If Rideshare Apps Were Honest - Honest Ads (Uber, Lyft Parody)
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- If Rideshare Apps Were Honest, here's what they'd say.
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Roger Horton: Jack Hunter
Passenger: Michael Strauss
Director: Michael Strauss
Director of Photography: Rob Menzer
Producer: Michael Strauss
Writer: Jennry Arimato
Editor: Gabrielle Williott
Colorist: Rob Menzer
Sound: Maxwell DiPaolo
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If Rideshare App Commercials Were Honest (Uber, Lyft spoof)
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As someone who has driven for these companies on the side since the early days, I'm impressed on informed you are about how despicable they truly are. You only left out the part that's happening recently where they are jacking up the fares for passengers but paying drivers even less and hiding the total charge, to the point that in some cases the drivers are only getting 25% of the fare while shouldering the entire cost of the vehicle!
Yep. They’re finally turning a profit, so I doubt they’ll stop anytime soon
So terrible and more drivers should strike
@@michaelsargent9490Unless legislation is enacted, you will ran out of companies that aren't sh*tty to work with, because they are going to be ran out of bussiness by said sh*tty companies (disloyal competition).
This is because, up until recently, your income was subsidized by investors who didn't require that the business turn a profit. Now that profitability is required to continue to operate, there is less money to go around.
@@michaelsargent9490 True, but to be fair, unemployed people are told constantly to stop being so picky and that if they really wanted to work then they'd be willing to accept anything. Then people that were willing to accept anything are told constantly that if they really find their working conditions so exploitative then they shouldn't have taken the job.
Okay but I love that Roger got two stars back for “silence” 😭 - An Uber Customer With Social Anxiety
1:50 I love hove he drives backwards a few xD
@@RonaldRegainlol Ty for pointing that out
He got 1!!
I would say hi and throw out a few feeler lines to see if people would rather talk or just play on their phones. Gotta read the room
Social anxiety just means you’re a little bitch who cannot handle the meat sack they live in. No one finds it endearing, we all find it laughable as we carry on with our mundane lives surrounded by people. You are the only reason you have anxiety. It’s literally your brain telling you not to. It’s not based on a rational thought.
Great stuff. There are several YT videos from former drivers who, after itemizing the costs, realized there were breaking even at best, or often just plain losing. The difference can be made up for with a large tip, but that doesn't happen often.
Doesn't surprise me. Regular taxis aren't any better, either. My dad drove cab for most of his life, and he had many days where he only broke even or earned next to nothing for an 8 hour shift. Granted, on good days he could pull in a ton of money, especially if there was an event in town.
One of the reasons I would never drive for one of the companies. The gas, insurance, wear and tear, etc. The costs would have to eat up most of the income.
Love that Lyft ran an ad after this video. Little do they know.
Another brilliantly incisive and honest explanation of how an industry works. Thankfully, I've never had to user Uber or Lyft, and I doubt that I ever will as long as I can get to my destinations by myself.
Except he missed the point that the drivers pay normally doesn't cover the cost of gas and maintenance that they spend to do the job.
Smug commenter has nothing to say and is proud of it.
Well Uber and Lyft are trying to get into the public transit business hopefully that will be shut down before it happens because they will only ruin public transit!
Pretty much the only places I use rideshares are when the taxis are sketchy, the public transit is inadequate, and I didn't rent a car.
Also there's a growing trend of actual taxis getting integrated with convenient rideshare-like apps, like Blue Bird in Indonesia and Careem in Dubai.
Things are different where I'm from.
Rideshare proliferated because people were getting sick of being screwed by taxi drivers, who were rarely kept in-check by government regulations. They held the monopoly on private vehicle services, so there wasn't much we could do, until we got Rideshare services, who ironically had more balances to keep them in-check.
Taxis still exist, and are mostly still as bad pre-Uber era.
The opposite direction movement in the window... I had to re-watch the whole video to check if I was drunk or intoxicated or IDK what :D Love the video tho.
Hey Roger, you got one star for not wearing your seatbelt 😂!
