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Re: Bolt/Uber Drivers To Start Warning Strike Next Month. by airsaylongcome: 10:47pm On Apr 05, 2022
Olayetan:



Not beat but impound their cars, this is a movement for all so why can't they comply?
When the app company heed to their demands, they will enjoy it too so why can't they comply to the majority.

Impound their vehicles on what grounds? Many of the vehicles on Uber do not meet Uber's minimum standards and Uber looks away. Same with bolt. If you guys are asking for fare increase, they can agree to it and in response demand "strict compliance" with their minimum vehicle standards. For example a lot of the so-called ACs in those Corollas will never pass strict compliance inspection. Or is it the sounds heard from creaking CV joints, or the hard transitions when the gears are shifting? I understand that you guys are asking for and actually need a review in pricing. But ganging up to illegally impound people's vehicles will only get you guys in trouble. You most likely don't have the backing of the government and these multinational businesses have very smooth operators in government circles

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Re: Bolt/Uber Drivers To Start Warning Strike Next Month. by IncredibleWrite: 10:50pm On Apr 05, 2022
Hedonini:
Fool. If you're not satisfied with the rates, why not quit the app and seek alternative means of livelihood? Why are you Nigerians so ridiculously idiotic and evil? Who force you do Uber or Bolt? I detest this entitlement mentality on top wetin no be by force. Very foolish animals, most of you.

Go and find work na. Go and start your own business. It is not by force to be an Uber or Bolt driver.
That's how one idiot carried me and started telling me I would add extra payment for him because of the increase in fuel price. This man drove me round the whole town cos he didn't know the routes and didn't use the map. At the end, a ride that I saw 1k turned to 3,700 and he was expecting me to pay. I was in so much rage. I later paid him 2,500 sha. If the work don tire you or you can't handle the rates, leave. Nobody forced you.
Re: Bolt/Uber Drivers To Start Warning Strike Next Month. by dru23(m): 10:54pm On Apr 05, 2022
Felicity0001:


Don't miss poverty days abeggrin even baz001 has hustle and japa. Cheerful the mad king of ehailing netting 150k week in week out easily is tired of posting dashboard because he cant even post a net earning of 50k week in week out consistently any longer. The hustle don cast... Na white slow be our friend these days not police any more, even our oga uche aka Pearl1910 self don tire to motivate guys because his earning has dropped from 20k daily to 10k nowgrin our about our honorable kanuisagoat, je hung his boot early this year venturing into okada business...

Izzue don't miss driving ooh pope191 self don tire because Bolt refused to acknowledge him, a whole high chief of arm forces with over 4k trips completed yet bolt still get craze block am then ask him to go for training b4 his aza will be reactivated, what a bombshellgrin he switched to indriver those once carry their bad luck low fare frustrate the guy... We are complaining bolt is t99 cheap with bonuses of collect N400 after N1200 total fare fr9m rider indriver still get mind carry their own low fare with fix price come spoil the small surge guys take dey console themselves. I really dont know why Bu. ha ri never sanction them since Russia invaded Ukraine... That indriver is not supposed to be onnour air space, main reas9n Uber/ Bolt will never review their fare because I've seen driver's do a trip of N3500 from Sanyo Ota to Sangotedo on a Saturday... No jokes bros... That trip on Bolt is nothing short of 10k without surge o let's not even talk how it would've cost on ubergrin

How about our able generalzoid who promised johnchrix 50k but at the point of transfer app suddenly hanged like our usual olosho scamming riders who don't have to pay for cheap riders we offered themgrin our able General just returned back from his Dubai vacation with Ferrari and 2021 venza and a Benz he wants to give the cars out on rental for grandma taabi little girl for upkeep so he won't have to be coming back all the time from vacation to drop moneygrin mrjaydee, tojah and lush100 are his managers so he won't be coming all the time to supervise his Plaza and hotelgrin

Bros izzuo the business don cast oh don't dare miss it abeg... Even me wey go buy Benz thinking I'll be getting good offline trips bolt bonuses to riders no let them dey reason me againgrin if I charge them 5k they'll say I've 30% discount on Bolt. Ha!

The country hard abeg bubu don make everybody hook belt to the very last hole so that the food they eat wont digest till after 24hrsgrin but las las peep4u always say God no go shame us and Yeyegbami will crown it up by saying las las we'll go dey alright but my Oga Gentlelife50 no dey always grew to that but I know way eyinola with him Corolla spent go dey alright shall even though je spent almost 60k revamping his suspension just last week.

