a few years ago my father started driving for an app called Uber. im sure everyone knows what that is so ill leave that there. my father is a hard working and caring man that im proud to call my dad, he owned his own company before he lost everything after he drained his bank account to pay for his workers medical bills after he fell off a roof. with no other job opportunities, he started driving for Uber, it's not that he was underqualified for a better job, he was just not white.
as he started working for Uber i noticed a visible change in my dad and the way he acted. he became irritable, angry, depressed. he was getting paid in literal pennies for working a 20 hour work day. he would leave at 5 am and not return until midnight or 1 in the morning. he was getting paid below minimum wage with virtually no benefits. eventually he began developing back problems and knee problems due to being in a car for hours and hours without moving. he would also have to deal with people trying to rob him, drunk people vomiting on his shoulder, and a murder attempt.
as he continued working for Uber, he went from being a happy, funny, caring guy, to a depressed, angry, and frustrated working machine. we are lower middle class and my memories of childhood is seeing my mother count food stamps and sleeping in the same bed as my parents because our 'house' was a wooden shack with 3 rooms. yet we were all happy, my dad loved owning his company even though it didnt pay well (because he payed his workers a liveable wage). i remember me and my mother crying because we didnt see him for three days because he was trying his best to make ends meet, so he just kept driving, and driving, and driving for this awful human rights violation of a rideshare app. when he finally came back he looked so defeated, he didnt come out of his room for a full day.
hes tired, im tired. Uber abuses its workers and treats them like slaves with no care about them, my story isnt the first and it definitely wont be the last story of how Uber broke one of its employees down to a shell of a human being just for them to suck out as much money as they can out of their workers, like little leeches.
TLDR; Uber is one of the most unethical accepted companies that continue to exist in the world while working their employees half to death with no regard for their well being.