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[Fuck The Gig Economy]: AB5 Is Dead

AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
edited November 2020 in Debate and/or Discourse
In today's atrocity from the gig economy, DoorDash has an...interesting interpretation of how tips work:
On my first DoorDash shift, a lunch run in Brooklyn, I learned about the company’s interesting tipping policy.

DoorDash offers a guaranteed minimum for each job. For my first order, the guarantee was $6.85 and the customer, a woman in Boerum Hill who answered the door in a colorful bathrobe, tipped $3 via the app. But I still received only $6.85.

Here’s how it works: If the woman in the bathrobe had tipped zero, DoorDash would have paid me the whole $6.85. Because she tipped $3, DoorDash kicked in only $3.85. She was saving DoorDash $3, not tipping me.

There are two lessons to be had here. One, tip in cash. Two, the gig economy is built on extracting wealth from the workers in it and pushing it up to the 0.1%, of which this atrocity is just the latest example. And the sad part is that this isn't even the most egregious example of gig economy shittiness (we could do an entire thread titled "Fuck Postmates" for a dive into how horrible the gig economy can be.)

The gig economy is a blight on our economy, abusing workers to benefit only a few at the top.

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  • A duck!A duck! Moderator, ClubPA mod
    This doesn't really seem like a thread. What are you actually seeking to discuss here?

  • Hexmage-PAHexmage-PA Registered User regular
    edited July 2019
    I'm assuming Hedgie wants to talk about how the "gig economy" exploits workers.

    Many people find themselves both exploited by but dependent on the gig economy. I personally am dating a woman who drives for Uber to make ends meet in addition to her tech support job.

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  • Yes, and...Yes, and... Registered User regular
    With so much information available about the garbage terms of work, why do people keep signing up for this crap?

  • Gabriel_PittGabriel_Pitt (effective against Russian warships) Registered User regular
    The actual drawbacks of the gig economy, despite how convinent and appealing these services may seem to be at first blush?

    Doordash being the bottom of the barrel and their tipping practice is nothing new, but it is emblemic of how the gig economy companies screw eberyone they can for every dollar.

  • Hexmage-PAHexmage-PA Registered User regular
    With so much information available about the garbage terms of work, why do people keep signing up for this crap?

    For some people they don't have much other choice (or at least that's what they believe for whatever reason).

  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    Hexmage-PA wrote: »
    I'm assuming Hedgie wants to talk about how the "gig economy" exploits workers.

    Pretty much - it's a topic that's out of scope for the Uber thread (while there's crossover, the problems with Uber go beyond their gig economy issues.) The gig economy pretends to be a way to make money while "being your own boss", but winds up being the modern version of "piece work" - but it's got a gamified app, so it's cool and modern instead of just another incarnation of long hated abusive systems. Furthermore, as reality has sunk in for many gig economy companies, their response has been to balance their books on the back of their workers - such as DoorDash stealing the tips from their workers.

    It's an abusive system all the way down, but since it's part of the Silicon Valley bubble, everyone's supposed to not notice this.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    Over the last decade or more the internet has allowed an advent of new industries, or modernized some industries that already existed like taxi service. But because of the way Word of Law works, particularly with workers' rights, the tech companies involved are screwing over the workers. I think there's a thread there.

  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    In today's atrocity from the gig economy, DoorDash has an...interesting interpretation of how tips work:
    On my first DoorDash shift, a lunch run in Brooklyn, I learned about the company’s interesting tipping policy.

    DoorDash offers a guaranteed minimum for each job. For my first order, the guarantee was $6.85 and the customer, a woman in Boerum Hill who answered the door in a colorful bathrobe, tipped $3 via the app. But I still received only $6.85.

    Here’s how it works: If the woman in the bathrobe had tipped zero, DoorDash would have paid me the whole $6.85. Because she tipped $3, DoorDash kicked in only $3.85. She was saving DoorDash $3, not tipping me.

    There are two lessons to be had here. One, tip in cash. Two, the gig economy is built on extracting wealth from the workers in it and pushing it up to the 0.1%, of which this atrocity is just the latest example. And the sad part is that this isn't even the most egregious example of gig economy shittiness (we could do an entire thread titled "Fuck Postmates" for a dive into how horrible the gig economy can be.)