Make blackbishop come pray for us abeg me self don tire for this hustle make Godfather10 show us the way to japa go meet our self acclaim No.1 oil seller on NL we@ dru23 n our general mama the only well trusted and tested auto-mobil workshop in Lagos Nigeria mama radautoworks. Mama I salute you oooh anything for your boy? Even if na be one of the campaign managers for baba Tinubu or brand ambassador I no go mind oooh... Double twalle to you ma'amgrin

Re: Bolt/Uber Drivers To Start Warning Strike Next Month. by Iamolukorede(m): 11:08pm On Apr 05, 2022
The good news is that not all the bolts/ Uber drivers will join the said strike. However, it is not by force to partner with them, i left the work because I don't enjoy doing it and the price fare isn't fair atall ..

I can't come and kill my self over bolt and Uber infact my car maintenance alone is another thing. Bolt and is principals are all cheat driver will work from morning till night without safety and yet prices of commodities have sky rocketed and yet bolt is still sleeping on it, I don't blame them either, they are customer and commission oriented. they don't give a hoot about the driver and Thier cars.

I left the job for good, I can't withstand a small girl insulting me within few minutes of driving are to her location. Damm

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Re: Bolt/Uber Drivers To Start Warning Strike Next Month. by emmy512: 11:13pm On Apr 05, 2022
Like i'll go on strike on upwork and fiverr to force them to increase minimum price or reduce commision because things are expensive in my country.
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Fellow freelancers will be forced to strike and if they dont we will check their phones and punish them.
.
You are not employees! Its called side hustle for a reason.

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Re: Bolt/Uber Drivers To Start Warning Strike Next Month. by ADAMUdaCOWBOY: 11:16pm On Apr 05, 2022
foolbuster:


I actually feel sorry for people like you with your funny entitlement mentality grin. It is people like you that keep deceiving yourself into thinking you have some kind of right over something that is 100% not yours by any stretch of the imagination. Your type of people are too lazy to make the difficult but right decision of walking away and searching elsewhere, but instead you start dragging right over someone else's sweat and labour, or maybe you think people that own these companies just snapped their fingers and the company fell down from the sky and started operating.

To answer your question, what you see as wrong isn't seen that way by everyone, but you can do your part by walking away, if everyone does that what do you think will happen when there is hardly anyone to work for them?

Nature has a way of regulating stuff, there is the natural law of demand and supply and no one can do anything about it.
That people are desperate is no fault of the company and if there are more than enough people WILLING to work under certain conditions for reasons best known to them then its just the natural law of demand and supply taking its course. why do you think corporations source cheap labour from certain countries?

I am totally against any form of gang up to intimidate people that gave you a source of livelihood when you were jobless begging, applying and going through all sorts of scrutiny just to work for them. Now you are working and breathing small you are ganging because you want more. Simply walk away if you are not satisfied and go else where.
When I saw "entitlement mentality", the phrase which many ignorant Nairaland masochists use to justify their love for being oppressed, I decided to spare myself the trouble of reading your empty post. The right to protest and respect for the worker is part of the reason why many of you travel through the desert to Europe inspite of the many dangers linked to such a sojourn. Keep working hard to retain the 3rd world country status your country is ignobly know for.

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Re: Bolt/Uber Drivers To Start Warning Strike Next Month. by AmDayo: 11:24pm On Apr 05, 2022
englishmart:
Where are you striking to? They will just allow you to strike for 6-weeks, by the time hunger touches you small, you will beg to call off the strike.
You think Nigeria works like the UK?

Slave you are.
Re: Bolt/Uber Drivers To Start Warning Strike Next Month. by eyinola: 11:28pm On Apr 05, 2022
Mooh247:
grin


Customers won't support you guys on this...

Fare increase means customers would pay more... As if Bolt/Uber is not already expensive enough

But in all fairness, with increase in fuel prices fares should never remain the same...

