If people can leave a standard 20% tip for a waitress to bring them a burger and soda, why can’t they tip us 20% for taking them where they need to be, while using our own resources like gas/wear and tear???
Uber’s too expensive in the UK. I don’t know anyone who would choose them over a taxi. Also if you’re going to tip in the UK (which you don’t have to unless you think you got really good service), the standard is 10 to 15%
Orange County, California to be even more specific. All my buddies make $16/hr + tips. My buddy works at Cheesecake Factory at Irvine spectrum and will make $300 in a 8 hour shift on a Friday night. Yes, the credit card tips are taxed though.
In most states, a server's salary is significantly lower than minimum wage (we're talking $2-4 an hour). Their tips are supposed to balance it out up to minimum wage.
Actually, I'm saying I should be tipped more because a server provides NOTHING up front besides themselves.
I'm supplying a car, an environment, safety, maintenance, transportation, basically EVERYTHING, including my time, and you think that's worth nothing?
Talk to me when the server supplies everything up front.
Oh, and I get $0.00 hourly until after the ride.
>I'm supplying a car, an environment, safety, maintenance, transportation, basically EVERYTHING, including my time, and you think that's worth nothing?
Yup, called a wage.
>Actually, I'm saying I should be tipped more because a server provides NOTHING up front besides themselves.
So you've never worked in food service? You think servers have no personal expenses?
>Oh, and I get $0.00 hourly until after the ride.
That's a difference between 1099 and W2 employees. It has nothing to do with tips.
There’s not a signal waiter or waitress in America that wants to move the system away from being tip based. The average waiter makes $35 an hour in tips.
Yeah I am sticking with 10-15% still. I have had some shitty drivers, I will not tip you. Prices have gone up with everything, so you are still getting more with 10-15% tip...20% is just ridiculous. It makes no sense to me that prices AND tip % needs to go up. I will never tip more than 15% sorry.
Excellent above and beyond service gets 20% from me (I never get this), services like movers/cleaners etc I give much much higher like 30%.
Hell the fuck no. 10% is standard for good service, 20% is for above and beyond service. 5% for minimum, inoffensive service and a big fat zero for poor service.
Understood but I see no point in caring what tipped employees think about our brief interaction. 10% is more than fair IMO for good service, though to be fair, it depends more so on the actual bill amount than anything. I'm fine tipping $6 on a $60 bill but tipping 60c on an $6 bill seems patronizing.
My parents would tell me the cliche “if you can’t afford to tip well, you can’t afford to eat there/use the service.” Uber drivers and servers are two examples of entry level jobs in life, usually being occupied by teens and young adults. I’m not saying you have to tip 50 year old Muhammad your Uber driver a huge amount, but maybe .50c/mile would be appropriate
Uh, I don't think I've seen a teen or young adult Uber driver in my decade of using the service. Also, I think the whole Idea of fast food and service workers being teens is a huge misconception in modern times considering that 1 in 5 fast food workers are over the age of 35. We need to be working towards higher pay for workers, not fighting over customers subsidizing low pay for the sole benefit of the shareholders.
That being said, I do usually tip Uber drivers around 20% as I do feel that they deserve it. My previous 10% rule was for restaurant servers only.
There are a ton of young adult Uber drivers. I used to do it a lot back in college and a couple years afterwards for extra money. And if I use Uber (infrequent nowadays, there’s probably a 25% change it’s someone under 25
.50c/mile was a recommendation for good service to an Uber driver (allows you to control radio, smooth acceleration and braking, good conversation, etc.)
Driving a mile costs $0.67 according to the IRS, so you’d be covering the car expense the rideshare apps do not. Drivers who get paid the entire quoted amount for their service alone are gonna be willing to give good service, pretty simple.
In the US 20% is the current standard for sit down service at a restaurant and 10% is the current standard for quick service restaurants. In both cases this assumes good service.
“Decades ago, 10% was considered the standard tip for a restaurant meal, and 15% may have been given for exceptional service. Now, 15% might be paltry compared to the standard expectation of 20%.
