Yesterday I purchased a limited edition Funko Pop figure from the Funko Shop. It’s based on the Monkey Assassin design from Paper + Plastick Records, a designer of toys and vinyl records out of Gainesville, Florida.
Tag: YouTube
Do not take Uber or Lyft driver advice from YouTube
If there’s one thing I’ve learned as a rideshare driver these two past years it’s this: never take advice from a YouTuber. Specifically, advice on driving for Uber or Lyft.
Do not commit fraud when canceling because of an unaccompanied minor
Unaccompanied Minors has been a hot-button issue with many YouTube Uber and Lyft drivers. The YouTube channel Dustin is Driving published a video entitled, “Uber-This Is What Happens When Unaccompanied Minors Try To Scam Drivers For A Ride.” It features a video from Dave the Uber Slave, another Uber driver who makes YouTube videos.
Just how does the unaccompanied minor attempt to scam Dave? By requesting a ride using his Lyft app and then expecting to be driven to his destination. In other words, doing what millions of other people do when they request a ride. This is somehow a “scam.”
In the video, Dustin said Dave handled the situation perfectly. I strongly disagree. Dave displayed terrible customer service skills in dealing with the unaccompanied minor. He speaks to the minor through a slightly open window while the 15-year-old stands in the rain. The minor cannot hear him. Dave speaks to him in a condescending, passive-aggressive way, recording the entire encounter for his YouTube channel.
Do not call passengers names
Dave says things to the rider you should never say to a customer. At one point, he calls him a brat. That’s not right. There’s a way to deal with an unaccompanied minor that’s both professional and not at all combative.
All Dave had to do was explain the policy, apologize for the inconvenience, cancel the ride, and leave. That should all take no more than 30 seconds.
When canceling, he should have canceled due to an unaccompanied minor. It’s one of the reasons Lyft presents to you when canceling a ride. Did he do that?
Dustin incorrectly states that Dave had to sit there for five minutes to get a cancellation fee. This is false.
When canceling an unaccompanied minor request, do not commit fraud
When you cancel a ride because of an unaccompanied minor but fail to select the correct reason, instead indicating the rider did not show up, you are attempting to defraud Lyft. This is against Lyft’s Terms of Service. From section 10 – Driver Representations, Warranties, and Agreements:
f. You will not attempt to defraud Lyft or Riders on the Lyft Platform or in connection with your provision of Services. If we suspect that you have engaged in fraudulent activity we may withhold applicable Fares or other payments for the ride(s) in question.
Drivers attempt to defraud Lyft because it pays an automatic cancellation fee to the driver when a rider is not where they said they would be. The driver must wait at least five minutes before canceling to collect this fee.
Lyft will still pay you for canceling because of an unaccompanied minor, but you will need to contact customer service to get the fee.
Contrary to what Dustin said in the video, don’t lie when you cancel a trip. Remember, driving for Lyft or Uber is a privilege, not a right. You are an independent contractor. They can deactivate your account for almost any reason.
You should always strive to do better
You should always be thinking about how you can do things better. I replay trips in my mind and try to find ways I could have done them better. Guess what? I almost always find things I could have done better. That’s because I’m not perfect. I’m a human being.
Once I find something I could have done better, I try to incorporate it in future trips. I like to think it’s one of the reasons I have high feedback ratings in both Lyft and Uber.
Boogie2988 mocks gamer because they come from a ‘broken home’
Steven Williams, the man you plays Boogie2988 on the Internet, did something on Twitch that exposed him as the person he really is.
Contrary to what a lot of people think, Boogie is not the rotund Mister Rogers of YouTube. He is a mean, self-centered, manipulative person who would rather lie than tell the truth.
Boogie2988 was on Twitch playing a video game with strangers. Here is the video:
Boogie does not know this person. He asked them personal questions and then used the fact the other person’s parents are not together against them. Boogie even tried to gaslight him into believing he had anger issues.
Boogie, a 44-year-old man then tries to turn it around by saying both his parents are dead and that he’s Batman.
Boogie2988 is not Batman. He is a self-centered liar who feeds off pity. Boogie2988 is the type of man Batman beats up and leaves lying in an ally.
Boogie2988 only cares about himself
Again, Boogie does not know this person. He does not know if the other person has mental health issues. If they are “suicidal tendencies” or suffers from dissociation. These are two mental disorders Boogie claims to suffer from. Also, is this other person unlucky enough to have the world-famous Boogie mock on Twitch even 18? It’s not clear from the video if they are an adult or not.
From what I have seen on Twitter and Reddit, more and more people are beginning to see Boogie for what he is. This video seems to have resonated with many of them. Good. It happened to me a while ago. I went from being a fan to the opposite of a fan. I expect more people will do the same. Eventually, his YouTube channel will die and he will have to get a job.