I've gotten lucky in having a 2015 Ford Fusion paid off for a long time and up to 196,000 miles with very little non-wear parts repairs in the past 80,000 miles since I started (under $1,500 for sure). At this point, there is basically no depreciation on the car anymore. I only drive Friday and Saturday nights here and there, so it's usually good money. Most drunks here in Wisconsin hold their liquor pretty well. They are either talkative but nice, or just want to zone out. One thing you need to do is do your taxes carefully. I know one driver complained because his deductions were under his standard deduction and couldn't take them. Well, you have to be sure to do business (Schedule C) taxes and then you can do your deductions off of business income. Then the income added to your regular income is much, much lower and your taxes are therefore less. You had better know what you are doing, or you'll get slammed if you don't do your deductions right.
I love it as a part time gig, but could never do it full time. Generally, if I'm doing $1.00 / mile I'm happy. Which I usually do over the weekend, and I can do about $500 a weekend on 400-450 miles. Sometimes more, I did $700 the other weekend (with higher miles of course).
Never die Roger. You are immortal
Ahhh Rog-King. You may be speaking the truth, but I only use them when I'm traveling for business and my employer is picking up the bill. I give a good tip, my soul is only slightly singed, and everyone is happy with the ride.
@ 1:53 the car is driving in reverse 😂
My uber driver is amazing, he was able to use google maps for navigation, write text messages and be in a call with some1 all on the same phone while driving me to my destination!
First time I'm seeing Rog suffering in in these skits i always thought was an untouchable troll. He's such a great actor he can make it seem like he's the cause of these problems in these parodies.
Love the backwards driving at 1:52 :D
What upset me about taxis is when I need a cab to be at my place at 8 am the following morning, they never showed. Come to find out my request goes IN a 8 am, not ahead of time to be on time.
this is the fastest way to go broke and destroy your car at the same time.
Been driving uber 6 years, overall happy with it. Quit my corporage job, like the flexibility. California rates are higher then other states so I can make over $2k a week still even with the lack of surges and promotions. Don't get me wrong, tons of shitty passengers..but also plenty of good ones, just like any service job. I only work the day shift now, since I don't like dealing with drunks. Car maintanence cost is high...but even so, I still like being my own boss and not answering to anyone.
Gerontocracy is pretty much the right word for all that is wrong in the US right now. Good thing we have youngs like lauren boebett and MTG to save us! 🤦😂😂
Always a good day when a new honest ads with tiger is uploaded 🍻
First of all give medals to everyone that had the idea to make this video right after the job hunting one, there could be no better segway.
And now in some countries there's even the choice of going on a motorcycle. Save a few bucks on a trip only to spend them on the hospital or the morgue after you inevitably fall off the bike of an untrained stranger. That and the low fares that can hardly amount to a living wage mandated that the drivers must cut corners like the AC even on days were the sun can literally burn your skin.
And last but not least: Seriously be kind to your drivers. They are hating every single second of the trip ten times more than you, no one drives a car for 12 hours a day every day because they want to or like to. And yes that come from personal experience... I worked even has a real state salesman and driving as an app driver was the most miserable experience of my life.
If you haven't already been an honest ad for short-term homestay apps, would be great. Why enjoy things like room service and house keeping when you can pay basically the same to feel like the squatters in the movie Parasite?
Local governments gouged taxi companies, making them pay high fees to pick people up at the train stations, the parks, etc, and then ride-share, came in without playing by the same rules. And vetted the taxi drivers, with background and fingerprinting, and ride share is not playing by the same rules. I've used ride-share. So, it's the new normal. But some things need to change.
I have never used one of these scab companies. I have occasionally used taxis just because they have standards, but if I need a ride, public transport here in Stockholm is dependable, reasonably fast and cheap (the later two especially when taking the hassle of parking into account).
1:52 He's going in reverse
The Machines are winning! Yay?
Added: still waiting for a Billionaire Space Dildo video.
I ran the numbers on how much I’d make in LA driving for Uber. My car is a high performance luxury car. The wear items are expensive (brakes, tires, etc) and the fuel economy is poor. And then the depreciation on the car’s value would be more than I earned! It seemed to only make sense if I used an old Prius - but then I’d be driving an old Prius around in LA traffic for 8 hours a day, with strangers in the car, and that’s pretty much my definition of actual hell.
