Re:The Uber Bombshell About to Drop
by erikpukinskis on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @03:10PM
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> finding qualified staff would be a pain for anyone wanting a french tutor for the drive
Why? Just filter on the "Speaks French" tag.
The supply would still be extremely limited outside a few markets where French is a primary or main secondary language. Also unless you're paying extra for the French speakers the chances the small pool will be already booked with normal jobs is pretty high.
Re:The Uber Bombshell About to Drop
by erikpukinskis on Thursday March 16, 2017 @05:05PM
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I'm not saying Uber should become a service for French tutors. I'm saying every Uber driver has a unique value-add and in a large market there will be plenty of customers for those additional skills.
Are you trying to argue that there is zero use for a person with a car who speaks French in a city like San Francisco? I really don't understand what you're trying to convince me.
This would basically turn them into a private driver service and finding qualified staff would be a pain for anyone wanting a french tutor for the drive. Ignoring that as an off the wall example though they'll still hit a pretty hard wall with trust. Even if the fear is unfounded trying to get a huge number of people to sign up for random (to them) people to pick up and drive around their kids is running into a lot of child abduction/abuse fears that run kind of deep in the US.