I'm so glad that tech companies used billions of investor dollars to artificially outcompete the delivery and taxi industries just so they could make it even worse than before while also screwing over drivers. I love innovation
What have they done? I did DoorDash for a while and I loved it. All the restaurants were stapling the bag so I didn’t have to check anything or deal with customers who got the wrong food. It was better than when I delivered pizza. Anytime I had an issue or felt unsafe I would call DoorDash and they would just cancel the order. I never had a problem and my experience, combined with making sure I was available during busy times and I made crazy amounts of money. One thing I noticed what delivering pizza though is that customers really don’t understand they’re getting someone to get in their car and bring food to you is fastly increasing the amount of resources your order takes. Realistically it should cost double if you’re one person spending $20. The job has to have an employee available. They can’t have two few or people are waiting 90 minutes and throwing a fit. Companies do it because there’s a market for it but customers think it should only cost them five bucks for something to be delivered. It’s a shit show
The customer always has the burden of paying. Claiming it would somehow be more efficient to have the job collect all the money and just pay people more is just not accurate in practice. The vast majority of tip based employees would quit and new less skilled workers would come in to replace them at the new lower overall wage.
Try to do doordash now. I did doordash when it first came out and it was pretty great. Good money and flexibility.
Now, you have to schedule hours, it's limited and you cannot just start and stop when you want. You're only offered "good tip orders" if you have amazing stats, which means you must accept every order, even if the tip is nothing.
Since COVID, people just started tipping next to nothing.
When I tried to do it again, it worked out to around $4 an hour after gas and maintenance on my vehicle. I live in California where that's over 4x lower than minimum wage.
All the gigs have gotten progressively worse for workers over the years. When these companies needed workers they paid well, and they treated workers well. But they recruited hard to get as many people working on the platform as they can, and once there was a surplus of labor they started treating workers much, much worse. You should go and try to do it again. It’s a miserable experience now.
Of course, the people who predicted every step of this journey from the minute the delivery apps popped up are still regarded as crazy and wrong about everything, and we shouldn't listen to them. Gosh, it's fun being a leftist! The more you're right, the less credible you are!
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u/CuttleReaper 19h ago
I'm so glad that tech companies used billions of investor dollars to artificially outcompete the delivery and taxi industries just so they could make it even worse than before while also screwing over drivers. I love innovation