Uber Eats is better in that you don’t drive drive with strangers, but you still gotta deal with tyem, and your car’s gonna smell like all the food. And you still need an old Prius to drive to make the numbers work.
One day when the average person can't afford a car of their own they'll have to rely on driverless ubers. I hope you don't have any outstanding warrants or tickets when you request a ride because you'll end up with a ride straight to the cops.
@@AvaAdore-wx5gg no they don’t wear down naturally, I grew up raising race horses and boarding horses, you need to have a ferrier come out to care for their hooves with or without horseshoes, nothing smells worse than horse hooves getting filed down
The Car is going backwards in some scenes xD greenscreen editor missed some shot transitions
The government on my country demanded that ride share bussines operate under the same regulations than cab companies, Uber closed thier offices on the country...and still operates as if nothing has happened.
On top of it, we drivers take care of our vehicles better most of us do because we pretty much live in those things. My minivan has a TV and everything in there. Trust me tips are awesome.
1:52
Why is he driving in reverse?
Being neck deep in a bottle of Vodka, thank you Mr. Rodgers 👍👍
I absolutely love this!
Body you say?
Can you pick up that sack of body?
Drop it off at destination
As a Lyft driver myself at least I get to pick and choose the rides I want and I make more money than most people do it from the 9 to 5 or 10 to 5 in the morning morning or whatever hours they work to work two or three jobs where I pulled more money amount of week, and I know how to keep my tax money too
You screwed up the ending, you should of said : "and the most expensive depreciating asset you own"
Um, has no one seen that the background sometimes goes backward?
I got an Uber advertisement at the end of the video
I've had a fair share of psycho drivers from Uber, so the 'no vetting of drivers' quip was spot on. I always give five stars even to the flakey drivers and a decent tips. Here in DC I think Lyft is slightly better than Uber (also slightly more expensive).
do one of delivery drivers like doordash
As a driver, I'd kick out someone who told me to shut up. It's your car. You don't have to put up with that. There's plenty of other riders waiting for a driver.
So true
A car is not an asset. It depreciates, not appreciates
Thank you
In Bolivia, there are the syndicate of federated transporting people, and the syndicate of free transporting people. USA need that because is like Uber, but the owners are the drivers (and this is why here Uber and other nasty wannabe taxi app struggle to even survive).
Oh hell yeah. I hope Airbnb is in the queue.
I love ride sharing apps and Airbnb both! More options for consumers is always a win.
The heart means it's probably coming :p
I thought they did that one already, but am too lazy to go look.
@@Dubmaster3 Yeah, I searched for it before I posted. They've done hotels as well as landlords recently, but Airbnb brings them and "tech" all together in a uniquely terrible way.
@@itsoktobehappy461as long as you don't need to buy or rent a house in a tourist hotspot that has become 90% occupied by buy to let Airbnb wankers
And remember, your ride-share driver's auto insurance may not pay you for injuries in an accident, because the driver's insurance doesn't cover business use.
Actually, this is no longer an issue... At least in some states maybe.
In Oregon, ride share companies are required by law to give drivers full coverage insurance while they have a pasaabger. Insurance that covers injuries to the passagers of your and other people's cars.
As well as damage to said cars of course.
It doesn't matter what personal insurance the driver has.
However, if you get in an accident the ride share company will 100% try to screw you over on damages to yours or other cars and try not to pay for it. Which is when yah, your personal insurance comes into play..
@@OgdenMDepending on the state and insurance. Sometimes other insurance just doesn't kick in at all. In general, it sounds really messy and just not worth it for either the driver or passenger. I'm honestly not sure what the appeal is. It's basically a shitty cab service with extra steps so they don't have to be held responsible by anyone.
You have to buy the TNC endorsement in order to be covered by your insurance company.
Usually you pay for a rider on your policy to cover rideshare work
@richardarriaga6271 that's why you need to buy the TNC endorsement otherwise, your insurance will refuse to cover anything. I have firsthand experience from an accident I had a couple of years ago. The rules may also vary from state to state.
90s kids were told never to talk to strangers, never talk to strangers on the internet, and never get into strangers cars. Nowadays, all three are happening.
