thelastorca:


I will say what my boss said once, if this job was easy, you would not be doing it. Every job has great days and horrible days. My commute to work used to be Orile. I have been robbed there once, once on Xmas eve, they came close but I had already sighted them and taken evasive action, several times boys tried intimidation and I showed craze. Can you tell them at work I can't make it because road is bad? I have slept over night at sites. I have used my own money on projects.

I am simply saying you have to go the extra mile. And it has to be an attitude.

We had a project years ago in Ijora. A real mess. Towards the end we were in crunch and it was hell. The contractor had one guy who had been disturbing all of us to assist him with employment. The guy just vanished. Meanwhile there was a youth corper who was staying overnight, dropping his own money to make things move. After the project we had a vacancy and I called him without him calling me. I told him all he needed to know and we engaged him. This was five years ago and he has been on the system since in one way or another.

He could also have said not my problem, I am not paid enough for this, they are cheating me. He would have been right and he would have missed the opportunity that materialised.

You do not always know who your ride is.

And you do not always know when opportunity is knocking

izzou:


So you are saying a driver should damage his car because of the customer? He should drive through bad and terrible roads just for how much?

Shebi you change shocks for #800 Abi?

thelastorca:


And who says I have not worked in dangerous sites?

Shed this entitlement mentality. Nothing good comes easy, especially in the Nigeria of today. The market is becoming even more competitive and you are still hemming and hawking.

Dbossmanager:

worked in a sambisa like environment...well I hope u get your wish...
y not tell the families of the UN aid workers that were killed in sambisa or the ones kidnapped about sending their people to sambisa like environment to work...
U ve been ranting all over the thread just because drivers dont want to take you to your government forsaken environment.
Take your own advice, shed your entitlement mentality.....Drivers owe you nothing..
Uber allows partners to work at their own pace and discretions....and Uber would do nothing to the guy u reported....he had no business with you...for all Uber knows..you could be lying....

thelastorca:


I will say what my boss said once, if this job was easy, you would not be doing it. Every job has great days and horrible days. My commute to work used to be Orile. I have been robbed there once, once on Xmas eve, they came close but I had already sighted them and taken evasive action, several times boys tried intimidation and I showed craze. Can you tell them at work I can't make it because road is bad? I have slept over night at sites. I have used my own money on projects.

I am simply saying you have to go the extra mile. And it has to be an attitude.

We had a project years ago in Ijora. A real mess. Towards the end we were in crunch and it was hell. The contractor had one guy who had been disturbing all of us to assist him with employment. The guy just vanished as the going got tough. I cannot kill myself. Meanwhile there was a youth corper who was working overnight, dropping his own money to make things move. After the project we had a vacancy and I called him without him calling me. I told him all he needed to know and we engaged him. This was five years ago and he has been on the system since in one way or another.

He could also have said not my problem, I am not paid enough for this, they are cheating me. He would have been right and he would have missed the opportunity that materialised.

You do not always know who your ride is.

And you do not always know when opportunity is knocking

nitigriti:


No, Izzou. The driver should not damage his car because of the customer.

He should take his car off the platform — Uber or Taxify; since he is not okay with the services the platform is providing for him.

So long as he keeps his car on the platform, he is obligated to provide service according to the terms and conditions of the platform.

#StrictlyBusiness #NoSentiments

izzou:


Ornicus, no vex... Let me ask you a question

If you were a driver, and you get a request to a lqocation with very bad roads, what do you do?

Remember:
1) It will be unprofessional for you to cancel the trip.

2) It will be fraud if you ask for offline after you realize the fee will not be worth the damage on both the car, and traffic

Please, what will you do?

thelastorca:


Take it. You win some, you lose some. Not every project is going to be sweet. Not every job is going to be fantastic. The way you handle the difficult jobs is what makes you. You will not be doing uber forever. You will work somewhere or even have your own business. And you will sometimes find you have to take bad of low profit jobs. It is what it is. Will you reject a fantastic trip if offered? So why do you want to cherry pick the jobs that come your way?

Do you think your fledgling business would flourish with that attitude?

thelastorca:
Rejecting rides dilutes the quality of the platform. This reduces users and reduces revenue.

On this thread, there are already complaints that oride is taking over, not so?

In the end, if uber does, who suffers, me? Or the drivers?

izzou:


You only use the line "YOU WIN SOME AND LOSE SOME" when an unexpected result happens. Not when you deliberately give something a shot even when you know you'll lose

At your place of work, do you guys deliberately enter into a business that you are very sure you'll lose?

A driver decides to go to Agbara online. The estimate is #2500 to #2900. He buys fuel of 3k.
Enters traffic and spent hours between Abule Ado to Iyanaoba. Let's not talk about the damage inflicted on the car. And in the end, he gets #4k. Is there any sense in this?

Ornicus, please just be realistic. Uber and Bolt did not design their app and fare rates to accommodate bad roads and floods. That's the honest truth.

But anyway, everyone is entitled to his opinion

nitigriti:


No, Izzou. The driver should not damage his car because of the customer.

He should take his car off the platform — Uber or Taxify; since he is not okay with the services the platform is providing for him.

So long as he keeps his car on the platform, he is obligated to provide service according to the terms and conditions of the platform.

