https://youtu.be/aFsfJYWpqII?feature=shared Crosspost of my own post from DoorDash channel. Dx = dasher (delivery courier) Cx = consumer Mx = merchant (restaurant, in this context) Shitty segment for all kinds of reasons 1. The FOOD delivery part is profitable, way to ignore that part of our financials. 2. Ordering food in bad weather is part of life. Dx choose to sit it out, or brave the conditions and earn more. If you guilt-shame Cx into not ordering during bad weather, then Dx have no choice but to sit it out and forgo earning money. 3. Every Dx has a sob story about a difficult delivery with $0 tip. I am tired of these sob stories. You don't look at tips individually, you look at them IN AGGREGATE. Individual tips do not matter. If there is a systemic problem of $0 tippers on Roosevelt Island, then we should investigate, but an outlier is just that. 4. No, please DO NOT blindly rate Dx 5 stars. Fuck the asshole on John Oliver's team who suggests this shitty nonsense. The vast majority of Dx are indeed 5 stars but the system depends on us flagging bad experiences to remove them so future Cx do not suffer. Sometimes John Oliver has well researched segments but this one feels like a 2nd grade communist who thinks everybody should have everything for free. Also why do these segments never show successful Dx who have made a good living from their work on the apps?
Yes, Doordash and other food delivery apps underpay their drivers by a huge margin. They also force you into shitty situations I.E. delivering for 2 non-tippers and 1 good tipper that's supposed to "make up'" for the fact you got stiffed. If you did Doordash or any other food service delivery companies, you'd understand the struggles of people who do it for a living. Instead of just randomly LARPing as one every now and then for your work.
FYI Uber became profitable for the first time in 2023 (after 15 years). This is public info. We operate on very narrow margins. Edit - language
Margin not in relation to the actual PNL of your company. Margin in relation to pay for delivery/service value. My point is, you got there by paying as little as you could.
Everybody loves John Oliver until he speaks on a topic they are familiar with or he has an opposing opinion on John Oliver is a 5 star hack
Ha was just about to say the same thing. It’s crazy how he’s so smart about everything else except for what I’m familiar with
"Oh no the man on TV criticized my company and now I'm sad"
Nice factual rebuttal of my specific points raised.
How about you don't put 40% of the restaurants order total into your fucking pockets + fees on fees...
nooo that’s gommunism
Are you sure Reddit sux? Cause I’d say blind sux more with posts like this my friend
Why do I have to pay tips for delivery services? Shouldn’t it be the company who compensate these workers properly? Forcing customer to pay their salaries from tips just exploiting the system.
I'm so pissed at door dash for the nagging popup in Seattle about the increased minimum wage for delivery drives Like, yeah dude, I know, i voted for that because you guys wouldn't just do it yourself. I'm going back to just ordering from the websites of these places directly in response. Well, that and frozen Costco stuff. Fuck dd/gh.
TLDR?
“Also why do these segments never show successful Dx who have made a good living from their work on the apps?” because these drivers only exist in your imagination.
That is bull shit. I am a Data Scientist who has worked with Dx earnings data. Plenty of Dx make more than you EVEN AFTER EXPENSES. You can find these Dx every once in a while on Reddit, but they get downvoted or censored by mods who prefer the victim olympics. Bear in mind many Cx tip additionally in CASH, which is TAX FREE income in practice.
"Data scientist" lmao. Okay scientist, how'd you get that data point that "many Cx tip additionally?"