Well, to be fair, with the increasingly estranged relationships people have with their neighbors and the other people we encounter regularly in our lives, if we never talked to strangers, we'd basically never talk to ANYONE.
If you get into a taxi then you are also getting into a "stanger's car".
that's why I'm not talking to you... DOH!
90s kids were told a lot of stupid shit, and "don't talk to strangers" wasn't even the worst of it.
@@Disgruntled_Grunt Considering that nearly all kidnappings and child related crimes involve someone the child already knows, including their parents, maybe they should now be saying "Don't talk to people you KNOW, either."
"The American gerantocracy can't understand let alone regulate us..."
As an American that line hit me hard...
As a german, this line hits not close but directly at home.
As it an American it flew over my head tbh
I never buy excuses like that. The problem was said right before it; they spend millions to “lobby” when really they’re just paying some motivated politicians and people with influence off to make sure new regulations aren’t passed and old ones aren’t enforced. It’s a cop out to say they don’t understand. They understand perfectly well: money talks
Every country has a government filled with old farts, including Brazil
Come to Brazil!
Another American. I think I got.
I love how Roger absolutely fits whatever role he's playing
Umm... it's the same role every time.
but he's so versatile! The most versatile actor I've seen!@@misteral9045
I'm so stealing "you snail fsxking phigget" 🤣
@@misteral9045Have you considered trying oxygen?
@@MadScientist267 Jesus Christ I hate sycophantic children.
As a current Uber driver, this is 1000% correct.
@@michaelsargent9490 Are you a one trick pony or what? King of copy and paste. 🤣
Then why do you still do it?
@sebd8425 until someone calls for a better position I applied for, it's all I have
@@tigerjackson8328 Got it. I hope you find something better soon.
I used to be a Lyft driver. I approve as well lol
I tried driving for Uber for a few months. Hated it. Got tired of facilitating drug deals
Shiiiiiiiiiiiiit
i got tired of people barfing in the backseat and screaming in drunk at me
@@coffeebux never had a puker, but I had some close calls. Had to pull over, stop at Circle K, etc. Also had annoying hipsters who would argue with me, make my car smell like weed, then give me one star
How do know you where facilitating drug deals?
@@Hardin9 it was pretty obvious. They would have me take them to gas stations, and wait while they went behind it for a couple minutes
Forgot to mention that you run your vehicle into the ground with all the wear and tear
He alludes to it in the last few seconds when he says 'come give us your most valuable asset.'
absolutely
@@N1withaskilletpretty sure a car isn't an asset. But our time is😅
@@M-qw9ru considering you need a fairly recent, decent car for ubering, chances are that car is not paid off. Therefore it belongs to the bank. It is then more a liability than an asset.
@@M-qw9ru Did you take out a loan to buy your auto? If you did, it's part liability. Assets = liability + equity. Accounting 101.
The unsuspecting getaway driver for violent crime. Lol I’m dying 😂
I can't get over the background going the wrong direction when the passenger asks about deep-seated anger management issues that manifest as road rage.
Glad someone else saw that
I thought i was seeing things
Road rage kicked in so hard the driver went backwards.
I re watched that part 4 times to make sure I wasn't going crazy
I'd love a "If donating blood or plasma" was honest video. Keep it up Roger!
Or what about Goodwill, you donate your stuff and they sell it to anyone regardless of financial status.
@@walmartpimp2Yup, Goodwill gets their inventory for free, so their profit margins are very high. Of course profits are paid out as high salaries to the execs, so it stays “nonprofit”.
@@walmartpimp2the point is they use the money from the sale for charity.
But Goodwill is horrible in plenty of other ways.
Like did you know that minimun wage doesn't apply to disabled people? Goodwill has a history of seeking out disabled people (mainly autistic people, I think) then paying them like $0.10 / hour.
@@Spencer-wc6ew If the minimum wage did apply, no people with debilitating handicaps would have jobs at all. There's more to a job than a wage -- there's a feeling of worth and purpose, and for disadvantaged people who have other means of support, those things are extremely valuable.
Oh yea no joke. "We'll take your blood for free and sell it for $5k each." The entire healthcare scam is a big one. I lost my insurance due to a layoff recently and my out of pocket costs... actually went down.
Of course Roger would never use a seat belt with a shoulder restraint.
