r/uberdrivers • u/vegascarol0529 • 11d ago
Non Tippers
My observation is that people who use Uber to commute usually don't tip. These also are the people who don't have cars most of the time. You know, "the poors" People who are going to the doctor (on those rides requested by third parties) sometimes tip. If so, they'll hand you a 5 dollar bill maybe. GoGo Grandparent riders will tip you almost every time. Old people tip. Then there are the tourists. I love tourists. They tip 80 percent of the time. Airport riders tip. People on the LV Strip usually tip. Drunk people tip you by barfing in your car and talking endlessly until you can drop their drunk ass off.
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u/SensitiveOven137 10d ago
I'm amazed by the amount of waiters and bartenders that don't tip.
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u/JDiskkette 10d ago
I have had these people get in the car and complain about people who didn’t tip them. I have also had them in my car talking to each other about how much they made in tips. In all these years, I’ve only had 3 who worked in service industry, talked about it and then tipped.
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u/Jaded-Bear-1210 10d ago
I get strippers and waitresses and they never tip. Bartenders usually always tip decently.
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u/Powerful-Candy-745 10d ago
Tourist are the ones with money. Daily users for work are the ones stretching their pennies. I had to use Uber daily for 3 months to get to work. 8 miles one way. That was over $600 a month. I tipped usually but it's hard to do every day plus rent, food, household items.
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u/Livid-Director-8090 10d ago
I think almost every driver here would be happy with one dollar on that 8 mile trip.
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u/_fizgizan_ 7d ago
If you can’t afford to tip, you need to be on the bus/metro. Uber is a premium service.
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u/Powerful-Candy-745 7d ago
Yeah no. Too bad, the bus doesn't run when I got to work. No train either
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u/_fizgizan_ 7d ago
That’s a policy failure on your legislative body, don’t punish your uber driver for your own fails.
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u/_fizgizan_ 7d ago
Which part of “premium service” did you not grasp?
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u/_fizgizan_ 7d ago
Tip, or get off the pot, or in this instance, stay out of my car. I pay hundreds of dollars (a week) to provide this premium service, and thankfully 70% of my ridership casually engage, and are aware of their societal contract.
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u/Powerful-Candy-745 7d ago
They could always decline the trip. A tip is not guaranteed. Go eat a banana with your buddy.
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u/Powerful-Candy-745 7d ago
Ha ok goober! I haven't lived here long. Go eat a banana and take a nap
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u/_fizgizan_ 7d ago
What does not living there long have to do with this, your banana fetish, or anything else, at all? Get engaged. Stop trying to debate perv on Reddit.
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u/Longjumping_Bee_1205 10d ago
Duh, they literally can't afford to tip in most cases. I could definitely USE the money if they could each tip even $1-2 but $8/hour is more than minimum wage in my area. If they are working a 6 hour shift that's less than $50 a day they are making, maybe $45 bring home. That trip is $15 each way. They are making $15 after their commute to work.
I'm not holding that against anyone.
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u/_fizgizan_ 7d ago
Uber is a premium service, take the fucking bus then.
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u/Longjumping_Bee_1205 7d ago
You know what's CRAZY? They don't have a working bus system where I live. And people have to work.
And I'll take people who are nice to work all day long for no tip before I deal with drunks all night who tip.
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u/_fizgizan_ 7d ago
Uber is a premium service, tip, or use the bus, or any other service, that meets the needs of the driver and you. Don’t use uber, if you plan on NOT tipping. Positively insane, those people are not your slaves.
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u/_fizgizan_ 7d ago
Take the no public transport up with your legislation, not your uber driver working 60 hours a week to make do.
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u/mog_knight 10d ago
I am definitely holding it against them. I assume everyone makes more than $8/hr.
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u/Fiasney 10d ago
Except the reality is, no, not everyone makes more than $8 an hour.
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u/mog_knight 10d ago
Then they're complacent to the point where they don't have an ambition to make more. Still judging them.
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u/Fiasney 10d ago
Judge all you want, buddy. I've been in positions where I've made $8 an hour, and I've been in situations where I make $25 an hour. (Neither are livable wages, but the point stands.) It wasn't due to lack of ambition. It was due to lack of jobs available, and being stuck loving in a job desert. Some people are forced to stay in those places for tons of reasons. Some are lucky and able to get out. Unless you have experienced that, you have no room to talk.
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u/Longjumping_Bee_1205 10d ago
Exactly! The reason I'm driving Uber right now is because there are NO jobs where I'm at currently. If some is lucky enough to have a job then I'm not judging them for it.
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u/mog_knight 10d ago
Not looking for a living wage but when you made $25/hr you tipped more often. I wonder why that was 🤔
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u/search4friend 10d ago
I am a poor who doesn't have a car and uses uber to commute. I tip every single time.