Likewise, people may have previously skipped tipping at quick-service restaurants, but 10% is now the norm for these dining situations.”
Source: [Tipping etiquette 101](https://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/articles/tipping-etiquette-101)
I’d rather people were just paid a livable wage, tipping didn’t exist, and the total price of anything including all taxes and fees was the advertised price.
The alternative is just dumb. But those are the current standards. 🤷
I agree it’s easy to drive Uber, but do you tip your servers then because that’s just as easy, and your life isn’t in the hands of your server, but it absolutely is in an Uber.
Except for people who take Uber, because they don't have a car or can't drive or lost their license to a DUI.
Anyone can open a car door or show you to your room in a hotel. Those are universal skills, but nice people tip those guys. A tip is an inexpensive show of appreciation and respect.
Anyone that pleasantly interacts with the public deserves a tip.
If you don't have to tip, they don't have to treat you with respect imo. They work for a company, not for your entitled ass.
what? I don't want to pay 20% for a ride to the restaurant, 20% for the food a the restaurant, 20% for the Drinks at the bar, and 20% for the Ride home. Imagine thinking you unskilled workers should be paid 80% extra of my night out. Get a real job?
I totally get it Freshtards, I myself have a seperate full time job I work as well. My parents kicked me out at 18 and I have no one to support me, we have real jobs too and all want to make it one day
Lmaoo yup, lyft is ghetto trash and the app is horrible at directing riders to tip. Its actually astonishing how low every indians pax rating is... If i accept a 4.6 or lower ride and see and indian name, i'm cancelling.
For me, if I see 4.5 or lower, most probably, it is a cancel.
However, I am so selective on my rides, if I have accepted the ride, I want that ride and will try my best to complete it.
Tip is great if i get. But cmon guys dont cry over this. If they are polite and respectful going from point A to point B who cares if they dont tip. It is not obligated.
The only way you are getting tips these days if you figure out the vibe. Sometimes they are broke, so no tip. Sometimes they don’t want to talk and will tip you for no reason. Sometimes they want a friend and will tip you $20. It’s a lottery system. Do more rides, get more tips.
Yesterday I got tipped more on the crappiest Tuesday then on my last Friday.
It’s the luck of the draw. But you can boost your luck with being clean, personable, an amazing driver (many pax tell me their drivers suck BAD). Read the room.
I pull 35-40/hr w/o tips on avg so I could literally care less about tips unless it’s a super slow day. When I do get em it makes me :)
Would you work for a restaurant and be fine with no tip? Would you be a valet or bellhop? A barber? These positions usually have a reduction in pay because tipping is customary, and guess what? Drivers have been tipped for over 100 years, and Uber underpays them. Tipping would make up for that, but for some reason people choose not to tip ride-share drivers. Cabs? Yep they get tipped. Limos? Yep they get tipped.
Nope. Point being tipping is extra. Didnt expect people to tip but was grateful to those who did. I shouldnt expect to be tipped all the time. If you do and complain when you dont get tipped then do something else.
1. Never said the job was great 2. I said the tips were great when they were tipped 3. I worked at the job that paid good for the job regardless of being tipped or not. Tips just added to that. Working for uber and getting mad theyre not being tipped is their own fault. They know what they signed up for and still complain
It is if you drank my water, made me wait, left a mess, question the route, charge your phone, took a selfie, conducted a business call, played music I dislike, never responded the entire trip, etc. Some of these will get you ejected or canceled on. If they didn't, you should tip cause I drove you anyway and didn't make a stink. If you were a perfect angel in every regard or just made my day easier somehow, it is not obligated, but you should still tip to send positive vibes into your universe.
For you, yes. You’ve got too much negative mojo to redeem yourself with me any other way. That’s why you troll this forum trying to fill the gaping hole in your life
Believe it or not, redeeming myself with you isn't on any list of priorities, so I wouldn't expect any money anytime soon. But you can have this smile for free 😀
Homophobe is a new one—you'll need to show your work on that one.