This just in, Boogie2988 is a terrible person
Steven Williams, the man who plays the Boogie2988 character on YouTube, has been embroiled in controversy. A 20-year-old cam girl and porn actress, Lucy Foxx, has accused Boogie2988 of mental abuse during their ten-week relationship.
He, of course, has denied the accusation. That’s what Boogie2988 does when accused of anything, even word-for-word direct quotes from something he’s said; he denies, denies, denies. The then announces the person quoting him is a “hater” and wants to see him die.
I don’t know if the accusations made by Lucy Foxx are true or not. As far as I’m concerned, it doesn’t matter. Although Lucy Foxx has problems in her life, an abusive relationship with Boogie2988 does not compare to her other problems.
What matters are the underlying facts in the story that Boogie2988 doesn’t dispute: he had a ten-week relationship with a 20-year-old sex worker. He’s 44 years old. Even if she wasn’t a cam girl or a porn actress, the relationship would be highly inappropriate for no other reason than their difference in age. Throw in the fact she’s a sex worker just makes the story all that worse.
What kind of repugnant man has a relationship with a sex worker 24 years younger than him? Even if there was no abuse going on, the situation was ripe for it.
Tell me again how Boogie2988 is the Mr. Rogers of YouTube?
This will be my last post about Boogie2988. I just don’t see the point of commenting any further on any of the garbage he does. He lies constantly. He defended his child rapist father. He shared with people on Twitch how he performs oral sex on a prostitute and then strangles them.
At this point, I don’t understand how anyone can look at Boogie2988 and not see him for what a garbage person he is.
To continue blogging about him and pointing out what a loser he is would be like blogging about the Atlantic Ocean and pointing out how wet it is. It’s an ocean. Of course, it’s wet. The same thing applies to Steven Williams. Of course, he’s a lying psychopath addicted to the sympathy of strangers. If you cannot see that, then there’s no amount of posts from me that will ever change your mind. At this point, it should be obvious to everyone.
Goodbye Steven. I know you read all my posts about you. I hope you enjoy this post because I will never blog about you again.
I’m extremely thankful to have health insurance
I’m so, so thankful I have health insurance. I received a statement in the mail from the University of Maryland Medical Center for the surgery to remove part of my large bowel last month.
Because I have health insurance, my out of pocket cost for the whole thing was zero.
I’m lucky to have health insurance. Actually, I’m lucky to be married to Sheri who works for a company that offers health insurance at a subsidized cost. One of the drawbacks of working in the gig economy is that I don’t have employer-subsidized health insurance. That’s because I’m my own employer. And yes, my boss is a real jerkface.
Not having health insurance is not an option
I’d like to think I wouldn’t put myself into a situation where I didn’t have health insurance. Without actually being in that situation, I can’t be 100 percent certain, but if Sheri didn’t have access to health insurance, I would get a job, any job that provided subsidized health insurance.
The topic of not having health insurance has come up recently in the online Magic: The Gathering community. Wedge, a popular YouTuber, does not have health insurance. He had a serious problem with his back and traveled against doctor’s orders to Grand Prix Las Vegas from upstate New York. The day after he arrived, he woke up not being able to move his legs.
He was taken to the hospital by ambulance and had surgery the following day. Being that he didn’t have health insurance, his sister started a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for his hospital bills. So far they’ve raised nearly $80,000.
Because of people who donated to the GoFundMe campaign, he was able to make a huge dent in his medical costs.
For everyone’s sake, I hope Wedge does whatever he needs to do to get health insurance. First, it’s the law. Secondly, I doubt people will donate to a GoFundMe campaign the next time he has something majorly wrong with his health. Then again, maybe they will. It’s really hard to say for certain. If there’s anything people online can be counted on to do, it’s doing the unexpected.
My wife is my hero
If I wasn’t on Sheri’s health insurance, if she didn’t work for a company that provided subsidized health insurance, I’d have to jettison my dream of driving strangers in my car and get a job doing something I hated even more than driving strangers in my car. I could still do e-commerce integration jobs on the side. I could also still sell WordPress plugins on my business website. The nice thing about that stream of revenue is it’s all automatic. I created the plugins a while back and people can buy them and then download them without any action taken by me. It’s all automatic. Someone bought one last night when I was sleeping.
Making money while you sleep is the real American dream.
I cannot wait for Thanksgiving this year
I’m looking forward to Thanksgiving this year. I have quite a lot to be thankful for. I’m thankful to be married to the greatest woman in the world. When I first experienced complications from what would be later diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, I’m thankful I was taken by ambulance to Meritus Medical Center where I received world-class care, especially from the nurses on staff. I’m also extremely thankful to have Dr. Tu Bui as my primary doctor. He not only provides excellent care when I see him for an office visit, he visited me in the hospital several times. In fact, he told me I had Crohn’s before any of the experts in gastroenterology made the diagnoses. He’s the best primary care doctor I’ve ever had. Finally, I’m extremely thankful I was able to have Dr. Andrea Bafford perform the surgery that saved my life.
I’m a lucky and thankful man.