#StrictlyBusiness #NoSentiments

thelastorca:


Google loss leader

izzou:


Nitigriti, I'm sorry but I think you are contradicting yourself

You said its unprofessional to reject trips

You are saying the driver should leave the platform if he doesn't want to damage his car

So if I get a request from you to a location with bad roads, what do I do?
Are you saying I damage my car because I want to be professional?
Or I should cancel the trip?
Or I should cancel and leave the platform totally?

nitigriti:


No, Izzou. The driver should not damage his car because of the customer.

He should take his car off the platform — Uber or Taxify; since he is not okay with the services the platform is providing for him.

So long as he keeps his car on the platform, he is obligated to provide service according to the terms and conditions of the platform.

#StrictlyBusiness #NoSentiments

nitigriti:








Let's not try to be holier than the Pope. In my hey days, I never ask riders for destination unless it is night; say from 8:00pm; because of security.

If during the day I accept a trip and I start the trip and see a destination I don't like, say, Ijebu Ode, I will simply apologize to the rider and tell him or her I can't go. I will tell the rider I am about to cancel the trip so you can request another car and also let the rider know he or she can sit in my car with the AC running until the requested car comes.

In this, I have not cheated the Uber or Bolt platform in any way, which is the point Ornicus was making. We shouldn't cheat the platforms.

peeps4u:

Does taxify accept 2002 car?

BTW, I first thought you wrote "280k" as weekly remittance.

thelastorca:


I am the customer/client. If it is too hard for you to work in a structured environment, you can hop on okada, or keke napep, or kabu kabu or danfo. Those are the ones who regularly say, I no dey go again, get down.

You are showing the typical attitude problems of Nigerian workers. And of course you have the misplaced ego to decieve yourself that you are somehow special and that customers will come to you no matter what.

You know what a real boss would do if he felt he was being shortchanged? He would get out and start his own ehailing business. A mediocre would continue trying to steal from his partner while grumbling everyday.

izzou:


Nitigriti, I'm sorry but I think you are contradicting yourself

You said its unprofessional to reject trips

You are saying the driver should leave the platform if he doesn't want to damage his car

So if I get a request from you to a location with bad roads, what do I do?
Are you saying I damage my car because I want to be professional?
Or I should cancel the trip?
Or I should cancel and leave the platform totally?

izzou:


Nitigriti, I'm sorry but I think you are contradicting yourself

You said its unprofessional to reject trips

You are saying the driver should leave the platform if he doesn't want to damage his car

So if I get a request from you to a location with bad roads, what do I do?
Are you saying I damage my car because I want to be professional?
Or I should cancel the trip?
Or I should cancel and leave the platform totally?

peeps4u:
Seems Nitigriti feels only his cancellation was right. He saidnhere that he also used to cancel trip bit would wait for the riders to get new rides and stay in his car till a new car came.
I asked what makes your own cancellation right? Because another driver that candles doesn't wait for rider to get another ride or because the rider is not Nitigriti.

Cancellation isn't wrong, only when a driver is rude or unprofessional while neglecting the trip.
You can cancellation trip fro many reasons;
1. Bad roads
2. Flooded area
3. Far place.
4. Getting late.
And many more.

No driver that justifiably cancelled or cancels for any of these above reasons can condemn another for cancelling for bad roads.

nitigriti:


If you get a request to a location with bad roads, SIMPLY CANCEL

brogxy:

From nitigriti's point of cancellation. Once I get to pick up and see a riders comes out of another Uber car, first is to ask for the destination before the person even settles down. The driver must have rejected the trip for a reason.

brogxy:

Then a thief is still a thief no matter how small you stole.
You still cancelled which Uber frowns against.

thelastorca:


Take it. You win some, you lose some. Not every project is going to be sweet. Not every job is going to be fantastic. The way you handle the difficult jobs is what makes you. You will not be doing uber forever. You will work somewhere or even have your own business. And you will sometimes find you have to take bad of low profit jobs. It is what it is. Will you reject a fantastic trip if offered? So why do you want to cherry pick the jobs that come your way?

Do you think your fledgling business would flourish with that attitude?

brogxy:

Then a thief is still a thief no matter how small you stole.
You still cancelled which Uber frowns against.

peeps4u:
Seems Nitigriti feels only his cancellation was right. He saidnhere that he also used to cancel trip bit would wait for the riders to get new rides and stay in his car till a new car came.
I asked what makes your own cancellation right? Because another driver that candles doesn't wait for rider to get another ride or because the rider is not Nitigriti.

Cancellation isn't wrong, only when a driver is rude or unprofessional while neglecting the trip.
You can cancellation trip fro many reasons;
1. Bad roads
2. Flooded area
3. Far place.
4. Getting late.
And many more.

No driver that justifiably cancelled or cancels for any of these above reasons can condemn another for cancelling for bad roads.

nitigriti:


@Izzou this is the essence of what I said. Drivers shouldn't cherry-pick trips. During my time as a driver, I regularly accepted Festac, Alimosho, Mowe, Alagbole, Akute, Agbara trips.

Are the roads fantastic?
No.
But I accepted those trips because I HAD A DUTY TO THE PLATFORM! My philosophy on those kinds of trips is TO PROCEED WITH CAUTION. Remember, I once stated on this thread, that there is a difference when you speed into a pothole at 120km/h and crawl into the same pothole at 5km/h.