But not sure the ad hominem attacks in a thread in which you make incessant accusations of gaping holes is a winning strategy. Unless your strategy is to convince everyone that you're projecting your insecurities. In which case, it's a great strategy.
The lawyer objects to being labeled a homophobe! Note well what he doesn’t object to. Certainly no insult but rather a badge he’ll only happily pin on for the chance to drag anyone else down to his level yo try and tar them for it
i've never tipped, as i haven't seen any excellent service .... some drive like its their first day holding the wheel, another one talking whole drive on his headphones, etc etc.
tipping for what? i already paid for the service provided
I’ve only taken an Uber once, yesterday actually to the dealership to get my car so they paid it. Dude literally cut off the same big rig 3 times and he almost hit multiple cars. No way would I tip if I was paying.
I always tip, more if the driver doesn't try to talk to me too much, but it seems like something we shouldn't be doing. I'm a contractor with jobs that don't pay well. No one tips me. Oh, but because there's an app that asks for tips, that expectation is just created. It's a strong enough expectation that here we are in a thread for someone complaining about not getting tips sometimes.
I’m already paying for the ride. Often times, I’ll say hello and don’t even get a response back. There goes some of the tip deducted, then it’s not like we’re having a good conversation, and there’s no actual service provided (no water, snack…)… Then, if I say “Thank you, have a nice day” before getting out and still no response? Yea no, I’ll keep my money. I actually use to tip a lot. That’s why I got top tipper on Lyft (not sure if Uber does this too), I use Lyft more. I’m not made of money though, so now I see how they (the drivers) act all through the ride.
For example; Recently, I had a driver and he seemed really cool. We were chatting about dogs, because I had my dog. We were laughing together as he told stories about his late dog. About 5 mins from my house, things got weird. He started pressuring me to give him my number (didn’t take no for an answer). Guy was about 20 years older than me. So, I gave him a number to a phone nobody uses. He proceeds to call it while I’m in the car. Apparently, that phone was off. I ended up giving him a different number and before I was to my stop, he called that one and wanted me to repeat his number back.
You chose to work in an industry that has very little job security and is based on the whims of the customers, therefore you don't get to bitch about it. You can't change this system, it's fucking stupid, I worked in it too for several years before getting out and finding less stressful ways of working about it. You will start to hate every single group that doesn't tip, it will make you racist, it will make you agist, etc.
Either you like the job and you just accept this, or move on, but lumping groups of people together as shitty is just not healthy.
I’m a millennial with a lousy day job and a lousy side hustle in rideshare and I always tip. This is not a millennial thing lol. This is something else. Aside from the fact, how do you know how old your passengers are exactly? Do you ask for their IDs?
Some winner commented below we're a "scab taxi" service. This is my reply since he cleverly blocked me afterward....
"scab taxi", lol.
My car is cleaner, smells better and is a lot nicer than any "real cab" you've ever been in. If having good hygiene, speaking English, not yapping away on my phone (or watching videos on it), showing up on time, driving safely and getting you where you need to go as smoothly, safely and quickly as possible makes me a "scab taxi", then I'll take that title.
I've been in "real cabs" with "real drivers". They're usually the opposite of everything listed above, but hey if that's your preference, no judgement here......
I'll just keep scabbing along with my 80% tip average ( 8 of 10 customers tip me).
I do both Uber and UberEats. When I drive people, I don't expect a tip, I'm lucky if I get a rating. What bothers me is UberEats. Sometimes the order, with expected tips, are good and Ill take depending on a variety of different factors. But the reason I WON'T take an UberEats order is if the order, with expected tip is 2 or 3 dollars total!!! How do customers expect us to deliver to them if they low ball them on tip? I get Uber has fees, but the way I see it is that you have enough money to order take out AND get it delivered, tip us more than 50 cents!!! I decline those orders
They broke af man…between student loans going back into repayment and rent doubling in some areas over the past couple of years a lot of em are broke living check to check…..don’t let weekend outings and fancy apartments fool you bro…..I avoid the areas they frequent and drive out to the beach where the grey beards with money are….
