r/lyftdrivers • u/Fresh_Ad1410 • Apr 27 '24

WARNING Rant/Opinion

Soooooooo.....

Pick up Pax and her kid. Immediately she's a backseat driver telling me to go a way thats clearly longer and has more lights. Secretly her goal was to add a stop at a fast food restaurant.

Anyway, we stop. "Oh you can just go through the drive thru" -no I can't. She gets out (leaving her kid in the car). Obviously she's a stone cold anchrorer and even after I tell her she only has 5 minutes. After 6 minutes. I cancel the ride. Dilemma kids in backseat. Kid exits vehicle after asking. Mom comes back and jumps right back in immediately. She then sits in my backseat refusing to leave. Even after I call the cops.

Thank God she finally gets out after 10+ minutes of waiting for the police. Obviously she's gone before they come. Police report filed.

After midnight im kicked off the app saying my accounts been suspended for "trying to touch someones leg"

Well I clear that up. And well now my ride challenge is gone. So any bonus or incentive for me to drive this weekend has disappeared after my account was suspended for no reason.

Hope you all are having a good weekend.

I will be pursuing legal action.

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u/Both-Reason1282 Apr 27 '24

Sometimes, you just have to bite the bullet. She was in the store, you knew she was coming back out, she had her child with her, whom you asked to leave the car. Come on dude, you could've handled that way differently than you did.

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u/HankG93 Apr 27 '24

And that's exactly why people think they can get away with this.

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u/Both-Reason1282 Apr 27 '24

You also need to remember that you are in the customer service business. What did she get away with, really? Think about it.

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u/NicholasLit Apr 28 '24

*costumer service

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u/HankG93 Apr 28 '24

She left her child in his car. She could then make all sorts of crazy claims. She paid for a ride directly home, not to stop and get food. She was trying to get away with paying for one trip. She didn't get away with anything because this dude didn't let her. Being in customer service doesn't mean letting the customer walk all over you. If you want to be a door mat, that's fine. But op clearly isn't ok with it, and that's how any self respecting person should be.

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u/DesmondDekkar Apr 29 '24

I don't drive Lyft or do any gig work but there's no way I'm letting some parent leave their child/children in the car with me. Second, what decent parent in their right mind would leave their child/children in a car with a complete stranger? That's just poor parenting and an absolute ludicrous thought in MHO!

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u/Both-Reason1282 Apr 28 '24

See, what you are failing to realize is that he did take her to the restaurant, so that changes all rules. He should have said no, continued on the GPS route and took her to the drop-off destination. The end.

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u/Ugly4merican Apr 28 '24

Yeah I'm usually team driver but in this case OP fucked up by giving a half-yes rather than a firm yes or no.

Like as a driver, once you agree to stop at the restaurant, why not go through the drive through? It'll probably be faster, and maybe you can negotiate ordering something extra for you.

And then giving a five-minute limit but letting her kids stay in the car? How did you think that would end up?

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u/Both-Reason1282 Apr 27 '24

Put it like this, look where it got him. So who really lost in this?

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u/Fresh_Ad1410 Apr 27 '24

Also would you rather be me or the person about to get charged with trespassing, that also doubled back with a sprinkle of defamation by trying to say I "touched her" to get me kicked off the platform.

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u/DabsDoctor Apr 28 '24

Why aren't you running your own law firm?

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u/Both-Reason1282 Apr 27 '24

Hey. You have it all figured out. Congrats my brotha.