‘The calls just stopped coming’: Uber drivers hit hard by record shutdown

WTOP ^ | Jan 12, 2019 | Mellisa Powell

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Hookers who put out”??

Isn’t that what it’s all about?

[mplc51]

The Rats are all in Puerto Rico with under age girls.

[Slyfox]

Just think about the sacrifice our military take for low pay on a regular basis.

So, all them non-military federal workers ought to just suck it up.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Before the shutdown, we were seeing high demand all across the District,”

Record high prices in the nation's capital for everything. High demand for rides. If we were ever able to stuff Fedzilla back into its little cubicle where it belongs, these problems would fix themselves.

Zero sympathy. Live by the bloated government, die by the bloated government. Go sling lattes like all the other Russian Studies "students."

[BRL]

Democrats hit hardest

[Delta 21]

Cry me a river.

https://youtu.be/roiRpwv9zFs

[OttawaFreeper]

I’m a bit surprised that no one has suggested an Uber government yet.

[Drew68]

Cho says he knows the impact is even greater for his friends who work for the government, so he’s hoping everyone is able to get back to work soon.

So call Nancy Pelosi and tell her it's time to bend the knee. Democrat voters are suffering.

[mewzilla]

Bureaucracy Kills: A Lesson from Rome

[jeffc]

Any word from the media how plastic straw makers are fairing in Californistan?

[Slyfox]

Chamberlin is great. I remember the biggest lesson I learned from one of my politics classes (I went to a good classical college). Congress writes the law, the president signs it and then the bureaucrats finish the bill by adding their details. In actuality when they begin adding details to the bill they are actually changing the bill it is no longer legal. That is the very reason why the Supreme Court ruled against the line item veto, because when the president changes anything to a bill it is no longer the bill that Congress sent to him.

But what do I know?

[mplc51]

California just passed a new law, no more styrofoam containers.

[dakine]

There is no draft...

[mewzilla]

There’s a reason classical education and civics classes were ditched by the Education Industrial Complex. What I don’t get is why so few parents remedy that deficiency themselves.

[dfwgator]

There is no draft...

[Haiku Guy]

Mr. Cho’s problem is not that Federal Employees are no longer calling Uber. His problem is that a lot of Feds are now driving for Uber. The ones who aren’t sitting around bingeing on Netflix are out hustling a little extra money driving for Uber.

I would bet that the number of people hustling Ubers in the DC Metro has to be double the usual number. A lot of low level Feds (GS-7 thru 11) drive for Uber in the evenings even when the government is open. The cost of living in Metro DC is high, and entry level pay of $32K does not cover expenses.

These folks we now driving 12 hours a day instead of just in the evenings. Add to that some senior Feds, who are just hopping on, and it has to be saturating that market and driving down yields. If I were in Metro DC, I would drive up to Baltimore or Philly, and hustle for Uber up there. Too many drivers means you can’t make a living at it in DC.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The Democrats will call for the nationalization of Uber first.

[fhayek]

I am in an industry that (for the most part) services the retail sector of our economy. When a retailer like Sears or Toys R Us closes stores, it effects my company negatively. Many of our employes lose hours. They too have bills and expenses. It is how our business runs and how the real world operates. The pampered federal employees chose an industry that 99% gives them top shelf wages and benefits. But they know (or should know) that they are subject to the occasional political skirmish. I will never understand why they think that they should be exempt from the real world.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Kate Steinle was unavailable for comment.

[Chickensoup]

well federal workers are supposed to be riding bikes or walking.