This is Getbig. Cut the politically correct bullshit.
Were people in this thread being politically correct? Other than the thread title and opening post, which looked like an attempt at this thing called humor that I've heard of.
It's interesting that this topic came up, though, because I remembered that I was interested in getting getbig's opinion on a tipping matter. (I always like to get the getbig consensus on something so I can consider doing the opposite.)
On a recent trip, I took an uber to and from the airport. The trip from the airport was okay, the driver was fine and I tipped him $15 on a $45 ride. On the ride back to the airport, I got a driver who I really thought was great and she went above and beyond to make the trip nice. The ride was $30 and I tipped her $25 Both rides were basically identical, but the first ride was priced with surge pricing. I was looking through my uber history at a later point and realized that I actually ended up paying the driver that I thought did a better job less. (I did end up tipping her an additional $10 several weeks later

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That got me thinking about how weird it is to customarily tip with uber's pricing structure. Surge pricing has always been sort of controversial, but it never occurred to me that even when you want to show your driver a higher level of appreciation, customary tipping kinda skews that.
So, question to getbig: Is it reasonable to pay a lower tip rate during a surge? Or would doing so just be niggardly?
(Yes, drivers do take home a larger cut when there's a surge.)