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  • Drivers can’t see the tip, but they are given an estimated payout (of the number presented is different from the estimate, it’ll always pay higher than the estimate) for each order.

    If this wasn’t the case, there wouldn’t be any drivers. Drivers are contractors and DoorDash bids orders out until someone accepts it. No contractor in their right mind will accept a job not knowing how much it’ll pay.

    If tipping weren’t allowed until after delivery, most people wouldn’t tip. You have the option to raise or lower your tip already, but have you ever gone in there and changed your tip after you received your order? Most people don’t. In the 6 or so months I was delivering, I only had one tip adjusted.




  • It’s worth noting that drivers don’t see the notes until they accept the order.

    I used to do the same as you until I dashed for a few months to make ends meet.

    I can also tell you that some orders literally cost drivers money to make when the tip is too low. I’ve had countless 25-30 mile round trip orders that paid out $6-7 because the person didn’t tip. I passed on those orders because I would have been paying to deliver them. Drivers need to make about $0.75/mile driven to break even, and most look for $2+\mile. I now look at the distance from the restaurant and tip $2/mile for the one direction. But I’m also in a place where they’re pretty likely to get another order pretty quickly and don’t need to make it a round trip.

    The problem really rests with DoorDash and Uber Eats for not paying enough. They recently dropped the base payout to $2/delivery, which will never not cost the driver money. It’s absurd and incredibly shitty how they choose to offload the responsibility of paying their drivers into the customer.







  • june@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldAmazon's Silent Sacking
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    11 months ago

    I’ve worked with hundreds of Amazon and AWS folks over the last 4 years and never once had an experience even close to what you’ve described. I’ve got lots of friends who do or have worked for Amazon and one and all they recognize they’re putting in time working for the devil and hold their nose while they swallow that pill.







  • june@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldThe EU common charger : USB-C
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    11 months ago

    I’m really curious to see the knock on effects of this legislation down the road. There’s bound to be issues at some point where the USBC law stifles something somewhere, and there’s bound to be someone that finds a way around it somehow.

    I like the uniformity to reduce ewaste in particular, but wish rules like this could be more nimble.