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by pclark 4848 days ago
it seems kind of ridiculous to presume that one rogue one star rating would get a driver fired. i would assume that there is more to firing drivers than simply the rating system – someone must talk to the passenger to figure out what is up.
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you need 12 5 star rides to make up for 1 one star and get above 4.7. If your average is say 4.8 (you get 4 or 3 stars every now and then because people assume it's "average"), when you get a 1 star review, you need 37 "normal" rides to make up for it and come back to 4.7. This is pretty insane IMO
That's one of the reasons they are complaining because it is ridiculous there isn't anything set up. Now it might not just be one rogue star rating but maybe a collection of others. But there is no room for error when you can get fired by having a 4.6 and not 4.7 star rating.
I don't know if Uber still does this, but at one point in the past they would drop you an email if you rated a driver 3 or lower to ask what happened.
"drop" you an email? what does that mean? do you mean "send"?
Why would you post this? Of course that is what they mean
I'm calling him out for his douchebag double-speak hipster talk. Is he too cool to say "send"? Vacuous style over substance.
I think the douchebag labeling might've backfired? People have been dropping one another emails for years and years. Maybe it's less common where you're from.
My English dictionary (Collins) has: to drop (vb-16 transitive) "to send or post".
you're amusingly vitriolic about this
No, he means they print out the email in and drop it on your head.