The Crazy Uber

[Greenman]

is there any up front costs before you start ubering?

You could consider finding out how much more insurance would be.

Good idea.

[Cousin Jack]

Upon reflection it sounds a bit wank tbh, driving people around.
No idea what it pays but I bet it’s not loads.

I fancy a job where you don’t have to use your brain or take any stress, but driving perhaps isn’t it.

Stacking shelves in Aldi is more my level, or maybe the warehouse.

I tried driving a limo. I like driving, nice car with someone else paying, what's not to like?

The answer is several things.
Inconvenient times, people want to go places at times to suit them, not the driver.
Boring- strict adherence to speed limits and gentle acceleration and braking.
Even more boring - waiting around for an hour or more AFTER the agreed pick-up time.
Customers, some were fine, some were plonkers, but telling them they are plonkers is discouraged.
Oh yes, and the pay was not good!

[Horse]

I fancy a job where you don’t have to use your brain or take any stress

You'd be bored shitless. Then, sooner or later, pointing out deficiencies in operations to the senior management. And they'll love you for it

[Greenman]

Upon reflection it sounds a bit wank tbh, driving people around.
No idea what it pays but I bet it’s not loads.

I fancy a job where you don’t have to use your brain or take any stress, but driving perhaps isn’t it.

Stacking shelves in Aldi is more my level, or maybe the warehouse.

Guy i spoke to said he was bringing home over 3k a month after tax min! Not sure how many days he was working or how many hours he was doing though.

Pony says in this thread £200 a day is easy.

[Dodgy69]

Where i put my time in these days, i do 4 days, we have 200 vehicle delivery drivers, most retired. Choose your days and take vehicles up and down the country. They all seem to enjoy it.

[weeksy]

Pony says in this thread £200 a day is easy.

Before or after fuel, servicing, insurance ?

[Greenman]

Pony says in this thread £200 a day is easy.

Before or after fuel, servicing, insurance ?

Before, that is the rub tbh.

Insurance looks to be about £1800 for me, plus a car newer than 2014 (mines 2006!) plus fuel, servicing etc as you say, all adding up.

Google says average pay for Uber driver is 24k but i have spoke to so many that say they earn far more than that, maybe they are doing 7 days a week!

[Mr. Dazzle]

Upon reflection it sounds a bit wank tbh, driving people around.
No idea what it pays but I bet it’s not loads.

I fancy a job where you don’t have to use your brain or take any stress, but driving perhaps isn’t it.

Stacking shelves in Aldi is more my level, or maybe the warehouse.

I've seen the same van with (probably) the same two guys driving all around MK changing street light bulbs.

Van has a little cherry picker on the roof. One guy goes up and changes the bulb, one guy does some gubbins at the bottom of the lamp post. 5 mins at each one, then drive 25m and repeat.

You should get a job doing that.

[cheb]

I was in an uber a few weeks ago and it turned out he earned more than i do in IT. I am actually quite tempted to start doing some ubering. I have very good knowledge of the south west especially Bristol/Bath and South Glos.

Do you have to fight to get the clients? can you be sitting around for hours sometimes without any fares? can you set your own prices? is there any up front costs before you start ubering?

Before anything else you might want to research just how shittily Uber have behaved towards their drivers. Less so now as they've be forced to be less shitty.

[Cousin Jack]

I fancy a job where you don’t have to use your brain or take any stress

You'd be bored shitless. Then, sooner or later, pointing out deficiencies in operations to the senior management. And they'll love you for it

Oh yes! I did that with the limo company (pointed out the glaring holes in their drivers manual) , and it went down like a lead balloon.

[weeksy]

I've seen the same van with (probably) the same two guys driving all around MK changing street light bulbs.

Van has a little cherry picker on the roof. One guy goes up and changes the bulb, one guy does some gubbins at the bottom of the lamp post. 5 mins at each one, then drive 25m and repeat.

You should get a job doing that.

Lol that's almost a trade!

I'll be a shelf stacker, I know someone who does it and he fully advocates the fact that he doesn't have to worry about a career, he can take any job paying minimum wage and he doesn't give a monkeys. It's apparently very liberating and there is work coming out of his ears, he reckons he could leave Lidl at lunchtime and have a job at Asda by the end of the day.

It's actually most likely that I won't need to work at all but I'm going to do it at least for a while just so I can lord it about the aisles knowing that I don't need to be there and I could walk out on a whim like a 1970's shop steward

you wouldn't last a week.

[weeksy]

Lol that's almost a trade!

I'll be a shelf stacker, I know someone who does it and he fully advocates the fact that he doesn't have to worry about a career, he can take any job paying minimum wage and he doesn't give a monkeys. It's apparently very liberating and there is work coming out of his ears, he reckons he could leave Lidl at lunchtime and have a job at Asda by the end of the day.

It's actually most likely that I won't need to work at all but I'm going to do it at least for a while just so I can lord it about the aisles knowing that I don't need to be there and I could walk out on a whim like a 1970's shop steward

you wouldn't last a week.