He’s immortal
Lol the drivers in greece weren't wearing theirs 😅
It's a green screen production.
@@ElkeinnJennihe will sell you, he owns everything
It’s Tennessee, its probably not required 😂😂 (Yes, I did look it up based on the road signs)
Silence = ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for everyone! 😂
Anyone notice at 1:52 mark The scenery in the background starts going the opposite way as if they were going backwards when they focus in on the passenger
Only when my sense of nausea (motion sickness) immediately kicked in and then I was aware of why.
yes i did
I went through all the trouble to look up where those roads were for nothing? 😂😂
@@JimAllen-Persona I, for one, appreciated knowing you found it was bg footage from Tennessee and finding your replies felt like piecing together a story.
Maybe I'm just easily amused sometimes, but I appreciated it.
Welcome to The Matrix! Lol
I was a taxi driver in the East Bay area for 4 years. We had to go through fingerprinting and background checks to get our license to pick up passengers. The taxi cabs were supposed to be maintained to meet certain safety standards (though Walnut Creek clearly failed to check on the cabs there). As bad as that was, at least there was some level of regulation. Uber and Lyft operate completely outside of this, I don't know how they are permitted to operate. What's the point of paying for a taxi license if some nameless rando in his own car can operate without one?
Uber does have standards: You need to have drivers license, good driving record - they check that, a good car without dents or scratches and car insurance and a good smartphone. They don't require an interview, a resume or past experience, that's why it's the best company in the world - the job that's not hard to get. I hope there are companies will appear that don't require an interview, a resume or past experience; but I think it does not exist yet.
There was an era that can be said to be the rise of consumer protection laws. But that was an era before everyone had a computer in their home.
Fast forward to today, and those old consumer protection laws apply only to the old paradigms, like purely physical goods. Modern companies argue they are outside such laws or regulations because those laws were never written to apply to say, software licenses.
So john deere can say you don't have to the right to repair the john deere tractor you paid for in full because it has software integrated throughout it and trying to repair it would be a violation of the software license, software being something that wasn't an issue in the era all those consumer protection laws were made. Apple. Tesla. etc.... More and more every year.
Gig jobs can say they are merely software services connecting customers to independent contractors they have no control over so only laws regulating software companies should apply to them and both the customers and the independent contractors should be bound by whatever horrible terms they invent in their TOS w/out limitation.
Consumers need to stop being so worried when they cast a vote about who can use which bathroom, because such issues are deliberate red herrings to get the voter so angry over non issues that they ignore the real issues that impact their day to day lives, and instead voters need to vote with a mind to bring in a new era of consumer protection laws even if only to update the existing ones so that they also apply to software/tech.
The pre-software protections are actually pretty good if they could just also be applied to current gen products entangled with software. Currently, you have far more rights under the law when you buy a purely physical good like a chainsaw, then when you buy a tesla, or anything else entangled with software. The more products get entangled with software, the more products there are that exist outside of existing regulations, diminishing our rights as consumers/customers.
Rideshare companies require criminal background checks and a good driving record
@@vertik7Glovo is an even easier job to get and their workers look homeless and they are actually handling your food.
It should be a taxi cab company, and I really don't see how it isn't. They even started as UberCab
This was a really funny video because I have driven for both companies. The wear and tear on my car has been astounding and the passengers that I have encountered have made me lose all faith in humanity. I am constantly getting the drunk passengers and the ones that reek of weed. One night, I actually had a drunk passenger who urinated herself just as she arrived at her destination. After I dropped her off, I turned off the app and went home, and Fabreezed the hell out of the back seat and never drove again.
As an independent contractor, the urine situation is tax deductible, did you write that off on your tax report? And hopefully Uber covered the cost of getting that cleaned.
That's one of the benefits that is attracting people to the gig economy, because as an independent contractor there are a lot of tax write offs one can take advantage of that never apply to you if you are an employee for a company, wear and tear on your vehicle, fuel, insurance, etc so this is one case where a personal vehicle is an asset instead of a liability. One of the other things that drives folks to the gig economy companies is having more control over how you spend your time, that's something you have zero of when working as an employee for a company.
