In an ideal world they would offer paid training and mentoring positions to the highest rated drivers and have them on-board new drivers with ride alongs and practical assessment.
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Replying to @Technicallyowen @arthur_affect and
So a minor aside from me, and I really don’t understand it: Why is everyone trying to get Uber to be a better ethical employer when their stated aim is to fire all the humans and replace them with robots.
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Replying to @EmJaeCaer @Technicallyowen and
I actually agree with this! Maybe the business model of Uber can’t actually be a completely inclusive space because when you don’t treat your employees like employees you can’t accurately apply guidelines that other actual employees would have
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Replying to @surplusvalmeal @EmJaeCaer and
Okay but as long as that's how Uber works then people getting delisted for violating the ADA is still an unambiguously good and positive thing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @EmJaeCaer and
The logic of "It's bad that this one guy got fired this way because all these other people get away with it" is shitty logic, even if it were true And it isn't true - Uber delists people all the time for this because they have to, they made a specific legal agreement to do so
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Replying to @arthur_affect @EmJaeCaer and
The reason this is an ongoing problem is THERE ARE TOO MANY DRIVERS The churn on app-based rideshare is enormous, it's a selling point - it's how they roll out their service so quickly, anyone with a car can sign up within few days
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Replying to @arthur_affect @EmJaeCaer and
That's why it's kind of headass to even blame "Uber", the company - this driver who got "fired" likely was able to hop over to Lyft immediately, if he wasn't already The bad policy isn't from corporate, the people get left because the driver population is full of assholes
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Replying to @arthur_affect @EmJaeCaer and
Yeah why bother to critique a business model that made this a problem to begin with. Definitely focus on the largely undocumented people. Definitely going to solve the problem there.
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Replying to @surplusvalmeal @EmJaeCaer and
It helps the problem in a much more immediate and direct way than concern trolling that redirects the discourse into the driver being the victim does
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Replying to @arthur_affect @EmJaeCaer and
I don’t know there has been massive organizing to try and push back against this predatory business models by literally thousands of people. But that’s a lot harder to do than yell on Twitter so I get it
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There's been massive organizing on this specific issue too, which led to the NFB vs Uber lawsuit, which succeeded Maybe you should educate yourself on this history before going off about it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @EmJaeCaer and
And, in fact, the long-term push to have Uber be regarded as an employer and not a mere service provider to drivers has the NFB lawsuit as a milestone It was Uber arguing the plaintiff's demands could be satisfied without opening the question of their core business model
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Replying to @arthur_affect @EmJaeCaer and
If it turns out they can't - and NFB considers enforcement of the settlement an open issue and one of their primary organizing issues, and asks people to submit reports of ADA violations as well as sending out test riders - then it opens again
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