Ask Lemmy

I'll tell you why. Car wear and tear. Gas prices. Minimum to no tip. Or worse a tip that was changed to no tip after the fact. Traffic congestion and mileage of the trip.

There is a calculation every DD driver has to make to decide if an order is worth picking up or not. Tips are not guaranteed and they can be changed to 0 for up to an hour after the order. When a driver gets an order you see the projected payout, the pickup location, and the distance of the trip. You don't get the details until you accept the trip.

The driver can pass an order but that is a hit that goes against your profile. Meaning at a certain point if your rejection rate is too high you'll get worse orders and less orders. Smart DD drivers can calculate if a trip is worth it or not. The base rule of thumb is $2/mile before tip. So if a trip is offering $1 to go a mile it means no tip. At that point is the cost of gas worth it? No. Smart drivers don't accept anything that.

In all orders the cost of the actual food isn't factored into how much a driver gets paid. We're not getting paid the restaurant's cut. We're getting paid to deliver. So if I see this order and the projected payout is like a dollar or worse 0.50 cents, I'm not taking it. It doesn't matter what the mileage is at that point. It's a negative transaction for the driver. You're losing money.

So for most drivers if someone is that desperate for a candy bar they're gonna have to tip minimum the cost of a gallon of gas for me to take it. Meaning they're getting a super expensive candy bar. At that point you ask yourself if the candybar is worth it. To most people probably not. To DD drivers probably not. To a single someone desperate enough, even still probably not. If both parties involved are desperate enough then some lucky person is getting a candybar. Otherwise the only other way that's getting accepted is if the order is grouped together with multiple orders at once.

Source was a DD/UE driver last summer. Broke even until my car was totaled. Then it became a wasted summer. I still don't have a vehicle.

Would rather spend it paying a guy to deliver it for me than spending it on mega companies

Your main food order gets a few minutes colder tho... 🤔

Idk what you're on about. Why do you think I have excess wealth? I grew up homeless and have worked hard for everything I have. I hold down a job, the times Im suffering so badly I can't get out of bed are few and far between but they do happen. And in those low desperate moment sometimes I'll order uber eats, fuck me right?

You're right the vast majority of people with depression still have to go to work, and that includes me.

Depression is a mental disorder, of course it's in my head. Do you think depression occurs in the lungs??

There is so much toxicity in this it's hard to know where to start

First of all, all disabilities are a spectrum, they effect people with different severities. One person might be 'functional' with depression, another literally not.

Some people with chronic pain, physical vulnerabilities and weaknesses etc can still work, other are bedbound.

Do you think that bedbound disabled people just 'laze around' all day?

Are you really so goddamn privileged and dense that you think disabilities are 'all in [people's] head? Or is it just mental disabilities?

Or are you like, doing the 1950s thing of 'depression isn't real just cheer up'?

And this excess wealth bullshit? Are you advocating for a system that leaves people to starve if they can't work? Is disability welfare a bad thing to you?

Never mind that there's a huge issue with disabled people having higher expenses because of relying on deliveries etc. Fuck them, right?

You've basically replied to a bedbound disabled person to tell them that theyre just a lazy privileged rich slob who's making it all up, and I think that's fucked

Thanks, hope I didn't come off as rude. Just that there are reasons some people might appear to be lazy when in reality they're battling demons

Sounds like a very diverse clientele.
And partly fun.

They've been reliable for me. Of course, I usually pay the extra three dollars for express service.

Quicker and cheaper than a visit to the hospital.
Regardless of healthcare

You are surrounded in life by people with very little financial sense.