I would if I switch off, stack shelves and ignore the managers.
The test for me would be when middle management start their shite and I get tempted to open my mouth.

But I'll sweep floors, clean the bogs and do any menial jobs without a peep - I just can't take thick people trying to play at being boss.

Fair enough...

























You wouldn't last till lunch

[Skub]

I just can't take thick people trying to play at being boss.

Unfortunately,that commonly comes with the territory.

I took a part time job as an orange bibbed B&Q monkey,mostly to pay my bike tyre and fuel bills. I found it cool to have that safety net of 'I don't need to be here',so I can leave whenever I please. Those kinds of jobs can be horrible places when you absolutely need the money and have no route to escape to anything better,just more of the same. I worked with some great folk who had several jobs and lived very much hand to mouth,for varying reasons.

It's easy to sneer at the folk working there,but I've had the company of several smart professional people at the end of their working days. Civil engineer,geologist and various sparky and plumber tradesmen.
It was ideal for my needs for a while,then oddly I found I actually enjoyed the work and the craic too,so I stayed a lot longer than I intended,mostly because of the people.

My attitude,added to only being there for a couple of days pretty much ensured I had no bother with the overlords. I did anything I was asked to do,there's nearly always a positive aspect to any shitty job. I brushed floors,gathered up trolleys in the car park,I was there anyway,so why not?

The firm itself is ruthless with it's management,everything is performance related and shit rolls downhill. We all were great people when the money is up and inevitably a parcel of useless cunts if sales had a poor week. They are very hard on the young folk,because they know they'll meet little resistance,oul boys are treated more cautiously. Lots of clever kids take the job to pay uni fees and it's quite funny to see some of them being courted by management regarding a B&Q 'career'. Hilarious.

I eventually dropped my hours to 8,one day a week,but I stayed there 18 years,before the hard physical aspect began to get unpleasant and I kept hurting myself.

[Buckaroo]

I think I need to find another forum.

There's me thinking I was rubbing shoulders with the wealthy and connected professional types.

What do I find?

All you peasants stacking shelves and doing driving jobs......place is going to the dogs what what

P.S. I had a call only this morning from a company that I made an enquiry with more than 10 years ago, who never responded at the time, asking if I'd consider undertaking freelance work with them! Errr, I'm retired; thanks so much for getting back to me. The sarcasm was wasted.

PPS: only kidding you peasants!

[Greenman]

I just can't take thick people trying to play at being boss.

Unfortunately,that commonly comes with the territory.

I took a part time job as an orange bibbed B&Q monkey,mostly to pay my bike tyre and fuel bills. I found it cool to have that safety net of 'I don't need to be here',so I can leave whenever I please. Those kinds of jobs can be horrible places when you absolutely need the money and have no route to escape to anything better,just more of the same. I worked with some great folk who had several jobs and lived very much hand to mouth,for varying reasons.

It's easy to sneer at the folk working there,but I've had the company of several smart professional people at the end of their working days. Civil engineer,geologist and various sparky and plumber tradesmen.
It was ideal for my needs for a while,then oddly I found I actually enjoyed the work and the craic too,so I stayed a lot longer than I intended,mostly because of the people.

My attitude,added to only being there for a couple of days pretty much ensured I had no bother with the overlords. I did anything I was asked to do,there's nearly always a positive aspect to any shitty job. I brushed floors,gathered up trolleys in the car park,I was there anyway,so why not?

The firm itself is ruthless with it's management,everything is performance related and shit rolls downhill. We all were great people when the money is up and inevitably a parcel of useless cunts if sales had a poor week. They are very hard on the young folk,because they know they'll meet little resistance,oul boys are treated more cautiously. Lots of clever kids take the job to pay uni fees and it's quite funny to see some of them being courted by management regarding a B&Q 'career'. Hilarious.

I eventually dropped my hours to 8,one day a week,but I stayed there 18 years,before the hard physical aspect began to get unpleasant and I kept hurting myself.

I worked in Scummerfields and Asda when i was at college in my late teens.

Scummerfields was the worst at treating the younger employees like shit.

They would ring you up at any time day or night and insist you come in on a whim if someone called in ill. They would expect you to drop whatever you were doing and run to the shop like a little dog asking 'what can i do for you now master' and if you didn't they would say you would be fired. Not many people would say no. Like you with B&Q it was almost like they thought this was my main career but was quite happy to state that i had a brain and unlike them this isn't all my life is going to be, which also didn't used to go down to well, but hey, did i give a fuck, no chance!

All the line managers were power hungry cunts. I remember one on the twilight shift i used to work on would come and ask to use my knife all the time, even though he was on aisles that didn't require a knife. I had a good 30 min argument with him one night as he couldn't understand the premise that it was my own knife and without it i couldn't do my job as i was down the drinks aisle which are all packed in polythene. I thought at one point he was going to resort to physical violence which wouldn't of ended well for him. His name was Casper and was ex Navy - do i need to say anymore... - he never got to use my knife and just bullied another smaller employee instead...

