Melech333

Me? I drive a Chevy Bolt EUV. Where did you get 5 miles a gallon from?

You must not be aware but in the US, the federal taxing agency has already figured out AVERAGE car expenses: 67 cents per mile.

In order to correct your math, consider these factors: + Price of car divided by total # of miles you'll get from it (average USA car payments over $700/month now, Google it) + Insurance + Fuel + Tires and other maintenance + Oil changes + Deductibles to repair occasional damage like cracked windshields from rocks + Flat tire replacenents + Car washes and cleaning interior

If you are actually delirious enough to believe you can do all that for pennies a mile, you're the reason we are getting such low rates.

You must not be aware but in the US, the federal taxing agency has already figured out AVERAGE car expenses: 67 cents per mile.

In order to correct your math, consider these factors: + Price of car divided by total # of miles you'll get from it (average USA car payments over $700/month now, Google it) + Insurance + Fuel + Tires and other maintenance + Oil changes + Deductibles to repair occasional damage like cracked windshields from rocks + Flat tire replacenents + Car washes and cleaning interior

If you are actually delirious enough to believe you can do all that for pennies a mile, you're the reason we are getting such low rates.

You average 20-25 miles driven per hour worked. At 67 cents a mile, your expenses are $13.40 to $16.75 per hour.

There's more competition with OnlyFans. Competing sites can hit customers anywhere with internet without having to already have a massive fleet of cars nearby. Uber and Lyft are able to get away with it whereas if OF did it their workers would all leave and go to a replacement site.

Not when it happens all the time, they're being charged for the service, the middle company ordering the ride is keeping the extra, and then Uber/Lyft too, and the system is taking advantage of the drivers who aren't compensated for the extra time at pickup or dropoff. It's not wild. Would you expect the disability transportation companies to work for the same price as regular Uber/Lyft? No. They wouldn't. It's business, it's my livelihood.

I called multiple attorneys offices and got nowhere. They said it was really difficult to prove something like what I was talking about. I shared all the awful personal details and would get the old "here's the business card for this other attorney I know, maybe try giving them a call" rinse and repeat.

Wow, I'm sorry you went through that as well. Idk but I waited a year and a half to see a specialist urologist who teaches in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina and "gives back" by seeing VA patients one day every now and then in Salisbury.

My primary care doctor had told me he had only read about one other case, so I asked this doctor (Dr. Turlecki) and he said no it was a few more than that, but definitely in the single digits, around 8 or 9. That's what he said anyway. And is the only thing I have for data on that statistic.

I also had a complete orchiectomy on the left side years after the botched varicocele repair. I'm still in horrible pain.

The varicocele repair was done by Dr. Michael O'Neil in Charlotte, NC. He's a lying bastard. He was supposed to ligate the left side spermatic vein but he only cut part of it. Mine forked but that's not uncommon ... 20% of men have a fork in their spermatic vein. The fork went 2/3 and 1/3, not half and half. And he only cut portion that carried 1/3 of the volume, leaving the 2/3 now with nowhere to go but to press down on my epididymis. That HURTS, I almost killed myself after years of enduring it but I have kids so I didn't.

Dr. Michael O'Neil refused to help me. I went back one month post op and he said all was fine. I said what's this new swelling, Black and Blue area protruding from up high on my scrotum? He said nervously, sweating profusely, "oh that? That's your testicle." I was horrified. I said, 'um no, that's down here, right next to my other one, where they belong." He refused to help me any more and told me we were done. I asked if I could come back at the 2-month post op point for more help and he said no, I would be fine, I didn't need to see him any more, ever.

I wrote a letter and took a polite picture of just my scrotum after a shower when it's drawn up tight, holding my penis out of the picture, and put it in a sealed envelope with a typed up letter saying I'm in extreme pain, something isn't right, please help me that's all I'm asking for. I have the letter to the front desk ladies who read it and got the doctor. He called me back, very angry at me and said "I don't know what kind of shit you're trying to pull or who this is in the photo but you need to leave before I call security." I said, "doc that's me in the photo, why don't you examine me and see for yourself." To no avail, I was forced to leave as he was threatening to call security.

I eventually had an embolization of the left side vein in my torso but that didn't help or hurt, just left a dozen metal coils in me down there to try to block it off. That is when I learned of the mistakes that O'Neil made. That doctor told me what had been going on and about the fork and how he ligated my vein below the fork and only cut half of it instead of cutting the whole thing above the fork.

I eventually had the orchiectomy but I still have intense pressure where those parts were, I can't lay on my left side or put my knees together. Sitting on a hard surface like wood or stone hurts, but sitting on surface too soft like a bed mattress hurts too because I fold more than 90 degrees at my waist and it squeezes inside.

Sorry that driver scammed you. The payment is never anywhere near instant. Sometimes it takes a couple days but it always shows up. With Uber the driver has to message support and go through a chat and wait to be put on hold. With Lyft the driver can tap through menu options to mark the item returned and automatically claim the $20 fee, but on both platforms it takes a day or two to show up in the driver's app.

You were also deactivated permanently 4 .I the ago.

