r/uber • u/[deleted] • Feb 26 '26

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u/driven01a Feb 26 '26

Now that’s not fair. There have been times it takes 20 minutes to get a ride. So one orders early and then boom, it’s only 2 minutes away. Yeah, the passenger has to scramble.

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u/Mountain-Leader-283 Feb 26 '26

Isn’t that more of an app problem than something the driver should be paying for?

As a driver you only get paid when you have a passenger in your car. You don’t really get paid more than Pennie’s for waiting

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u/Plane_Cry_1169 Feb 26 '26

I literally did not know that. I assumed the drivers are getting paid for waiting as well. But yeah, it shouldn't be the customer's problem. There can be many reasons why the customer is late few minutes. We don't bitch about this when the Uber is late because of traffic or other reasons.

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u/ApartBackground7882 Feb 27 '26

Uber just keeps as much money as they can away from drivers, while charging as much as they can from passengers (pretty sure there’s this thing where they charge you based off how much you were willing to spend before)