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Re: Tipping
« Reply #375 on: February 10, 2016, 08:04:02 AM »
5.0 but limited sample size

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Re: Tipping
« Reply #376 on: February 10, 2016, 08:07:20 AM »
good grief i just remembered one time where i was out of town without a rental car (columbia sc after the flooding) so i uber'd to my work destination in the morning, and the driver offered to pick me up in a few hours when i was done, so he did, and i didnt tip him.  :frown:

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Re: Tipping
« Reply #377 on: February 10, 2016, 08:09:03 AM »
I think i'm at a 4.7 because one time I called for one to pick me up from 'Clams (PAK'd), MS. Wacky called me and told me she'd pick me up instead and I never answered the Uber's phone call. They still charged me $5 anyway. I should have got 5 star'd for the free tip.

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Re: Tipping
« Reply #378 on: February 10, 2016, 08:11:40 AM »
Uber is an example of a company that treats its workers like crap. The ambiguous stance they take on tipping isn't good for anyone but uber shareholders. It's worse than lyft by far.
One of their drivers picked my dad and I up downtown to go to the Chiefs game at the end of the year. My dad is new to uber and he has boy like wonder with it, so he talks the drivers ears off all the time. Anyways, on this ride, we had a former taxi driver and all he was doing was cussing up a storm about how much uber has ruined the game and how much he's losing $ for his family.  :frown:

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Re: Tipping
« Reply #379 on: February 10, 2016, 08:12:13 AM »
I think i'm at a 4.7 because one time I called for one to pick me up from 'Clams (PAK'd), MS. Wacky called me and told me she'd pick me up instead and I never answered the Uber's phone call. They still charged me $5 anyway. I should have got 5 star'd for the free tip.

maybe you did, but you just suck on your other rides?  :Wha:

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Re: Tipping
« Reply #380 on: February 10, 2016, 08:13:11 AM »
I think i'm at a 4.7 because one time I called for one to pick me up from 'Clams (PAK'd), MS. Wacky called me and told me she'd pick me up instead and I never answered the Uber's phone call. They still charged me $5 anyway. I should have got 5 star'd for the free tip.

maybe you did, but you just suck on your other rides?  :Wha:
Highly doubtful.  :gocho:

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Re: Tipping
« Reply #381 on: February 10, 2016, 08:15:06 AM »
FTR, some of the worst uber drivers alive, migrate to Memphis, TN. The worst!

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Re: Tipping
« Reply #382 on: February 10, 2016, 08:34:31 AM »
FTR, some of the worst uber drivers alive, migrate to Memphis, TN. The worst!

I took two ubers when i was there for the bowl game. One of them was an off duty cop who was trying to make some extra cash. When we were about 3 blocks from our destination we ran into a railroad crossing*, but he knew some crazy detour route that got us around the train and saved us from waiting for about 15 minutes. He also told us some crazy stories about a few of his crime busts. Looking back, if I was ever going to tip an uber driver it would've been him.

*Still can't believe that a city the size of Memphis has railroad crossings in the middle of it. I thought that sort of thing only happened in towns like Marysville.


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Re: Tipping
« Reply #383 on: February 10, 2016, 08:35:27 AM »
A perfect 5.0 on 5 trips :gocho:

Minimum 25 trios to brag on rating. It's a rule.

That's why I was sure to mention that it was only 5 trips  :)

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Re: Tipping
« Reply #384 on: February 10, 2016, 08:40:18 AM »
FTR, some of the worst uber drivers alive, migrate to Memphis, TN. The worst!

I took two ubers when i was there for the bowl game. One of them was an off duty cop who was trying to make some extra cash. When we were about 3 blocks from our destination we ran into a railroad crossing*, but he knew some crazy detour route that got us around the train and saved us from waiting for about 15 minutes. He also told us some crazy stories about a few of his crime busts. Looking back, if I was ever going to tip an uber driver it would've been him.

*Still can't believe that a city the size of Memphis has railroad crossings in the middle of it. I thought that sort of thing only happened in towns like Marysville.

Even Marysville doesn't have that problem anymore.

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Re: Tipping
« Reply #385 on: February 10, 2016, 08:43:10 AM »
One of my ubers in Memphis was driving an old limo around, which was kinda cool. My other three drivers almost killed my whole family tho.  :frown:

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Re: Tipping
« Reply #386 on: February 10, 2016, 08:57:41 AM »
A perfect 5.0 on 5 trips :gocho:

11 trips!  :cheers:

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Re: Tipping
« Reply #387 on: February 10, 2016, 09:50:53 AM »
I had a trip canceled on me and contacted uber to bitch about it because I maintain it was the driver's fault for not finding us and I got a $5 credit to somewhat make up for the $5 canceled trip charge I got.  I wonder it the trip cancel'r was able to rate.

