Why is walking to your car such a big deal?

Hopefully they did away with the Marvell Avastar wifi chip - that thing was dog-doo and they crammed it into all but the cheapest Surface devices. A driver released in 2018 is still current, and still breaks lots of 5ghz networks :|

I know in urban areas theres a lot of rage because people dump the things wherever - is there a good reason you couldn’t make designated parking areas and tack on a, say, 50 dollar fine for leaving the scooter in a place that wasn’t a designated scooter parking area? They’re geo aware, and you could have rfid…

Aw man why does it have to be something negative. Why can’t there be security footage of someone installing googly eyes or handlebar tassles or something? Or that little lion head from peewee’s big adventure!

Yeah sorry, started that paragraph in my head and didn’t translate it all onto the page :P

Then negatives, in my experience, are that it makes it impossible to financially incentivize workers that go above and beyond (so they stop doing so), and it makes it hard to punish or terminate people that drag the entire team down. so-and-so about to be fired for never being on time, or can’t ever find them, or work…

Ah, the way that’s mitigated here (in some states) is by the state.

I guess potentially unpopular view, but in my experience it’s made it harder to thank/incentivize good workers and get rid of poor performers. I don’t object to the idea of unions overall, but it *does* afford too many protections to some people that are not carrying their weight. Workers that do little work while on…

No, but it means that the “employees” will have to abide by the company’s definition of “employee”. I’m really doubting its going to be sunshine and rainbows. Uber seems like a potentially vindictive company.

Yeah, but being treated as an employee is going to mean having to act like one, with everything that entails. Minimum hours, rigid schedules, quotas.

Yeah I’m guessing many will bail when being treated like a full employee means having to act like a full employee, with schedules, quotas, uniforms, and the like.

Isn’t the definition of a gig job a short term temporary labor engagement? I always saw uber/lyft/doordash pitched as a way to earn some extra cash during downtime. I don’t think I ever saw them pitched as alternatives to getting a real job - that doesn’t mean it never happened, but I *personally* never heard of it…

I lament a future where we have to deal with weird looking little electric econo boxes zipping around blasting kanye tracks as engine noise.

Losing the ability to just head off into the canyons and spend hours driving around the middle of nowhere is kinda a bummer for me. I’m all for an electric car to drive to work and stuff (maybe even autonomous?) but ever since I lost the ability to ride a motorcycle, blitzing around the canyons in a small turbo car is…

How does it sound?

You swing your head around in circles to make sure your neck still works properly, right?

I get what you’re saying.

I have used Uber exactly twice, and am fairly convinced the drivers were baked both times. The smell of vape weed is pretty unmistakeable.

Why don’t people that don’t like the compensation stop doing that job and do something else? 

If they don’t like the compensation model, why don’t they just... not drive for Uber/Lyft? You aren’t required to take the job. If it’s that bad to drive for Uber or Lyft - stop. Go do something else. It’s a job that requires almost no education or experience. If you choose to take a crappy job with poor compensation,…