    The gig economy is a blight on our economy, abusing workers to benefit only a few at the top.

    .... isn't that a good thing? like if you get a garbage tipper, we will ensure you get what we guaranteed?

    that seems good!

  • RickRudeRickRude Registered User regular
    With so much information available about the garbage terms of work, why do people keep signing up for this crap?

    I had a mental breakdown and lost my good job of 15 + years. This is all I can do to barely scrape by. I'm in an area where I make about $70 a night and spend $30 for gas.

  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    Xaquin wrote: »
    In today's atrocity from the gig economy, DoorDash has an...interesting interpretation of how tips work:
    On my first DoorDash shift, a lunch run in Brooklyn, I learned about the company’s interesting tipping policy.

    DoorDash offers a guaranteed minimum for each job. For my first order, the guarantee was $6.85 and the customer, a woman in Boerum Hill who answered the door in a colorful bathrobe, tipped $3 via the app. But I still received only $6.85.

    Here’s how it works: If the woman in the bathrobe had tipped zero, DoorDash would have paid me the whole $6.85. Because she tipped $3, DoorDash kicked in only $3.85. She was saving DoorDash $3, not tipping me.

    There are two lessons to be had here. One, tip in cash. Two, the gig economy is built on extracting wealth from the workers in it and pushing it up to the 0.1%, of which this atrocity is just the latest example. And the sad part is that this isn't even the most egregious example of gig economy shittiness (we could do an entire thread titled "Fuck Postmates" for a dive into how horrible the gig economy can be.)

    The gig economy is a blight on our economy, abusing workers to benefit only a few at the top.

    .... isn't that a good thing? like if you get a garbage tipper, we will ensure you get what we guaranteed?

    that seems good!

    No. DoorDash should be paying the rider the guarantee and the tip.

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  • DivideByZeroDivideByZero Social Justice Blackguard Registered User regular
    Xaquin wrote: »
    In today's atrocity from the gig economy, DoorDash has an...interesting interpretation of how tips work:
    On my first DoorDash shift, a lunch run in Brooklyn, I learned about the company’s interesting tipping policy.

    DoorDash offers a guaranteed minimum for each job. For my first order, the guarantee was $6.85 and the customer, a woman in Boerum Hill who answered the door in a colorful bathrobe, tipped $3 via the app. But I still received only $6.85.

    Here’s how it works: If the woman in the bathrobe had tipped zero, DoorDash would have paid me the whole $6.85. Because she tipped $3, DoorDash kicked in only $3.85. She was saving DoorDash $3, not tipping me.

    There are two lessons to be had here. One, tip in cash. Two, the gig economy is built on extracting wealth from the workers in it and pushing it up to the 0.1%, of which this atrocity is just the latest example. And the sad part is that this isn't even the most egregious example of gig economy shittiness (we could do an entire thread titled "Fuck Postmates" for a dive into how horrible the gig economy can be.)

    The gig economy is a blight on our economy, abusing workers to benefit only a few at the top.

    .... isn't that a good thing? like if you get a garbage tipper, we will ensure you get what we guaranteed?

    that seems good!

    What you are describing is a wage. What happens is the customer tries to tip the driver, but ends up tipping the huge corporation instead. Who don't mention this to the customer of course.

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  • DoodmannDoodmann Registered User regular
    It certainly discourages tipping!

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    Doodmann wrote: »
    It certainly discourages tipping!
    Not if you're tipping in cash.

  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    edited July 2019
    I guess I'm just confused. Was the driver not told up front that it was a guaranteed amount of money and that it would be that regardless of tip?

    i.e. If I was told I would be paid a fixed total of $10 for delivering food regardless of whether I was tipped or not, I would expect to paid no more or less than $10

    if that was not communicated to me, than yes, there would be a problem.

    edited for clarity (hopefully)

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  • DoodmannDoodmann Registered User regular
    Henroid wrote: »
    Doodmann wrote: »
    It certainly discourages tipping!
    Not if you're tipping in cash.

    people have cash?