Vehicle maintenance cost is steadily on the increase, with Engine oil , Transmission oil and brake fluid all becoming expensive... vulcaniser would charge you ₦500 for what should have been ₦200


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in all of this they hv mind to increase their own commission imagine that oooo.. leaving drivers to suffer
Re: Bolt/Uber Drivers To Start Warning Strike Next Month. by airsaylongcome: 11:28pm On Apr 05, 2022
JeffreyJames:


Dey there dey speak grammar, don't face the reality on ground. Make I see who wan impound my car among Una, you go tell me wether Na your papa buy car gimme. You people with your useless union you created to enrich yourselves. Is not same you people that Lagos State government is using to market their stupid Lagride? You wan dey hear dey form wetin I no know. Lmao



Ahhh! You just opened my eyes now!! That's what all this is about. An attempt to pinch market share for Lagride. This country no balance at all mehn. Lagride we to cast within 2years

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Re: Bolt/Uber Drivers To Start Warning Strike Next Month. by mkoabiola: 11:40pm On Apr 05, 2022
foolbuster:
This strike is funny. It's not like the drivers are employees, they willingly accepted terms and conditions for using an app, now they want to form a cult to force a platform they willingly agreed to work with to bend to their will.

Not saying Uber and bolt are saints, but if you feel dissatisfied simply leave na aaa. Instead of forcing everyone, lolz. By the time they start facing driver shortages they'll surely do something to woo them back.
U make sense sha

I doubt there will total compliance
. Most are bred winners
Re: Bolt/Uber Drivers To Start Warning Strike Next Month. by Muhammadson2020: 11:49pm On Apr 05, 2022
BoltAndUberAbj:


Source: https://mobile.twitter.com/nacorpng/status/1511331965693218822/photo/1

. Any driver seen working on the day of strike destroy his or her car that day. Enough of this exploitation. If possible nah to go bomb their offices.

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Re: Bolt/Uber Drivers To Start Warning Strike Next Month. by beulahland82(m): 12:05am On Apr 06, 2022
We already have a plan B that solve our equations, we have a new app that cover all for us in Abeokuta and Ibadan,
I will advise that we take a look at the new application that has been parading the country for quite some months now.
I will share the link to their website. Leeft.ca is their website. They are from Canada.
Down the app from /leeftdriver
I believe they have good plans for us as a driver
I was with the guys that plant this in Abeokuta, and the fare makes sense die

Re: Bolt/Uber Drivers To Start Warning Strike Next Month. by BoltAndUberAbj: 12:09am On Apr 06, 2022
JeffreyJames:


Dey there dey speak grammar, don't face the reality on ground. Make I see who wan impound my car among Una, you go tell me wether Na your papa buy car gimme. You people with your useless union you created to enrich yourselves. Is not same you people that Lagos State government is using to market their stupid Lagride? You wan dey hear dey form wetin I no know. Lmao


this one is probably a jjc. All it takes is one report and that your bolt account will be banned forever. Yeye dey smell. You go get sense by force. cheesy

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Re: Bolt/Uber Drivers To Start Warning Strike Next Month. by beulahland82(m): 1:47am On Apr 06, 2022
beulahland82:
We already have a plan B that solve our equations, we have a new app that cover all for us in Abeokuta and Ibadan,
I will advise that we take a look at the new application that has been parading the country for quite some months now.
I will share the link to their website. Leeft.ca is their website. They are from Canada.
Download the app from https:///leeftdriver
I believe they have good plans for us as a driver
I was with the guys that plant this in Abeokuta, and the fare makes sense die
Re: Bolt/Uber Drivers To Start Warning Strike Next Month. by Deinfante: 2:49am On Apr 06, 2022
foolbuster:


I actually feel sorry for people like you with your funny entitlement mentality grin. It is people like you that keep deceiving yourself into thinking you have some kind of right over something that is 100% not yours by any stretch of the imagination. Your type of people are too lazy to make the difficult but right decision of walking away and searching elsewhere, but instead you start dragging right over someone else's sweat and labour, or maybe you think people that own these companies just snapped their fingers and the company fell down from the sky and started operating.

To answer your question, what you see as wrong isn't seen that way by everyone, but you can do your part by walking away, if everyone does that what do you think will happen when there is hardly anyone to work for them?

Nature has a way of regulating stuff, there is the natural law of demand and supply and no one can do anything about it.
That people are desperate is no fault of the company and if there are more than enough people WILLING to work under certain conditions for reasons best known to them then its just the natural law of demand and supply taking its course. why do you think corporations source cheap labour from certain countries?

I am totally against any form of gang up to intimidate people that gave you a source of livelihood when you were jobless begging, applying and going through all sorts of scrutiny just to work for them. Now you are working and breathing small you are ganging because you want more. Simply walk away if you are not satisfied and go else where.


