Dark realities of Uber, Lyft: Women drivers speak about on-job harassment

Several women said that after rebuffing a passenger's advances, they worried about the rider retaliating by giving them a bad rating

Late one night in June, Jody Pagliocco was driving down a long, wooded road in southern Maine.  She was working for Uber, and her passenger, a man, was in the front seat. That was unusual —but she hadn’t felt comfortable telling him to get in the back when he opened the front door. She had picked him up from a bar in town, and he was drunk. The road was dark and there was nobody around. Pagliocco was getting uncomfortable.

“He made a joke about not being a serial killer,” Pagliocco said. “Then he started talking about sexual stuff,” and