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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: Army of One on July 04, 2016, 02:53:40 AM
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Some gold in there, this though was just..... :'(
"Former Uber driver here. Picked a girl up a sweet girl from a bar on a Wednesday night - absolutely hammered, about 10pm. She got into my car, apologized for being so drunk and politely asked if we could just drive around a little while, with the windows down.
I was prepping for a cleaning fee, trying to drive and pull a vomit bag out of the glove box, but no, she just did that airplane thing with one hand out the backseat window. She asked me if I had ever thought about dying, to which I replied, yeah - I guess so.
That's when she told me that she had cancer. It was in her brain and it was too far gone to consider chemo. I remember my heart just pounding. She told me she was dying and she was going to be okay. Tonight she was celebrating with her work friends who threw her a going-away party. She told them she was taking a position abroad.
"I just didn't tell them that abroad was heaven."
Jesus. Fucking. Christ. I turned off my app and cried my ass all the way home."
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4r4a7r/uber_drivers_whats_the_deepest_secrets_youve/
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Which getbigger was this?
"I haven't really heard anything too juicy, but so far my favorite was this one.
I picked up two guys in downtown LA. From their conversation I gather they'd just met at the bar I picked them up from and were going home to hook up. One was younger and clean cut, the other was older and rather scruffy. So I'm driving up Main Street to the 101 and the scruffy guy starts talking about how he used to live there in the 90s and it was a whole lot scummier back then. He mentions he used to have an older boyfriend back then. The boyfriend would call the scruffy guy and tell him to walk down to the sidewalk in a tied off shirt and daisy dukes. Then the boyfriend would drive up in his car and the scruffy guy would lean in his window and the boyfriend would ask him how much, and the scruffy guy would get in and they'd roleplay that he was a prostitute and the boyfriend was his john.
The clean cut guy kinda glossed over this and moved the conversation along, but I thought to myself that scenario sounds hot as hell."
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get a grip army on some veggie wangs
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The first one is touching, but also bullshit. If you leave your company in the final stages of a disease, you'll lose your employer-sponsored healthcare and hand a medical bill of hundreds of thousands for your end care or hospice to your family. Nobody would do that.
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The first one is touching, but also bullshit. If you leave your company in the final stages of a disease, you'll lose your employer-sponsored healthcare and hand a medical bill of hundreds of thousands for your end care or hospice to your family. Nobody would do that.
He uses the word "hammered" which I believe Americans don't generally use for blind drunk but Brits do, our healthcare is free.
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He uses the word "hammered" which I believe Americans don't generally use for blind drunk but Brits do, our healthcare is free.
We use "hammered" all the time here. Never considered another country because of my America-centric worldview.
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We use "hammered" all the time here. Never considered another country because of my America-centric worldview.
What about "absolutely hammered"?
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What about "absolutely hammered"?
Yup. Total nomenclature. Beauty!
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The first one is touching, but also bullshit. If you leave your company in the final stages of a disease, you'll lose your employer-sponsored healthcare and hand a medical bill of hundreds of thousands for your end care or hospice to your family. Nobody would do that.
very good point there
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The first one is touching, but also bullshit. If you leave your company in the final stages of a disease, you'll lose your employer-sponsored healthcare and hand a medical bill of hundreds of thousands for your end care or hospice to your family. Nobody would do that.
You're right about the story being bs, a young girl in the age of Facebook/Instagram/Snapchat would never be able to keep a secret like this. SOMEONE from work would know, social media has made the world a smaller place. But the family wouldnt be on the hook for the medical bills.
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I havec a friend/old workout partner that did it for a few months. He is 6'5 and jacked. He says that he always had people offer him food, to party with them, and drunk women hitting on him. I believe he stop doing it because people threw up in his car a few times. :-X
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The first one is touching, but also bullshit. If you leave your company in the final stages of a disease, you'll lose your employer-sponsored healthcare and hand a medical bill of hundreds of thousands for your end care or hospice to your family. Nobody would do that.
depending on age and when, she may be covered under her parents plan still.
Obama care and all of that.
My guess is within the past couple of years. So if she was 23 or so and was going to die in a couple of months, she could still be covered under her parents plan.