Cab Business is as Old as time, Bolt and Uber are just modified Agbero, their simple job is to use tech to link Drivers and Riders together, I don't understand what you mean, this is a parasitic relationship and not partnership as inscribed in the T&C signed

The Vehicle is ours, 100% maintenance is on the owner/driver of the Vehicle and most importantly, we absorb all the risks

Is this the definition of Partnership to you

I understand you're doing your Employees Bidding, but understand, it's our singular right to push them back to the drawing Board! Uber some years ago was very Arrogant, I want you to know they were humbled, and will soon be a thing of the past if they don't adjust! We are not forcing them! We want them to know that their days of using the "Divide and rule/donkey & carrot Approach" are over!

We won't use their App, we will continue earning on other Apps willing to actively partner with e-hailing drivers! Maintaining standard is not Cheap, so why the cheap fares! Are you aware the price for Corolla Engine is now 420k, that the moment you have issues, you are back to square one!!! This is a Breakdown for you so you understand this is a business and not charity! A trip from the Airport to Central business district is 4,100, you pay 200 toll, bolt or Uber takes 22.5% commission which is roughly around 902 naira, you pay FAAN 500 naira, then another 700 naira being cost of fuel, so from 4,100 your take home is 2,302 naira and you want us to maintain standard What's the Value of 2,302 naira! Please let's be serious

If you can't afford a certain life style, stay in your lane! But don't lecture people running a business on what or how to earn!

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Re: Bolt/Uber Drivers To Start Warning Strike Next Month. by Deinfante: 2:56am On Apr 06, 2022
[quote author=beulahland82 post=111686881][/quote]

We can't endorse any App Company that's not willing to sign an MOU with us, that's the mistake we made with Bolt!

This is a partnership, if they want to run Employee Model like Uber and Bolt, then they should be willing to Pay Salaries, Pensions and other Allowances!

So let their rep get in touch with us using our Twitter Account @nacorpng! We schedule a meeting, have all necessary documentations signed (which will be made public for all drivers to see what it entails) then we will subscribe to their services

But if our Comrades in Abeokuta feels the need to give them a trial, no problem
Re: Bolt/Uber Drivers To Start Warning Strike Next Month. by Digixtreme: 6:14am On Apr 06, 2022
You need a mental reevaluation.

Hedonini:
Fool. If you're not satisfied with the rates, why not quit the app and seek alternative means of livelihood? Why are you Nigerians so ridiculously idiotic and evil? Who force you do Uber or Bolt? I detest this entitlement mentality on top wetin no be by force. Very foolish animals, most of you.

Go and find work na. Go and start your own business. It is not by force to be an Uber or Bolt driver.
Re: Bolt/Uber Drivers To Start Warning Strike Next Month. by Nobody: 7:13am On Apr 06, 2022
BoltAndUberAbj:
Since their last review in 2019 till date prices of things have changed... except Uber n bolt pricing... Prices of car has changed ... Corolla moved from 1.8M to 3.5M ... Prices of engine oil from 4k to 10k

Price of brakes... Shocks etc... Fuel from ₦124 to ₦165... Prices of total car maintenance including the food we eat... Yet they increased commission but won't increase their fare... they should return it to 10% or increase fare by at least 50%.

Drivers get kidnapped and killed almost on a weekly basis because there’s zero verification of passengers ID but to be a driver on these platforms you must provide every single ID you have. From NIN to BVN, passport, etc.

You won’t with your “lol” because you’re a Nigerian. Nigerians in general are already accustomed to suffering and smiling. Are you better than bolt drivers in USA, South Africa or even UK that went on strike over the same issues? You see why this country will never progress? The reason is because people like you live in it. People who don’t know when to say e don do.


God bless you for this comment. A country filled with hypocrites, that’s why we are the poverty capital of the world. The citizens have been so bastardized they don’t have any form of self worth anymore. We need a mass re-education and mental evaluation in this country.

The guy gave you a simple solution, turn your bolt or Uber to normal taxi... staying with bolt is a choice, you are not forced, your union is not registered.
Re: Bolt/Uber Drivers To Start Warning Strike Next Month. by foolbuster: 7:34am On Apr 06, 2022
ADAMUdaCOWBOY:

When I saw "entitlement mentality", the phrase which many ignorant Nairaland masochists use to justify their love for being oppressed, I decided to spare myself the trouble of reading your empty post. The right to protest and respect for the worker is part of the reason why many of you travel through the desert to Europe inspite of the many dangers linked to such a sojourn. Keep working hard to retain the 3rd world country status your country is ignobly know for.