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  • PowerpuppiesPowerpuppies drinking coffee in the mountain cabinRegistered User regular
    Xaquin wrote: »
    In today's atrocity from the gig economy, DoorDash has an...interesting interpretation of how tips work:
    On my first DoorDash shift, a lunch run in Brooklyn, I learned about the company’s interesting tipping policy.

    DoorDash offers a guaranteed minimum for each job. For my first order, the guarantee was $6.85 and the customer, a woman in Boerum Hill who answered the door in a colorful bathrobe, tipped $3 via the app. But I still received only $6.85.

    Here’s how it works: If the woman in the bathrobe had tipped zero, DoorDash would have paid me the whole $6.85. Because she tipped $3, DoorDash kicked in only $3.85. She was saving DoorDash $3, not tipping me.

    There are two lessons to be had here. One, tip in cash. Two, the gig economy is built on extracting wealth from the workers in it and pushing it up to the 0.1%, of which this atrocity is just the latest example. And the sad part is that this isn't even the most egregious example of gig economy shittiness (we could do an entire thread titled "Fuck Postmates" for a dive into how horrible the gig economy can be.)

    The gig economy is a blight on our economy, abusing workers to benefit only a few at the top.

    .... isn't that a good thing? like if you get a garbage tipper, we will ensure you get what we guaranteed?

    that seems good!

    No. DoorDash should be paying the rider the guarantee and the tip.

    Or just the tip, as they did before the change. The NBC article that reported on this had quotes from drivers saying that their income immediately fell significantly when Instacart or Doordash rolled out these policies.

    It sounds like a good thing until you realize that the guaranteed amount now is too small. In the system you're thinking about, the guarantee amount G would be equal to the minimum tip M plus the old system fee F.

    So in the old system, if the customer doesn't tip, the gig worker receives only F, which sucks. But if the customer tips $10, they get F plus 10.

    In your hypothetical, the gig worker would get G if they tipped nothing, but F plus 10 if the customer tipped $10. A simple, good thing for the company to do. Just a minimum tip program. It's not what hedgie is demanding, a straight increase in F, so you get G plus 10 when they tip $10, but it's better than what they had, and it's what the policy sounds like when the company describes it.

    What they actually did is dramatically reduce F, so the amount they subtract from every big tip is bigger than what they put in if there's no tip. So you make G instead of F if you don't get tipped, but you get F plus seven, or something, on the ten dollar tip. It's what you thought plus a secret pay cut, combined to be confusing.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    Doodmann wrote: »
    Henroid wrote: »
    Doodmann wrote: »
    It certainly discourages tipping!
    Not if you're tipping in cash.

    people have cash?
    I'm gonna start keeping some on hand because of this.

  • PowerpuppiesPowerpuppies drinking coffee in the mountain cabinRegistered User regular
    Xaquin wrote: »
    I guess I'm just confused. Was the driver not told up front that it was a guaranteed amount of money and that it would be that regardless of tip?

    i.e. If I was told I would be paid a fixed total of $10 for delivering food regardless of whether I was tipped or not, I would expect to paid no more or less than $10

    if that was not communicated to me, than yes, there would be a problem.

    edited for clarity (hopefully)

    Think of it like you used to get $7 plus any tip, and now you get $10 plus anything the customer tips over $6. If people were mostly tipping over $3 anyway, you're getting paid less, the customer is getting charged the same, and the company is making more money on tips of $4 or $5. And $4 is the default.

    I made all these numbers up, of course

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  • urahonkyurahonky Registered User regular
    Xaquin wrote: »
    I guess I'm just confused. Was the driver not told up front that it was a guaranteed amount of money and that it would be that regardless of tip?

    i.e. If I was told I would be paid a fixed total of $10 for delivering food regardless of whether I was tipped or not, I would expect to paid no more or less than $10

    if that was not communicated to me, than yes, there would be a problem.

    edited for clarity (hopefully)

    For the consumer you'd expect that the $4 tip you put into the app would be going to the driver, but it's not.

