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BREAKING: Uber 65¢ a mile in Tampa (how low can you go?)

Uber is screwing their Tampa drivers up the ass. They have lowered their rates 30% to 65 measly cents a mile. Drivers now get 20 bucks from downtown Tampa to St Petersburg... Big deal. Minus gas, time, insurance, maintenance, wear and tear, federal income tax, social security, workman's compensation, and you have what's left in your baby's diaper. In a word: Uber drivers are desperate.

This is what one Tampa Uber driver said on the boards:

"Uber is a thermometer of what this country has become.
We are scavangers....
Everbody is doing this UBER CRAP because there is only one reality, THERE IS NO JOB or just FEW JOBS out there.
This country can measure the desperation of its people with UBER, like the economist who measure the economics of the world by the McDonald's Big Mac, same concept"
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  1. AnonymousJanuary 10, 2016 at 9:46 AM

    A few posts back you claim to be homeless, broke and not making any money. And now you claim to say you are moving to a condo in Clearwater? Your stories don't add up. Considering you drive a cab in Tampa with all the traffic in that part of Clearwater plus the more money you will have to spend on gas going back and forth from Tampa..not to bright! Down the street from the Long Center pool is a Salvation Army that should help you when you are homeless again!

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 10, 2016 at 7:40 PM

    Dear Anonymous - remember that rear end accident a year ago? Morgan and Morgan, for the people ... $$$$$$$$

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