@@Hardin9The average driver has no idea what a tax deduction even is. You don't have PHD students driving uber. it's foreigners or dropouts usually. At least in my area.
You can charge her a cleaning fee and I hope you wet dry vacuumed that seat.
"Both companies"? You do realize there's a world besides wherever you live?
@@Tarets Lyft and Uber. That’s it…
Anyone else watch these as quick as you can? I wish they were on daily
LOL! Yup. I was a cabbie. So I know the background stuff you gotta go through - and the medical exams etc. But in Vegas, when ride shares started, they did undercut the cabbies that people switched over. Now that ride shares have the numbers and the habits - the prices are on par with cabs and higher. We got played! Now this company’s got your info, where you go, your address etc - something a basic cabbie never got. I can only speak about Vegas cabs and ride shares.
Overseas the taxi companies are implementing rideshare-like apps, like Careem in Dubai and Blue Bird in Indonesia.
You guys never disappoint with these videos 😂😂
"The most expensive asset you own..." Yeah, because we sure as hell don't own a house.
speak for yourself. i have 2. but then again, my car did cost more than one of those houses
@@johndeerdrew projection
@@Mummie560 what?
1:53... He's now driving backwards. 😂
I don’t have any qualifications, this sounds like the job for me!
just deal drugs. its easier, safer, and more profitable😅
@@AvaAdore-wx5gghow do you sign up for medical delivery?
@@AvaAdore-wx5gg great tip! im actually going to look into that as well! any info on where to start?
and everyone else like you
You need to have a driver license and a car, that is sort of a qualification.
I drove for Uber for a while. I didn't make much money, but I had a good time. Thankfully, nothing bad happened, but I also never drove at night.
I tried never to drive evenings as well. This was especially because I operated in the L.A. area.
You should do this for DoorDash and Uber eats lol
Yes, once I realized how much I was paying to be lazy to have my food delivered, It was costing at least an extra $10 each time and the stores are literally five minutes down the street, I deleted the apps and I also don’t eat as much fast food crap now, and just make healthier food at home.
Ironically, my friend was telling me how he wanted to do that, because he had been ordering way too much daily DoorDash since the pandemic, and was just about to delete the app, when he died of a heart attack. just days later. 😢
People told me I should drive for one of these companies because I like to drive. It will take your love of driving away as the problems encountered during driving will scar you emotionally.
I found the most fun driving job as a vehicle transporter for a major car rental company. I drive brand new rental cars with fuel they pay for and make an okay hourly wage.
Not true. I’m an Uber driver and I still love to drive
Nah you just have a low threshold for handling difficulties. I like to drive and I am good choosing rides and earning the most profit with minimal effort. Sometimes it’s not necessarily taking the highest paying fair. There are other important aspects to consider. Like total time investment, location of destination, and time of day.
@@danieldaniels7571 I would second this. Or a runner for vehicle auctions (though, the pay for this seems to be pretty sad.)
In Massachusetts the ride share companies have been hiring day laborers to sit outside supermarkets and solicit people for signatures. They want to avoid paying hourly wages and benefits because its how their businesses make any money. The workers have even been coached to say things like "Drivers should remain classified as independent contractors so they can have freedom."
The people I spoke with didn't even know who they represented. The ride share companies have low income people working against their own best interests.
I don't ride in a stranger's car.👀
It's not a stranger, it's Roger! 😃
I've heard this argument before, and I don't get it. With rideshare, I get the driver's name, vehicle, license plate ahead of time. And that's just the information I see. When I hail a cab, I get to look for the driver's taxi ID. After getting into the vehicle.
@@fosterfuchsAnd u still don't know either from a can of paint. 🙄
Playing this while ubering someone to the airport. Worth the 1 star! Thanks as always Roger.
One thing is true… If taxicab drivers had taken better care of their customers over the years, they wouldn't have been such easy pickings for a takeover of their industry. I have been a passenger in taxi cabs in my life and the service was pretty terrible a lot of times, with absolutely nowhere to voice your concerns about it.
Actually you call the dispatch and ask to speak to the management PR write the city. You have way more legal protections with a cab company because they are licensed by the city or state.
