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Driving waiting to restaurant for more than half an hour without getting paid
I did drive numerous times for ubereats going to restaurant for miles then wait for approximately 40 minutes, after waiting for that long I called customer service to help cancel instead of waiting for an hour and Uber would said they would not pay me because I got too many similar compensations , basically I put wear and tears plus gas in my car driving to a restaurant and did wait for almost an hour and uber want to keep the money for themselves which means Uber does not care about the fact that drivers use gas when going to restaurant that is 5 or 8 miles away our car will need maintenance after a week or two but uber does not care about how long we wait in restaurant since they will said you got too many similar compensations. The food normally must be ready when we arrive , our job is to pick up and drop off but when we wait for 40 minutes and not getting paid because Uber said the system said I got so many compensations and they will end a message to the account department and the something happens over a year, I think new driver need to know about it .I feel like uber thing it’s driver fault if the food is not ready or if restaurant is closed or if food is taken an hour to be ready. One day I did wait for 54 minutes and I got paid 3 dollars and it’s been like that but most of them times they don’t pay so you waste your time waiting and driving to restaurantShow lessNpecps
Pretty good
So when we are accepting the rides, there is not enough time to look at the drives that Uber sends to us, and it doesn’t give you enough time to respond. We should also be able to see where their destination is, and how many people are riding in the car. I am not showed that information. And it is not safe out here for the drivers. We are worried about the customers, but what about the drivers?! Also if we are driving an hour trip, the time for us to get back to our driving area or to get home should also be taken into consideration when being paid. I picked someone up in Fayetteville and had to drive an hour to take them to Raleigh, I did not have enough time to look at the screen to read the description. I just wanted to do one more drive, but it took a whole hour!! It also took me 1 hour 46 minutes to get home. I understand that there are percentages, but we should at least be paid more than 39$ for an hour trip, and especially driving at night time. And then having to endure driving so far away to reach home. Let’s take that into consideration. Also some of these people are not clean and smell like marijuana and alcohol when they get in the car. We should also take that into consideration when paying the Uber drivers. Because if we get bugs in our car what are you going to do for us?Show lessInaOx93
Better pay
I’ve been driving for Uber 3+ years and the app itself has gotten better however the earnings seem to have gotten worse. When I first started delivering an order for a grocery store like Kroger or Safeway was usually 9+ dollars and now I get offers to take 3 deliveries from Walmart and it pays $5??. Some of the grocery orders are $200 orders going up to a third story apartment, and we’re gonna make $2 for carrying all those groceries up the stairs? Not to mention I live in Arizona and in the summer time we deliver a lot of cases of waters. Carrying 2-3 cases of 24 packs of waters up stairs in 100 degree weather for a couple bucks is crazy. The other issue I have is people removing the tip after the trip. Many people offer a high tip so that a driver will take it faster and then once it’s delivered they lower it? Obviously if there was an issue that’s understandable but when I’ve delivered it on time and there’s nothing wrong with the order it seems unfair that they can change the tip amount to a lower amount just because they don’t really want to pay that much? There are also not very promotions in my area and I agree with previous comments that late night deliveries are risky and we are sitting in drive thru lines for 20-30 min sometimes and dont get any compensation for that. It seems like those deliveries should pay moreShow lessbree1423
Somewhat good
I’ve been working for Uber for over 6 years now it’s a decent gig if your a single mother like me and can’t get a regular 9-5 due to your child’s schedule. The only flaws I absolutely hate that Uber should look into is when delivering at night or anytime really and you get to a restaurant and it’s closed, your not compensated for gas which I feel like is only fair because you have driven to the pickup location so not only did you waste gas driving to the location you don’t receive any compensation from it unless you contact Uber support. Uber should make each restaurant go in an update their closing times. Most haven’t updated their closing times since before Covid so now with every place being understaffed your likely hood of delivering at night and running into closed restaurants is high. It would save us the stress and gas and it would also save the customer stress since they are under the impression they are getting food and aren’t the time wasted waiting on that closed restaurant could have been spent at one that’s open.