  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    ahhh

    I've never heard of or used door dash, so I didn't realize it used to be different and had changed

  • tbloxhamtbloxham Registered User regular
    edited July 2019
    Xaquin wrote: »
    I guess I'm just confused. Was the driver not told up front that it was a guaranteed amount of money and that it would be that regardless of tip?

    i.e. If I was told I would be paid a fixed total of $10 for delivering food regardless of whether I was tipped or not, I would expect to paid no more or less than $10

    if that was not communicated to me, than yes, there would be a problem.

    edited for clarity (hopefully)

    Yeah, the issue here seems to be (assuming that it was properly communicated to the driver) that this isn't a bad thing for the gig worker/company relationship. Its a bad thing for the customer/company relationship. Because the person thought they were tipping the Door Dasher, and the Door Dasher has been told that they won't be getting any tips.

    Uber and Lyft give 100% of the tips to the driver, and I believe also guarantee a minimum price for the work done per mile and per hour.

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  • urahonkyurahonky Registered User regular
    From what I can tell people have said that if you tip less than $7 or whatever then you might as well not tip since they don't see that money.

  • PowerpuppiesPowerpuppies drinking coffee in the mountain cabinRegistered User regular
    urahonky wrote: »
    From what I can tell people have said that if you tip less than $7 or whatever then you might as well not tip since they don't see that money.

    Right, not only do I want the driver to make as much as possible, I want the company to receive as little as possible :😡

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  • BrodyBrody The Watch The First ShoreRegistered User regular
    edited July 2019
    urahonky wrote: »
    From what I can tell people have said that if you tip less than $7 or whatever then you might as well not tip since they don't see that money.

    Or tip with cash, cause door dash can't do shit about that yet.

    I guess the thing that makes me most mad, is since most people probably previously tipped with the app, DD knew the exact amount to set the basic fee at to extract the maximum amount of money from the system. As above, anything below $7 means you are just paying some of it instead of DD paying. At ~7 you are paying all of it, DD is just pocketing the service fee. And the number of people who are tipping above $7 are rare enough that it would cost more to offer more than that as a basic fee.

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  • urahonkyurahonky Registered User regular
    tbloxham wrote: »
    Xaquin wrote: »
    I guess I'm just confused. Was the driver not told up front that it was a guaranteed amount of money and that it would be that regardless of tip?

    i.e. If I was told I would be paid a fixed total of $10 for delivering food regardless of whether I was tipped or not, I would expect to paid no more or less than $10

    if that was not communicated to me, than yes, there would be a problem.

    edited for clarity (hopefully)

    Yeah, the issue here seems to be (assuming that it was properly communicated to the driver) that this isn't a bad thing for the gig worker/company relationship. Its a bad thing for the customer/company relationship. Because the person thought they were tipping the Door Dasher, and the Door Dasher has been told that they won't be getting any tips.

    Uber and Lyft give 100% of the tips to the driver, and I believe also guarantee a minimum price for the work done per mile and per hour.

    I use DoorDash more than the other delivery services and I have to say there's probably a 30% chance that my food shows up SUPER late or the wrong order. Most times it's because the driver has taken more than one order at a time and is running from restaurant to restaurant to house to house. It's insane.

  • PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
    People who use doordash are less likely to have cash on hand because electronic currency as well as doordash is just more convenient. Electronic takeover of transactions (and the gig economy) also kind of extinguishes most of the point of tipping beyond just being a nice person tax.

    The way tips are implemented is way obsolete, so it's easier than ever for employers or pseudo-employers to abuse it. And it's hard to advocate for legislation that protects tips, because that may drive us further away from actually paying people who survive on tips a decent wage. So I guess it's up to us to upgrade tip tech to either make sense or go ahead and take this opportunity to tear tips down.

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  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    People should stop using food delivery contractors period because they are a massive ripoff and distort the cost of food for the restaurant. They don't just charge delivery fees and mandate tip that may or may not be a reasonable amount. Many of them also jack up the prices of the menu items which makes the restaurant seem more expensive than it is which can drive down overall patronage.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    Butters wrote: »
    People should stop using food delivery contractors period because they are a massive ripoff and distort the cost of food for the restaurant. They don't just charge delivery fees and mandate tip that may or may not be a reasonable amount. Many of them also jack up the prices of the menu items which makes the restaurant seem more expensive than it is which can drive down overall patronage.

    And then there is the website spoofing:
    Grubhub has been buying tens of thousands of domain names that resemble those of businesses they either work with or are pitching to get on the platform, reports New Food Economy. Those domains, of which Grubhub owns as many as 23,000, are used to resemble a landing page for the official business, complete with an online ordering form, despite the sites being completely unassociated with the restaurants themselves.

