This guy was very helpful and informative, and there was a really bad accident on the other side of the highway he was going to have to deal with on the way back. I was going to tip ~60% but apparently I’m restricted to about ~30%.
It’s very unfair and corrupt that a corporation of Uber’s size can limit tips to the workers that are the entire reason they exist.
So I went down a rabbit hole on this… Yes, it’s complete bullshit technicality.
It’s called a “controlled tip”, because it flows through the company payment process via credit cards or payment method. In case anyone was wondering. At least as far as I know.
Legally, tips are 100% property of the employee.
It’s because if they allowed this, it would take literal days for payment providers to take action when people inevitably get robbed/scammed etc.