At 7 o'clock in the morning, a rush to get up and alarm clock as promised, after sending his son to school, Li Chun began the day's work as usual, running from 8 o'clock to 12 o'clock at noon, going home at noon to rest for 4 hours, and then running to 11 o'clock in the evening to finish work, day after day, year after year.
This is the 8th year that Li Chun ran Didi, Li Chun, who has personally experienced Didi and Kuaidi, Uber's money-burning war, talked about the natural endless words of Didi's removal, he joked that Didi had not sent him an "airport bill" for a long time before it was taken off the shelves, and this long distance, high amount, and small orders were originally used by Didi to recruit new drivers. And when Didi took down the shelves, in order to retain li chun, an excellent old driver, Didi distributed it to him twice in a week.
"The algorithm is still powerful, it is more shrewd than people." While lamenting the "power" of the algorithm, Li Chun analyzed for me how much money this single can make, even accurate to each kilometer, in the instant of seeing the new order, he synthesized the congestion situation, empty driving distance, destination traffic and other factors.
When I asked Li Chun if the daily income was within his plan, Master Li looked at me dismissively, smiled and said, "It's hourly." ”
Of course, not every driver is like Li Chun, and Didi has safely spent the "seven-year itch", and Wu Ke, who has just joined the army of online ride-hailing, is an out-and-out "Mengxin".
Wu Ke, who was once deeply involved in the education industry, lost his way after a paper policy, and the huge unemployment pressure made him insomnia all night long, "Instead of not being able to sleep and leaving time for games and novels, it is better to drive and chat with strangers, which can soothe my anxiety." When he said this, his face was full of ease and comfort, and it did not look like the long-term reversal of day and night that led to the "full river red" of the physical examination results.
"Then why didn't you run takeout in the first place?" I regretted it the moment I asked this question, and it seemed a bit of a gap to transform the exquisite white-collar workers who used to sit in the office and look down at the CBD business district into the takeaway brother who was waiting hard downstairs. But Wu Ke said very calmly: "I ran, too tired, did not stick to it, or drive more comfortable, the money is not much different." ”
Interestingly, Wu Ke, who has just stepped into the online car industry, has encountered the platform "hunting" caused by Didi's removal, and the major taxi platforms have once again opened the "burning money subsidy" war after 5 years in order to grab the market share that Didi may lose, and the beneficiaries of this "war" are not only customers, as an important part of transportation capacity, Wu Ke, a driver who has just entered the industry, has also become the object of contention.
"I used up to 3 mobile phones at the same time, and 8 taxi apps took turns to work, and the list basically did not stop during that time." As with the passengers which offer to use which one, the driver is also which to make money to pull which one, many taxi software not only for all drivers to open the "peak period 1.2 times salary" or "peak period free commission" temptation, but also for the new drivers such as Wu Ke specially given the first 7 days or even the previous month commission-free activities.
But after a month of wind and fire, the platforms finally returned to calm, "Didi's main positioning is more accurate, some small platforms of taxi software similar to the subway mouth can not be distinguished at all, and their dispatch is very unscientific, often two lists are separated by a few kilometers, a waste of our time, once a passenger asked me why the interface shows that there is only 4 minutes away but I drove for half an hour." I also have a hard time explaining why this is the system navigation display, so in the end both sides will use didi. ”
Wu Ke's "unscientific dispatch" is actually largely due to the fact that other platforms do not have Didi's massive order number and algorithm system accumulated for 10 years, especially Didi's self-developed map, which has erected a high wall after thousands of "wars", and other taxi platforms are difficult to overcome. After experiencing the peak period of subsidies, the chicken feathers left by various taxi platforms were eventually picked up by Didi, so that passengers had a deeper contrast with Didi's use experience.
"Have you ever thought about your boss making you a Didi driver?"
This kind of plot that usually only appears in Shuangwen really happened to Gu Jian, since being a ride-hailing driver, Gu Jian has pulled his subordinates twice, and at first he can only greet him awkwardly, but after breaking the ice, he talks about Xingtou, and Gu Jian will even ask his subordinates what bad words he scolded himself.
