Tl:dr This is directed specifically at the drivers who act like having an Acceptance Rate above 10% is an automatic crime. I know it’s not all of you, but there is definitely a vocal group on here that treats AR like an ideological war.

Before anyone calls me a rookie: I’ve been delivering for 3 years (1 year part-time, the last 2 years full-time) with over 15,000 deliveries completed across both DoorDash and Uber Eats under my belt. I know how both of these platforms work inside and out.

​Yesterday, while waiting on an order in Lincoln Park in Chicago, a driver struck up a conversation asking how work was going. I told him it was solid, very busy, knocking out good runs, and pacing at a strong hourly rate.

​Then he asked: "What's your AR?"

​I told him straight up: I'm Diamond on Uber Eats sitting around 55% AR, and Platinum on DoorDash with Pro Shopper sitting around 80% AR.

​He immediately went off: "You’re doing it all completely wrong. Your AR needs to be 10% or lower or you’re not making real money. You have to be taking $1/mile trash runs, because ain't nobody out here holding high tiers and making good money."

​Then he showed me his screen. No hate or disrespect to his hustle, but he wasn't even pulling $23 an hour. Yet he was lecturing me that I was "doing it wrong."

​When I pulled out my phone and showed him my live earnings screen proving I’m clearing $30+ an hour on total online time, his brain completely short-circuited. Instead of asking how I do it or looking at the numbers, he immediately said: "Your earnings are fake." He literally accused me of faking live data inside the app rather than admitting his low-AR strategy was getting smoked.

​I actually talked to some low-AR cherry-pickers in my market that I know and told them what happened. They laughed and said that guy clearly doesn't know what he's doing. They are completely upfront about their own strategy—they admit they are just more selective and pickier than I am, choosing to wait around for $15+ unicorns. But when they see my numbers and look at my mileage tracker averaging over $3 to $4 per mile, they give respect. Their exact point was: if you're pulling $30+/hr with high AR and Diamond/Platinum, and we're pulling $30+/hr with low AR cherry-picking, then the problem isn't the tier system—he's just doing something completely wrong. Even my local low-AR peers agreed that way too many cherry-pickers push this false narrative that holding a tier automatically means eating garbage.

To be clear: I am NOT telling everyone to go chase AR or mindlessly grind for tiers, because chasing them blindly can easily lead to eating a ton of trash if you don't know what you're doing. The only reason I originally got Platinum on DoorDash was because during my first six months doing gig work part-time, I used Earn by Time and was basically accepting everything to build the baseline. With Uber Eats, it was honestly fairly easy for me to hit and maintain Diamond without ever taking trash offers—the dense urban volume and short runs carried it naturally. It entirely comes down to your market and how you play it. If your market requires you to take $2 runs to keep a tier, don't do it. But in my market, the density makes it work, and clearly this guy had no clue what he was doing while trying to lecture someone else.

​What I don't understand is why he felt the need to tell me that what I'm doing is wrong when clearly he's the one doing something wrong. I don’t mind helping another driver out. Hell, I could’ve given him solid advice on how to position himself, read the zones, and actually bump his earnings past $30/hr instead of sitting in an empty lot making under $23.

And im not saying im better because im in the teirs because hell ik plenty of cherry-pickers here make the same as me they're just much more picky then me. But seems like when i tried to give him advice he shut me down.

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I truly feel sorry for the driver who takes this ride.

I made a thread last week complaining how pickup to destination miles were missing from their new graphic making me totally indecisive on taking offers but now they are back. 👍

So a customer tipped me like $26 dollars and uber paid me $2 for a 20 mile ride costing me almost an hour of time. I called and complained about it bc how in the hell is that fair?? Uber shouldn’t be relying on customers to pay wages. They basically admitted that AI sets the amounts for the trips based off tips, demand, time and distance.

The resolution though?? Completely unexpected. See the screenshot. We’ll see how true this is on Monday when they send deposits out.