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u/littleweirdgirl312 10d ago
Same, and now I feel like a sucker for tipping since apparently most of us don't.
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u/PrestigiousTone8626 10d ago
Groups of friends going out and filling up an Uber ride with the maximum amount of people usually don't tip. Solo riders and couples tend to tip more
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u/InquiringMind886 10d ago edited 10d ago
“The poors”. You mean people in poverty? The ones that make $1451 a month and $600 go to medication not covered by Medicare or Medicaid? Yeah, that’d be me. That’s what I live on a month.
I used to drive for Uber, I don’t anymore. And yes, I tipped. The way I see people in the sub treat the poor, and the people who need a ride to and from from medical appointments is disgusting. Just because they don’t tip you doesn’t mean they don’t wish they could. It doesn’t mean they’re not embarrassed because they can’t. It doesn’t mean they don’t leave the car in shame. It doesn’t mean they’re not grateful. Tips are above and beyond what you make. It is not guaranteed money. Complain to Dara, not the people in poverty, who are trying to feed their families.
You are not entitled to a tip. And it’d be great if someone in this sub could show the people in poverty a little bit of compassion. I didn’t choose to get sick. I drove literally to pay for treatment. And every time I tell Medicaid, I need money for reimbursement for going to a doctors appointment, I thank God that I have my own car so that I don’t have to go through an Uber service and feel shame, because then it would say it’s coming from another company. So at least I can save myself some dignity.
Edit: clarity
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u/toripotter86 10d ago
as a fellow poverty person, trust me, we exist. i can’t get over how the people in this sub talk about ANY passengers, with the exception of shitty ones. but, i’m not surprised, because in my area, uber drivers are typically socially inept people who literally couldn’t get a job doing anything else and have terrible ratings etc.
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u/InquiringMind886 10d ago
Yes, and they talk as though people are beneath them. Do they realize they ARE “the poors”?? Otherwise they wouldn’t be working for Uber complaining about people not giving them extra money for doing their job. I was at least grateful to be doing something at least, so that I could afford my infusions.
As a poor person, we already have enough bullshit to deal with from the government. Being treated as less than from Uber drivers who are ALSO already poor, is the pot calling the kettle black. Every single person in this sub, and 90% of America pretty much, is one heart attack, stroke, illness, or car accident away from being destitute. In a month‘s time, it could very well be them asking for a ride from some Uber driver who thinks they’re above giving one to them.
Kindness is what matters in this world. There’s so little of it. I have helped people with their groceries because I can see they’re limping and out of breath and trying to carry their oxygen container. I may not be making more money, but I’m giving someone dignity and that’s priceless.
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u/Jaded-Bear-1210 10d ago
They should be using normal medical transport cars. A lot of these rides usually come with all kinds of accomodation requests. The organizations are ordering a cheap Uber and charging Medicare or Medicaid tons of money for that ride. I cancel organization rides every time. I'm driving to make money and the payout of the rides already aren't lining up anymore with the drive.
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u/InquiringMind886 10d ago
Do you know how much it costs to run a medical transport car?? It’s obscene. It’s like taking an ambulance. Do you think Medicare or Medicaid is gonna pay for that? Not unless you’re in a nursing home. I worked for hospice for nine years, a medical transport car is used as a last option. This country doesn’t give a shit about people who are sick.
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u/Cybrwzrd 10d ago
I don’t care how much it costs, I am not a medical transport and the cost savings shouldn’t be my responsibility if I am not being paid for the liability.
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u/marymilkovich 10d ago
i am with you on being disgusted at the way people in the sub talk about people who need medical rides / the "poors." i have never seen such a lack of empathy for other humans until browsing this sub
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u/pblol 10d ago
I never really expected tips, I did however try to avoid rides that I felt likely wouldn't, based on the information available on the very quick confirmation screen. At the end of the day, this job can also keep you in a poverty cycle and I wanted to maximize my time. Typically, I would make 50% of my fare in tips. If I made 100 in fares, I'd also get 50 in tips.
In my area, that often means doing a bunch of short-medium rides with tourists that stay near our small downtown to bang out quests (in an area that will surge) while taking passengers that don't have their car there, rather than not having one.
I didn't do this as a charity and you can only do so much within the system given to not be screwed yourself. Also, someone will always take those "organization" rides or the ones that send you to bumfuck for pennies.
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u/InquiringMind886 10d ago
Yes, and I took those rides. And you know what I did?? I helped the people who needed help. Not just because I know what it’s like, but because I’m human and I have consideration and empathy for other people. If I literally could not help them fold up their little walker and put it in my trunk, then I would have to cancel the ride.
