I read this post over at The Points Guy about how Uber riders can now see their rating in the app. What do ratings mean? In a nutshell, as a rider if your rating gets too low (or you threaten your driver with a sexual assault charge), you won't be able to use the app to get a ride. Likewise, if you're a driver and your rating gets too low, you'll have to go drive a taxi cab.
My rating of 4.50 isn't that bad, but in this age of grade inflation on this app, it's a little alarming. For the sake of assumption, let's say half of my drivers gave me a 5 and half gave me a 4. I have some ideas why I would rate a 4 as a rider:
- I don't tip. As soon as they add the ability to tip in app, I will start tipping the driver. In the meantime, fuck it. The whole point is to be able to get out of the car and get on with your life. Besides, tipping might be a way to buy a better rating, which is cheating.
- If I have a snack in the car, I don't share. If I'm destroying a bag of Funyuns, I watch the driver glance at me in the rearview mirror and keep stuffing my face.
- There are some days I haven't mustered the motivation to put on pants. On some of those days, I ride an Uber.
- I'm not a 19 year-old drunk college girl wearing a short skirt and low-cut top.
- Sometimes when I'm wearing my headphones, I forget that other people aren't listening to loud music and can still hear (and smell) my farts.
- I openly accept OTPHJs from fellow UberPool riders
- When the driver asks me what kind of music I want to listen to, I tell him/her the Carly Rae Jepsen Spotify radio station.
- I'm an asshole.
Those are really all the things I can think of. I'm not sweating my rating since I normally take Lyft here in Denver anyway, plus Uber is just a horrible fucking company and a total shit show right now. The only thing saving that got them out of the limelight was United.
Let's close this thing out with the Uber CEO berating a driver.
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