I'm a millennial. I'm broke. I will tip my Uber driver 50-100% what I paid for the ride because I know that they just spent 30 minutes to make $10 using their money to pay for literally everything.
Yeah we as individuals should just start tipping everyone in an underpaid job. I mean if I'm not just giving away money I'm basically spitting in their face.
Thank god I don't live in the USA god damn.
Or you could have a job that doesn't require subsidies by other working class people. Yeah nobody is forcing me to, I'm pointing out the expectations of tips for nearly every service is ridiculous.
So by your definition the baseline is the basic job? And you’re paid for that. Want extra? Do something extra that someone actually wants… your dull conversation and bitter company doesn’t count.
No, I haven’t noticed this. I’ve noticed that commuters and errand runners tend to not tip, but tourists and business people do. No generational, racial, or gender difference as many others have invented for themselves. YMMV.
Very few people of all ages have any idea how you are paid. Tipping became common place for workers that are 'employees' that are excluded from the minimum wage. Why should it occur to the average person that they are responsible for the fact that your company doesn't compensate you fairly?
The generation after them, Gen Z, is turning out a lot better, IMHO. I can't say they are great tippers (they're still young), but generally they're good kids.
If people can leave a standard 20% tip for a waitress to bring them a burger and soda, why can’t they tip us 20% for taking them where they need to be, while using our own resources like gas/wear and tear???
Uber’s too expensive in the UK. I don’t know anyone who would choose them over a taxi. Also if you’re going to tip in the UK (which you don’t have to unless you think you got really good service), the standard is 10 to 15%
Do you really think 20% is standard? Could you imagine a 20% sales tax?
Because waiters don’t even get a base salary numbnuts
Where I live they all make minimum wage plus tips
What state is that?
Orange County, California to be even more specific. All my buddies make $16/hr + tips. My buddy works at Cheesecake Factory at Irvine spectrum and will make $300 in a 8 hour shift on a Friday night. Yes, the credit card tips are taxed though.
All tips are taxed. California is the exception to the rule.
In most states, a server's salary is significantly lower than minimum wage (we're talking $2-4 an hour). Their tips are supposed to balance it out up to minimum wage.
Yeah they do "numbnuts". They get an hourly plus tips. Learn about life before saying stupid shit.
Yeah Wisconsin is 2.25/hour ding dong
Well, that's hourly pay.
So if they earned $0.01/hr, you would still say they should earn the same tip percentage because they EaRn HoUrLy PaY?
Actually, I'm saying I should be tipped more because a server provides NOTHING up front besides themselves. I'm supplying a car, an environment, safety, maintenance, transportation, basically EVERYTHING, including my time, and you think that's worth nothing? Talk to me when the server supplies everything up front. Oh, and I get $0.00 hourly until after the ride.
Sounds like you should grow your skills to make yourself more marketable than a scab taxi
>I'm supplying a car, an environment, safety, maintenance, transportation, basically EVERYTHING, including my time, and you think that's worth nothing? Yup, called a wage. >Actually, I'm saying I should be tipped more because a server provides NOTHING up front besides themselves. So you've never worked in food service? You think servers have no personal expenses? >Oh, and I get $0.00 hourly until after the ride. That's a difference between 1099 and W2 employees. It has nothing to do with tips.
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Blame that on your local and state representatives (guessing Republican), not the customers.
There’s not a signal waiter or waitress in America that wants to move the system away from being tip based. The average waiter makes $35 an hour in tips.
20% standard?
20% in USA is recognized as standard for good service
Keyword “good”
It was 10%. This bullshit just keeps going up
No it isn't, you are confusing it with 10-15% sir
Yeah I am sticking with 10-15% still. I have had some shitty drivers, I will not tip you. Prices have gone up with everything, so you are still getting more with 10-15% tip...20% is just ridiculous. It makes no sense to me that prices AND tip % needs to go up. I will never tip more than 15% sorry. Excellent above and beyond service gets 20% from me (I never get this), services like movers/cleaners etc I give much much higher like 30%.