A similar version of this could go for the food delivery spinoffs. The last time I tried, my order was stolen 3 times in a row by the driver and then when I finally got it, the order wasn't even right. Combined with absurd fees it's actually more convenient to just go get the stuff
That's exactly what I do - just go and get it to go or even eat AT the place
@@seand1011 Taking it to the next level!!
Groceries, too.
This is why I use the bus, marked taxi cabs, or walk if not driving myself
The bus is filled with worst characters in the history of life
@@benbazy9238 that's every gathering of humans
Glad that you feel safe enough to take the bus or walk. Sadly not my case
My preference these days is Waymo.
I did this when I was desperate for a while and once you replace your first set of tires you see how you're barely getting paid when accounting for wear and tear. Many of these drivers don't think too much about gas, let alone more expensive stuff being destroyed while driving. And ofc the platforms pay the absolute bare minimum to keep you doing it. It really is an "in between jobs" job, or for some a "I'm retired and lonely" job.
Every mile you drive toss between a dime and a quarter out the window... That's how much it costs to drive.
Before maintenance. Before insurance.
I only own a motorcycle...
Exactly; some people just don't have the brain cells to be factoring in oil, tire usage, washes, and long-term vehicle maintenance. Not to mention, if you're sitting still, your wages are deteriorating.
Ultimately, all humans are mere stepping stones so that CEOs can afford hyper crazy A.I. and other automated systems. Once they have all of that, they won't require other humans anymore. 💪😎✌️
Why yes, I am unemployed and desperate!
You know...my retail job is looking a lot better now thanks to this video. At least my job is legal.
I drove for Uber and Lyft for ~3 years in the L.A. area, prior to the pandemic. I chose my hours VERY wisely, kept my vehicle clean, offered free water and mints, and behaved extremely professionally (and always calmly). I even wore a collared shirt, black vest, and a flower in my lapel--no joke. But despite all of this, I could easily say that I was rarely tipped, and it was even more rare that the fares outweighed the costs of fuel, maintenance, "deadtime", etc. It's unfortunate, but that's just how it goes. If you ain't rich, you ain't sheet! 😆Accept it.
If you couldn’t make decent money and a solid profit driving rideshare in one of the busiest markets in the country, during the “good old pre-Covid days”, no less. Well that’s on you my dude… I drove in Denver during that time and was pulling in great money, after expenses. I have friends in Southern California who were regularly pulling in $35-40 an hour, drifting Toyota corolla’s. Sorry man.
@@timetowakeup6302 Nah. Yer just a toxic troll, "my dude". 💪😎✌️
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If you think so….
I don’t make much money when you’re driving sedan now minivans and SUVs can make that money I know for a fact I can make $100 at two hours. It used to be much simpler where I could just do so ride though. When I got into sedan, I felt like my money went down like crazy specially after the pandemic.
I would figure if the dude is handing out free mints and got a good ol nice shirt with flowers and shit then he prolly making good money.
Now you gotta try "If Trucking were Honest", have your goods transported by shady freight companies, driven by truckers, who range from overworked Plebs, I guess you can call them 'Slave Drivers', to potential criminals using their truck to traffic stolen goods, contraband, and human trafficking, don't worry - like ridesharing, there are no background checks on truckers.
Only Rodger could drive a clean route while looking at you in the passenger seat the whole time without watching the road.
Roger, please look at the road while driving! 😱
“you’re not just an unwitting getaway driver for violent crimes”
my god that actually HAPPENS?!
I love how the trees were going in the wrong direction at one point
I feel pride for being the 222nd view 3 minutes after you posted this!
You should talk about what happens if your involved in an accident as a driver. I hear it doesn't usually end well for the driver because your insurance probably won't cover you and the company won't either.
Just one of the many ways these "rideshare" companies are suckering their not-employees-for-legal-reasons.
- To do this you really ought to have commercial vehicle insurance for business use; they just don't ask the drivers and many of the drivers either won't know or just roll the dice and hope. The insurance OUGHT to be covering a company asset (car) and liability (to customer). The average driver's insurance is usually just liability (to other people's cars and such).
- Fuel costs, maintenance costs, and the actual cost of the car: paid for by the driver, company never has to worry about that. If it ends up being more than the driver makes, that's not Uber's problem - they'll run you until your vehicle dies and then stop giving a shit.
