DissTroy:
All you have to do is search out our fatbold turd aka ornicus aka LastOeca and TheLastOrca.

While not denigrating people making a honest living, how come you are a taxi driver but bragging about handling multi-billion naira contracts? Come on!

https://www.nairaland.com/search?q=ornicus+bolt&search=Search

Handling multi-billion contracts but living in FESTAC and being a taxi driver.

nitigriti:


No, Izzou. The driver should not damage his car because of the customer.

He should take his car off the platform — Uber or Taxify; since he is not okay with the services the platform is providing for him.

So long as he keeps his car on the platform, he is obligated to provide service according to the terms and conditions of the platform.

#StrictlyBusiness #NoSentiments

nitigriti:








Let's not try to be holier than the Pope. In my hey days, I never ask riders for destination unless it is night; say from 8:00pm; because of security.

If during the day I accept a trip and I start the trip and see a destination I don't like, say, Ijebu Ode, I will simply apologize to the rider and tell him or her I can't go. I will tell the rider I am about to cancel the trip so you can request another car and also let the rider know he or she can sit in my car with the AC running until the requested car comes.

In this, I have not cheated the Uber or bolt platform in any way, which is the point ornicus was making. We shouldn't cheat the platforms.

izzou:


You only use the line "YOU WIN SOME AND LOSE SOME" when an unexpected result happens. Not when you deliberately give something a shot even when you know you'll lose

At your place of work, do you guys deliberately enter into a business that you are very sure you'll lose?

A driver decides to go to Agbara online. The estimate is #2500 to #2900. He buys fuel of 3k.
Enters traffic and spent hours between Abule Ado to Iyanaoba. Let's not talk about the damage inflicted on the car. And in the end, he gets #4k. Is there any sense in this?

ornicus, please just be realistic. Uber and bolt did not design their app and fare rates to accommodate bad roads and floods. That's the honest truth.

But anyway, everyone is entitled to his opinion

thelastorca:


Take it. You win some, you lose some. Not every project is going to be sweet. Not every job is going to be fantastic. The way you handle the difficult jobs is what makes you. You will not be doing uber forever. You will work somewhere or even have your own business. And you will sometimes find you have to take bad of low profit jobs. It is what it is. Will you reject a fantastic trip if offered? So why do you want to cherry pick the jobs that come your way?

Do you think your fledgling business would flourish with that attitude?

nitigriti:


Let's not try to be holier than the Pope. In my hey days, I never ask riders for destination unless it is night; say from 8:00pm; because of security.

If during the day I accept a trip and I start the trip and see a destination I don't like, say, Ijebu Ode, I will simply apologize to the rider and tell him or her I can't go. I will tell the rider I am about to cancel the trip so you can request another car and also let the rider know he or she can sit in my car with the AC running until the requested car comes.

In this, I have not cheated the Uber or bolt platform in any way, which is the point ornicus was making. We shouldn't cheat the platforms.

nitigriti:


Let's not try to be holier than the Pope. In my hey days, I never ask riders for destination unless it is night; say from 8:00pm; because of security.

If during the day I accept a trip and I start the trip and see a destination I don't like, say, Ijebu Ode, I will simply apologize to the rider and tell him or her I can't go. I will tell the rider I am about to cancel the trip so you can request another car and also let the rider know he or she can sit in my car with the AC running until the requested car comes.

In this, I have not cheated the Uber or bolt platform in any way, which is the point ornicus was making. We shouldn't cheat the platforms.

deedee44:

You mean you end the trip after starting? Because that's the only legit way to know your rider's destination, or you would ask rider for destination? Remember that's against Uber's rules and regulations too just like asking for a trip to be done offline. Whichever one it is, you've gone against Uber's directives thereby committing an offense that suits you, so why frown at others for committing an offense that suits them just because its different from yours
The same thing goes for Mr holiness working upstream, everybody is a sinner, but not everybody will commit the same sin as yours so dont criticize. Leave that for he who has no sins

