel of Silicon Valley
The common refrain I hear is "they're better than taxis" and more and more evidence is mounting against them (at the corporate level) that suggests: no, they really aren't.
Re: Uber Plans Millions in Back Pay After Shortchanging NYC Drivers
#10That's a huge "bug" not to notice for presumably a long time. I recently had a Lyft driver in NYC talk to me about how he quit uber after doing the math on what his fare should have been when a passenger told him how much they were being charged. He brought it up to uber and then quit when they didn't fix it. Anecdotal story but seems extremely relevant now
What your driver was talking about may not be a bug/math error like stated here.
After rolling out guaranteed whole-ride pricing (as opposed to metering) Uber is allegedly testing algorithms to bid different prices for rides to both driver and passenger. i.e., passenger sees a fare of $X, while driver sees a fare of $Y, where presumably $Y Passengers' fares can be "optimized" by estimating a specific passenger-trip's price ceiling, and driver payments can be "optimized" by estimating the driver-trip's price floor.
To be clear, I find this entire concept incredibly abhorrent, but apparently this is being trialed.
[1] https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/04/10/uber-showing-dri...