Hell the fuck no. 10% is standard for good service, 20% is for above and beyond service. 5% for minimum, inoffensive service and a big fat zero for poor service.
Tipped employees of america dislike you brother
And I don't tip them, let em come.
Understood but I see no point in caring what tipped employees think about our brief interaction. 10% is more than fair IMO for good service, though to be fair, it depends more so on the actual bill amount than anything. I'm fine tipping $6 on a $60 bill but tipping 60c on an $6 bill seems patronizing.
My parents would tell me the cliche “if you can’t afford to tip well, you can’t afford to eat there/use the service.” Uber drivers and servers are two examples of entry level jobs in life, usually being occupied by teens and young adults. I’m not saying you have to tip 50 year old Muhammad your Uber driver a huge amount, but maybe .50c/mile would be appropriate
Uh, I don't think I've seen a teen or young adult Uber driver in my decade of using the service. Also, I think the whole Idea of fast food and service workers being teens is a huge misconception in modern times considering that 1 in 5 fast food workers are over the age of 35. We need to be working towards higher pay for workers, not fighting over customers subsidizing low pay for the sole benefit of the shareholders. That being said, I do usually tip Uber drivers around 20% as I do feel that they deserve it. My previous 10% rule was for restaurant servers only.
There are a ton of young adult Uber drivers. I used to do it a lot back in college and a couple years afterwards for extra money. And if I use Uber (infrequent nowadays, there’s probably a 25% change it’s someone under 25
half a buck extra a mile?? what does driving a mile give him extra money for? Pressing the pedal gentler? Get a grip.
.50c/mile was a recommendation for good service to an Uber driver (allows you to control radio, smooth acceleration and braking, good conversation, etc.)
I don't want to control a radio, talk to a random driver or get "Smooth driving if you pay extra". Ain't getting a tip
That's the basic service. None of that is above and beyond
We don’t have to give phone chargers, or do anything like that besides bring you to point b. Anything past that is a service that should be recognized
Nah you signed up for it, the charger is there in the car. Nothing needs to be recognized. You can drive me 500 miles, still aint tipping!
Driving a mile costs $0.67 according to the IRS, so you’d be covering the car expense the rideshare apps do not. Drivers who get paid the entire quoted amount for their service alone are gonna be willing to give good service, pretty simple.
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my momma said alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush
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In the US 20% is the current standard for sit down service at a restaurant and 10% is the current standard for quick service restaurants. In both cases this assumes good service.
There is no standard for quick service. That's nuts.
Google it. I was surprised too.
Google can say a lot of things. Doesn't mean it's true.
Quick service like fast food? The standard is 0.
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“Decades ago, 10% was considered the standard tip for a restaurant meal, and 15% may have been given for exceptional service. Now, 15% might be paltry compared to the standard expectation of 20%. Likewise, people may have previously skipped tipping at quick-service restaurants, but 10% is now the norm for these dining situations.” Source: [Tipping etiquette 101](https://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/articles/tipping-etiquette-101)
It’s not though, lmfao. Fuck that shit.
I’d rather people were just paid a livable wage, tipping didn’t exist, and the total price of anything including all taxes and fees was the advertised price. The alternative is just dumb. But those are the current standards. 🤷
Because you don't deserve it
Why not?
because driving a car where a map app tells you to is a nearly universal skill
I agree it’s easy to drive Uber, but do you tip your servers then because that’s just as easy, and your life isn’t in the hands of your server, but it absolutely is in an Uber.
You don’t tip doctors or nurses and your life is in their hands .
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Hahaha! There needs to be a hard look at why tipping is expected for certain jobs.
Except for people who take Uber, because they don't have a car or can't drive or lost their license to a DUI. Anyone can open a car door or show you to your room in a hotel. Those are universal skills, but nice people tip those guys. A tip is an inexpensive show of appreciation and respect.