ndubuis:
Based on the discussion of trying to cheat the system: Got a request this morning from Adebisi Popoola street in Lekki at a surge of 2.1x. Rider was meant to go to Foodies in Lekki as well but said her final destination is Ikeja. When I heard Ikeja, at that huge surge, I was licking my lips. Lol. She later said, the people she was supposed to meet at Foodies haven't showed up (which I suspect was a lie), that we should proceed to Ikeja. But before then, she would like to use the Zenith bank at Admiralty way. She said it won't take her more than 10 minutes. I obliged, knowing the surge I was in, I won't bother how long she stays in the bank. Here comes the twist, the woman asked me to end the trip while she enters the bank, that we should negotiate off line for the trip to Ikeja. I just knew that she doesn't want to pay the huge fare on Uber that may likely come with the trip to Ikeja. My plan was to bill her based on the 2.1x surge for any offline trip. On a second thought, I knew she would negotiate 3k for any offline trip since she knows what she's doing. (Looking for who to cheat). I ended the trip at N800, immediately I got another request at 2.0x surge. I told her, sorry I already have another request and left her there after she paid. What am I trying to say here, the clowns that come here to berate uber drivers should realize that there are also bad riders who try to cheat the system. This woman wouldn't have asked for an offline trip if she wasn't caught up in a massive surge on uber. Cheats are cheats, I see more riders who try to take advantage of ehailing and cheat the system. People should stop being ignorant and one sided in their judgement.

Y1nka:



Though I get your point , and I understand what you are pointing at.... I always thought there should be some sort of price option on Uber / bolt... that could engage the driver/ rider on renegotiation or some sort... and some other benefits aside bonus.


But that aside, coming to this forum, and assuming by the few numbers that u talk to here... that Nigerians are unemployable is rather irrational

ornicus:


i guess i can understand why a lot of companies use aptitude tests. no point in trying to engage people whose thinking is so faulty that they cannot even grasp basic ethics.

a lot of the rubbish i have read here is also a revalidation of the fact that most nigerians are unemployable.

nitigriti:


True sir!
Even Uber and bolt understand drivers will reject a few trips. That's why drivers are only penalized when their rates of rejecting trips goes above a set limit. It's not professional to tell a rider, "I'm not going to your destination because the roads are bad; but I will go if we negotiate the trip offline." It's not professional and it's not right.

My opinion.

izzou:


Thank you sir.

At least, you can agree with me that while it isn't professional to reject trips, it is necessary because of the working conditions associated with it

Like I said, ornicus is right, but he may not understand the challenges involved

If you read about a driver fighting a rider because the rider refuses to pay, of course it will be unprofessional. But every driver knows that bolt will NEVER REFUND OR PAY and driver that was defrauded by a rider

Many things are better left unsaid. I hope to see you someday sef.

izzou:


Thank you sir.

At least, you can agree with me that while it isn't professional to reject trips, it is necessary because of the working conditions associated with it

Like I said, ornicus is right, but he may not understand the challenges involved

If you read about a driver fighting a rider because the rider refuses to pay, of course it will be unprofessional. But every driver knows that bolt will NEVER REFUND OR PAY and driver that was defrauded by a rider

Many things are better left unsaid. I hope to see you someday sef.

nitigriti:


I love these questions!

1) I will accept Festac to Agbara online on a dry day so long as I can be back in Lagos (Egbeda) before 4:00pm. If I check Google maps to and fro and I see that I can't make it back before 4:00pm, I will reject and cancel the trip and let the rider know my reason.
As it is raining now, I cannot take the trip from Festac to Agbara.

2) I always did my trips online. If I feel a trip request will not pay me, I reject outright. I never try to convert an online trip to an offline one.

izzou:
See what bolt is charging from Festac to Agbara. After slamming your car from Abule Ado till Agbara, you collect #3000.

No yellow taxi will collect less than 8k from you.

ornicus, you're just a rider. You may not really understand what it takes a driver to keep that engine, shocks and AC working while he drives you. You really won't understand

No vex for the driver conduct.

ornicus:


Most of you who complain about no jobs are probably better off without them. You are so damaged that you constantly justify and defend violence and aggression.

Do you understand that all businesses have policies against violence? And that fighting is immediate grounds for dismissal?

You make me laugh.

ornicus:



He got the rider because he is on ubers platform. The rider did not call him personally. The rider used the uber app.