The Uber leak exposes the global war on workers
My personnal experience.
I come back from a trip in romania - bucharest.
At first I didn&#x27;t take Uber but tried for the regular Taxi from the airport.
All of them requesting ~40USD.
At the end I go with one who put the meter and indeed arrived to 200 Lei (~40 USD). I payed in euro because I didn&#x27;t have enough local currency, hopefully I had some and the driver accept.<p>Taking some information it&#x27;s way too much, but would I have argue with how the meter was operating anyway?<p>Now, I need to comeback to the airport at 4am.<p>So instead, I reserve a airport transfer from the airline itself, pay in advance something like 30 USD this time.<p>And... no one show up at 4am. Mobile phone of the transfer is not answering... I never heard of them *<p>So I install Uber, hopefully it&#x27;s working, enter my visa (from my country, no need for local currency at all), after 10 minutes, someone very nice take me and I just paid like 15 USD to get to the airport, at 5 in the morning, with the invoice by mail.<p>How do you compete with that? Taxi business need to reflect. And every country is the same strangely, it&#x27;s as universal than taxes: you can&#x27;t escape!<p>* Edit: In fact I know what happened, and there is nothing to do, because I looked at the invoice and on the third page of the voucher PDF there, it&#x27;s said that I needed to call 24h before to confirm the transfer... They don&#x27;t call, you have to call. Even after the first confirmation I already did for confirming the pickup address some days before, I wasn&#x27;t feeling paranoid enough. So you can&#x27;t say nothing because I didn&#x27;t read the last page, but it&#x27;s a dumb heavy process, do people changes their mind and decide to live forever in the country frequently?