As a small boss of a building materials company, Gu Jian has thirty or forty people under his hands, but behind the superficial boss identity is the epidemic situation, under the hard work of the month, there is only one or two million net income on the account. After weighing for a long time, Boss Gu became Master Gu, "I now have an income of 10,000 or 20,000 yuan per month, and I don't have to laugh every day like I used to drink for an engineering project, which is much more comfortable." ”
Gu Jian made me realize that "when you are sad that the driver master is tired, the driver master is also worried that you earn less", although Didi's usual percentage is as high as 20%, and in extreme cases, it is even as high as 30%, but it still does not prevent the industry from "one point of hard work, one point of harvest", and at the same time can obtain a relatively decent and free working space.
Especially in the period when Didi just took down the shelves, there are constantly other platforms of the push staff will knock on Gu Jian's car window, with a high station bonus to tempt him, "they said that there is a platform that just a week to subsidize the driver millions of it, this money is not appropriate, but you will find that there is no customer after you register, at the beginning of the month there is a list during the rush hour, there is no one to use it, I uninstalled it." Or Didi customers more, I know a few peers enthusiastic past, and finally ran so two large platforms, small platform comprehensive experience is still not as good as Didi, every day by customers because of platform technology complaints are also upset. ”
Coincidentally, when I was about to end a day's interview, my mobile phone pushed me the news of "Didi announced its financial report, with a huge loss of 54.6 billion yuan in half a year", and the comments at the bottom were applauded.
So I asked Gu Jian the last question, whether he had encountered extreme passengers, because the Didi removal incident was vicious to him, he was silent for a long time, "There are a few, especially during the period when I just took down the shelves, some customers from my car on other platforms, seeing that I am still taking orders from Didi on my mobile phone, will ask why I am still using this 'traitor APP', I don't know how to answer, I can only be embarrassed to laugh." ”
Under the surging public opinion, it is their neglected identity. In addition to the Didi driver, they are fathers, husbands, and the family's dependence.
Li Chun once opened Didi with a hint of the nature of playing tickets, thinking of running away for a while to find a foreign company to work again, but the birth of his daughter made him change the driving habits of Lang Dang, and also made his working hours surge, from leaving work on time at 9 pm every night to often waiting for customers who were still waiting for overtime at 11 o'clock, "Those big companies that work overtime at night are very expensive, the distance is not far, and they can go back to pick up another one after opening, and taking two orders can make my daughter buy more new clothes." ”
Wu Ke would call his parents on time every month for a large amount of living expenses to reassure them that his parents in a small county town did not understand why Wu Ke wanted to stay in a big city as a driver, and he did not intend to explain. Until now, his parents have urged him to go back to the blind date and settle down. "This year because of the epidemic and can not go home, I have not returned home for two or three years, I do not know how long this work will be done, but I heard that the Spring Festival list can be more expensive, save more money, give the future more choices, it is also very good."
Gu Jianle hehe under the appearance, bear all the burden of the family, the wife is not in good health, the son has just been born, the monthly mortgage is as much as 10,000 yuan, therefore, Gu Jian set himself a monthly food fee limit of 1500 yuan, he is almost familiar with the cheap small restaurant address in each district of Shanghai, 10 yuan a box lunch, 5 yuan a bowl of vegetarian noodles, 7 yuan a cage of soup bags... Gu Jian's bookkeeping APP is almost all single-digit expenses, and it is difficult to connect him with the former owner of the building materials company. "Nothing, what to eat is not to eat, get used to it, careful calculation is life." My wife works harder, every day at home with children, I don't count this. ”
The title "Living Elsewhere" is a novel by my favorite Czech writer Milan Kundera, which is a portrait of a young artist. Kundera created the image of Jaromir, depicting the passionate and short life of the young poet. For decades, people have had a variety of interpretations of the phrase "live elsewhere," some negative, some positive, some high, some low.
But my favorite is Li Chun's interpretation, he put the book in the storage bag behind the main driver, used to describe his current state of life, "just like I recently bought a new car, weima is not BMW, those big company things we small people can't understand, we honestly live behind the news, I don't know if Didi will get better in the future, but life will always get better." 」 ”