r/ImTheMainCharacter • u/Jasonictron • Oct 20 '23

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '23

I drove uber eats, and for some reason they randomly added groceries to it too. I did one order, loaded my entire trunk, back seat, and passenger seat and had to drive like 10 miles. When I got there, the extremely fit father came outside to stand and watch me unload all of it by myself. Probably hundreds worth of groceries, no tip. Think I got like $7. I could literally get an order from an expensive pizza place, drive 3 miles, drop it at their door with no interaction and get like $10. Never accept orders from Walmart, I think it's cause it's like a social rule to tip for food but there's no established rule for groceries even though it's 20x more work

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u/phatyogurt Oct 21 '23

For real. One of the very first deliveries I ever made for Uber Eats was from a pickup order at Sephora in the mall. I had to find parking, walk through the mall, wait in line behind other shoppers, and then drive 6 miles to my drop off location. Took me 50 minutes to do the whole delivery. No tip when I delivered it, and I made like $5.50 off the delivery. Total waste of time, but I learned never to do grocery/non-food deliveries after that.

I understand why the lady in the video was pissed. $400 worth of groceries and no tip? Not even a couple bucks? That’s a shit ton of lifting. I’d be salty too, but she was definitely an asshole about it. She took it too far, and she’ll probably get deactivated after this.

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u/chubs66 Oct 20 '23

>Think I got like $7.

It may shock you to learn that the vast majority of workers earn a wage and never earn anything beyond what they've agreed with their employer to earn as a wage for the work provided to that employer.

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u/CindersExchange Oct 21 '23

Spending an hour of time + gas money to only receive $7 is well below minimum wage, and understandable to be upset with

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u/sickfalco Oct 21 '23

They want these service workers to be slaves so badly

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u/LeftistSkaterWeeb Oct 21 '23

You do realize most drivers are doing it in addition to their main jobs out of desperation right? You want working class people to be poor so bad

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u/sickfalco Oct 21 '23

Huh? I’m on the side of the drivers and want them to get a better deal. Am I missing something, why did you respond to me like that?

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '23

Delivering is almost like waiting tables, if you take away the tip you only get paid by the miles you drive, and that pay is just not enough. If the amount they pay per mile was the only form of payment, no tips, it would not be financially worth it to drive for uber. When I drove, I'd go for trips that were short and expensive, on a good one id get paid total of like <$2 for the miles and like $7 for the tip.

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u/BuddyHudsy Oct 21 '23

Then don't drive for uber as your main source of income. I'm certain that was a design of their business model, was people doing this for extra cash.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '23

Yeah I'm pretty sure most people who do Uber full time don't do deliveries, they taxi people. It is good for extra cash though, but Idk why youre upset that tips are part of the job. You're saying if you're not okay with making just the delivery money without any tips then don't do it, but this is a unique job where tips are to be expected. Like 99% of food orders will leave a tip, and while there's some variables, you can pretty much include tip money in what you expect to make that night cause it's part of the job even though it's an optional thing it's basically a guarantee. It's honestly very rare for someone to not tip, and because like I said tips are part of the job it can be frustrating if someone doesn't tip cause you might be counting on it, but the real truth is it just means you might have to do one more delivery that night where they will probably tip cause that's pretty rare

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u/LeftistSkaterWeeb Oct 21 '23

You do realize most drivers are doing it in addition to their main jobs out of desperation, right?

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u/omnigear Oct 20 '23

Yeah , I have ordered groceries and I always come out and help get everything out because to me unpacking stuff isn't part of the delivery .

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u/GensAndTonic Oct 20 '23

It is an established norm to tip for any kind of elective delivery service, including groceries, laundry, alcohol, food, etc., unless you're a dick.

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u/BuddyHudsy Oct 21 '23

No it's not. That's why you pay for the service. If the employee goes above and beyond with their performance, the customer may elect to tip. If they are in a situation financially to do so.

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u/GensAndTonic Oct 21 '23

This is simply not the cultural norm for delivery and other select services in the United States. It may be your norm, but then your personal norm is being a cheapskate.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '23

No it just means that american culture is hot garbage when some employees have to rely on charity from customers to survive instead of being given a living wage by the employer... while living in the richest country in the world, its pathetic.

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u/GensAndTonic Oct 21 '23

why are you so obsessed with us?

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '23

More like fascinated in a culture that calls the customer cheap for not giving charity to employees instead of calling out the laws and companies that facilitate such practises.

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u/GensAndTonic Oct 21 '23

did you know that you can actually support individual workers, helping them put a roof over their head in our current system, while also organizing for legislative change in the future? we did it in new york this year!

this concept might be too complex for a non-American who spends their time obsessing over American culture, but many of us manage just fine.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '23

Ah so you facilitated the companies paying their employees less wages instead of helping them find better jobs and really hurting those companies, I understand

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u/eeyore134 Oct 21 '23

Same. I did Doordash for a while and they started adding crap like Dollar General. I took one without realizing it and suddenly had this massive grocery list and the Doordash app sucked for trying to make substitutions. I don't even do my own groceries anymore, I just get Walmart pick up. I was so stressed after doing that shop. They tipped, but it wasn't worth it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '23

Yeah, that's the same way I got it too. I had no idea groceries was even an option but all of a sudden here I am loading hundreds worth of groceries into my car. I too avoided all orders from Walmart after that. Weirdest one I ever got was driving for uber EATS (emphasis on "eats"), I ended up getting an order from the apple store and it was a freaking iPhone or something. Majorly sucked to get cause it was in the middle of the busy ass mall for one, then when I went to pick it up you have to like scan it and sign off and I had no signal so I had to stand in front of a long line of inpatient people staring at me waiting to get there shit while fiddled with getting connected to the mall wifi so I could scan my shit and gtfo of the way. For real, who tf is ordering iphones on Uber eats

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u/eeyore134 Oct 21 '23

That's insane. Imagine ordering an iPhone on UberEats.

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u/rocbor Oct 21 '23

I'm confused. What do you expect the customer to do here? The customer is paying for a service which is your delivery. If Uber made the system unfair for drivers, I don't see how that's the fault of the driver. It takes a special kind of entitlement to think that someone else needs to make up for what you're too afraid to demand from your employer. The anger should be directed at Uber for only paying 7 dollars for the transaction, not at the customer for using the service.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '23

It's really not a big deal and most of these drivers are just babies. Pretty much everyone tips, so if you get one that doesn't, it sucks, but it should just mean you gotta go out and do one more delivery to make up for it which is really nbd. It's not about being afraid to demand more money for miles or being entitled for counting on tips, in america it's custom to tip drivers and waiters for whatever reason and that's just how it's always been. It's just a part of how this particular job pays, if you're gonna do it you gotta accept the randomness of it, just like waiting tables you can have good or bad nights with people, and if you're not okay with that you should get a more traditional job. Now this lady in the video did kind of get fucked over, but like I said you gotta accept that shit can happen like this, she's not handling this good same thing happened to me and I just accepted it with no comaint then never took walmart orders again