Are you supposed to tip uber driver?

amother

DarkPurple ↓

Thu, Sep 19 2024, 3:39 pm

I’m a regular Uber/Lyft user. I don’t usually tip unless service was exceptional. It’s an expensive enough service as it is. Sure, they don’t make that much and most goes to the app, but tipping culture is insane and this would be feeding it.

It’s annoying enough that they cancel on you, take much longer to come than the app says, make you wait forever to get paired with a driver and the app constantly encourages you to spend more for faster pickup and then the pickup ends up being just a minute faster.

I remember reading somewhere that a bunch of drivers went to start their own company, one that wouldn’t take so much from the drivers. If that ever gets popular I’d much rather join that.

malky800

Mon, Sep 23 2024, 8:27 am

I wasn't so careful about tipping especially when it was so expensive already.
I don't know what happened but I got a message the drivers rated me and my rating was under 4.5!.
Be aware they rate you also
Then uber cancelled my account. And there is no one to talk to.
Because it's associated with my cell number it wasn't just to open a different account

I switched to lyft.

↑ Amelia Bedelia

Mon, Sep 23 2024, 8:39 am

malky800 wrote:

They canceled your account for not tipping?

At one point I was taking many many Uber/Lyft rides a year. I once got a warning that I got my second negative rating on my account and if I'm not careful they will shut my account. I messaged them complaining, saying that my account was showing that I'm a star rider. If I have hundreds of rides on my account and just two were negative, proportionwise it's bound to happen. How can they do that? They did end up deleting that negative rating. I still don't know why that happened, perhaps because I had a crying baby in the car.

I also remember during COVID, after I tipped my driver and was trying to order an uber back, the app requested that I take a photo of myself wearing a mask, which meant that a driver (presumably the previous driver) reported that I was not masked- a lie! I was fuming and wanted to take back my tip, but there is no option to do that. I tried complaining to Uber but there's no customer service option.

amother

Gray ↓

Mon, Sep 23 2024, 8:56 am

How is this even a question?

Taxi drivers have always received tips. I don't know anyone who didn't tip a tax driver and extra if they extended themselves beyond just driving you to your destination.

Non tippers really perpetuate stereotypes of Jewish cheapness.

amother

↑ Gray ↓

Mon, Sep 23 2024, 9:06 am

Ruchel wrote:

Never tipped taxis either 🇫🇷

You are in Europe where waiters aren't typically tipped.

In the USA it is an expectation that service people are tipped - taxis, waiters, hair dressers, movers, delivery people, cleaners in hotels and UBER drivers as well as valets, bus boys, porters, doormen. My parents weren't bon vivant types splashing wads of cash but I grew up with all of this being taught as the appropriate manner in which you act.

When you don't tip, you are viewed operating outside what is customary and viewed as a cheap person.

amother

Starflower

Mon, Sep 23 2024, 9:23 am

Tipping is only the norm in USA and Canada. In Europe and most other places it's not a thing unless you ask for some extra services.
Like I once asked the driver to help me take a lot of bags home from the car, I gave him an extra £10 tip and he was shocked lol.

amother

↑ DarkPurple

Mon, Sep 23 2024, 10:03 am

malky800 wrote:

That’s crazy! I have taken 200+ rides and have a 5 star rating, and can count on my hand the times I have tipped.

But this is on Lyft, I prefer it to Uber for some reason. Maybe that makes a diff.

readreread ↓

Mon, Sep 23 2024, 10:09 am

Yes, you should always tip (if you live in the US). I have never heard anyone suggest that it is acceptable not to tip! They are providing you with a service just like a restaurant waiter or sheitel macher or nail technician.

amother

↑ Seafoam

Mon, Sep 23 2024, 1:12 pm

amother DarkPurple wrote:

That’s crazy! I have taken 200+ rides and have a 5 star rating, and can count on my hand the times I have tipped.

But this is on Lyft, I prefer it to Uber for some reason. Maybe that makes a diff.

This thread actually made me curious about my rating-I honestly never checked. I hardly ever tip unless a driver went out of his way to help me and I have a five star rating. This is Uber for reference.

giftedmom

Mon, Sep 23 2024, 1:14 pm

readreread wrote:

I don’t tip my shaitel macher, nor my Uber driver.

Brit in Israel

Mon, Sep 23 2024, 3:07 pm

amother Papayawhip wrote:

in israel no one tips taxi drivers

If they think you are not Israeli they add their own tip to the price.
I always say to have it on the meter, once the whole 20 mins ride he kept on asking me if I will add to the final price, trying to find out if I'm renting or bought etc (I dont even live in an american neighbourhood) I kept on telling him if he wants more than the meter he can ask dh who is waiting outside with the money for me, as soon as he saw dh from far, he asked 'what your husband is israeli?' he didn't say a single word about adding on more money LOL

I have also had them change the Tariff on the meter for no valid reason.

amother

↑ Gray

Mon, Sep 23 2024, 3:45 pm

giftedmom wrote:

I don’t tip my shaitel macher, nor my Uber driver.

Your sheitemacher probably owns the business and etiquette doesn't require tipping the owner of a salon - only if the person is an employee. The rationale is that the owner of a salon gets the full benefit of whatever they choose to charge.

Did you not tip taxi drivers?

Why don't you consider UBER drivers to be in the same category?

↑ readreread

Mon, Sep 23 2024, 7:29 pm

amother Gray wrote:

Wow I had no idea. I have been tipping this entire time Confused

I hope she didn't think I was being a weirdo.