Oga stop being lazy, go and huzzle and stop dragging right over someone else's property. The right to protest and respect for the worker is not the reason people are leaving the country, they are leaving because of the activities of corrupt individuals in position of power and the failed government of Nigeria.

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Re: Bolt/Uber Drivers To Start Warning Strike Next Month. by nairaman66(m): 7:34am On Apr 06, 2022
Olayetan:




The ride isn't for everyone, take danfo or keke if you can't afford it.

True. But basic econometrics will act on it. “The higher the price, the lower the quantity demanded”. These companies know this. You’re the one not informed!

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Re: Bolt/Uber Drivers To Start Warning Strike Next Month. by foolbuster: 7:40am On Apr 06, 2022
Deinfante:


Cab Business is as Old as time, Bolt and Uber are just modified Agbero, their simple job is to use tech to link Drivers and Riders together, I don't understand what you mean, this is a parasitic relationship and not partnership as inscribed in the T&C signed

The Vehicle is ours, 100% maintenance is on the owner/driver of the Vehicle and most importantly, we absorb all the risks

Is this the definition of Partnership to you

I understand you're doing your Employees Bidding, but understand, it's our singular right to push them back to the drawing Board! Uber some years ago was very Arrogant, I want you to know they were humbled, and will soon be a thing of the past if they don't adjust! We are not forcing them! We want them to know that their days of using the "Divide and rule/donkey & carrot Approach" are over!

We won't use their App, we will continue earning on other Apps willing to actively partner with e-hailing drivers! Maintaining standard is not Cheap, so why the cheap fares! Are you aware the price for Corolla Engine is now 420k, that the moment you have issues, you are back to square one!!! This is a Breakdown for you so you understand this is a business and not charity! A trip from the Airport to Central business district is 4,100, you pay 200 toll, bolt or Uber takes 22.5% commission which is roughly around 902 naira, you pay FAAN 500 naira, then another 700 naira being cost of fuel, so from 4,100 your take home is 2,302 naira and you want us to maintain standard What's the Value of 2,302 naira! Please let's be serious

If you can't afford a certain life style, stay in your lane! But don't lecture people running a business on what or how to earn!

This your talk of being able to afford a certain lifestyle and me doing my employees bidding is just trash and out of point. So anyone that disagrees with you is working for uber? thats rather a very foolish assumption.

My point is be a man, stop being lazy and look elsewhere, rather than gang up to blackmail. There are so many other ride sharing apps now. why must you insist on uber and bolt.

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Re: Bolt/Uber Drivers To Start Warning Strike Next Month. by ADAMUdaCOWBOY: 8:24am On Apr 06, 2022
foolbuster:


Oga stop being lazy, go and huzzle and stop dragging right over someone else's property. The right to protest and respect for the worker is not the reason people are leaving the country, they are leaving because of the activities of corrupt individuals in position of power and the failed government of Nigeria.
Honestly, I also read the first line of your post and ignored the rest just like I did with your earliér Post. I have a very low tolerance for nonsense?
Re: Bolt/Uber Drivers To Start Warning Strike Next Month. by MumuYorubaBoy: 8:25am On Apr 06, 2022
So you want us to support Bolt and Uber to raise prices against us?

How e dey do you?
Re: Bolt/Uber Drivers To Start Warning Strike Next Month. by huntax(m): 8:26am On Apr 06, 2022
BoltAndUberAbj:
77 naira price increase? Please be serious. undecided

The commission is actually 22.5%...at times,it's even 25%. So one lie there has ruined their credibility.
Re: Bolt/Uber Drivers To Start Warning Strike Next Month. by huntax(m): 8:27am On Apr 06, 2022
nairaman66:
This is really a funny one! Customers won’t support you guys, since we are looking for cheap rides and fares. You guys are on your own..


The idea is to bring you guys over to indriver and Rida....the former has a commission rate of 9.5%,while the other is free atm.
Re: Bolt/Uber Drivers To Start Warning Strike Next Month. by huntax(m): 8:34am On Apr 06, 2022
foolbuster:
This strike is funny. It's not like the drivers are employees, they willingly accepted terms and conditions for using an app, now they want to form a cult to force a platform they willingly agreed to work with to bend to their will.

Not saying Uber and bolt are saints, but if you feel dissatisfied simply leave na aaa. Instead of forcing everyone, lolz. By the time they start facing driver shortages they'll surely do something to woo them back.

"By the time they start facing driver shortages they'll surely do something to woo them back."
Dude,you just literally explained what they are doing.

That's why they are going on strike. They are effectively leaving

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