On: Uber Hit with $650M Employment Tax Bill in New Jersey

[jjoonathan]

> I once called 4x and was told [a taxi] was coming - falsely

Same deal in Pittsburgh, though I only called 2x on the first instance and 1x on the second. Then I stopped using taxis unless forced.

> credit card machine "broken"

This happened twice last week to me in SoCal and seems to happen about 50% of the time I use taxis.

[privateSFacct → jjoonathan]

I called maybe 20x before "getting" it - the taxi is coming was 100% a lie. They were very likely redlining where I lived.

I paid happily for uber black when it came out - whatever people think of uber costs now - original uber was NOT cheaper than a taxi as I remember - BUT you could actually get it. But I might be wrong - for me, I just wanted to be able to get something so I could avoid owning a car (most of the time bus etc works but not always).