We never got paid correct there either, never, not once, always under what it was supposed to be. We were also not allowed to talk to colleagues even though the place was shut as it was after hours, they really were a bunch of dicks. I had about 5 written warnings and eventually got sacked for something a wanker colleague grassed me up for. He was pulled into the Store managers office and apparently broke down in tears and told the manager everything anyone had done that they shouldn't and got a lot of people fired, he moved out of the area not long after that!

We fucked around in there so much though, mainly due to the wanker managers, our moto was 'if they treat us like crap we will work like crap'. It was quite fun working there sometimes once all the pranks etc started getting out of hand and no-one really cared if they got fired. Warehouse hockey with brooms and cans of beans, locking people in the lift, calling managers to the shop floor for no reason via the tanoy, locking people in the freezer* that sort of silly stuff.

Asda however were a joy to work for. Always paid on time, good managers and they just generally treated their staff a lot better even the young part timers like me.






* i locked the butcher in the freezer once and intended to let him out after about 5 mins but forgot he was in there and he ended up being in there for about 45 mins before i remembered, he wasn't too happy and ended it up in a comedy cat and mouse chase around the warehouse with him yielding a fuck off big meat clever and me armed with an elastic band and those small ball bearing things you can decorate cakes with. Ah to be young and care free again eh!

[MyLittleStudPony]

I was in an uber a few weeks ago and it turned out he earned more than i do in IT. I am actually quite tempted to start doing some ubering. I have very good knowledge of the south west especially Bristol/Bath and South Glos.

Do you have to fight to get the clients? can you be sitting around for hours sometimes without any fares? can you set your own prices? is there any up front costs before you start ubering?

Once you have the app, it finds you the jobs. It decided how much you get paid for each and pays you automatically.

You need a private hire licence and a private hire licenced vehicle and appropriate insurance. Probably the best way to start is to get a short term rental of a licenced vehicle, then see if it's something that would work for you.


FWIW Uber has been fine with me. It does exactly what it says on the tin. I think the money varies by area. I suspect less diverse areas have fewer driver and that increases prices / wages.

[Greenman]

I was in an uber a few weeks ago and it turned out he earned more than i do in IT. I am actually quite tempted to start doing some ubering. I have very good knowledge of the south west especially Bristol/Bath and South Glos.

Do you have to fight to get the clients? can you be sitting around for hours sometimes without any fares? can you set your own prices? is there any up front costs before you start ubering?

Once you have the app, it finds you the jobs. It decided how much you get paid for each and pays you automatically.

You need a private hire licence and a private hire licenced vehicle and appropriate insurance. Probably the best way to start is to get a short term rental of a licenced vehicle, then see if it's something that would work for you.


FWIW Uber has been fine with me. It does exactly what it says on the tin. I think the money varies by area. I suspect less diverse areas have fewer driver and that increases prices / wages.

So do you work a typical 9-5 5 days a week rota or is it just when you can be bothered?

Do you have a constant flow of work throughout the hours your working?

[MyLittleStudPony]

I was in an uber a few weeks ago and it turned out he earned more than i do in IT. I am actually quite tempted to start doing some ubering. I have very good knowledge of the south west especially Bristol/Bath and South Glos.

Do you have to fight to get the clients? can you be sitting around for hours sometimes without any fares? can you set your own prices? is there any up front costs before you start ubering?

Once you have the app, it finds you the jobs. It decided how much you get paid for each and pays you automatically.

You need a private hire licence and a private hire licenced vehicle and appropriate insurance. Probably the best way to start is to get a short term rental of a licenced vehicle, then see if it's something that would work for you.


FWIW Uber has been fine with me. It does exactly what it says on the tin. I think the money varies by area. I suspect less diverse areas have fewer driver and that increases prices / wages.

So do you work a typical 9-5 5 days a week rota or is it just when you can be bothered?

Do you have a constant flow of work throughout the hours your working?

I work whenever I want. That's how it works. You press a button on your phone and that's you started, waiting for the first job. When you want to stop, you turn off the app. In the better areas the work is pretty much constant. In bad areas you end up waiting around doing nothing. I'm lucky, there's a good area near me.

I worked about three days last week, which suited me.

Uber decides how much to pay you for each job. Exactly how much you get paid depends on demand. When demand goes up, so does what you get paid. This is known as surge pricing. Morning and evening weekday rush hours typically see this. I think there is good demand Friday and Saturday evenings but I haven't done any of them yet. What you get paid never falls below a set level.

[Skub]

Make sure a fare doesn't go for gunny in the glovebox. Keep that shit tight.

[MyLittleStudPony]

Make sure a fare doesn't go for gunny in the glovebox. Keep that shit tight.

If they fuck about I'll fork them in the doodies.