Download or read book Uber Taxi Cab Confessions written by Joe Mahedy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UBER Taxi Cab Confessions is a whirlwind tour of true short stories viewed through the eyes of a part time Uber Driver. You will be a passenger on every ride, discovering the hottest bars and restaurants and the secret after hour clubs in Fairfield County as we pick up riders and take them to wherever they want to go. Your life changes once you turn ON the UBER App. The show begins as soon as a rider opens the door to your cab. You never know what personality you will have to have until you greet your passenger. You may need to be a weatherman offering the latest forecast, or act as a political analyst. Some times you will have to be the rider's personal shrink and other times a comedian or a imaginative story teller. I now have acquired multiple personalities to match each rider's M.O. I must be pretty good at that. I get a five star rating on almost every ride plus I get crazy good tips by agreeing with everything they say. Confessions is an Illustrated collection of what happens in the back seat of my Uber cab. Read about the two chefs cooking in the back seat. Or, the very intoxicated woman who leaves her dog in my cab. But one of the funniest stories is about the man who was so big, the backdoor had to be removed to get him out. The UBER concept is amazing. It's so much fun to be a driver. I have included a list of tips and suggestions for both Drivers and Riders that are also very amusing. So buckle your seat belt and read on."
Download or read book Uber Taxi Cab Confessions written by Joseph Mahedy and published by Jdm Associates Incorporated. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uber Taxi Cab Confessions is a whirlwind tour of true short stories viewed through the eyes of a part time Uber driver. You will be a passenger on every ride as we pick up riders and take them to wherever they want to go. The show begins as soon as a rider opens the door to your cab.
Download or read book Ridehares Wrecks and Sex Confessions of a Convicted Uber Driver written by Joe F. N. Schmo and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-01-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows Uber drivers are expected to be courteous and attentive, both to their passengers and to those on the road. They are not expected to accept that invitation to the swinger party, flee the scene of a fatal accident, nor are they expected to be a convicted felon on probation. Unfortunately, this Joe Schmo is not your everyday Uber driver. I began sharing rides with the audacious hope to one day escape the road blocks stalling my merger onto the freeway of creative success. But when a typical shift U-turns into a series of detours involving herpes ridden riders, sexy sorority sisters, and blundering bank robbers, I arrive (at gunpoint) miles from my desired destination. ""Rideshares, Wrecks, and Sex: Confessions of a Convicted Uber Driver"" is based upon actual events that transpired over the year that I covertly drove for Uber while on probation. I confesses outlandish details in a highlight reel of wrecks (both car and train) and sex, effectively answering ""What's your craziest story?""
Download or read book Confessions of a New York Taxi Driver The Confessions Series written by Eugene Salomon and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driving a cab for more than 30 years Gene Salomon has collected a remarkable selection of stories. He shares the very best in this unforgettable memoir.
Download or read book Rideshare Storytime written by Rideshare Storytime and published by Rideshare Storytime. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever asked your rideshare driver, "What's the craziest passenger story you've got?" This is Volume 1 in a collection of true stories from a Los Angeles-based rideshare driver who has been through the trenches.
Download or read book Tales Confessions of an Atlanta Uber Driver written by Mitchell Jay R. Lankford and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-18 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mitchell "Jay- R" Lankford recently came home form doing 18 years in a New York State Prison, got paroled to Atlanta, Georgia and turned driving for Uber into an ultimate hustle! He was one of the top 5 Uber drivers in Atlanta and driving for Uber ultimately saved his life. Jay began making $1,300 - $1,500 a week by driving around some of the City's Hottest Rappers, Porn Stars, Doctors, Lawyers, Police Officers, as well as NBA Basketball Players. This is a must read book that includes an exclusive Tupac picture, hand written letter from Prodigy (of Mobb Deep R.I.P.), and great stories and experiences from the saddest Uber ride to the greatest rides ever!
