{"id":72,"date":"2021-03-25T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T09:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2022-01-24T09:12:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T09:12:07","slug":"well-but-i-actually-miss-driving-for-uber-lyft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/25\/well-but-i-actually-miss-driving-for-uber-lyft\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, but\u2026 I actually miss driving for Uber\/Lyft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ll start off with the obvious – both Uber and Lyft abuse their drivers. If you want proof just investigate Rideshare  Professor’s<\/a> YouTube channel. I’m well aware of everything  he has to say. And I still miss the interaction with my riders. To be clear, I don’ t trust the current crop of riders to save my life. It is way, WAY  too easy for a rider to accuse me of some kind of malfeasance for me to be driving right now. I have a dashcam, pay scrupulous attention to the current rules and abide by them absolutely and that’s still not enough for the rideshare companies should somebody file a complaint. My evidence could (and probably would) be overwhelming and *I* would still be the one without rides and a job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I miss the driving. I miss interacting with riders. My mind’s eye is taking me all over Southern California; from Pasadena to Laguna Hills to LAX to Huntington Beach. The lure for me was never knowing where I would end up after any single ride request. My mind’s eye, absent actual rides, has been working overtime, putting me in places I haven’t been in maybe years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ll start off with the obvious – both Uber and Lyft abuse their drivers. If you want proof just investigate Rideshare  Professor’s YouTube channel. I’m well aware of everything  he has to say. And I still miss the interaction with my riders. To be clear, I don’ t trust the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t