Well, I was headed to Orange County, but as I was driving through Diamond Bar, I got a ping so I stopped. Picked up this dude (weirdo) who got in the front seat with me, and then proceeded to complain about his previous Uber driver who 'abandoned him' at Carl's Jr. To make matters worse, he tells me he lives with his mother, and she has autism, and he takes care of her. Then he keeps complaining (again) about the Uber driver, calling him an "asshole" and then tells me he was "freezing his balls off" while waiting for the Uber driver who abandoned him. So I pull up to his mother's house and end the trip and he sits there looking at me. I get another ping, so I accept it, and tell him "I have to go now" and he's staring at me (checking me out, eww). So he shakes my hand and gets out. I then proceed to get my hand sanitizer out and clean my hands, then off to my next pickup, which was also in Diamond Bar.
This pick up lands me smack dab in the middle of downtown LA (YUCK). I hate driving in downtown LA, but away I go. I drop off my passengers, and then proceed to get tons of pings, all from cheap-asses who are "POOL" - but guess what? I don't know what's going on, but I'm not seeing "POOL" on the pings anymore. I don't know it's POOL until AFTER I get to the pax pick up location! Is Uber doing something sneaky now? So I take this cheapstake to her destination, and I get a whopping $2.62 out of all that - wow. So the next ping I get, I take it and again, come to find out it's another POOL once I get to the destination! So I canceled it before the rider came to the car and selected "do not charge rider." I do NOT want POOLS. They are cheap and a waste of my time.
I then pick up three pax from a fancy restaurant in LA, and pull up in front. I see the valet guy coming over to me, so I roll down the window and tell him "I'm picking someone up" - I didn't tell him I was Uber, and I don't have the stickers on the window either, so they don't know. He proceeds to tell me to "drive around to the side of the building" - so I don't move - and the dude is giving me dirty looks, and then the pax comes up to my window and says: "Are you Ubergrlzzz?" I said "Yes, hurry up and get in, that guy wants me to move!" So the three of them get in and weren't friendly. Maybe they didn't appreciate my curt "hurry up and get in" but pax don't understand how hard it can be for an Uber driver to navigate through downtown LA. We can't just stop anywhere. Geez.
So then, tonight I had three "no-shows". I always wait the customary 5 min., then hit cancel and "rider no-show" so I can collect the $3.75 fee. Well, tonight, my no-shows are not showing up on my trip history, and the $3.75 no show fee isn't showing up either. I sent a message to Uber, let's see if they fix it.
And worst of all... no tips tonight, and I completed 12. Even took a guy to LAX. No tip! I'd like to know why people go out to eat at a fancy restaurant, order drinks in a bar, etc., you know they're spending $$ and tipping the server and bartender, but they can't afford a few bucks for their driver? It's such crap. I'm tired of cheap people.
This pick up lands me smack dab in the middle of downtown LA (YUCK). I hate driving in downtown LA, but away I go. I drop off my passengers, and then proceed to get tons of pings, all from cheap-asses who are "POOL" - but guess what? I don't know what's going on, but I'm not seeing "POOL" on the pings anymore. I don't know it's POOL until AFTER I get to the pax pick up location! Is Uber doing something sneaky now? So I take this cheapstake to her destination, and I get a whopping $2.62 out of all that - wow. So the next ping I get, I take it and again, come to find out it's another POOL once I get to the destination! So I canceled it before the rider came to the car and selected "do not charge rider." I do NOT want POOLS. They are cheap and a waste of my time.
I then pick up three pax from a fancy restaurant in LA, and pull up in front. I see the valet guy coming over to me, so I roll down the window and tell him "I'm picking someone up" - I didn't tell him I was Uber, and I don't have the stickers on the window either, so they don't know. He proceeds to tell me to "drive around to the side of the building" - so I don't move - and the dude is giving me dirty looks, and then the pax comes up to my window and says: "Are you Ubergrlzzz?" I said "Yes, hurry up and get in, that guy wants me to move!" So the three of them get in and weren't friendly. Maybe they didn't appreciate my curt "hurry up and get in" but pax don't understand how hard it can be for an Uber driver to navigate through downtown LA. We can't just stop anywhere. Geez.
So then, tonight I had three "no-shows". I always wait the customary 5 min., then hit cancel and "rider no-show" so I can collect the $3.75 fee. Well, tonight, my no-shows are not showing up on my trip history, and the $3.75 no show fee isn't showing up either. I sent a message to Uber, let's see if they fix it.
And worst of all... no tips tonight, and I completed 12. Even took a guy to LAX. No tip! I'd like to know why people go out to eat at a fancy restaurant, order drinks in a bar, etc., you know they're spending $$ and tipping the server and bartender, but they can't afford a few bucks for their driver? It's such crap. I'm tired of cheap people.