Re:Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber
by RodericDay on Monday February 20, 2017 @01:39PM
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I've had this argument several times already, I'll sum it up one last time:
Lyft operating as normal: "Fuck this strike, making me pay tons of money bc of surge pricing"
Uber operating without surge: "OMG Uber my savior!!!!! / (can't actually find a cab bc of lack of availability) Whatever, not their fault, it's the stupid strike after all"
It was a calculated cynical ploy like literally everything else Uber does. I have no patience with them, particularly in a thread discussing sexual harassment within. Feel free to spin it as "a very appropriate way to respect the strike" or whatever.
Re:Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber
by dllthomas on Monday February 20, 2017 @01:43PM
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Except Uber did not disable surge until a half-hour after the strike ended.
Re:Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber
by dllthomas on Monday February 20, 2017 @12:04PM
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Yeah, it seems to me that optimal treatment of a strike would be something like: 1) cap surge (maybe to the typical value for the given time/area), 2) notify drivers when a request is from an affected area, 3) exclude cancellations of those rides from the drivers' metrics.
The biggest concern is that this puts Uber in the position of determining what is and isn't "legitimately a strike".
This was in my opinion a very appropriate way to respect the strike without forcing drivers to not make money unless they chose to do so themselves.