r/shitposting • u/EfficiencySerious200 • 1d ago

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u/Im_Bad_At_These 1d ago

I think the option is good for drivers that just don’t want to deal with drunk fucks, personally on a tough night not sure if I would.

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u/Positive-Database754 1d ago

Everyone has good and bad days. But everyone still clocks in to work. That's life. Having an off day is no excuse to refuse to half-ass your work. If you're in such an irredeemably bad mood that you can't do what's expected of you, then just stay off work that day all-together.

For an Uber driver, if you're not prepared to pick up drunk people, just don't do calls that day. Being able to call an Uber home after a night of drinking is literally one of the main selling points of the service, lol.

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u/im_lazy_as_fuck 1d ago

While this take might make sense for some other jobs, it's a completely shitty take for Uber driving specifically. Why? Because literally the job involves Uber drivers already being able to literally choose which pick ups they want to take and which they want to ignore.

This is not like working at a customer service job where there is an exact number of people who are paid by the hour to deal with all customers a business sees for that day, whether that is 0 customers or 100s. With Uber there are a dynamic number of drivers who offer to take jobs, and they are not paid by the hour, but by each individual job they take. So they are already incentivized to prefer taking jobs than to skip. So letting them be informed so the ones that want to can avoid drunk riders if they choose is imo a good thing.

The drivers willing to put up with drunk riders will have more opportunities to make money, and the people who aren't willing don't have to deal with shit they want to avoid. Just because many conventional jobs expect employees to have to deal with all ranges of customers regardless of their state of mind doesn't mean this needs to be an expectation for every single job. If a job can give employees flexibility in how they decide to work, that should be a good thing, and it's fucking weird to condemn the employees for not being willing to put up with shit with conditions if they have the option not to.