The Breakfast Club - DONKEY: An Uber Eats Driver Asks a Customer to Cash App Them for Gas Money

Episode Date: June 9, 2023

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Don't be out here acting like a donkey. Hee-haw, bitch! Hee-haw! It's time for Donkey of the Day. I'm a big boy, I can take it. If you feel I deserve it, ain't no big deal. I know Charlamagne's guy gon' have some funny s*** out his mouth. If you gotta say something you may not agree with, doesn't mean I mean it. Who's getting that donkey? That donkey. That donkey. Donkey. Donkey. Donkey. Donkey of the Day, right there.

It's a breakfast club, bitches! You can call me the Donkey of the day, but like, I mean no harm. Hey, donkey of the day for Friday, June 9th is really confusing me because I don't know who should get the biggest hee-haw this morning. It's either going to a man named Xavier Pope or an Uber driver named Nicholas who drives

a Toyota Tacoma. Drop on the clues bombs for everybody listening to The Breakfast Club live from a Toyota Tacoma this morning. We appreciate you. I don't know whether Xavier or Nicholas should get the donkey, but I came across a New York Post article and I saw a headline. And I'm not going to lie, Nav Green, I thought about you immediately. For those of you just joining us, we have Carlos Miller and Nav Green from the 85 South Show in here. If you know anything about the 85 South Show, then you know Nav Green is a food connoisseur.

OK, best vegan recommendations I've ever heard came from Nav Green, and I know Nav really loves his food. So when I saw this headline, I thought about you, Nav, and I want you and Carlos to help me decide who should get donkey, because when I read the New York Post story, the headline says, my Uber Eats driver asked me for gas money to deliver my food. Do y'all want to hear more of the story, or did that headline already already make you feel something a little bit more okay a little bit more now xavier pope who's a chicago resident uh by the way he tweeted this uber eats driver just asked me to cash app him gas money to bring my food to me pope said the driver was harassing him and wouldn't stop calling xavier tweeted he has now called me five times. This is harassment. I am about to call the police on this dude.

Now, let me read you the exchange. Okay, the Uber driver, Nicholas, all right? Nicholas and Xavier. The Uber driver said, yo, it's your Uber driver. I can't make it to you unless I can somehow get gas money. Hello? Xavier replied back, this is unprofessional. The Uber driver said, I understand.

I'm very sorry, but let me know what you want me to do. can't be stuck on the highway it's the same thing as leaving a tip xavier replied give me my food first the guy uber driver said that's the problem i don't have the gas to get to you uh your food or else i wouldn't ask i just need enough gas to make it to you sir that man said sir he means well the driver was about to run out of gas and he didn't realize the order was so far away now xavier called those people on Nicholas. And by those people, I mean Uber support. And Uber support said behavior like this is definitely not OK. Xavier said it's something I do not want to experience again. A person coming to my home pressuring me for money. Now, I'm confused who should get the biggest hee haw because I think Xavier overreacted.

Xavier threatened to call the police because Nicholas said he needed some gas money to keep the Toyota Tacoma on the road. Nicholas said it's just like giving a tip. I hate to be the one to tell you, but that's the climate of the society we in. When we have public servants like Nicholas that make our lives easier, we got to take care of them. But then again, Nicholas, if you can't afford gas, then maybe you probably shouldn't have a job that requires a car. I told you earlier. That's too much. That's too much, Lois. I think you should give them

both a donkey other day because first of all, everybody who's an adult knows when you asking somebody to do something that involves their vehicle, gas money may come up. Even if it's through an app.

What I would have did, I would have sent them a little 10 or something for the gas. But it depends on what you ask for. Wait, wait, wait. But you got it? Once I got my order, I would have sent him a little 10 or something for gas. But it depends on what you ask for. Wait, wait, wait. But you got it?

Once I got my order, I would have said I ain't getting my order. I was going to recoup mine on the back end. You was getting it regardless. I would have looked out for the young brother. Because look, you know, I've been a delivery driver. Sometimes it do happen. Okay. But I'm saying you might have to take some of your money, you know, your bank money.

But he would have still been fine, though. And buy you a little gas. Because he would have still been fired because he never got his food. I used to deliver pizza for Domino's. Shout out to Domino's. Best job I ever had. Okay, I thought you were going to get fired.

I was sad. That was for my own business, LLC. He still would have got fired, though, because you said the food never came. You got a few times to not deliver the food. You don't get fired on the spot. Who's going to fire you? It's Uber Eats.

You literally can go online, on the app. There is no boss. Now, can we go to one of the world's foremost experts on food, Dive Green here? fired on the spot who gonna fire you it's uber eats you literally can on the app yeah there is no boss now can we go to one of the world's foremost experts on food dive green here so look what i i think first off and foremost like if you're working for uber or something like that you when you see the money flash up you're gonna press submit because you see the money but then you see the distance he look at his gas tank i can't make it. Now, as a food person, and I want my food, I'm going to help you help me. Right. So if you can't get to me, I'm canceling that order.

