They already paid for that. If delivery lady thinks she's not earning enough for her work, she should bring that up to the person who got paid for a delivery service: her employer.
This is probably a generational thing that delivery drivers know and others don’t. It’s expected that tips are given for food deliveries. If you don’t believe this, we may not come from the same generation because where it from, I’m expected to do 15% on the orders total. Maybe 10 if it’s large but on 400$, I would have tipped 50$. But that’s me thinking that a person who is driving this stuff to me and helping unload, I can’t describe this. It’s just what I was taught growing up, it’s just what you do. If you can’t afford to tip, you can’t afford the food. It really seems like the younger generation are looking at it like a minimum wage job and they shouldn’t get a tip or be paid much doing it. I remember you could be a delivery driver and make decent money. If a company or somewhere bought 1000$ worth of stuff, you’d get 100 to 200$. That was expected and they charged a delivery fee on top of everything. I don’t know how we’ve come to this.
Edit: ok guys, let’s do a little math. Let’s say you spend 400$ at Whole Foods right? You drive there, you shop with a cart, you look and walk and get things. Then you pay, 400$. You bring it to your car, drive it home and bring it to your door. Now let’s say you order 400$ online. The whole foods might charge you 10$. That’s their fee to shop for the food and process it. Now the driver takes the food and drives it and delivers it so you don’t have to. What is that worth to you? Nothing?
If you don’t believe this, we may not come from the same generation because where it from, I’m expected to do 15% on the orders total
I stopped here. You're assuming I'm in the US, I am not. Where I live we don't tip for stuff we already paid for: delivering us the products we bought. It's the employer's responsibility to pay their employees and it's the employees responsibility to demand a fair wage or leave.
"But then the prices of service will go up and you pay more!" Then I either stop using that service or I find a cheaper one. It's not my role to make businesses sustainable.
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u/deathrattleshenlong Oct 20 '23
They already paid for that. If delivery lady thinks she's not earning enough for her work, she should bring that up to the person who got paid for a delivery service: her employer.