Download or read book Left to Our Own Devices written by Margaret E. Morris and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-12-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unexpected ways that individuals adapt technology to reclaim what matters to them, from working through conflict with smart lights to celebrating gender transition with selfies. We have been warned about the psychological perils of technology: distraction, difficulty empathizing, and loss of the ability (or desire) to carry on a conversation. But our devices and data are woven into our lives. We can't simply reject them. Instead, Margaret Morris argues, we need to adapt technology creatively to our needs and values. In Left to Our Own Devices, Morris offers examples of individuals applying technologies in unexpected ways—uses that go beyond those intended by developers and designers. Morris examines these kinds of personalized life hacks, chronicling the ways that people have adapted technology to strengthen social connection, enhance well-being, and affirm identity. Morris, a clinical psychologist and app creator, shows how people really use technology, drawing on interviews she has conducted as well as computer science and psychology research. She describes how a couple used smart lights to work through conflict; how a woman persuaded herself to eat healthier foods when her photographs of salads garnered “likes” on social media; how a trans woman celebrated her transition with selfies; and how, through augmented reality, a woman changed the way she saw her cancer and herself. These and the many other “off-label” adaptations described by Morris cast technology not just as a temptation that we struggle to resist but as a potential ally as we try to take care of ourselves and others. The stories Morris tells invite us to be more intentional and creative when left to our own devices.
Download or read book Confessions of a Late Night Uber Driver written by Matt Pridgen and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "HEY, UBER DRIVER! DO YOU THINK MY FRIEND SHOULD GO HOME WITH THIS GUY?" My rider blurted out the question without my prompting. I kept my mouth shut and my eyes on the road. "We just met him tonight...but he bought us hotdogs and drinks." Pop music from a local radio station played softly in the background as I began to process her statement. I AM A LATE NIGHT UBER DRIVER. Well, actually I'm a stay-at-home dad trying to earn a few extra bucks on the weekends. Driving the night shift in a college town, I was originally enticed by the surge fares and 2 a.m. bar rush, but I soon discovered something far more valuable than an extra boost of income. I found that the young people I drive around need more than just a safe ride home-they need to know that there is still hope in this crazy world. JOIN ME AS I SHARE MY TALES OF LATE NIGHTS on the Uber circuit-the good, the bad and the ugly. And stick around to discover the answer to the one question everyone always wants to know: "Has anyone ever puked in your car?"
Download or read book Confessions of an Uber Driver written by John Dillingham and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicled during the spring and summer of 2016 in Tampa Bay, Florida, these are the true stories and confessions of John Dillingham.
Download or read book Taxi written by Joseph Rodriguez and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City in the late '70s was a collection of villages with its downtown scene, midtown workers, and uptown elegance. It was also a city that was more integrated than ever before or ever would be again. All of the city's humanity met in its streets with layered soundtracks of salsa, rock, disco, reggae, and soon hip-hop booming for all to groove to. But, NYC was also a place of chaos and mayhem. Teetering on the brink of bankruptcy with rampant crime it was the city's drug users, dealers, and pimps and prostitutes who ruled the streets of Manhattan. The grittiness of the city was a beacon and a promise to many outsiders, those who didn't quite fit into any mold, and a vibrant LGBTQ community became the nexus of an underworld of sex workers who liked to party. For a NYC cabbie such as Joseph Rodriguez, the hot spots to pick up fares were clubs like the Hellfire, Mineshaft, The Anvil, The Vault, and Show World. Losing his first camera and lens in a classic '70s New York stabbing and mugging, Rodriguez's wounds healed and he armed himself with a new camera to document what he saw on the job: hookers getting off their shifts, transvestites and S&M partiers doin' it in the back seat or somehow pulling off an unlikely costume change from bondage gear to emerge from the cab clean-cut in an oxford and khakis ready to face unwitting family and friends. A humanist at heart, his photographs speak of the dignity of the city's working class from all the boroughs and those struggling to get by. The Economic Hardship Reporting Project provided funding to support Taxi: Journey Through My Windows 1977–1987.
Download or read book Uber Confessions written by Lynn A. Dalton and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Raw Deal written by Steven Hill and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What's going to happen to my job?" That's what an increasing number of anxious Americans are asking themselves. The US workforce, which has been one of the most productive and wealthiest in the world, is undergoing an alarming transformation. Increasing numbers of workers find themselves on shaky ground, turned into freelancers, temps and contractors. Even many full-time and professional jobs are experiencing this precarious shift. Within a decade, a near-majority of the 145 million employed Americans will be impacted. Add to that the steamroller of automation, robots and artificial intelligence already replacing millions of workers and projected to "obsolesce" millions more, and the jobs picture starts looking grim. Now a weird yet historic mash-up of Silicon Valley technology and Wall Street greed is thrusting upon us the latest economic fraud: the so-called "sharing economy," with companies like Uber, Airbnb and TaskRabbit allegedly "liberating workers" to become "independent" and "their own CEOs," hiring themselves out for ever-smaller jobs and wages while the companies profit. But this "share the crumbs" economy is just the tip of a looming iceberg that the middle class is drifting toward. Raw Deal: How the "Uber Economy" and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers,by veteran journalist Steven Hill, is an exposé that challenges conventional thinking, and the hype celebrating this new economy, by showing why the vision of the "techno sapien" leaders and their Ayn Rand libertarianism is a dead end. In Raw Deal, Steven Hill proposes pragmatic policy solutions to transform the US economy and its safety net and social contract, launching a new kind of deal to restore power back into the hands of American workers.
