I’ll give the Austin cabs some credit: had they not been around, I would’ve had to stay overnight at my workplace (which, fortunately, is a secure place). But, had Uber and Lyst still been around, I would’ve been home promptly. I’ve already seen the Uber/Lyft-less Austin, and it’s scary. Now it’s up to Get Me to get…

Suddenly I realize I’ve been training for this job near my entire life

I was just wondering how I could get a job at the Sexually Oriented Business Licensing Board Office. It sounds way more exciting than what I do all day.

I should have pasted a separate section of the article where it stated that 10% of cab drivers in Boston (or Washington DC, i closed the window already) passed the city’s background check but failed Uber’s.

Counter point from an article in The Atlantic in 2015:

the legislators were fairly transparent that they wanted to use the proposed licenses as disincentives or under the guise of protecting women from sex trafficking

I think they should license both parties with the same license - “Exotic Dancer/Uber Driver”. Use economies of scale to better streamline the process and cut down the associated per-transaction costs, and gain the added benefit of allowing either population to participate in either career, also lifting the veil of…

Why choose? License both with the same license - “Exotic Dancer/Uber Driver”.

But the people that make these decisions go by their 2000 year old book of myths and legends. They will tell you that the dancer is a harlot and should be banned, let alone licensed. The licensing schemes for dancers has nothing to do with public safety, but more to do with trying to discourage them and eliminate the…

The thing is, though, while there’s this singular focus among cabbies that “black people don’t tip” (as a stereotype), Europeans never tip unless they’re prompted to because it’s not their culture (universal healthcare and living wages, ha!)

I bet that they’re already driving for Uber. It’s not like you can make a living off of being a stripper.

Maybe we can just get strippers to start driving for Uber and Lyft. The market always provides a solution.

Because I’m not hoping for a hand job from the Uber driver.

The name “Tits and Sass” deserves a round of applause.

Part of being an employee is that you come in when the employer wants you to, not when you decide you feel like it. Another part is you can’t refuse work. That is the model. If my boss gives me a task, I have to do it. If he tells me to come in at 8 and leave at 5, those are my hours. I would say that is the essential…

You still haven’t convinced me that people who get to set their own hours, who choose when and where to work aren’t independent contractors, you’re just saying they’re not.

But can’t you make the argument that cabs have had decades longer to become a better business and haven’t, while they’ve pretty much maintained a monopoly? Yet, now they have real competition and instead of improving their own business model they’re trying to get lawmakers to shut down competitors. That’s why…

Huh? How so? You can at least choose your hours, figure out when you want to work. You don’t have to purchase anything, you don’t have to move. I’ve had friends pick up their entire lives, move to new parts of the country, cover the moving costs themselves, pay for fucking graduate degrees, then get to their new jobs…

Honest question: have you only experienced discomfort in Uber and never in cabs? And is there a reason that you feel like you never will in a cab?

You have link of any tech bros going crazy over this?