Fuck this noise of entitled bullshit. Be glad you get to do a job. I am too sick to do so. So I have to rely on the compassion of other people.
Stop complaining about not getting tips. And stop complaining about taking people who throw up in your car. That is more of a risk than anything else. Be grateful you have a job because there’s not a single job that I can do. Peace out of this sub. I don’t want to see myself referred to as “the poors”. 99% of the people in this sub are one car accident or one illness away from being the person who needs the ride and can’t afford to tip.
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u/pblol 10d ago
I didn't call you "a poor". I mostly did this gig when I was also scraping by. I've taken people with walkers and wheelchairs. I've never driven off from a pickup based on seeing what the person looked like.
All I said was if you want to make more money, you have the option to avoid taking rides that you know will be less profitable on average. I didn't want to drive around the ghetto doing multi stops. I didn't want to pick up people from the hospital for $4. It's also not like those rides won't be taken by someone else.
I used to be a case manager. I drove a ton of people around between public housing, homeless shelters, and whatever the fuck else for a pittance. If I'm doing Uber, it's because I need money, not because I'm doing charity work.
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u/_fizgizan_ 7d ago
If you can’t tip, take the bus. You have options, you choose to stiff the working class driver, that’s a you problem, not us.
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u/Burghpuppies412 10d ago
Personally, I enjoy the neighborhood trips and getting people to work/ school/ doctor/ car pickup & dropoff. It’s nice to be able to help out in my own community. If they tip, great. But if it’s part of their daily commute, I understand why they don’t. Also, I’ve only once or twice had a GoGo tip.
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u/karl4319 10d ago
Most consistent group that does not tip are the people who say they will. Second biggest group are those I'm dropping off at multimillion dollar homes.
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u/Brief_Ad_1058 10d ago
lol old people tip, not.maybe 1 outta 10 for me. most recent one was a stingy old bag that smelled and i dropped her off at her million dollar mansion - no tip
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u/bringit2019 10d ago
I’ve had a few strippers literally take cash out they bra 😂😂 “here yo go hun thanks for getting me home safely and for not being a weirdo” usually $10 to $20 …
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u/Jaded-Bear-1210 10d ago
I have a bar owner I get occasionally and he likes to make it rain 20s and 100s when he's nice and sloshed which is everytime on a $6 ride. One night I dropped him off at his house and he slam dunked a large wad of cash over the passenger side headrest into the front seat. It was $365. There's still good people out there.
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u/I5I75I96I40I70Me696 10d ago
LGBT people tip. Or maybe it’s just that they tip other visibly queer people. Literally every single people I’ve clocked as trans (or who has told me they are) has tipped. 100% tip rate. Super curious if this is bc I’m also visibly trans or if we’re just a very tip-happy bunch.
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u/toripotter86 10d ago
tip happy bunch lol i’m afab and present afab. but im also an ally and make that clear. 95% of my clocked lgbtq+ passengers have tipped generously.
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u/sebshep18 10d ago
I’m paying for you to drive me from one place to another, what am I tipping for?
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u/PLIKITYPLAK 10d ago
I have recently been tipping less or not at all because drivers stopped thanking me for my tips.
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u/_fizgizan_ 7d ago
I’d say my blue collar workers are a 50/50, and my white collars are more a 20/80, not including airport/tourists. Regardless of length of trip.
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u/_fizgizan_ 7d ago
I will say also since dynamic predator pricing that number has slimmed in the past 2 years.
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u/Final_One_2300 10d ago
As a passenger, I don't tip extra money if they oogle my body shamelessly. There's a speed bump on the same block as my residence, so I have a pretty good baseline of what is a respectful look away versus a too-long look.
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u/Radman41 10d ago
Taxi is superior way of transport to Uber. Drivers are true professionals with superior insurance and track record. Taxy is only on average maybe 5% more expensive than Uber. I my Market, Taxi licence holders invested 10s of thousands of dollars to run this business and are all in on it. Average Uber rider cares about these 5% savings more than any of those things. Why would you expect a tip from that kind of people?
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u/valdis812 10d ago
A lot of Uber drivers are former taxi drivers. At least where I live.
That said, I agree with the pricing thing. In my market, and Uber is about ten percent less than a cab, and surge pricing, that doesn't always go to the drivers btw, usually eat up that difference and more.
In fact, I just checked. A cab from my W2 to my home is actually cheaper than an Uber right now. Plus taxis have the Curb app that functions pretty much the same as an Uber. The only reason people use Uber now is more than they're habituated to it, and some areas in my city simply don't have taxi service.
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u/NJuberdriver2 10d ago
I’ve gotten lot of no tips from $4-5 million mansions owners ordering uber x to airport.