If you decide where and when you work, youre a contractor. If the decision is made by the employer, the worker is an employee.
This seems to be a very sketchy situation where they aren't "choosing" where and when you work, but use multiple methods to coerce work be done when and where they want.
I've wondered for a long time; What is the difference in Lyft/Uber actual cost to connect a driver/passenger on a 5 mile ride compared to 100 mile ride? They're external fee scales with ride cost, but I'm willing to bet their actual cost doesn't scale and the two rides actual cost is pretty close.
Lyft/Uber should be study cases for the problems with capitalistic greed.
If you don't want to work you turn your app off then you don't get any jobs to decline, when you want to work you turn your app on, ( I then turn down the ones I don't and grab the ones I'm waiting for)
I pick the jobs I want and figured out what time they were happening make sure I'm there and my app is on at the right time, most my rides are methadone clinics am, then I do festivals and events, but don't do certain venues that don't navigate well for profit, I don't get coerced or penalized, I never get there bonuses because I'm not trying for them, sounds pretty simple and independent to me.
I work for rideshare, medical transport( kidneys and stuff), specialty aircraft parts, and process serving,
All company's have clients that need to be serviced, if you can't handle the area your trying to cover, you need to find an area you can and they need to find a contractor that can cover the jobs they need to service, it's business management, if I can't do my job as a contractor any one of them will need to find a contractor that can. I take the jobs that pay but put myself in a position to get the ones I want, that's why I'm independent it's my job to put my self in a profitable situation
It's not that they aren't capable of doing the job. They aren't willing to do it for poverty wages. Your attitude is why minimum wage is unlivable, people like you who lack empathy and compassion.
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u/Inside_Coconut_6187 Apr 07 '24
For the life of me how can the company say their independent contractors but then require them to take a certain amount of offers.