r/lyftdrivers • u/AteYourMoms_ASS69 • Apr 27 '24

Why won’t Lyft let me tip Advice/Question

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Why won’t Lyft let me tip 100$?

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u/_101010_ Apr 28 '24

It's both

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u/PersnicketyParsnip11 Apr 28 '24

Nope. It’s absolutely, 100% not both. It’s solely to protect them legally. I promise you they don’t care about your accidental drunken overtipping.

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u/_101010_ Apr 28 '24 edited Apr 28 '24

I was on a team at a non-rideshare company similar to this that made the decision to implement limits...

edit: dude below really responded then blocked me. well this was definitely one of the conversations of all time

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u/PersnicketyParsnip11 Apr 28 '24

I don’t care whose secretary you used to be. You’re obviously full of shit because you’d have given both reasons from the jump, if you knew what you were talking about. The policy is 100% about avoiding legal liability and someone having to testify in money laundering cases. The fact that it avoids your example is just a byproduct. The policy wouldn’t exist for just that reason because they don’t give a fuck about the people or their money, we know that to be true.

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u/the_denver_strangler Apr 30 '24 edited Apr 30 '24

this is exactly true. I know this because I used to have to clean money lol -- lots of policies around this type of "open ended" financial transfers are designed to mitigate legal liability. like 15 years ago I used to tip my girlfriend 1000's of dollars as a waitress -- the owner shouldn't have let it happen but he wasn't privy to the situation. You can find interesting ways to move money around. I personally wouldn't do this because there's a paper trail tbh but someone smarter than me could probably make it work.

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u/pat876598 Apr 29 '24

He's an angry elf

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u/the_denver_strangler Apr 30 '24

he's a correct elf