- Pay? Heck no, they're """independent""" (except they need your app) contractors! Totally different. Doesn't matter if their pay actually squeaks out under minimum wage(s).
They had one real advantage over taxi companies, in that they could have one slick app that works everywhere but most cab companies kinda don't. Big cities might but anywhere else? Unlikely, and certainly not one app already on someone's phone.
Roger should wear a seatbelt in his car doing fake driving in front of a green screen. Even his passenger in the back seat has a seatbelt on. Green screens can be very dangerous.
The video forgot to mention how rideshare companies are part of human traficking because you're giving prostitutes rides to and from their clients. It was always easy to tell when I was giving a prostitute a ride. They had very little clothing on and looked made up, had no idea where they were going or where they were coming from, and looked like they just wanted to forget the world existed. I dropped a few of them off at their pimp's places. Those dudes always gave me the "say a word and I'll fucking kill you" look. The gig economy is a scam.
If it's that obvious where their pimp is located, why not give law enforcement a holler and let them know.
@@fosterfuchs That would require law enforcement to be competent. Do you trust law enforcement to get there before the pimp kills you?
In London during the 90's, this was basically how all "minicab" companies worked.
London rallied against it because of all the crimes committed by these unvetted and unsafe drivers, and the crimes committed against them. And in the early 2000's, the practice was outright banned.
All Cabs and Taxis in the UK now need to be licensed, all drivers are vetted and registered, and work for an employer that follows the standards set by the law, and drivers found operating illegally have their vehicle seized and face hefty fines. It was a pretty good system....Then Uber came to the UK...They're still fighting for their "legal right" to operate, even tho their entire company structure is exactly what we banned for the exact reasons Uber etc. are often lambasted for,
Thank you for the information! Was in London in '99. Was warned about the minicabs and never used them. When the ride share companies first came on the scene, I remembered my trip. And then thought, isn't this the same business model as the minicabs?
@@davidcox3076 exactly! With this being something I grew up with, saw as a kid through to late teens, I saw all the worst sides of it, which is why I've been very vocally opposed to Ride Share apps from the start, as they're just repeating and worsening the mistakes of the past.
Am Dominican, ride sharing had been a thing there since cars started being imported in. It's called carro concha and somehow, even though Uber operates there now, carro conchas are still a popular and distinguished from Uber like ride sharing,
Don't forget about the scam that is renting a car through Uber or Lyft or whatever to do ride sharing.
I did it once, it's a weekly rental. I sat down to do the math 1/2 through the week and didn't bother doing another ride.
I figured you'd have to work for 15 hours to break even with the car rental and the cost of gas for that time period.
And to make this picture even more bleak.
Say you drive for a total of 40 hours in the week you have the car. You are only gonna be taking home around $500 in profit. Which is less than $13 an hour.
AND of COURSE, all money you make is taxed heavily because it's self employed income... Where I live you would be taxed around 40%.
But sure, you can write off part of cost of the car rental... But not all.
and you can write off the mileage which means you should not really pay any taxes
Roger the legendary man is back with another video, Love it.
This was fantastic! Although I admit I much prefer working in the gig economy than working a regular job. I miss working Doordash which yes paid me surprisingly well especially after prop 22 passed here in California
Roger should totally colab with Ryan George. That would be very entertaining!
I watched this one and the Amazon parody and honestly as immoral as these businesses are, people willingly fuel them with their discretionary income. It's the same with Apple products - we know they're using child slave labor to mine cobalt with archaic tools (sometimes no tools) and zero safety guidelines... but we swipe right past that article after we've experienced our 5 seconds of guilt. We're as fucked in the head as the people who own and run these companies because when faced with billions of dollars in profit, 99.9% would make the same business decisions.
Now do if Mechanics Were Honest!!!!
Mechanics are lawyers except you can see the dirt under their fingernails.
@@muckymucksOh Damn!!!
As an app driver, this is sad but true, this job will leave you souless.
I know how stressful it is to do this for a living. That’s why whenever I do use Lyft or Uber, I always try to give as good a tip as I can and a 5 star rating. Even if the guy never stopped talking the whole time and all I wanted to do is sit quietly while this stranger took me to my destination 😂