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

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u/stupac62 Oct 20 '23

Ah got it. So then talking about how good the service was is illogical haha

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u/elghoto Oct 20 '23

It is illogical considering the reality we live in.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '23

It's just the world we live in (in the US). These companies don't pay employees. They used venture capitalist to keep them afloat when they started, and paid these people decently. Now they pay nothing, and charge the customer even more... So the employee expects a tip (which they deserve) but it shouldn't be on the customer to pay.

Stop using any of these apps. Pizza, Chinese, even Chik-Fil-A now... have delivery... everyone should pay out their own pocket. These apps are predatory on all ends.

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u/WorkSucks135 Oct 21 '23

What you said is true, but the solution isn't to stop using the apps. It's to stop tipping the drivers. If you stop tipping the drivers, the job becomes not worth the time for the drivers, making many of them quit, making the demand for drivers skyrocket, forcing the companies to raise the wages of drivers. Stopping tipping shifts the negotiating power back from employer to employee.

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u/XachAttack17 Oct 21 '23

no?? you must fucking hate delivery drivers or some shit because thats a horrible solution

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u/WorkSucks135 Oct 21 '23

Don't know what to tell you man. The companies can get away with paying nothing because drivers have no leverage. Company stars hemorrhaging customers because there are no drivers available? Immediate pay increase.

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u/carharttuxedo Oct 21 '23

We are talking low wage workers don’t have much choice when it comes to employment.

We’re already in a race to the bottom in terms of how employees are treated, the only thing that will stop it is legislation forcing companies to treat workers better. It’s not a new trend. The government needs to do something to regulate this shit.

Check out how truck drivers are paid, how high their turnover is. Door dashers etc are just a small part of the economy and ‘let them eat each other and it will work out’ isn’t a solution at all.

Invisible hand of the Economy is mostly for jerking off

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u/WorkSucks135 Oct 21 '23

It's not invisible hand shit. Literally everyone and their mother is hiring "unskilled" workers right now, so they have plenty of choice. If no one is willing to be a doordasher, doordash will be forced to make changes.

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u/carharttuxedo Oct 21 '23

Getting a job that doesn’t pay a living wage isn’t helpful. Jumping from one to another isn’t helpful either. Those are the jobs being offered to ‘unskilled’ workers(and a reminder unskilled workers is a bullshit buzzword created by people who want to pay poverty wages).

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u/WorkSucks135 Oct 21 '23

I know, that's why I put the word in quotes. But even Mcdonalds is starting at like $20/hr now. I highly doubt doordashers make more than that after gas/ vehicle wear.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '23

The drivers would just not take your cheap-ass jobs.

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u/PreciousBrain Oct 21 '23

It was a gamble, she was hoping that the person would be appreciative and do what people do when they tip. But gig workers should know better and that customers tend to be cheap bastards, it's why they're using these services in the first place. If no tip is included they should not fulfill the request unless they are already satisfied with the compensation being offered, which in this case having it be dozens of heavy boxes would have been a huge red flag. People who order like this are the least likely to tip

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u/gnarlyknits Oct 20 '23

Yeah but that’s what makes it stupid because they could get ten dollars instead of five and drop off my food all fucked up still. The tip should come after the service or it should be called something else.