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depending on age and when, she may be covered under her parents plan still.
Obama care and all of that.
My guess is within the past couple of years. So if she was 23 or so and was going to die in a couple of months, she could still be covered under her parents plan.
Occam's Razor: it's BS.
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Occam's Razor: it's BS.
It may be. However we will truly never know.
Just because you claim it, doesn't necessarily make it so.
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Occam's Razor: it's BS.
Unless he lives outside of America, aka the other 95% of the world
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Unless he lives outside of America, aka the other 95% of the world
Also true.
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The US is starting to become oversaturated with Uber drivers. I read that 70-80% of the people in the US who can't find a real job become Uber drivers. How many people really need a drive somewhere? It's much cheaper to take public trans. It's getting ridiculous.
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The US is starting to become oversaturated with Uber drivers. I read that 70-80% of the people in the US who can't find a real job become Uber drivers. How many people really need a drive somewhere? It's much cheaper to take public trans. It's getting ridiculous.
i see them all the time when i'm playing clubs. young people LOVE it. it's trendy, convenient, and they often end up partying with the uber driver.
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The US is starting to become oversaturated with Uber drivers. I read that 70-80% of the people in the US who can't find a real job become Uber drivers. How many people really need a drive somewhere? It's much cheaper to take public trans. It's getting ridiculous.
Fuck that. Too long. Uber is banned here in austin, but went it wasnt. I would used it for going to the air port, and when car was in the shop. Ride was something like 10 or 20 bucks.
Plus, it's great for late nights if you party.
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The first one is touching, but also bullshit. If you leave your company in the final stages of a disease, you'll lose your employer-sponsored healthcare and hand a medical bill of hundreds of thousands for your end care or hospice to your family. Nobody would do that.
Canada has universal healthcare, too. And we speak "American" English, for the most part, as well haha. "Hammered," "totally hammered," "absolutely hammered," all that stupid shit.
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Unless he lives outside of America, aka the other 95% of the world
Because Uber serves the mud huts in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Because Uber serves the mud huts in sub-Saharan Africa.
Uber is used in 75 countries worldwide, meaning it's a 1.3% chance the user was an uber driver in the USA.Have you ever been outside the USA?
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Uber is banned in QLD I think but not NSW in Australia. It should be as Taxi's pay a lot in licencing and it's unfair but the politicians had no balls and obviously someone paid them to legalise it here. Being App only young people love it and it's cheaper of course but in reality it shouldn't be cheaper just Google plays it as being the underdog and being treated unfairly.
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Any thing that helps destroy union power has to be good. The taxi mafia need to say goodbye to their monopoly.
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Uber is used in 75 countries worldwide, meaning it's a 1.3% chance the user was an uber driver in the USA.Have you ever been outside the USA?
Come on Army.... If you're going to go the statistical route do it right. You'd need the total number of Uber drivers, break it down for US and the other nations, as well as the break down of the total number of Uber users.
Saying theres a 1.3% chance the user was American is some Goodrum like math.
AJ already said he didn't consider the rest of the world, and lets be honest do you really think the girl was able to keep that secret from her co workers but she told a complete stranger.....
You're better than this.
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Come on Army.... If you're going to go the statistical route do it right. You'd need the total number of Uber drivers, break it down for US and the other nations, as well as the break down of the total number of Uber users.
Saying theres a 1.3% chance the user was American is some Goodrum like math.
AJ already said he didn't consider the rest of the world, and lets be honest do you really think the girl was able to keep that secret from her co workers but she told a complete stranger.....
You're better than this.
I looked for a breakdown of numbers of drivers, but couldnt find anything detailed enough in my short search so used that for a rough idea.
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Uber is banned in QLD I think but not NSW in Australia. It should be as Taxi's pay a lot in licencing and it's unfair but the politicians had no balls and obviously someone paid them to legalise it here. Being App only young people love it and it's cheaper of course but in reality it shouldn't be cheaper just Google plays it as being the underdog and being treated unfairly.
The gov is now dictating who you're allowed to pay for a ride? Bunch of meddlesome cunts.
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Uber is a sign of unpleasant things to come imo. The wealthy corporation deciding what's up, while everyone else is free to fuck off.
