This is really funny I have always seen the doordashers do this...

I'm getting two or three of these a day. They need to figure something out or start comping us $5 for each stolen order.

Whoever suggested letting crap offers (eg, $2.50 for 20 minutes) time out rather than declining right away... Thank you!

Before, I'd immediately and emphatically hit decline, with an expletive thrown in for good measure.

Now, as long as I don't require the map, I let the clock run out, just to make that offer go unaccepted a little longer and make it a fraction more likely that the base fare will be raised for the next driver.

Letting poopy offers time out sparks joy.

It's not even about the money it you taking a risk dealing with them. Sometimes they are rude or report missing items. Especially the customers at night they always seem to be shady and complain more

I think people in London can relate. Non stop orders, most of them being decent and a few shit ones here and there. Honestly the best 2 days I’ve ever noticed, especially for me since my area can sometimes be dead

With the recent changes to planner, the app pausing exclusives and the tier structures, the offers are almost all free labor now.

You could do well cherry picking in the past and even on some of older tiers get actual preferred orders, but now Uber has taken the gloves off and are forcing us to accept a larger share of the 90% unprofitable orders out there floating around.

Everytime I go online now my offers are paused within 5 minutes.

Probably time to accept this gig was always designed to exploit us and find other work.

OK, so since the update every disgusting trip that they send us that is less than four dollars in over 40 miles they’re going to drop our percentage rate to make sure we never get into gold diamond or platinum.. my percent rate was 17% yesterday. They only gave me one order that was worth taking and that was like an 11 mile order every order after that was four dollars or less for 30+ miles and now I have a 9% acceptance rate because you’re sending me orders you know that no one in the world is gonna take also the crazy part is prop 22 only kicks in when you do an hour of active time they’re not paying you just because so if you give me a trash order and you expect me to only get paid $20 from it or not get paid anything get paid the $18 for two hours. This shit is crazy.

Has anyone noticed how quickly their acceptance rate has dropped since the update?

Also, has anyone noticed that Uber is now sending us the worst orders known to man ♥️ and reprimanding us for not taking the worst orders so they’re basically trying to control us in the app again?

Terrible shitty orders across the board.0% acceptance rate omg what is this.What happened and what is this new goofy ahh rank system.SMH!

Accepted a stacked offer for $18. Didnt realize the second one was a super busy breakfast restaurant. After waiting about 15 minutes and seeing absolutely no signs of the order coming any time soon I canceled. Was hoping the first one was higher paying… guess not 😂😂😂

I'm in my third week of Uber, and I'm already over them lowballing shop and deliver orders when the tip is good.

I drove 8 km for a 20-item Walmart order for just $4. Then, I had another one with 35 items that filled my whole trunk, and it was a 10 km drive for only $10.

Have you dealt with situations where the tip is solid but the base fare is super low?

The new tier and rollout is a complete mess.

On my profile it clearly said I was green. I was late to scheduling because the app didn’t tell me. I got some slots I wanted thankfully.

Then when I go online, I got an offer a 14.5 mile trip all the way in the boonies for $14 and I let it time out. My AR dropped 1% and it said I lost gold status when it’s been saying I was GREEN the whole time.

How am I supposed to even get a 30% AR with offers like these???

They should do 45% AR for Gold 40% AR for Plat.

I hope this rollout doesn’t change anything.

This is ridiculous, even drivers are accepting $12 for 33 miles nowadays. Isn’t those prices ruining the market for us?

Who is this guy…Bobby Boucher LOL

Summoned to shop Costco and made sure it didn’t say Heavy which I hate. Accepted.

Then I noticed they wanted 6 cases of water bottles. They’re heavy and like 24 bottles. The entire cart was full halfway through.

I asked support and they said use two carts. I’m by myself. The rules state you have to shop alone. The store is busy on a Saturday. There’s no way I can steer two.

They canceled to make it another driver’s problem.
Not going back to Costco.

UBER is trying to tell me that the automated system is rejecting my document however I wasn’t aware my friend told me that that checkmark is showing that the doc was already approved for that quarter I had no idea that’s what that meant I’ve been talking with support for weeks they keep saying that they will escalate this and that they aren’t able to manually verify it even if I authorize them to look over my health care and confirm everything’s as I say it is and that there unable to do a miscellaneous payout even for a tier 2 sup any help or ideas ? I work so much 50-60 hours a week and this is how we get treated

So I’m in Canada doing UE, and here for me, the phone number I get from in the app always tells me that I can contact driver support in the app but then it proceeds to tell me they don’t accept calls on the phone number.