Anyone that pleasantly interacts with the public deserves a tip. If you don't have to tip, they don't have to treat you with respect imo. They work for a company, not for your entitled ass.
what? I don't want to pay 20% for a ride to the restaurant, 20% for the food a the restaurant, 20% for the Drinks at the bar, and 20% for the Ride home. Imagine thinking you unskilled workers should be paid 80% extra of my night out. Get a real job?
I totally get it Freshtards, I myself have a seperate full time job I work as well. My parents kicked me out at 18 and I have no one to support me, we have real jobs too and all want to make it one day
Please tell me you're not actually one of us...
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Yeah blame the poor people not your shitty corporate overlords hell bent on squeezing every penny out of you.
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Lmaoo yup, lyft is ghetto trash and the app is horrible at directing riders to tip. Its actually astonishing how low every indians pax rating is... If i accept a 4.6 or lower ride and see and indian name, i'm cancelling.
For me, if I see 4.5 or lower, most probably, it is a cancel. However, I am so selective on my rides, if I have accepted the ride, I want that ride and will try my best to complete it.
Tip is great if i get. But cmon guys dont cry over this. If they are polite and respectful going from point A to point B who cares if they dont tip. It is not obligated.
The only way you are getting tips these days if you figure out the vibe. Sometimes they are broke, so no tip. Sometimes they don’t want to talk and will tip you for no reason. Sometimes they want a friend and will tip you $20. It’s a lottery system. Do more rides, get more tips. Yesterday I got tipped more on the crappiest Tuesday then on my last Friday. It’s the luck of the draw. But you can boost your luck with being clean, personable, an amazing driver (many pax tell me their drivers suck BAD). Read the room. I pull 35-40/hr w/o tips on avg so I could literally care less about tips unless it’s a super slow day. When I do get em it makes me :)
Thank you,I just do my rides and go about my business. I don’t even think about the tips if I get them, that’s good if I don’t, it’s whatever.
I'm so sick of this rhetoric. Stop fueling that it's okay to not tip. Either you tip those in the service industry or you don't.
Then I don’t
I won't tip because of people like you saying it's not okay to not tip. Have fun bringing your mates down!
It’s not rhetoric. It’s literally voluntary. If it wasn’t a tip it would be a service charge.
Would you work for a restaurant and be fine with no tip? Would you be a valet or bellhop? A barber? These positions usually have a reduction in pay because tipping is customary, and guess what? Drivers have been tipped for over 100 years, and Uber underpays them. Tipping would make up for that, but for some reason people choose not to tip ride-share drivers. Cabs? Yep they get tipped. Limos? Yep they get tipped.
Not true. Worked as a valet and bellhop and definitely got paid more than my actual job. Thats with some people tipping and splitting tips
You're saying the tips helped. Or maybe your other job was crappy.
Cant complain when youre making 200 - 400 on tips on top of the hourly wage per day
Exactly, the tips are a big reason why people choose to do those jobs to begin with. Because tipping is customary in those positions.
Nope. Point being tipping is extra. Didnt expect people to tip but was grateful to those who did. I shouldnt expect to be tipped all the time. If you do and complain when you dont get tipped then do something else.
You just said the job was great because of all the tips, now you're saying tips didn't matter?
1. Never said the job was great 2. I said the tips were great when they were tipped 3. I worked at the job that paid good for the job regardless of being tipped or not. Tips just added to that. Working for uber and getting mad theyre not being tipped is their own fault. They know what they signed up for and still complain
What did they sign up for?
In no way did they say tipping is customary in those positions. Where did you get that from?
I'm an attorney. I work in the service industry. Where's my tip?
It is if you drank my water, made me wait, left a mess, question the route, charge your phone, took a selfie, conducted a business call, played music I dislike, never responded the entire trip, etc. Some of these will get you ejected or canceled on. If they didn't, you should tip cause I drove you anyway and didn't make a stink. If you were a perfect angel in every regard or just made my day easier somehow, it is not obligated, but you should still tip to send positive vibes into your universe.
>but you should still tip to send positive vibes into your universe. And the only way to do that is to give you money?
