As a former Uber driver I watched as it became harder and harder to make $100 a day in 7 or 8 hours. The biggest problem was waiting between customers. One, two hour waits in downtown, at the college campus, at the airport at peak hours. The frustration of being available for work but no business being available, watching that expense ticker in your mind going tick tick tick ding while the income counter stays at zero, I thought to myself this is no way to make living. So I got on CraigsList to look for other transportation jobs. What I discovered was amazing: four advertisements every day for “URGENT DRIVERS NEEDED” posted by Uber. My landlord is an Uber driver. His cousin is an Uber driver. etc. The market is flooded with an oversupply. Maybe it will be worth going back if immigration enforcement lowers the supply of service. La la!
Well, people are Uber drivers because the economy stinks! No one in their right mind wants to drive their own car, receive no tips, have their car destroyed by nasty passengers while driving to bad neighborhoods in the middle of the night because it’s their choice of career.
Let’s just hope things can improve and Uber will either reform or die.