    Restaurant owners are calling the practice predatorial, noting that Grubhub is leading customers to believe they’re ordering directly from restaurants to help businesses avoid paying fees to Grubhub.

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited July 2019
    Butters wrote: »
    People should stop using food delivery contractors period because they are a massive ripoff and distort the cost of food for the restaurant. They don't just charge delivery fees and mandate tip that may or may not be a reasonable amount. Many of them also jack up the prices of the menu items which makes the restaurant seem more expensive than it is which can drive down overall patronage.

    And then there is the website spoofing:
    Grubhub has been buying tens of thousands of domain names that resemble those of businesses they either work with or are pitching to get on the platform, reports New Food Economy. Those domains, of which Grubhub owns as many as 23,000, are used to resemble a landing page for the official business, complete with an online ordering form, despite the sites being completely unassociated with the restaurants themselves.

    Restaurant owners are calling the practice predatorial, noting that Grubhub is leading customers to believe they’re ordering directly from restaurants to help businesses avoid paying fees to Grubhub.

    That is flagrant trademark violation, isn't it? I can't believe a legal department would ever sign off on that.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Polaritie wrote: »
    Butters wrote: »
    People should stop using food delivery contractors period because they are a massive ripoff and distort the cost of food for the restaurant. They don't just charge delivery fees and mandate tip that may or may not be a reasonable amount. Many of them also jack up the prices of the menu items which makes the restaurant seem more expensive than it is which can drive down overall patronage.

    And then there is the website spoofing:
    Grubhub has been buying tens of thousands of domain names that resemble those of businesses they either work with or are pitching to get on the platform, reports New Food Economy. Those domains, of which Grubhub owns as many as 23,000, are used to resemble a landing page for the official business, complete with an online ordering form, despite the sites being completely unassociated with the restaurants themselves.

    Restaurant owners are calling the practice predatorial, noting that Grubhub is leading customers to believe they’re ordering directly from restaurants to help businesses avoid paying fees to Grubhub.

    That is flagrant trademark violation, isn't it? I can't believe a legal department would ever sign off on that.

    The motto of a ton of these Silicon Valley startups is "Move fast and break shit they can't stop us all"

  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    Madican wrote: »
    Polaritie wrote: »
    Butters wrote: »
    People should stop using food delivery contractors period because they are a massive ripoff and distort the cost of food for the restaurant. They don't just charge delivery fees and mandate tip that may or may not be a reasonable amount. Many of them also jack up the prices of the menu items which makes the restaurant seem more expensive than it is which can drive down overall patronage.

    And then there is the website spoofing:
    Grubhub has been buying tens of thousands of domain names that resemble those of businesses they either work with or are pitching to get on the platform, reports New Food Economy. Those domains, of which Grubhub owns as many as 23,000, are used to resemble a landing page for the official business, complete with an online ordering form, despite the sites being completely unassociated with the restaurants themselves.

    Restaurant owners are calling the practice predatorial, noting that Grubhub is leading customers to believe they’re ordering directly from restaurants to help businesses avoid paying fees to Grubhub.

    That is flagrant trademark violation, isn't it? I can't believe a legal department would ever sign off on that.

    The motto of a ton of these Silicon Valley startups is "Move fast and break shit they can't stop us all"

    Yeah, but once you've "made it" more or less I think you're supposed to dial it back instead of double down, because now you have assets worth suing over.

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  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    Xaquin wrote: »
    ahhh

    I've never heard of or used door dash, so I didn't realize it used to be different and had changed

    I heard of it grughub and uber eats but the places that offer it I can walk to within reason from my house. It's why I don't use them. But I have heard it's a handful of people in town {5 to 10 for the whole of ABQ metro} doing it so it's chaos

  • GoumindongGoumindong Registered User regular
    Polaritie wrote: »
    Butters wrote: »
    People should stop using food delivery contractors period because they are a massive ripoff and distort the cost of food for the restaurant. They don't just charge delivery fees and mandate tip that may or may not be a reasonable amount. Many of them also jack up the prices of the menu items which makes the restaurant seem more expensive than it is which can drive down overall patronage.