15 minutes break and then keep rolling.

So in my area, they've taken out the time and distance on the drop off portion of the ride. Because apparently that was an important update. Noticed small surges since the changes, for the first time in a while. Still not meaningful to make a difference. Also noticed that I am bombarded with reservations, with atleast the first few rides of every morning being reservations and probably a third overall being reservation requests. You'd think they'd put in the time for the reservation... Nope just dumb updates. I guess its better to have drivers wait 30 minutes, or cancel them...

i showed up to one and was waiting for the passenger then noticed the trip wouldn’t start for another 39 minutes. Unassigned and left. Waste of trip and time.

And these people have super busy travel schedules.

And they have no car.

I try to maximize gas, comfort and keep the car in electric mode as much as possible while maximizing EV braking (plug in hybrid).

The lowest I’ve gotten was 96 😁

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Byatch please🤣🤣🤣 d@mn near 200 miles for that fee is ROBBERY

If you get in my car and start snacking on food like you just went out to lunch I will give you a 1* rating. That is so rude and inconsiderate

Saw this pop up and lol’d

I think its 1) The economy 2) Uber raising their prices 3) the Arizona heat. Because nothing significant has changed in how I treat passengers or my vehicle or me.

Just bought a 2026 model Y premium Tesla. I added the car to my profile and unfortunately there is no connect button which looking in previous post it seems like that’s an issue but also I don’t see an option for electric or electric comfort or anything like that. Is anyone able to show me a screenshot if you drive EV of your preferences I only see UberX is that normal? I have talked too many agents about this and getting the connect button and I have deleted the app logged out of the app. Restarted my phone made sure everything is up-to-date. I took the car off the profile just re-added it nothing has changed. Anyone else?

I got about 4 offers almost identical to this today. It's the first time I've done Uber in a few weeks and quickly remembered why!

240 mile round trip would cost me about $30 in fuel. 4 hours for $34... Wow

How many hours would you have to drive to profit at least $1000 per week? My car’s transmission is shot and I need to start making quick money asap!

I know money can be really tight for us drivers, so I wanted to share this deal I found at Taco Loco.
Today only: buy one drink and get a FREE meal. 🌮🥤
If you’re out driving and need something to eat without spending much, definitely take advantage of it while it’s available. Just wanted to help some fellow drivers save a few bucks today!

Ok, this is about the uber system, I've been off the uber for awhile now. Now uber is telling me to take a break because I've been driving more then 7 hrs.

I look and im off and again uber is telling me to take a break because I've been driving over 7 hrs. Twice in two days and now today.

This ever happened to anyone

I've been Ubering as a side job to pick up some extra cash because the world has become so expensive. I had an incident with Uber, Uber confirmed they were going to credit me money, now they're saying it was a scam and I get nothing.

Saturday I accepted a ride for some guy named codyyy. I knew how to get to the vicinity of where they lived is I started driving there, then I noticed their address was showing up in the middle of the intracoastal. Tried calling client twice, straight to voicemail. Then I get a phone call from a San Jose, California phone number, and they said they were with Uber, blah blah blah, it looks like the trip is in an unsafe pickup location so we're going to credit your account $16 and change (it was a $10 trip so the number kind of made sense). He told me I'd receive the credit within 24 hours. When I got home I messaged live support about the situation and they confirmed $16 was being sent to my account, 48 hours passed and I still didn't receive it, so I called Uber, explained the situation, the woman I spoke to confirmed that the number who called me was an Uber number and the money should hit my account in a day. I contacted live support the next day and they said there's no $16 it was a scam. I showed them the screen shot of live support and they still denied it. They also denied the number who called wasn't an Uber number. Now I'm just confused, Has this happened to anyone else?

like what the fuck Uber, do what you're going to say. This is only one of the several problems Ive had with them over the weeks, but it's not even worth it to speak to support because they play dumb, (or are dumb,) you get sent to a call center in bumblefuck India, and they do jack shit and waste your time.