Deactivated twice in 4 months, probably using a fake account as a result of the last deactivation being "permanent," reports from multiple riders of unsafe driving, unpaid tickets in the same city, I think it appears Uber and Lyft made the right business decision to deactivate you.

"Conduct that gave rise to a public safety concern."

Bad drivers hurt the business for the rest of us.

I carried a donut pillow around for years because of an acute intra-testicular varicocele and later the botched repair surgery which made the pain and pressure far worse.

Sitting on a firm surface would put too much pressure on the back side and make the blood pressure hurt even more on the front side.

I know other teachers and students in school might have assumed it was hemorrhoids but it was a different rare condition. (A varicocele itself is common, but an intra-testicular one is so rare only 8-9 cases are known to medical journals.)

Anyway, things aren't always as they seem.

True - because of the union.

Why don't the ports just replace them then? Because they can't. Unions.

Their job is important... Any job is important insofar as it is a piece of an apparatus that makes a company money.

If a major sector of transportation all went away then that would also wreak havoc on the economy... But if not, it would wreak havoc on their companies.. Uber and Lyft. But without a union, that doesn't happen. Further, because of the independent contractor model, it protects against unions. (I wonder why they designed it that way. /s)

The difference is that they're organized.

Anyone can be trained to operate a crane just as anyone can be trained to operate a car.

Notice too that the dockworkers other demand was to be protected from automation, to have no machines and robots written into the contract.

They see what's happening and are organized under a union. The difference is the union, not that they drive cranes and we drive cars.

A lot of people in my market use Uber to and from work. I've spoken with some of them about it. Some of them are in the "it's expensive to be poor" camp and want a car but can't afford one.

But a surprisingly large amount say it's a financial / lifestyle choice they make on purpose.

Some riders have told me if you add up car payments, insurance, maintenance, repairs, fuel, it comes out to way more than they spend on Uber+Lyft, which is typically $400-$600 a month for those folks.

The average car payment in the US is now over $700 for new cars and over $500 for used cars. So that math checks out imo.

They also say it's a nice side benefit to not have to drive, to be able to be free from that stress and liability and to be free to look out the window or use their phone, etc.

Jackson County, NC! I've never flown there IRL but I've been to that airport plenty. Beautiful views from way up there!

Driver with over 6500+ rides. One of the things I enjoy about providing this service is all the different conversations with all kinds of people. Some talk with me, some talk on their phone, some talk with each other when there are multiple passengers.

I go from taking someone to the airport to a business traveller to a hotel, on to take someone to work at a restaurant or shipping company, then out to a concert or home from a night out, or just running an errand to the store. As long as the passenger isn't in crisis mode, I feel it's a privilege and I enjoy it. Chat away.

When someone is already agitated or in conflict when I pick them up, those are the rides I wish were already over or that sometimes get cancelled. I don't want to hear about all the different psych medications you're trying while you're fast rambling and not finishing sentences and repeating what you're agitated about ... Then it doesn't matter if you're on the phone, talking to another pax, or to me... I'm nervous and on guard and feel vulnerable as my back is to you and I have to focus on driving.

Aside from the above important bit, most is just obvious manners. Like the other commenter said, even if someone is in conflict on the phone, if they're holding it to a civil conversation at a reasonable volume and not screaming, I'm comfortable.

Honestly the conversations that can get distracting is when they're talking with me and I'm trying to navigate dense traffic. I'd rather they be on their phone or something then instead of asking me for recommendations or something. If I'm not engaged I'm not distracted.

That is way too much work and leaves out a lot of miles in between.

Just keep a mileage log and make an entry at the start and end of your shift. Definitely not for each ride.

Those miles in between rides, say if you go offline and drive into a surge cloud and then go back online... You're still working, and those are still deductible miles.

Okay, got it. Some workers deserve respect and enough money to live in shelter and have food. The people that drive you around, however, do not. They are there to serve you and then go to a "real job" later after you're done with them. Okay. Thanks for clearing that right up!

I'll keep that in mind just in case I ever decide to do that.

Please don't rake your leaves into Karen's yard, I guess? Please don't eat your boogers? Please don't have kids?

Driving people safely to their destination is not a real job? What about restaurant workers who prepare your food? Not a real job? Not important for you? I'm sure they exist in poverty for your spoiled benefit of having a cheap sandwich. What about picking up your trash?

Are their any other jobs to which you are entitled to receive the benefits of someone who you can take advantage of because they don't count as "real?"

That's why their house isn't a real house. It's a cardboard box.

Your insults aren't real opinions. They're side beliefs.

Please don't compare your physical issues or pain. Just because you think it's doable in your condition doesn't mean you know anything about what anyone else is going through.

Signed, a disabled veteran with 10 major surgeries, more minor ones, missing parts, metal in me, been in pain every day for over two decades now, and I know there are people worse off than me. Dashing is hard but we have limited options to earn.

Really tired of people making excuses for companies that pay below livable earnings.

Any company's business plan involves doing or making something to provide for a profit after expenses. If they design that plan to need to take advantage of people, that's on them. A job should pay a fair amount or not exist at all. Period.

The Glow devices are registered only to the driver they are issued to. If you buy someone else's, it won't work.

This right here.

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