    And then there is the website spoofing:
    Grubhub has been buying tens of thousands of domain names that resemble those of businesses they either work with or are pitching to get on the platform, reports New Food Economy. Those domains, of which Grubhub owns as many as 23,000, are used to resemble a landing page for the official business, complete with an online ordering form, despite the sites being completely unassociated with the restaurants themselves.

    Restaurant owners are calling the practice predatorial, noting that Grubhub is leading customers to believe they’re ordering directly from restaurants to help businesses avoid paying fees to Grubhub.

    That is flagrant trademark violation, isn't it? I can't believe a legal department would ever sign off on that.

    No. But it is fraud.

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  • DoodmannDoodmann Registered User regular
    Polaritie wrote: »
    Madican wrote: »
    Polaritie wrote: »
    Butters wrote: »
    People should stop using food delivery contractors period because they are a massive ripoff and distort the cost of food for the restaurant. They don't just charge delivery fees and mandate tip that may or may not be a reasonable amount. Many of them also jack up the prices of the menu items which makes the restaurant seem more expensive than it is which can drive down overall patronage.

    And then there is the website spoofing:
    Grubhub has been buying tens of thousands of domain names that resemble those of businesses they either work with or are pitching to get on the platform, reports New Food Economy. Those domains, of which Grubhub owns as many as 23,000, are used to resemble a landing page for the official business, complete with an online ordering form, despite the sites being completely unassociated with the restaurants themselves.

    Restaurant owners are calling the practice predatorial, noting that Grubhub is leading customers to believe they’re ordering directly from restaurants to help businesses avoid paying fees to Grubhub.

    That is flagrant trademark violation, isn't it? I can't believe a legal department would ever sign off on that.

    The motto of a ton of these Silicon Valley startups is "Move fast and break shit they can't stop us all"

    Yeah, but once you've "made it" more or less I think you're supposed to dial it back instead of double down, because now you have assets worth suing over.

    *Looks around*

    I don't think that has happened yet.

    ...maybe Microsoft and Nvidia but those are basically the only two that I know of.

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  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    edited July 2019
    urahonky wrote: »
    Xaquin wrote: »
    I guess I'm just confused. Was the driver not told up front that it was a guaranteed amount of money and that it would be that regardless of tip?

    i.e. If I was told I would be paid a fixed total of $10 for delivering food regardless of whether I was tipped or not, I would expect to paid no more or less than $10

    if that was not communicated to me, than yes, there would be a problem.

    edited for clarity (hopefully)

    For the consumer you'd expect that the $4 tip you put into the app would be going to the driver, but it's not.

    The entire practice literally invalidates the idea of tipping too. The driver is getting paid the exact same regardless of service rendered. The tip is literally just a self-imposed tax paid to the delivery service. And they are scamming you into doing it by disguising it as a piece of culturally-pressured behaviour.

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  • ZekZek Registered User regular
    edited July 2019
    I'm still confused. Would it be better for them not to have a minimum? That way, every dollar the driver is tipped goes straight to them. And if the customer doesn't tip, they get nothing. This policy seems like an attempt to protect the employee from the deadbeats. But they didn't think about how it looks to the customer when they figure out their tips aren't needed anymore. That was dumb of them, but where does the abuse of the employees come in? If anything it's the customers being deceived.

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    Zek wrote: »
    I'm still confused. Would it be better for them not to have a minimum? That way, every dollar the driver is tipped goes straight to them. And if the customer doesn't tip, they get nothing. This policy seems like an attempt to protect the employee from the deadbeats. But they didn't think about how it looks to the customer when they figure out their tips aren't needed anymore. That was dumb of them, but where does the abuse of the employees come in? If anything it's the customers being deceived.

    It would be better for the drivers, since $0 isnt attrractive.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Polaritie wrote: »
    Madican wrote: »
    Polaritie wrote: »
    Butters wrote: »
    People should stop using food delivery contractors period because they are a massive ripoff and distort the cost of food for the restaurant. They don't just charge delivery fees and mandate tip that may or may not be a reasonable amount. Many of them also jack up the prices of the menu items which makes the restaurant seem more expensive than it is which can drive down overall patronage.