Now I'm getting something. I'm going to at least get you to me. Yeah. But I don't know how you're getting back. I don't know how you're getting back. So who should get donkey? Both of them. I told you, both of them.

Both of them? You think so too? Yes. I think the person who didn't get his food. He didn't get his food. He loses. He had options. He could have got those.

He loses the most, though, Charlemagne. Okay. I think y'all bugging. I want to ask you, but you don't like people that drive Toyotas, so I don't even want your bougie ass to say. Don't ask me. He out the loop. He is out the loop.

Toyota Tacoma gets 23 miles per gallon gas miles or highway miles. But I would say this. When you order something from Uber Eats, they charge you all those goddamn fees. It's not like they just say, okay, the meal is $5. They charge you $5. That money is not going to the driver. Plus a delivery fee. Plus they charge you another fee.

Then the taxes. And then they ask you if you want to give a tip on top of it. But the man still got to get there, though. Have you ever been hungry and mad? No. See? Exactly. That's what I'm saying.

You don't struggle enough. You don't struggle enough. That's why you're not able to connect with these regular issues. You have too much going on. Bro, you live a great life, and we support that. I work hard. You're a role model to the black community. I work hard.

But you jumping in and out of Ferraris and all this. You probably never even had Uber Eats. I work hard. I have a wheeze every day, but I work pretty hard. But I will say this. I agree with Los. Let's give the double donkey to Nicholas and Xavier. Because they've been ordering back and forth.

That's sad. That's true. Y'all can't make that man give a tip. Hold on. Now close BET out. All right, BET, we'll see y'all can't make that man give a tip. Hold on. Now close BET out. All right, BET, we'll see y'all later. Everybody else, we'll see y'all on Monday, BET. All right.

Now get back on Envy. That's exactly what I'm saying, though. He the type of person like, well, the service wasn't that good. I ain't going to tip. No, Envy, you have to tip. No, I don't. Those people who are in the service industry, they depend on rich people like you to come through and leave good tips, whether the service is good or not.

See, that's the problem. You can't leave a tip if the service is not good. I'm going to leave a tip depending on if the service is a good or not. Then they have to make good service. Don't hold the staff accountable for the restaurant. You ever been to a restaurant and they treat you like ish? They don't come back and refill your water. They don't do anything.

You need to tip. No! I'm not tipping for bad service for good service not for bad service you can't tip for bad service you can't do what you want to do and still expect that's right exactly i'm not saying tip people with bad service that's what you just said what i'm saying is this is how these people make their money correct so you're probably getting bad service because they don't have gas in the Tacoma. Because they're not making money at work. Because everybody who comes in there says, hey, we're getting bad service.

What if it's a bad restaurant? I would have gave the man gas money. I would have gave him gas money. I would have gave him gas money, too. But you're not going to pressure me into giving you gas money. That was after. Trust me, you ought to be honest with you. But that's his mistake. You're on the radio every morning.

That's his mistake. You know, you're getting pressed for a tip, whether it's good or not. I don't know how you feel about that, but that's just the facts of life. That's how you press for a tip, Envy? I don't know. When I go out, I tip out. He ignores it. You can tell he ignores it.

No, I tip well. I damn near tip well. 20, 25% when I tip. But when the service is good. If the service is bad. What you do? I ain't going to tip you nothing. I agree. I can't tip you for bad service. I'll give you a give you a little i'll give you the basics for bad i'm not gonna tip you well for just because i have to i think that's what loads is saying

even if they're giving bad service you should just give them a basic tip but if you're doing a great job you get a big tip pull them to the side and tell them why you didn't tip them as good as you would after you eat yeah they don't spit in your food. This is a good topic. Let's talk about this. 800-585-1051. Charlemagne gave Donkey a date of two men. Yeah, Xavier and Nicholas. And the reason you gave him Donkey the date was because of what?

Because Nicholas is an Uber driver and he straight up asked for gas money because he couldn't get to Xavier. I don't see a problem with that personally. You know what I'm saying? Xavier threatened to call the police on him and reported him to Uber. We don't even know if Xavier had the. You know what I'm saying? Xavier threatened to call the police on him and report him to Uber. But this is the thing. We don't even know if Xavier had the money. Like, Uber Eats is expensive as hell.

We don't know if he had the money. Then you got affected in the location. But that might have been his last money. That might have been his last dollar to get that food. And now you want me to give you extra and I don't have it? And you're saying I'm not going to bring you food unless I give you a tip and this is all I got? All this is true. He could be a college student.

He could be like, but you can't make somebody give you a tip to bring my food that I paid for. He didn't try to make them. He did ask. But Charlemagne, he actually dropped the food off. He did drop it. He got it there. And the guy said, mmm, tasty. Right.

Yeah, he should get Donkey of the Day. Because you being sarcastic. I gave it both to him. All right, well, let's open up the phone lines. 800-585-1051. What are your thoughts? Let's talk about it. It's the Breakfast Club.

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