When you look at how restrictive the Taxi, Shuttle, Limousine type regulation has been, only to find Uber marching into cities all over the world to do their thing, something isn't right. People attempting to provide untraditional taxi-services have been relentlessly pursued by authorities as a longstanding routine, and yet Uber is welcomed by politicians and promoted in the media as some sort of "innovative" development -- when in fact it is nothing but a sweet-heart deal between those same parties.
Uber is positioned to be THE transportation company and they will probably be the first worldwide fleet of automatic cars.
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The gov is now dictating who you're allowed to pay for a ride? Bunch of meddlesome cunts.
Banned here in Austin Texas too
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Uber is banned in QLD I think but not NSW in Australia. It should be as Taxi's pay a lot in licencing and it's unfair but the politicians had no balls and obviously someone paid them to legalise it here. Being App only young people love it and it's cheaper of course but in reality it shouldn't be cheaper just Google plays it as being the underdog and being treated unfairly.
And if it was the other way around it would be "but politicians are on the take from big business!"
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Uber is a sign of unpleasant things to come imo. The wealthy corporation deciding what's up, while everyone else is free to fuck off.
When you look at how restrictive the Taxi, Shuttle, Limousine type regulation has been, only to find Uber marching into cities all over the world to do their thing, something isn't right. People attempting to provide untraditional taxi-services have been relentlessly pursued by authorities as a longstanding routine, and yet Uber is welcomed by politicians and promoted in the media as some sort of "innovative" development -- when in fact it is nothing but a sweet-heart deal between those same parties.
Uber is positioned to be THE transportation company and they will probably be the first worldwide fleet of automatic cars.
Sign of things to come? Bro surely you're aware of America's history and the reason we have anti monopoly, collusion laws. The rich and powerful have and will always try to run things.
UBER wasn't started by a smart individual with a great idea for simple transportation needs, it was a collective effort that featured billionaire investors with worldwide goals that include automated tesla's making deliveries. Big money ALWAYS greases the sweat covered palm. It's how business has always been done.
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Sign of things to come? Bro surely you're aware of America's history and the reason we have anti monopoly, collusion laws. The rich and powerful have and will always try to run things.
UBER wasn't started by a smart individual with a great idea for simple transportation needs, it was a collective effort that featured billionaire investors with worldwide goals that include automated tesla's making deliveries. Big money ALWAYS greases the sweat covered palm. It's how business has always been done.
Yes, a sign of things to come, in that we're losing the battle against what you mention in your third sentence, and it will soon be clear. Uber looks to be the first "perfect" example of that, when you consider the starting point vs. now.
If anyone's had a difficult time understanding the danger in allowing corporations such overwhelming influence, there it is.
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Yes, a sign of things to come, in that we're losing the battle against what you mention in your third sentence, and it will soon be clear. Uber looks to be the first "perfect" example of that, when you consider the starting point vs. now.
If anyone's had a difficult time understanding the danger in allowing corporations such overwhelming influence, there it is.
I dont disagree with your main thought other than that is how its always been. Big bank (companies/corporations) buys the little bank (smaller competition). This is the whole foundation America has been built on.
Do you really think its different than its always been, or people are just more unaware of what is going on despite having more knowledge at any point in human history?
Good observation btw
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i see them all the time when i'm playing clubs. young people LOVE it. it's trendy, convenient, and they often end up partying with the uber driver.
No, no they don't.
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yeah what happened to Uberman anyway. Great poster, big fan
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I dont disagree with your main thought other than that is how its always been. Big bank (companies/corporations) buys the little bank (smaller competition). This is the whole foundation America has been built on.
Do you really think its different than its always been, or people are just more unaware of what is going on despite having more knowledge at any point in human history?
Good observation btw
I think we've managed to keep "The Corporation" relatively stable, up until the big switch to electronic everything. When that switch was flipped and the pickings were ripe for monopolization, etc. -- leading right to the lawmakers' front door and to our back door -- we should have been prepared for what was coming in order to stop it. But we weren't.
It's an especially bad thing, really, because many of the wealthiest individuals scoff at "the little people" for being worthlessly stupid. So the fact we didn't reel in our lawmakers because we never saw it coming, sorta gives them a perception of justice.