    And then there is the website spoofing:
    Grubhub has been buying tens of thousands of domain names that resemble those of businesses they either work with or are pitching to get on the platform, reports New Food Economy. Those domains, of which Grubhub owns as many as 23,000, are used to resemble a landing page for the official business, complete with an online ordering form, despite the sites being completely unassociated with the restaurants themselves.

    Restaurant owners are calling the practice predatorial, noting that Grubhub is leading customers to believe they’re ordering directly from restaurants to help businesses avoid paying fees to Grubhub.

    That is flagrant trademark violation, isn't it? I can't believe a legal department would ever sign off on that.

    The motto of a ton of these Silicon Valley startups is "Move fast and break shit they can't stop us all"

    Yeah, but once you've "made it" more or less I think you're supposed to dial it back instead of double down, because now you have assets worth suing over.

    Funny enough once you have money it's a lot harder to sue you because you can hold your own in court without being bled of all your money over the course of legal fuckery.

    Turns out it's just to poor people that suing really is much of a threat

  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited July 2019
    Madican wrote: »
    Polaritie wrote: »
    Madican wrote: »
    Polaritie wrote: »
    Butters wrote: »
    People should stop using food delivery contractors period because they are a massive ripoff and distort the cost of food for the restaurant. They don't just charge delivery fees and mandate tip that may or may not be a reasonable amount. Many of them also jack up the prices of the menu items which makes the restaurant seem more expensive than it is which can drive down overall patronage.

    And then there is the website spoofing:
    Grubhub has been buying tens of thousands of domain names that resemble those of businesses they either work with or are pitching to get on the platform, reports New Food Economy. Those domains, of which Grubhub owns as many as 23,000, are used to resemble a landing page for the official business, complete with an online ordering form, despite the sites being completely unassociated with the restaurants themselves.

    Restaurant owners are calling the practice predatorial, noting that Grubhub is leading customers to believe they’re ordering directly from restaurants to help businesses avoid paying fees to Grubhub.

    That is flagrant trademark violation, isn't it? I can't believe a legal department would ever sign off on that.

    The motto of a ton of these Silicon Valley startups is "Move fast and break shit they can't stop us all"

    Yeah, but once you've "made it" more or less I think you're supposed to dial it back instead of double down, because now you have assets worth suing over.

    Funny enough once you have money it's a lot harder to sue you because you can hold your own in court without being bled of all your money over the course of legal fuckery.

    Turns out it's just to poor people that suing really is much of a threat

    Eh, if they're doing it to a chain that's irrelevant. Corporate lawyers.

    Edit: Though I guess chains are probably running their own deliveries... I suppose they could run afoul of an AG doing it though.

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  • see317see317 Registered User regular
    Madican wrote: »
    Polaritie wrote: »
    Madican wrote: »
    Polaritie wrote: »
    Butters wrote: »
    People should stop using food delivery contractors period because they are a massive ripoff and distort the cost of food for the restaurant. They don't just charge delivery fees and mandate tip that may or may not be a reasonable amount. Many of them also jack up the prices of the menu items which makes the restaurant seem more expensive than it is which can drive down overall patronage.

    And then there is the website spoofing:
    Grubhub has been buying tens of thousands of domain names that resemble those of businesses they either work with or are pitching to get on the platform, reports New Food Economy. Those domains, of which Grubhub owns as many as 23,000, are used to resemble a landing page for the official business, complete with an online ordering form, despite the sites being completely unassociated with the restaurants themselves.

    Restaurant owners are calling the practice predatorial, noting that Grubhub is leading customers to believe they’re ordering directly from restaurants to help businesses avoid paying fees to Grubhub.

    That is flagrant trademark violation, isn't it? I can't believe a legal department would ever sign off on that.

    The motto of a ton of these Silicon Valley startups is "Move fast and break shit they can't stop us all"

    Yeah, but once you've "made it" more or less I think you're supposed to dial it back instead of double down, because now you have assets worth suing over.

    Funny enough once you have money it's a lot harder to sue you because you can hold your own in court without being bled of all your money over the course of legal fuckery.

    Turns out it's just to poor people that suing really is much of a threat
    The system is working as designed

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