fleet manager

driver (independent contractor)

driver

cleaner

automotive detailer

KYTE

This company disgusts me because it values profit and vehicle safety over the well-being of its surfers and employees. You claim to prioritize customers, but conveniently forget that we, the workers, are also your customers who provide your service. It is crystal clear that your main focus is on making money, not on ensuring the safety and welfare of your contract workers.

You have the means and knowledge to create additional channels on Slack for better communication and support, yet you choose not to because you value censorship over employee engagement. Your blatant disregard for the voices and rights of your workers is appalling and shows where your true priorities lie - with lining your pockets and protecting your assets rather than valuing and respecting your workforce.

Your shortsightedness and neglect of your workers will inevitably lead to rebellion and incompetence. By failing to recognize and address the needs and concerns of your employees, you are setting yourself up for repeated mistakes, vehicle damages, financial struggles, and a workforce that is disengaged and demoralized.

As a surfer for this company, you are treated as nothing more than a disposable resource. You are exploited for the lowest possible compensation, left stranded without reimbursement, and subjected to glitches, lazy workers, and unfair treatment. There is no support, appreciation, or respect for surfers, and the company shows no hesitation in replacing you at their convenience.

If you are willing to tolerate such disrespect, exploitation, and mistreatment, then by all means, go ahead and work for this company. But don't expect anything in return except for more of the same indifference and exploitation.

Kyte in case you are unaware is a rental company that does deliveries and pickups in the concierge Style. That means they bring the rental to you and they pick the car up from you as well. If you are going to do that job it is called a surfer. If you are a surfer here there are many Surfers and not enough opportunities to surf. Also the pay for doing the job is relatively insignificant to say the least. To do an actual job such as delivery it's going to take you planning ahead for an hour. Also after the job is complete you cannot really proceed to another job without having at least 45 minutes of a gap on your schedule to pick up another available trip. With that being said the rate of pay that you're getting for that particular delivery or pick up has to be divided by two. If you have for example a 14 or 15 Dollar deliver your pickup that then equates to you making 7 to $7.50 an hour which obviously is even less than minimum wage. Not only that k y t e boasts on their website that they have Surfers earning as much as $100,000 let me tell you I have yet to see one even making a quarter of that. With that being said if you're looking for a per diem job to go with a part-time or full-time job that you already have then maybe you might like this job. However if you're looking for this job to be a standalone job that you are doing that is just not feasible. You would have to come in as at least a supervisor which would be a full-time position and also all of those positions are not being hired for.

This job has alot of cons but is a new company with time to improve so I don't know how it will be in the future 
1.The pay is not even close to as advertised on an average you will get 12-22 dollars every 2 hours at best unless you have someone helping you deliver cars or u are using your own car to deliver cars and do count on actually being payed the next day you won't and  sometimes can take up to a week the get paid.
2.transportation you will be using your own money most of the time to get to and from trips due to the e bikes/scooters that are available ethier being broken, in use or dead.there is no mbta card offered so I would recommend buying a weekly pass if you are gonna work that week it will become handy fast unless you ask a coworker to help you out 
3.Weather if u live in the Boston area you know the weather it sucks unless it's the summer time trying to mess with scooters the mbta and constantly late customers in the rain snow and cold ain't it for 11 and 12 dollar trips 
 4. the flexibility and freedom is great work when you want and that's really 
5.COMMS suck and will almost make thing more harder every time they get a chance management wasn't that bad but was so so at best 
5.constant moving location of home base sometimes due to expanding business or price 


This job is great if you have other income. If you are someone who wants to depend on an exact amount day in and day out this is not for you. If you are someone who wants to see the city, shop, meet new people and grab some money this job is for you. Great if you just don't want to sit at home. This is a platform and you are self employed. You are responsible for your own taxes. You are responsible for your own schedule. Transportation to and from customers. You must be great at time management. Be sure you get bus apps. Be open minded and efficient. If you see this platform as a good source of money when you need it for credit card minimum payments etc you'll be great. If you are depending on set money it can change drastically and often. 

Kyte is rather new company but they have alot of work before they are a fully structured one. In Manhattan specifically. The Human Resources department is completely clueless. Then you got the coordinators that work on the lots who seem like they hate their lives and their jobs. This place has no coordination based off the route so you have to plan accordingly so that you won’t go from one side of Manhattan to the other, and get chewed out by the mindless supervisors that don’t understand that there’s traffic , customer delays that cause you to be late to your route if you have another route within a hour or less. They Say you make 2500a week which is a complete lie. Even in the city the most you will see is 650 but to get there you have to overwork and give up majority of your time throughout the day in order to make it worth you while. 

As a rental car driver (aka surfer), you are nothing but a body to them. They try to get you to deliver cars for them for the lowest amount of money possible. And once you deliver them, you are completely stranded and not even reimbursed for your MetroCard. The app is glitchy, the workers are lazy with an attitude, the trips can be cancelled by the customer whenever they choose leaving you without work and without reimbursement, they quietly lower your $ for trips behind your back (which is thievery), and everybody there expects you to do more than your fair share of work! There is literally zero support for surfers, and nobody there appreciates you one bit. On top of that, they are always looking for more people to replace you and do not care to get rid of you for any reason they like. Now if you feel like this is a place you’d like to work, then go ahead and work here.

Application process from home was easy. But the orientation is not there totally not organized got to my interview in SF early and ontime everything so far was good till management. Again online process was easy but one thing that they don't tell you is in order for you to be approved for a live onbording session your background must pass.

Thats funny because there system literally said I was good to go but the truth was, it was not there management organization is poor I live pertty far to tell me I haven't passed my background check when I showed them I did passed and was ready for my on boarding orientation but nope still. I NEVER RECEIVED AN EMAIL  CALLL OF ANY KIND I WOULD NOT WORKER FOR THIS TEAM OR MANAGEMENT I DONT RECOMMEND PLACE WHERE THEY LACK ORGANIZATION 😤 

BEWARE YOU BEEN WARNED!!!

I worked out of the lot in LAX, work started good but as time started going by it became awful horrible, no organization, no cleaners most days you have to clean your own cars which is not part of duties at time of hire, they lied about bonuses, they do not appreciate hard workers they will put customers above surfers that are on the field daily, and if you complaint they would retaliate. Coordinators are awesome people and they work so hard but others above are terrible they do lot care for the needs of their workers I am so disappointed because everything was pointing in such a good direction but unfortunately the company lacks organization, they are not serious despite having kyte offices in 14 different cities. 

This is a new company that is mostly automated. Administration doesn't really know how to act except for how the app full of glitches dictates. The pay is low for the amount of time you invest  and you will have to pay for your own transport before and after. They exist in big cities and use the people that NEED money which creates constant turn over and an interesting work environment.

The managers and fleet coordinators are awful. They don’t reciprocate any slack information to educate your knowledge sufficiently. They don’t properly give lockbox information to unlock with key to be on time for customers. They don’t give knowledge of how to use the gas card or how to obtain it. Your pay will not reciprocate to your bank on time; I worked on Wednesday and didn’t receive my pay until Thursday the next week. Pay transfer needs to be improved ASAP. GOOD THINGS IS YOU WILL & CAN MAKE 60-100 A DAY

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Fleet manager 14 salaries reported	$21.46 per hour
Driver (independent contractor) 19 salaries reported	$24.66 per hour
Driver 5 salaries reported	$24.60 per hour
Cleaner 4 salaries reported	$17.06 per hour
Automotive detailer 3 salaries reported	$18.17 per hour

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