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This guy was very helpful and informative, and there was a really bad accident on the other side of the highway he was going to have to deal with on the way back. I was going to tip ~60% but apparently I'm restricted to about ~30%.
It's very unfair and corrupt that a corporation of Uber's size can limit tips to the workers that are the entire reason they exist.
Bet the rate would be low in usd
Uber is shitty and absolutely steals tips in inventive ways, source I am an Uber driver. But I know they don't limit it to a percentage because I get plenty of $10-$20 tips on ~$10 rides.
I used to do food delivery for Uber/DD/Grubhub, etc. so I kind of know how it goes... I also never use Uber personally except for the few times I've been to foreign countries without good public transport, so this is the first time I've seen asshole behavior on the customer side of Uber.
I'm well aware of how shitty they are to their drivers. I remember getting $4usd orders some days. It just makes me feel ill knowing that he probably got a shitty cut of the full bill, and I can't tip him what I feel is fair.
Yeah, and I hear from riders about the prices so I know they are keeping more than 50 percent of it.
Take a taxi, don't give your cash to a company who s on the BDS list.
Thats eaiser said than done when Uber in alot of areas wiped out other taxi businesses.
"Or add more in cash." Honestly, I don't believe that Uber doesn't steal from tips so cash tipping is what I'd do if I was rich enough to use Uber.
Uber drivers should start hauling around ATMs in their cars.
Oh, that's a great idea. If they empty ATMs the they won't have to drive Uber anymore. And it's a victimless crime to boot.
That's....not.... what I meant.
But it is a good idea!
Possibly to reduce "rides" that are just drug deals. But equally possible just Uber being shitty.
Or scams, theft, or literal extortion. I'm not saying the limit should be 30%, but no limit would be extremely reckless.
Or even a simple feature against misclicks
Why would they use uber for that?
Like someone else said it's money laundering, for drugs or anything else.
This ^.
It’s anti fraud.
A cab ride cost you $400 before tipping???
It really didn't occur to you that MX$ isn't USD?
Yes. I don't use Uber, so I did not know what MX$250.00 meant in that app.
It did not occur to me to refer to another country's currency in terms of dollars, which is how that looks to me (MX$ = "MX Dollars").
Also, thank you for correcting me, but you also come across as a bit rude.
The taxi ride I'm going to make today will probably cost that much. 20 miles, Germany. But my health insurance pays.
I think I would buy a bike, ride it there, and abandon it at my destination for that price!
I have a bike, but I can't ride it because I've had an operation.
but my health insurance pays
I imagine that might have something to do with why he's taking a cab
It looks like it is in Mexican Pesos. 250 pesos is about 13.50 usd.
Ah. That makes more sense. Thank you!
It's very unfair and corrupt that a country of USA's size has an artificial culture of voluntarily paying people whatever because you can't just agree on an upfront price like rest of world.
Buddy, the screenshot is in Mexican Pesos. Why are you talking about the USA?
Buddy, I'll be you four pesos that whoever made that post and is using their phone in English and needing info from the driver is a visitor from north of the wall.
It's very annoying that people from the USA assume everyone else is. This coming from a USAian. The screenshot literally shows Mexican pesos
USAian
JFC lol
Figured I'd specify in this case since Mexico is also American, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Mexico is even technically a US of A, because they're the officially (when translated to English) the United Mexican States, and in America
Touché
To agree on an upfront cost, we'd likely have to acknowledge that a fair cost would be too expensive for the buyer and not high enough for the seller, because all our productivity is lining someone else's pockets. But we're all temporarily embarrassed billionaires so we grit our teeth and tip to keep up the impression that the status queue is okay.
Stop. Please stop. The only people who like tips are the ones who receive them.
It's a coming of age to all of us who did work for tips when we realize just how much more we made when that was the obligation.
I did not make as much money per hour as I made as a 16 year old until several years after people called me doctor.
As my European colleagues ask "why don't you do it like us?" We do. Constantly. Well we try, but all the good people leave because they can make more money elsewhere.
And yes. This "feature" is to prevent money laundering. Not tipping.
Other countries bothered to make actual laws to take it out of businesses hands. All this inflation and the value of human life is still at sweet fuck all in the states
So what you're saying is that wages are too low, got it.
It’s to suppress money laundering and fraud.
Uber is greedy, but this makes perfect sense. If they didn’t do this, they’d already be bankrupt or shut down.
It's always a good idea to carry cash around, for circumstances like this
Agreed, but in this situation I was out of the car before opening the app to tip. If I had known beforehand, I definitely would've given him cash.
How I see it is:
If you accidentally tapped an extra zero, you'd probably be extremely infuriated. I guess they made it this way so that doesnt happen. Cuz corporate dont wanna deal with chargebacks.
the proper way to fix this would be to ask to hold a button for confirmation for any tip above e.g. 30%, not ban it
Honestly, I'd give him cash because I'm sure Uber would find some way to take their cut. Say it's to cover credit card charges or processing fees or something.
So I went down a rabbit hole on this... Yes, it's complete bullshit technicality.
It's called a "controlled tip", because it flows through the company payment process via credit cards or payment method. In case anyone was wondering. At least as far as I know.
Legally, tips are 100% property of the employee.
It's because if they allowed this, it would take literal days for payment providers to take action when people inevitably get robbed/scammed etc.
Venmo it directly to the driver.
Valid solution, but I just checked the app and there's no way for me to contact the driver and there is no Venmo listed on his profile.
And knowing Uber, I doubt they would even allow drivers to provide links to tip them externally.
I doubt they could prohibit that, and even so, that would not be enforceable.