that’s a totally obtuse comparison you’re making here clem.....driving for Uber is easily the cushiest and laziest way I’ve ever earned money...driving around in an air conditioned car, jamming tunes and chatting with people....hell I’ve done that for fun, for free, since I was 16 years old. First World Problem if I…

I’m not so sure the Uber drivers are complaining. It’s more like conventional taxi drivers and companies that can’t compete with underpaid competition.

Uber never presented itself as a subsistence living, it presented itself as a flex-time gig. Freedom of choice an’t free, you still bear the responsibilities for your choices. If a person tries to make it their full-time job, if they buy a car specifically to do this and they don’t like the results, that’s on them.

I’m right there with you, bud. Not just that, but being a contractor has many benefits. Such as showing up whenever or wherever you want. Let’s face it, driving people around is best as a side job than a life-style. Unless you want to go full chauffeur...

Yup. This will suck for those people who knew how to select profitable rides or choose their schedules to supplement their real day job.

This is what I never understood about the hate Uber gets around here. If people were treated that poorly, just stop driving for Uber. It’s not hard, you don’t even need to tell them, just stop driving. I’ve taken a lot of Ubers, all the drivers I’ve spoken with seem to love it, most of them are just using it as a way…

...at which point, Uber will more than likely pack up their ball and go home. Leaving all their drivers back where they started before Uber was ever a thing. People seem to forget that there’s nothing forcing people to work for Uber in the first place. If it’s so bad, they can always go to Lyft or - alternately - get…

They absolutely have a choice. Fast food and Walmart are hiring all the time if they want something with a semblance of healthcare, a stable schedule, and guaranteed pay.

Agree completely. With this ruling, Uber will dictate NO driver work more than 27 hours so they won’t have to provide health benefits. They will define exactly what hours the driver will work and they may even require the drivers to have their own insurance for their car. This will be done to stay under the cost…

Except that I can usually get an Uber ride very quickly, almost anywhere I am. Not true for taxi service.

Okay, and what happens for part-time Uber drivers when Uber mandates you work a shift which conflicts with your main job?

It’s not the Uber drivers that want this - it’s non-Uber taxi / limo drivers. It has turned the taxi industry into a race to 0, and when labor is a key component of cost that is what they will try to push down. It’s not just a single company that will operate without minimum wage, benefits, etc - it’s an entire…

As long as the fucking car is clean and safe, I’ll still take a Lyft over a taxi any day. Fuck the taxi industry.

Exactly. They would be able to assign shifts and locations. And if you don’t log in and do your shift, you can be fired.

That’s true. Many Uber drivers like to brag about the ‘whenever I want’ time thing. Or they just put in a few rides after working another job part time. Or they only go out Sunday after the big ball game. To be an employee, they will now have to follow orders and probably some kind of set schedule.

I’m willing to believe that it isn’t mostly drivers behind this movement. We contractors know what we’re getting into.

People who buy a house in the flight path of an existing airport have NO RIGHT to complain about the noise from said airport.

And the increased cost to Uber will make them inline with the cost of a taxi, which will sort of eliminate the appeal of Uber.

Not to mention one of the defining characteristics of a subcontractor is that the company can’t dictate specific time and places you work.

Taxis aren’t in the sights of rags like Gawker. Nobody’s reporting anything that they do, because they don’t bring up the liberal hatred like Uber and Lyft. That doesn’t mean that things don’t happen. I’ve never felt even a little uncomfortable in an Uber. Not so for a taxi, where I’ve almost gotten in a fist fight…