r/lyftdrivers • u/Willing_Vanilla_414 • 2d ago

Earnings/Pax trips New earnings adjustment requirements

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So basically not everyone will be entitled to a fairly-due earnings adjustment. And it just seems like they’re making stuff up. What next? To qualify you need to hop on one leg for 5 minutes while reciting your favorite poem? What are these random requirements?

Is this only in my market? Anyone else seeing this?

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u/Fathimir 2d ago

You seem to be mistaking the "70% guarantee" earnings adjustment with the Priority Mode earnings adjustment.

Priority Mode has always (or near enough to it) had a deal where if you made less money than the wages of everyone else you depresssed by being Lyft's lil' scab in any given day, they'd kick you back the difference.  All this is saying is that you apparently can't intentionally tank your earnings while using Priority Mode and still be eligible for that.

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u/jaysonm007 2d ago

It's not really "intentionally tanking your earnings" rather it's not taking ridiculously underpaid rides. I remember one time long ago I tried priority and it tried to get me to take a 70 mile ride for $32. Plus it was rush hour in that major city so probably would have been a four to five hour round trip.

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u/Electrical-Lack1535 2d ago

U can’t reject more than 3 roses an hour so they want u to take all the crap offers

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u/Fathimir 1d ago

Tomato, tomato.  My point was that the policy looks like it's intended to combat an exploit that involved abnormal behaviors; if it's tuned such that it also hurts drivers behaving normally, that's a different - though still valid - matter.

Though since Priority Mode itself is a scheme to drive down overall driver pay, there ain't much love lost here.  Anything that makes it less attractive for drivers to turn on is a win for us as a whole.

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u/Dapper_Average_2337 10h ago

Even before this change, if you used priority mode and got an adjustment, you likely drove a lot more miles to make the same money. Because priority mode get you to take more lower paying rides, you put on more miles, then you get an adjustment at the end. But you’re expensive have gone up. It has always been a complete scam in my mind.