Apparently, she thought her #Uber driver was taking her to #MX instead of taking her to the desired destination (a casino), so she shot him in the back of the head.
#Uber lays off 3700 employees via #Zoom conferencing.
Is this the equivalent of breaking up via text message? It feels like it, but I do not know how they could have done it better. Did they tell 500-1000 at a time, or sit down and have one-to-one videochats?
By the way, there's apparently a strike at #Uber and #Lyft today. Don't take the above as permission to cross the (in this case, invisible) picket line.
For example: only one taxi company could take me to or from the airport; if I called the wrong one, they'd make me call the other one.
The taxis always wanted cash. I was working 60+ hours per week in a foreign country, so I did not often have $30 in cash on me. If I insisted that I could only pay with my employer's credit card, they would read my card information over the radio and take about twenty minutes to get the okay for payment.
Every taxi driver would hand me a card, saying that he/she also drove independently or for another company after hours. "Call me on this number instead of going through the taxi company."
Uber usually had me at the office within 15 minutes of pickup. Taxis were always at least 20 minutes. Uber's wait for pickup was usually between 2 and 15 minutes. Taxis were always around 20 minutes.
Uber wasn't problem-free. In a few cases, I had to request fare re-evaluation because they charged an amount that $EMPLOYER would not have reimbursed. A couple of drivers took shortcut routes through shady sections of town where I wondered whether I was about to be robbed or killed. One time, a different driver showed up, the original driver showed up after we left, then called. Somehow, driver two had been able to steal driver one's fare.
@kai As a former public bus system rider, and someone that briefly used #Uber to get to and from work in #PR, I'd rather the cities bought smaller buses or even vans and covered larger parts of the city for more hours of the day. With ride-hailing, drivers often have other jobs, so may be unavailable during peak demand times. And unpredictable delays in pick-ups mean that your boss has to be understanding or you'll lose your job.
#twitter had me #shadowbanned for 24 hours this week. I have >NO IDEA< why. I did not deserve it. They did not tell me why. We need to destroy #socialControlMedia just like we need to obliterate evil companies that spy and destroy human rights, like #uber and #facebook
I doubt #Uber pays drivers any more for subsidized trips than for regular trips. The concept of replacing public transit with ridesharing services bothers me. That's no longer public transit, that's private personal pickup for the privileged. Of course, I use "ridesharing service" with reserve; I fully understand it's really a surveillance system selling demographics to advertisers.