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Re: Tipping
« Reply #388 on: February 10, 2016, 09:53:26 AM »
I gave one dude the lowest possible rating because he smelled like BO and pot and he had been driving for nearly 24 hours straight. 

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Re: Tipping
« Reply #389 on: February 10, 2016, 09:55:25 AM »
I have 0 trips  :frown:
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Re: Tipping
« Reply #390 on: February 10, 2016, 11:49:15 AM »

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Re: Tipping
« Reply #391 on: February 10, 2016, 12:22:15 PM »
I have 5 stars from the X amount I took in Vegas :gocho:

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Re: Tipping
« Reply #392 on: February 10, 2016, 12:34:24 PM »
I take uber a lot and I'm at 4.8.  Surprisingly high given the amount of times I've fallen asleep in the car.


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Re: Tipping
« Reply #393 on: February 10, 2016, 12:42:29 PM »
was very happy to receive the paltry tips that I did working as a server at Sonic.

car hops make minimum wage tho right, not server wage?

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Re: Tipping
« Reply #394 on: February 10, 2016, 12:45:35 PM »
4.7 is pretty good for stumbling out of 'Clams place every other weekend.  :eye:

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Re: Tipping
« Reply #395 on: February 10, 2016, 12:51:03 PM »
I always thought one of the perks of working for tips was that you didn't have to claim that money on your taxes. Maybe some of it, but definitely not all of it. So if you think about it the recipients of the tips are the ones who are being immoral AND unethical.

You have to report all of your tips on your taxes.  They make up part of your taxable income.  Also you have to pay social security and medicare taxes on it.

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Yeah, ok...

they have really cracked down on it.   Restaurants must ensure that tips reported meet at least 8% of gross receipts.    Employees must report similarly, but the IRS knows that they are underreported so they aren't going to settle for only 8%.  If they don't they can pay big penalties.

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Re: Tipping
« Reply #396 on: February 10, 2016, 01:04:48 PM »
5.0 on 13 trips  :gocho:

I'd say i tip a little more than half the time, highly correlated to how pak'd i am.  The one exception i can think of, is when i took an uber to and from lodo Dever on a Saturday night that i had no interest in messing with traffic with FreundinSonntag.  On the way back, while paked, I had to sit through half an hour of our driver being lost and telling me how much better Lyft was than Uber.   Even after telling her i'd heard of Lyft, but we were from out of town and they don't operate in Wichita, she still gave me the whole schtick.  Now, normally a sales pitch wouldn't bother me but in this case, she didn't as much talk up Lyft as talk down Uber.  She went on to tell us about every case of abuse (rapes, muggins, etc) involving an Uber driver in recent Denver history.  Now, as i mentioned the girlfriend was in the car with me, and she is super untrusting of Uber being a safe way to get around.  It took me months of pleading to get her to agree to using Uber to get around and in one night this oblivious Denverite had undone all of that work.  No tip, zero stars, reported the driver to uber for her unprofessional and discourteous manner.
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Re: Tipping
« Reply #397 on: February 10, 2016, 01:13:10 PM »
I always thought one of the perks of working for tips was that you didn't have to claim that money on your taxes. Maybe some of it, but definitely not all of it. So if you think about it the recipients of the tips are the ones who are being immoral AND unethical.

You have to report all of your tips on your taxes.  They make up part of your taxable income.  Also you have to pay social security and medicare taxes on it.

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Yeah, ok...

they have really cracked down on it.   Restaurants must ensure that tips reported meet at least 8% of gross receipts.    Employees must report similarly, but the IRS knows that they are underreported so they aren't going to settle for only 8%.  If they don't they can pay big penalties.

I was never a server, but many of my friends that were said that they would claim the tips they received on credit cards since that was trackable, but they would not report the cash.

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Re: Tipping
« Reply #398 on: February 10, 2016, 01:18:40 PM »
i have a very hard time believing that the IRS is tracking down people for underreporting tips received while waiting tables somewhere

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Re: Tipping
« Reply #399 on: February 10, 2016, 03:30:28 PM »
5.0 on exactly 25 trips (usually always tip $1, no matter the trip).