Download or read book Confessions of a Taxi Driver written by Tommy Dee and published by Europa Edizioni. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the male minds and the darkest sexual fetishes they hold, an insight into what truly goes on behind closed doors and the darkest sexual exploits of neighbours self-defined as the “normal” people next door. It peels back the lid for the first time on everything you ever wanted to know about the lives of those who have affairs, how they get caught, why men have to cheat, this novel reveals the confessions of those who worked in the red-light business, read their stories, learn their sexual tips and tricks. A fly on the wall, that offers to its readers a peculiar and complete narrative about some people and their incredible stories which range from the freakish to the perverse, all set in a little sphere which is that of Taxi Drivers, where abnormality became the normality, it was a candy store of sex, swinging, orgy’s, threesomes, blowjobs and hand jobs. This is a tale of the not so conservative eighties as revealed by Dublin’s youngest taxi driver that chronicled twenty years of the mystifying and decedent lives of his passengers and his fellow taxi drivers.
Download or read book Insane Taxi Driver Confessions written by Aaron Kline and published by . This book was released on 2019-04 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insane Taxi driver Confessions is a collection of wonderfully weird and outrageously funny short stories from the author's personal experiences with passengers, as well as strange tales from passengers and other fellow taxi drivers. The reader will enjoy a detailed insight into the real and raw situations that occur in today's society. This book will bring the secret lives that people live in the big cities out of the darkness and into the street lights. The author highlights how vulnerable teenagers become when they go out clubbing. This is especially dangerous for students who are living away from home for the first time, with no significant life experience because they were raised under close parental supervision. Besides the humour and entertainment, Aaron Kline hopes that his book will encourage people to become more vigilant and aware when they are out in the big cities, surrounded by the extreme craziness of society.
Download or read book Disrupting D C written by Katie J. Wells and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panoramic account of the urban politics and deep social divisions that gave rise to Uber The first city to fight back against Uber, Washington, D.C., was also the first city where such resistance was defeated. It was here that the company created a playbook for how to deal with intransigent regulators and to win in the realm of local politics. The city already serves as the nation’s capital. Now, D.C. is also the blueprint for how Uber conquered cities around the world—and explains why so many embraced the company with open arms. Drawing on interviews with gig workers, policymakers, Uber lobbyists, and community organizers, Disrupting D.C. demonstrates that many share the blame for lowering the nation’s hopes and dreams for what its cities could be. In a sea of broken transit, underemployment, and racial polarization, Uber offered a lifeline. But at what cost? This is not the story of one company and one city. Instead, Disrupting D.C. offers a 360-degree view of an urban America in crisis. Uber arrived promising a new future for workers, residents, policymakers, and others. Ultimately, Uber’s success and growth was never a sign of urban strength or innovation but a sign of urban weakness and low expectations about what city politics can achieve. Understanding why Uber rose reveals just how far the rest of us have fallen.
Download or read book Confessions of an Uber Driver written by Douglas Edwin Casimiri and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the driver's seat comes a look at the true operating procedures, values, and mission of Uber. Author Douglas Casimiri spent one year undercover as an Uber driver and has emerged with new insight into the company and a series of wild stories about colorful passengers and startling situations. Casimiri outlines the business plan and processes of Uber. He includes information on the discrepancy between what Uber claims drivers make and what they actually earn, the story behind the founding and the funding of the company, the standards Uber keeps to protect both drivers and passengers, the reasons Uber is winning its competition against traditional taxi companies, the concept of surge pricing, the opposition Uber faces from the government and taxi unions, and the future of Uber and its drivers. While Casimiri was driving for Uber, his coworkers confided in him about a variety of shocking, dangerous, and sometimes humorous experiences. In one case, a very confused passenger forgets where she is and believes she's being kidnapped. In another, a driver can't believe it when his passenger ends up being a famous actor. Casimiri's anecdotes show that there is never a dull moment in the life of an Uber driver!
