It’s the clean, friendly, cheap, and generally pleasant method of getting from A to B that’s got everyone ditching their endless taxi queues in droves.
And one of the most appealing features of it is the ability to keep drivers’ customer service skills accountable through the ratings system – for every ride you take, you get to throw a star rating – up to 5 – on your driver based on how well you thought the whole trip went.
But what a lot of people might not know, is that that door swings both ways. And while you get to drop a rating on your driver, your driver also gets to drop a rating on you.
Every Uber passenger profile has a star rating as well, up to 5. The lower your star rating, the less likely drivers are to pick up your fare whenever you request one.
But that star rating isn’t directly told to you, even though it’s technically personal information.
It used to be that in order to find out your star rating, you had to email Uber’s customer service representatives. But not anymore.
Got your phone handy? You can find that shit out right now.
Fire up your Uber app. Hit Menu (those three horizontal lines in the top left corner). Then select Help, hit Account, scroll down to I’d Like To Know My Rating and hit that fancy turquoise Submit button.
Boom. There it is. How much of a mad dog passenger you are, in convenient numerical form.
You may now use that rating to brag to your mates, eventually segregating everyone according to their score, until the society collapses into a giant, Logan’s Run-like dystopia where the 4.8 stars have all the power, whilst the 4.6’s are cast out into the badlands to fend for themselves like the true wild animals they are.
Check it out for yourselves, why not!
