tim... wrote:

"Recliner" wrote in message
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On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 13:29:54 +0100, "tim..."
wrote:


"Recliner" wrote in message
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tim... wrote:

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message
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ember.org, at 09:14:01 on Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Recliner
remarked:

"True independent contractors have the freedom to decide when they
want
to
work and what kind of work they want to do," Benjamin Sachs, a
Harvard
Law
School professor told CNNMoney. "By giving drivers timeouts, Uber is
exercising the kind of control over its workforce that employers
exercise
over employees."

I thought the whole point of Uber from a drivers point of view was
being
able to work flexible hours and/or part time.

well I think that they can, in the sense that they can choose what
shift
times to work this week

The issue seems to be around not accepting particular rides when
self-declared "on shift".

Though the post that Recliner made was about poolriding.

Complaint was, it's more effort for no more money.

I find that very strange. I though the MO of Uber was that all of the
billing, less some percentage commission goes to the driver (the same
as
the
hotel booking sites for instance). So if the billing goes up because
three
pool riders are sharing, then so should the amount that the driver
gets.

If Uber have structured this deal so that they get to keep all of the
extra
income (whilst incurring the driver in extra expense of the
pick-up/set-downs), them my like of Uber has gone down even more (by a
couple of notches).

You already hated Uber with a deep passion,

No, I hate it's business model

What do you hate about its business model?

I have already told you, several times

No, you've told us that you hate it with a deep passionate. You haven't
explained why. All the reasons you've provided have been incorrect.



Do you even know what it
is?

Just because I have no idea how a "pick up" works, doesn't mean that I know
nothing about the operation of the rest of the company.

You don't seem to know anything about the company except that you hate it.


The pick-up is an insignificant part of the whole.

despite manifestly knowing
nothing about it.

I know lots about it

Really? It's not apparent from your posts.

Why is it my fault that you cannot read?

I think your problem is that we can all read your posts perfectly well.

It was all too apparent that you didn't know who Uber competed with, why
people do or don't choose to use it, how they use it, why blind people are
very unlikely to have Uber accounts, and why choosing to attack Uber for
its record keeping would be very foolish. You seemed to think that Uber's
main problem was with its customer service, rather than how it treats its
drivers.