In europe, you don't pay tips to uber drivers. Surely, if the tip is compulsory, it should be called a service fee
I’m not going justify this culture—I don’t like it either—but that is the way it is.
I don't tip on Uber. 4.89 rating. 700 rides.
I have friends who tip and tbh when I don't get a ride, they don't get a ride and when they get a ride, I get a ride. So obviously the tipping means nothing.
Occasionally I might tip, but only if I got something out of it. And it's rare. I think I might have tipped on 10 out of the 1500 rides.
It should be a reward for exceptional service, not a default assumption for average (or so help me, sub average) service.
> Uber might finally be forced to change its tune after New York City's Taxi and Limousine Commission introduced a proposal this week that would require ride-hailing companies operating in the city to allow riders to tip their drivers. The need to follow a rule like that in one of Uber's biggest and most important markets could force the company to allow tipping across the country or around the world.
> The Independent Drivers Guild lobbied for the New York proposal, which it estimates will lead to over $300 million per year in tips for New York drivers.