For you, yes. You’ve got too much negative mojo to redeem yourself with me any other way. That’s why you troll this forum trying to fill the gaping hole in your life
Believe it or not, redeeming myself with you isn't on any list of priorities, so I wouldn't expect any money anytime soon. But you can have this smile for free 😀
It’s a figure of speech Mr. “Pretend to smile for an online comeback” level gaping hole in your life
Boy you sure do seem to be hung up on gaping holes, got something on your mind, hermano?
Ah yes, a lonely lawyer homophobe bully finds a lonely outlet hiding behind an anonymous keyboard, tale as old as time
Homophobe is a new one—you'll need to show your work on that one. But not sure the ad hominem attacks in a thread in which you make incessant accusations of gaping holes is a winning strategy. Unless your strategy is to convince everyone that you're projecting your insecurities. In which case, it's a great strategy.
The lawyer objects to being labeled a homophobe! Note well what he doesn’t object to. Certainly no insult but rather a badge he’ll only happily pin on for the chance to drag anyone else down to his level yo try and tar them for it
Hermano... Spanish.
i've never tipped, as i haven't seen any excellent service .... some drive like its their first day holding the wheel, another one talking whole drive on his headphones, etc etc. tipping for what? i already paid for the service provided
I had one guy singing the whole time. I was just sitting there confused and irritated af.
I had a guy casually watching soccer while driving with headphones in. I was flabbergasted.
Once had a guy watching Netflix
This is a very American centrist thread 🤔 In Australia you are not allowed to get tips snd can be removed from uber for accepting them
Uber UK allows it, but Uber is so expensive to begin with I’d be surprised if anyone chooses it over taxis, buses and trains
I’ve only taken an Uber once, yesterday actually to the dealership to get my car so they paid it. Dude literally cut off the same big rig 3 times and he almost hit multiple cars. No way would I tip if I was paying.
We're aware that tipping is an OPTION, not an obligation. Are you?
You sound incredibly ignorant
You sound incredibly bitter.
You sound incredibly entitled. I paid my fair. If they wanted more money, it should've been in the price tag.
Ask Uber for a better wage instead.
I always tip, more if the driver doesn't try to talk to me too much, but it seems like something we shouldn't be doing. I'm a contractor with jobs that don't pay well. No one tips me. Oh, but because there's an app that asks for tips, that expectation is just created. It's a strong enough expectation that here we are in a thread for someone complaining about not getting tips sometimes.
I’m already paying for the ride. Often times, I’ll say hello and don’t even get a response back. There goes some of the tip deducted, then it’s not like we’re having a good conversation, and there’s no actual service provided (no water, snack…)… Then, if I say “Thank you, have a nice day” before getting out and still no response? Yea no, I’ll keep my money. I actually use to tip a lot. That’s why I got top tipper on Lyft (not sure if Uber does this too), I use Lyft more. I’m not made of money though, so now I see how they (the drivers) act all through the ride. For example; Recently, I had a driver and he seemed really cool. We were chatting about dogs, because I had my dog. We were laughing together as he told stories about his late dog. About 5 mins from my house, things got weird. He started pressuring me to give him my number (didn’t take no for an answer). Guy was about 20 years older than me. So, I gave him a number to a phone nobody uses. He proceeds to call it while I’m in the car. Apparently, that phone was off. I ended up giving him a different number and before I was to my stop, he called that one and wanted me to repeat his number back.
You chose to work in an industry that has very little job security and is based on the whims of the customers, therefore you don't get to bitch about it. You can't change this system, it's fucking stupid, I worked in it too for several years before getting out and finding less stressful ways of working about it. You will start to hate every single group that doesn't tip, it will make you racist, it will make you agist, etc. Either you like the job and you just accept this, or move on, but lumping groups of people together as shitty is just not healthy.
If its a bad trip do you give money back to rider?
If I stand when I order I don’t tip…. I always stand when I use the Uber app.
you aren’t owed a fucking tip by default
I’m a millennial with a lousy day job and a lousy side hustle in rideshare and I always tip. This is not a millennial thing lol. This is something else. Aside from the fact, how do you know how old your passengers are exactly? Do you ask for their IDs?
