Greetings, fellow PickMe and Uber using homosapiens!
If you are a loyal user of these life-saving yet nerve-racking apps, you know finding that perfect ride is a rare occassion - as rare as finding a relative who doesn't care about your marriage, your exam results and everything personal.
These apps have made life super easy (no more waiting on the road getting splashed and harassed trying to flag down a tuk, no more getting lost without a map), but they can also get irksome and here are instances why!
MAKE UP YOUR MIND, PICKME! Do you want to pick me up or do you not?
Makes you wonder why some of these drivers even sign up with the taxi-hailing apps. This may sound weird and unbelievable, but the whole point of assigning drivers by default is to get them to pick us up from WHEREVER they may be.
Even if he drove like an injured Fast and Furious actor, you just have to wear a plastic smile unless you're a fully grown adult who is capable of portraying every sentiment of irritation to tell him his driving was equal to the faeces of a cow.
One of the tests for qualifying to be an Uber or PickMe driver is the Map Test. This is where the potential drivers are shown a map of Colombo and asked what they see. If it's anything besides "Ah, Sir, that's the map that shows us the location to get to the customer", they get hired.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why you will receive a minimum of 48 calls from the assigned driver.
How do you get unwilling drivers out on the streets? Charge the customer twice or more than the usual rate.
Thank you, Uber, for this purge of my wallet.
Just a gentle reminder - All PickMe taxi robbers will go to hell.
I did not book a PickMe for some random bugger so he could hop in and leave me forlorn and desperate on the street.
And occassionally, you have this full on moody uncle who cringes every time you exhale carbon dioxide and drives out of pure hatred for every living cell in your body.
Faced more PickMe and Uber dilemmas? Go ahead and vent it all out in the comments down below! Uber and PickMe people, please don't block me, I can't go back to the stone age of actually calling someone for my taxi.
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Acesticks
Uber is far more reliable than Pickme.
dinithi k
If not for the surge pricing, Uber is way better than pick me!
Jaye
I my self an uber driver and i have being using uber for so long. apart from pickme uber is much more convenient and its does good for both rider and to the driver.
PS
Gosh! Where do I begin…
PickMe - Drivers are usually less professional. They call you the second they accept the ride with "did you order a taxi? Where do I have to come? Where do you have to go?". This is mainly due to the fact that many are former budget taxi and fair taxi drivers (you can tell instantly).
Uber - here too you get many drivers with the calls as they accept the ride… So frustrating that they dont know how to use the map. I have had to teach several of them how to use navigation.
I have also realised that 90% of the drivers who call immediately are the ones who want to ask where we need to go. I just dont answer until they are closer to my location.
Then you get the ones who call to find out where you are going and then cancel when they dont want to pick you up (some even have the nerve to say their vehicle has broken down to get you to cancel). If I'm not in a hurry, I usually tell them to cancel it themselves.
Oh and the most annoying of all is when you are in a hurry, you get an uber, he cancels when you are getting ready and by the time you realise the cancellation, IT BLOODY SURGING!
Their support would probably be better if it was from a bunch of robots as there isn't logical reasoning behind their replies. Its just a bunch of templated answers.
I would chose PickMe anyday over Uber since they don't surge to crazy exorbitant levels and they have an SOS option with a number to call!!
Uber you need to wake up… Slack time's over.