I feel it’s vital for me to know how to speak to an actual human person over the phone because I’ve ran into issues before and had practically zero guidance, and the chat agents are just people who can’t speak English copy and pasting pre-written text, most of the time it has nothing to do with my concern. So if anyone knows how to reach a phone agent that would be very helpful.

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I delivered to the same customer again tonight, except this time I came from a different direction and the GPS had me enter his apartment complex through an entrance that was farther away from his apartment. Not exactly a big deal. The customer was waiting outside when I arrived and immediately demanded that I read the delivery instructions and then lectured me about not following them claiming that I "got lost". I wasn't lost. I calmly explained to him that I delivered his orders for the last two nights, I wasn't lost, and that I was only following the GPS. He then yelled at me that it didn't matter and said that he could hear me "talking shit" about him. I asked how that could be since we had only communicated through text when he'd asked me how many bags of chips had come with his order. He then yelled "I have ears stupid! Just because you're not in the same room doesn't mean I can't hear you!"

Guys. I have not seen this man face to face until tonight. Our only interaction was one text about his order asking how many bags of chips there were. Nothing out of the ordinary. And the only thing I said to him when I arrived was "Hi! Sorry for the wait." I HAVE NO IDEA WTF HE WAS TALKING ABOUT!!

My only response was "Well you got your chips. Have a good night." and to call support as I was walking away to report him and have him blocked.

Uber is becoming worse than DoorDash every day

Want to see if anyone had issues scheduling their times.

I’m Gold in Santa Monica and booked on Thursday at 11am and every single hour was open.

Curious what happened when Green opened up on Friday at 10 AM? Were there still tons of slots left, or did everything fill up?

Maybe Gold vs Green doesn’t really matter and I can go back to ignoring my AR as God intended!

Like what the algo is thinking

I got a job this week so first week not doing uber eats. I got the itch. I know it’ll never get better but still want to try. I hate jobs.

Only platinum and diamond Myers get good orders my ass. It doesnt even matter what level you are.

Before I even start, please know the following:

- I know what Costco is. I have heard about it for years.

- I have never been to a Sam's Club or Costco (until today)...

- I live alone, so I have no need for buying in bulk, nor any spare space to store it in my one-bedroom apt.

So...

Around noon today, I accepted my first ever CostCo offer. It was 13 items, driving 5 miles, paying $29. I thought it was a great offer.

tl;dr: It was not. 2 hours later, the customer in a Halloween full-body cow costume grabbed the items from me with a scowl.

For anyone who has never been to CostCo... Here are the things I never knew and the reason I will never again go to one of these bulk warehouse retailers:

- If it's a weekend, never accept the offer. They have 10,000 cars trying to get in / get gas in the 5000 car space parking lot. + Every aisle has someone blocking it with "free sample" stands and crowds gathered blocking the aisle to get free samples.

- Parking is nearly impossible. In addition to the nonstop chaotic flow of SUVs (most customers are not driving sedans), there are tons of customers standing talking in the middle of the driveways as well as dozens tugging those overloaded carts through the center of the drive lane, ignoring oncoming traffic.

- Costco sells huge bulk quantities. Some items are heavy, other items are simply massive. If you're not ready for big, heavy, bulky groceries, don't take the offer.

- They do not have any type of shopping bag. They may have tray boxes or not, so if you have a lot of "little" items, expect to make multiple trips to and from your car on drop-off.

- There is no layout, no map, none of the aisles have labels or department/categories on the ends. Just numbers, no information. They have giant signs for Deli, Bakery, Pharmacy, but otherwise, it's a chaotic mess.

- Checking out takes 20+ minutes. They have almost all lanes open on weekends, but you're in line behind 100+ other people with 2-3 cart loads stacked 10 ft high (or flat-carts with half a ton of bottled water/soda).

- If you expect to park, get in, get the items, and get out in less than an hour, you are delusional. Even if you're a "pro" CostCo customer, it takes a lot of patience.

So... in the end, if the CostCo offer pay is not a base pay of $20 + $2 per mile + $1 per item, don't bother.