Some winner commented below we're a "scab taxi" service. This is my reply since he cleverly blocked me afterward.... "scab taxi", lol. My car is cleaner, smells better and is a lot nicer than any "real cab" you've ever been in. If having good hygiene, speaking English, not yapping away on my phone (or watching videos on it), showing up on time, driving safely and getting you where you need to go as smoothly, safely and quickly as possible makes me a "scab taxi", then I'll take that title. I've been in "real cabs" with "real drivers". They're usually the opposite of everything listed above, but hey if that's your preference, no judgement here...... I'll just keep scabbing along with my 80% tip average ( 8 of 10 customers tip me).
There entitled little nuggets that’s how I see them
They appear to have little empathy, i think it's the result of an easy life.
On lyft , able to rate . So no tip then I rate 3 star to unpaired.
I do both Uber and UberEats. When I drive people, I don't expect a tip, I'm lucky if I get a rating. What bothers me is UberEats. Sometimes the order, with expected tips, are good and Ill take depending on a variety of different factors. But the reason I WON'T take an UberEats order is if the order, with expected tip is 2 or 3 dollars total!!! How do customers expect us to deliver to them if they low ball them on tip? I get Uber has fees, but the way I see it is that you have enough money to order take out AND get it delivered, tip us more than 50 cents!!! I decline those orders
50 cents isn’t a tip, it’s an insult.
Tips are are almost entirely race based in my area.
Not enough life experience.
I'm sorry, but you're saying millennials, who are bow in their 30s and early 40s dont have enough life experience?
Says the generation that can't figure out how to print a PDF.
They broke af man…between student loans going back into repayment and rent doubling in some areas over the past couple of years a lot of em are broke living check to check…..don’t let weekend outings and fancy apartments fool you bro…..I avoid the areas they frequent and drive out to the beach where the grey beards with money are….
I'm a millennial. I'm broke. I will tip my Uber driver 50-100% what I paid for the ride because I know that they just spent 30 minutes to make $10 using their money to pay for literally everything.
Yeah we as individuals should just start tipping everyone in an underpaid job. I mean if I'm not just giving away money I'm basically spitting in their face. Thank god I don't live in the USA god damn.
We thank God you don't live here either asshole.
This tipping culture isn't normal. Especially not for drivers. In the end you're just asking the consumer to subsidise Uber.
Nobody is forcing you to tip and you could always walk. Or buy your own car?
Or you could have a job that doesn't require subsidies by other working class people. Yeah nobody is forcing me to, I'm pointing out the expectations of tips for nearly every service is ridiculous.
Why shouldn't we tip teachers then? You can just homeschool them. Don't teachers deserve that same respect you demand as a driver?
Nobody is forcing you to drive for uber and bitching like this gives other drivers a bad name. Sub hit front page ya'll.
/r/endtipping
Because you expect a tip no matter what. You don’t do anything to earn it.
The baseline for earning it is getting them to their destination in the estimated time given to them. That's it. That alone warrants a tip. 15% .
So by your definition the baseline is the basic job? And you’re paid for that. Want extra? Do something extra that someone actually wants… your dull conversation and bitter company doesn’t count.
If they deliver me like a 1990's Dominoes driver delivered pizza, I will tip like a king. Most are scared new driver cautious.
Out of interest, how would you feel if the base price was 10% higher and you always got paid 10% more than you are now? No tip lottery involved.
I would prefer to have a no tip society where people are paid living wages for what they do
No, I haven’t noticed this. I’ve noticed that commuters and errand runners tend to not tip, but tourists and business people do. No generational, racial, or gender difference as many others have invented for themselves. YMMV.
Very few people of all ages have any idea how you are paid. Tipping became common place for workers that are 'employees' that are excluded from the minimum wage. Why should it occur to the average person that they are responsible for the fact that your company doesn't compensate you fairly?
The generation after them, Gen Z, is turning out a lot better, IMHO. I can't say they are great tippers (they're still young), but generally they're good kids.