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Title: Back To Normal?
Post by: Rat Catcher on July 10, 2020, 06:19:17 pm
Email from Free Now:

Hi Stephen,

Demand for taxis is getting back to normal levels again which is fantastic to see! We saw that drivers were offered and completed 41% more jobs last week than they did in the same week last year.
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Below shows the average number of jobs completed and the average earnings last week for the top 20% of drivers on FREE NOW.
 
€1,632    Average earnings ‌

95    Average jobs‌

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Title: Re: Back To Normal?
Post by: TheDevilHimself on July 10, 2020, 06:48:21 pm
 €1,632    Average earnings!  ‌where do I sign up ?  lol
Title: Re: Back To Normal?
Post by: mercenary for hire on July 10, 2020, 06:48:52 pm
RC did you request information because I didn't get any email.

So back to normal for the number of drivers currently on the road or back to normal as in the same level of demand as this time last year.

I don't really trust them to give us a straight answer.
Title: Re: Back To Normal?
Post by: Rat Catcher on July 10, 2020, 06:50:04 pm
€1,632    Average earnings!  ‌where do I sign up ?  lol

https://free-now.com/ie/driver/
Title: Re: Back To Normal?
Post by: Rat Catcher on July 10, 2020, 06:52:29 pm
RC did you request information because I didn't get any email.

So back to normal for the number of drivers currently on the road or back to normal as in the same level of demand as this time last year.

I don't really trust them to give us a straight answer.

It's unsolicited mail. I didn't request anything... sure I'm getting three and a half hundred a week free money, I've no intention of working for a living for as long as that continues. Right now I'm as happy as a pig in shite. 
Title: Re: Back To Normal?
Post by: mercenary for hire on July 10, 2020, 06:54:31 pm
Ok sound Rc.Yes I'm quite happy to milk this.We might be back for the Christmas rush.
Title: Re: Back To Normal?
Post by: watty on July 10, 2020, 07:00:11 pm
I got that email as well.  It doesn't mention what the other 80% got.  Or even the median earnings.  Sure that 20% could be Vandriver himself and there's only 5 FN working (unlikely but you never know).

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We saw that drivers were offered and completed 41% more jobs last week than they did in the same week last year.
Quite impressive that in the midst of a pandemic, they/we? are doing even better than they/we did in normal times last year!  Also it's a strange way to construct a sentence - "drivers were offered and completed"



Don't forget all of us freeloaders have to confirm to SW that we're still eligible for the €350 by Monday or (I think) we get knocked off the scheme...
Title: Re: Back To Normal?
Post by: Rat Catcher on July 10, 2020, 07:01:50 pm
Done that. I'll not be found wanting when there's beer money to be scrounged!
Title: Re: Back To Normal?
Post by: Jack Meoff on July 10, 2020, 07:02:29 pm
Time for ye to go back to school
Title: Re: Back To Normal?
Post by: watty on July 10, 2020, 07:02:56 pm
Done that. I'll not be found wanting when there's money to be scrounged!
Any tricky questions?  When did you say you were going back?
Title: Re: Back To Normal?
Post by: Rat Catcher on July 10, 2020, 07:05:08 pm
Time for ye to go back to school

All together now:

we're not going back
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... anywaysanall, it's pub O'Clock!
Title: Re: Back To Normal?
Post by: Rat Catcher on July 10, 2020, 07:06:18 pm
Any tricky questions?  When did you say you were going back?

Nothing tricky, 3 minute job... I put not sure for anticipated return as there was no "when you stop giving me free money" option.
Title: Re: Back To Normal?
Post by: watty on July 10, 2020, 07:13:07 pm
The 'real' pubs are reopening 20th July, assuming the virus doesn't spike again after last weekend's food & drink orgy in town.
Title: Re: Back To Normal?
Post by: mercenary for hire on July 10, 2020, 07:15:33 pm
I can see them postponing the wet pub openings if the R number keeps increasing.
Title: Re: Back To Normal?
Post by: watty on July 10, 2020, 07:19:06 pm
Ask and ye shall receive -->  Taoiseach: Phase four re-opening may be delayed over fears around gatherings and house parties (https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/taoiseach-phase-four-re-opening-may-be-delayed-over-fears-around-gatherings-and-house-parties-1010544.html) (breakingnews.ie)

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There are mounting fears that Phase Four of the country’s re-opening will be postponed amid concerns about the renewed spread of the Coronavirus.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin said public health officials are “very concerned” about scenes last weekend of house parties and large crowds gathering outside pubs.

He said the government will take advice from the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) in relation to the commencement of phase four of the reopening for pubs and the wider economy.

“There is concern about indoor gatherings, and the degree to which those indoor gatherings may be causing an increase in the prevalence of the virus and leading to a spread,” he said.

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Title: Re: Back To Normal?
Post by: vandriver on July 10, 2020, 07:33:08 pm
€1,632    Average earnings!  ‌where do I sign up ?  lol
I was a few hundred off that,but I did take the weekend off.
Title: Re: Back To Normal?
Post by: silverbullet on July 10, 2020, 08:27:29 pm
€1,632    Average earnings!  ‌where do I sign up ?  lol
You should hit the pub and tell anyone who'll listen,  that's how most of the gulls ended up in the dead end.  8)
I was a few hundred off that,but I did take the weekend off.