{"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<p>I&#8217;ll start off with the obvious &#8211; both Uber and Lyft abuse their drivers. If you want proof just investigate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCJBF1a25kUzTdcxbXs0j-XQ\">Rideshare &nbsp;Professor&#8217;s<\/a> YouTube channel. I&#8217;m well aware of everything &nbsp;he has to say. And I still miss the interaction with my riders. To be clear, I don&#8217; t trust the current crop of riders to save my life. It is way, WAY &nbsp;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&#8217;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<p>And yet\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I miss the driving. I miss interacting with riders. My mind&#8217;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&#8217;s eye, absent actual rides, has been working overtime, putting me in places I haven&#8217;t been in maybe years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll start off with the obvious &#8211; both Uber and Lyft abuse their drivers. If you want proof just investigate Rideshare &nbsp;Professor&#8217;s YouTube channel. I&#8217;m well aware of everything &nbsp;he has to say. And I still miss the interaction with my riders. To be clear, I don&#8217; t trust the [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}