Update…..Also Uber should stop letting customer say they didn’t receive their food when reality they did I’ve been delivering for years and have never stolen anyone’s food even with documentation that the order has been delivered to the correct address they still say the didn’t receive it and that’s messing up my job my income. Uber needs to require everyone to have a pin set when receiving food to verify they actually received it!Show lessNikki Lorie
App not being maintained by company
I’m almost a weekly basis the app is been having issues. In fact these issues have gone over for several years. They say a specialized team will look into it but it doesn’t get fixed. For several years, there’s still a distance fencing, that is never been fixed although it has been put in writing, and told me verbally it would be. many drivers, including myself is having a serious issue with the filter navigation. Lately for the past four months unless you complain, you will not receive the minimum fare within the area and state I live in the biggest problem is customer service. I don’t think for the most part most of these individuals are properly trained, and for the most part you get pre-written electronic responses to your problems. Most of the time, and I repeat most the time have nothing to do with your issue. I have countless correspondence about this. My big issue is that Uber is taking much more than they used to and yet the service given is less and anytime there’s a problem there’s no consistent compensation. Sometimes like any business model sorry or apologizing no longer solve the issue. I still use the app, but nowhere near the amount of time arrives I used to. That’s in essence, I lose money, the company, loses, money, and writers will use a competitive service lately I’ve seen some very unethical practices being done through the app by the company.Show lessMM12ADAM
Could be better - 3.75 stars but not quite 4
The app is ok but not good. It constantly tells me to go the wrong way down one way roads. Wants
You to make illegal Uturns as well. Rarely does the app have the fastest route. During big events it doesn’t take into account road closures and/or no turns at intersections and doesn’t know how to re-route. These closures are the same for all events so it’s not like it changes. It knows there’s construction and it’s a 3 year project but Uber app asks every single time I’m on that highway if the construction is still there. It’s annoying because it’s a 3 year project!!!!! It will be there for a Long time so stop asking! The quest payouts are less and less each week and not worth the effort. I received a notification that I was eligible for a boost and to click the notification to activate it but it didn’t appear in my opportunities so I had no way to activate the boost even though I was driving and it was coming up. I don’t get any reservation requests. They must come through all at once in the middle of the night when not awake bc I wake up to 20 opportunities but when I open them there’s not even 1 available opportunity. The heat map of surges is not viewable while your doing a ride. It used to be but not anymore. You can’t make money if you can’t see where the surge is especially given the fact that Uber takes 60% of the fare in my city.Show lessGamefreak1225
Needs some improvement
I’m a driver for the app. I’m constantly dealing with the app freezing on me. Which causes me to lose time on my deliveries and me having to restart my app. You need to reconfigure when a new order pops up. I don’t like when I’m literally about to turn onto a customers road and a new delivery pops up. It’s frustrating! I’ve also had issues where I’ll take a picture of an order that’s a leave at door order and I’ll hit the sun it button and walk away only to have my app mess up on me and lose the picture and my customer already start taking there order in. But then my customer will call in and say I never delivered there order. Totally unfair to me because it reflects bad on my record and this has happened 4 or 5 times to me so far. I’ve called in and spoke about it. But it’s still happening. Now I have to call in as soon as It happens so it doesn’t affect my record. And now we have to worry about an acceptance rate and cancellation rate in order to stay current on the app. The acceptance rate is a joke because here in NJ these orders I’m going to say atleast in the Burlington county area where I drive are crapy a good 75 to 80% of them are $2.50 to $5 orders and that barely puts gas in my car to do this let alone keep up on my car maintenance to do this. This is my main source of income right now. So you have to step up your game Uber. This is a main source of income for a lot of single parents.Show lessjcapo87
Problems are too many to count!!
Problems are a ton! So frustrating! I came to the conclusion that they just can’t fix them and I completely gave up! Frustrated of sending hundreds of feedbacks and absolute zero improvement! It actually gets worse with every update!! I don’t know which one to bring up here, from all the bugs and freezes all the way to the slowness of the app using the latest iphone model and software and they would always blame your phone and connection!! It will ask you to take a picture of yourself when cruising 70 miles on the highway! It will freeze up and you won’t receive no trips and when you sign out and try to sign back in it will ask you to take a picture and you realize that was the bug blocking you from the requests with no notification! The upper menue would disappear and you would need to close and reopen the app 100 times a day to make a temporary fix! Sometimes It will take minutes to automatically sign you out after declining 3 trips in a row and you would wonder why you’re not receiving any request! As I said problems are countless!!! Never ending problems! And I’ve been witnessing this downhill since 2018! Good old days when the app was so smooth and functional! I know this review won’t do anything but i just had to get it out! So frustrated but apparently this is how it is and you either quit this job or deal with it! That’s the kind of mentality the Uber management has!Show less5777619
Getting worse
When I first started I really enjoyed this. It was a great way to make a little extra cash on the side and involved very little stress for the driver. Lately I’ve been nothing but disappointed with this app. This app consistently promotes AWFUL orders. $3 for 9 miles, $2 for 7 miles, $4 for 12 miles. I understand that this is due to the customer not tipping, but to tank my acceptance rating by declining these offers is ridiculous. Don’t get me started on the Trip Radar. It’s the most useless feature on the app-offering worse than bar none. I’ve recently had several experiences where I, the driver, had to take the fault for restaurants mess ups, and customer greed. I find it ridiculous that the customer can change their tip after the order has been completed. I recently drove 14.4 miles to a hotel and hand delivered the order to their room. I was met with confusion about the PIN number system(which deserved a rant on it own) and received no tip and my first ever poor rating after over 250 deliveries. It is infuriating that the customer is easily able to avoid a tip by simply leaving a bull**** review. This happened to me once more when I had to wait in a drive thru for 30 minutes and received no tip because the customer thought it took too long. Due to all these reasons and more I will be vastly lowering my driving on this app, most likely only going on occasional weekends. Really upsetting what’s happened to this app.Show lessTurtleDiabetes
Can’t zoom in on map.
You can’t check where the order is going. When they offer you an order they give you a very zoomed out map and no way of knowing if it’s going to a sketchy apartment complex, or if your going way out of a hotspot. And when you do end up accepting the order they swiftly do a 180 flip and zoom in on your arrow so you can’t even check where it’s at when your able to interact with the map because you have zero clue where it was in the first place. Very tricky and untrustworthy app. Edit: also they give you like 5 seconds to accept the order so if your driving and get an order sent to your phone good luck figuring out if it’s worth taking. Edit 2: they added this thing called the “trip radar” which makes it to where you have to accept the order really quickly otherwise another driver will take it. They added this for the sole purpose or making the driver accept the order as quickly and impulsively as possible. Just remember, they’re not on your side trying to help you make extra money. They’re trying to pay you the least possible and make you work like a slave.
Edit 3: I swear take off the trip radar. Even if you go to accept an order from the trip radar most of the time it will say another driver matched this delivery even if you accept it before. The trip radar is nothing but a complete garbage addition to the app, and it only shows how greedy Uber is and how little they care about drivers.Show lessAlligator42908
