Uber/Lyft Looking to Shut Down in California Tomorrow

NorthwestFresh

Awesome state government. I’d say watch DUIs skyrocket, but will there be any police to make arrests? Time to get robbed and stabbed on BART instead. Fun times.

https://twitter.com/abc7/status/1296070547705434112?s=21

Fire_Marshall_Bill

Might have to actually use a taxi

NorthwestFresh

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

Might have to actually use a taxi

Pay twice as much and as a bonus the smell of piss and puke in the cab. How progressive.

Pitchfork51

NorthwestFresh said:

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

Might have to actually use a taxi

Pay twice as much and as a bonus the smell of piss and puke in the cab. How progressive.

Ugh the bad old days


At least half of mine were free

"My card machine doesn't work"

"Welp I don't have cash so go fuck yourself. Peace"

NorthwestFresh

Lyft officially down, Uber to soon follow.

https://apple.news/A1ftb9MNeT62epeBO7eJr6g


Lyft said it is suspending service in California as of midnight PT Thursday because a court allowed a requirement that it reclassify drivers as employees.

Uber and Lyft warned last week they would likely have to suspend their ride-hailing services to comply with the court order, which would force them to restructure their operations and rehire workers. 

Uber has not made a formal announcement about suspending service in California, but it is expected to do so

WestlinnDuck

Scratch a leftist, find a fascist. Guessing that 70+% percent of the drivers voted for Newsome and PIPS. Now they are reaping what they sowed. Good and hard.

RaceBannon

Make no mistake about it this has nothing to do with fairness for the drivers or union organizing. This is the state wanting L and I and payroll money. Period. The unions are providing campaign contributions because they get paid too but no one gives a fuck about the drivers. Its an industry where the harder you work the more you make. Not 100% fair but what the fuck is?

We paid our subcontractors about double union wage in Seattle. It was piece work but if you worked you made 100 grand in the 80's We fought the state for a decade to keep them independent.

If a union needs state intervention its a shitty union

Goduckies

Exactly I did uber the last 3 years I made yearly 90k in revenue to 20k real expense but because of mileage deduction I show 15k in net not 70. The state wants their cut.

SFGbob

NorthwestFresh said:

Lyft officially down, Uber to soon follow.

https://apple.news/A1ftb9MNeT62epeBO7eJr6g


Lyft said it is suspending service in California as of midnight PT Thursday because a court allowed a requirement that it reclassify drivers as employees.

Uber and Lyft warned last week they would likely have to suspend their ride-hailing services to comply with the court order, which would force them to restructure their operations and rehire workers. 

Uber has not made a formal announcement about suspending service in California, but it is expected to do so

Good thing the economy is so strong right now and all of those people making a few dollars working for Uber or Lyft will be able to find jobs elsewhere. And it's not as if anyone is really using Uber Eats or Doordash right now.

NorthwestFresh

SFGbob said:

NorthwestFresh said:

Lyft officially down, Uber to soon follow.

https://apple.news/A1ftb9MNeT62epeBO7eJr6g


Lyft said it is suspending service in California as of midnight PT Thursday because a court allowed a requirement that it reclassify drivers as employees.

Uber and Lyft warned last week they would likely have to suspend their ride-hailing services to comply with the court order, which would force them to restructure their operations and rehire workers. 

Uber has not made a formal announcement about suspending service in California, but it is expected to do so

Good thing the economy is so strong right now and all of those people making a few dollars working for Uber or Lyft will be able to find jobs elsewhere. And it's not as if anyone is really using Uber Eats or Doordash right now.

Wait until the liberals assholes in Los Altos find out it’s going to take half a day to get their $300 of shitty PF Chang’s delivered for their kids and their friends, or much worse, they have to do takeout.

Pitchfork51

NorthwestFresh said:

SFGbob said:

NorthwestFresh said:

Lyft officially down, Uber to soon follow.

https://apple.news/A1ftb9MNeT62epeBO7eJr6g


Lyft said it is suspending service in California as of midnight PT Thursday because a court allowed a requirement that it reclassify drivers as employees.

Uber and Lyft warned last week they would likely have to suspend their ride-hailing services to comply with the court order, which would force them to restructure their operations and rehire workers. 

Uber has not made a formal announcement about suspending service in California, but it is expected to do so

Good thing the economy is so strong right now and all of those people making a few dollars working for Uber or Lyft will be able to find jobs elsewhere. And it's not as if anyone is really using Uber Eats or Doordash right now.

Wait until the liberals assholes in Los Altos find out it’s going to take half a day to get their $300 of shitty PF Chang’s delivered for their kids and their friends, or much worse, they have to do takeout.

Takeout is for peasants

Goduckies

The judge put a stay in until October

NorthwestFresh

Goduckies said:

The judge put a stay in until October

Surprised the stay wasn’t extended until November 4th. I’m sure it will be soon.

WestlinnDuck

The drivers want to be independent contractors because they can deduct their expenses including the cost of the car. If you are an employee, then you get no business deductions and are taxed on your wages. No car expenses.

pawz

WestlinnDuck said:

The drivers want to be independent contractors because they can deduct their expenses including the cost of the car. If you are an employee, then you get no business deductions and are taxed on your wages. No car expenses.

Not totally correct. Uber/Lyft would have to reimburse drivers for the cost of using driver's vehicle. 58c per mile adds up, to be honest..

WestlinnDuck

Not that I don't believe you, just trying to learn more about this.

NorthwestFresh

WestlinnDuck said:

The drivers want to be independent contractors because they can deduct their expenses including the cost of the car. If you are an employee, then you get no business deductions and are taxed on your wages. No car expenses.

When I’ve taken Uber or Lyft, the driver is often working for both services on a 1099 contract. How does that continue when both companies have to claim drivers as employees? I don’t see how it’s possible without an employee contract involved. Coke and Pepsi aren’t going to employ the same W-4 employee simultaneously. Uber and Lyft work because of the 1099 contracts of their drivers. California is in deep, deep shit if all 1099 workers are eventually eliminated.

Liberalism is a mental order. They have no idea how successful businesses grow and survive. Are most voters in CA local, state, or federal government workers? That’s the only way this law makes sense for there not being protests in Sacramento.

WestlinnDuck

Free lance journalists have been "fired" because the cost of registering your out of state publication in Cali is outrageous. When we speak of high taxes and regulatory burden on businesses this is a perfect example. Making them employees is a very high regulatory hurdle. So high at this point businesses just stop paying Californians rather than comply.

Goduckies

The talk was 35 cents a mile reimbursement from uber and 25 an hour... while in a ride. What happens when you have no ride etc. And then for me I was most profitable at events. That is gone. The reason I did it even though I have a degree and worked in finance is that if I was smart I could make close to what I made as a banker in actual cash in.pocket, yet I could work when I wanted. Some weeks I worked one day some weeks 7 if I was going on vacation I would work 3 weeks straight. But then I could go to the beach on a random day and have no boss to say no. Or I could go to the beach during the day( fridays) amd.work through bar close.

And events... best ride 280 bucks for an hours worth of driving and i got those at least once a week

Goduckies

The reason ab5 was pushed forward was two fold... there are a lot of dumb drivers who take every ride and don't think for themselves so they would barely make anything and the state was getting no money from us because of the deduction. So this only helps the idiot drivers not the smart ones.

doogie

For Drivers who want to drive for both, nothing changes. Each trip is independent of every other trip. ( Teamsters are muscling in to change that)

Uber or Lyft will simply calculate .58/mile for your 6 block trip and tag it onto your receipt like the airport fee and county tax, city tax, insurance fee that they do now.