Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The delivery apps - and in fact all similar apps (Uber, Instacart) - are extraction capitalism at its finest. I was recently postpartum and begrudgingly ordered a couple of DD/Uber Eats meals. The fees charged are absolutely outrageous: one meal whose ticket price was $50 became an $80 dollar meal after the service fee and the delivery fee, plus tax and tip.

Just get your own food or get delivery from restaurants with their own drivers. Stop enriching tech bros at the expense of these drivers - who are not getting paid equitably by their employers - and customers!

That's become hard to find, unfortunately. DoorDash extorts the restaurants, too. they're awful all around.

https://get.popmenu.com/post/doordash-fees-for-restaurants-how-to-cut-costs-on-deliveries

My takeaway from this article is that in 2021 doordash was valued at $72 BILLION. For what!?

A few thousand lines of code.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like there’s a good reason the customer is living in a nice house and the man is a (now former) Doordasher.

I hate when people say this.

Yet it’s true.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The delivery apps - and in fact all similar apps (Uber, Instacart) - are extraction capitalism at its finest. I was recently postpartum and begrudgingly ordered a couple of DD/Uber Eats meals. The fees charged are absolutely outrageous: one meal whose ticket price was $50 became an $80 dollar meal after the service fee and the delivery fee, plus tax and tip.

Just get your own food or get delivery from restaurants with their own drivers. Stop enriching tech bros at the expense of these drivers - who are not getting paid equitably by their employers - and customers!

That's become hard to find, unfortunately. DoorDash extorts the restaurants, too. they're awful all around.

https://get.popmenu.com/post/doordash-fees-for-restaurants-how-to-cut-costs-on-deliveries

My takeaway from this article is that in 2021 doordash was valued at $72 BILLION. For what!?

Anonymous wrote:The delivery apps - and in fact all similar apps (Uber, Instacart) - are extraction capitalism at its finest. I was recently postpartum and begrudgingly ordered a couple of DD/Uber Eats meals. The fees charged are absolutely outrageous: one meal whose ticket price was $50 became an $80 dollar meal after the service fee and the delivery fee, plus tax and tip.

Just get your own food or get delivery from restaurants with their own drivers. Stop enriching tech bros at the expense of these drivers - who are not getting paid equitably by their employers - and customers!

That's become hard to find, unfortunately. DoorDash extorts the restaurants, too. they're awful all around.

https://get.popmenu.com/post/doordash-fees-for-restaurants-how-to-cut-costs-on-deliveries

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's make European no tipping happen

As soon as companies pay above minimum wage to these drivers, then we can do this.

There are plenty of places where we can already do this. Any counter service establishment is already paying minimum wage or above. Hairdressers definitely do not need a tip of 25% based on cost of service--they are performing their jobs and we're expected to pay even more for the basic service? it's absurd.

Anonymous wrote:I gave a 20% cash tip at a manicure once and the manicurist stared at it and said incredulously, “that’s it?”

I was so embarrassed that I handed over more cash and realized later she probably does that every time to see how much more she can get.

I would have explained it was 20% and ask what she was expecting?

Anonymous wrote:You don't think someone going to pick up your food and bring it to your house requires a tip?

I think that their employer should pay them. But more than that, I think that people should stop using these stupid apps.

Anonymous wrote:Let's make European no tipping happen

As soon as companies pay above minimum wage to these drivers, then we can do this.

The delivery apps - and in fact all similar apps (Uber, Instacart) - are extraction capitalism at its finest. I was recently postpartum and begrudgingly ordered a couple of DD/Uber Eats meals. The fees charged are absolutely outrageous: one meal whose ticket price was $50 became an $80 dollar meal after the service fee and the delivery fee, plus tax and tip.

Just get your own food or get delivery from restaurants with their own drivers. Stop enriching tech bros at the expense of these drivers - who are not getting paid equitably by their employers - and customers!

Anonymous wrote:I gave a 20% cash tip at a manicure once and the manicurist stared at it and said incredulously, “that’s it?”

I was so embarrassed that I handed over more cash and realized later she probably does that every time to see how much more she can get.

I'm sorry she embarrassed you. My mom is like that (embarrassed by people when IMO she is the "victim"). I had the same thing happen to me once. (Wonder if it's common or was the same place?). I took the cash back and said "Nope, that's it". Left and never went back. That's so obnoxious.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There was a NYT article about Doordashers and the tips they expected. One guy was complaining that a man who ordered $400 worth of sushi only tipped $20. Does it take more energy to deliver $400 of sushi vs. a $10 burger to the same address?

Yeah the % thing is dumb but just have a minimum tip and then don’t fo under 20%.

Just think of how much work a waiter at a nice steak house does, especially if you order the $200 bottles of wine instead of the $50 bottles, than a waitress at Applebees. Clearly that extra work is worth $75 a table

Anonymous wrote:There was a NYT article about Doordashers and the tips they expected. One guy was complaining that a man who ordered $400 worth of sushi only tipped $20. Does it take more energy to deliver $400 of sushi vs. a $10 burger to the same address?

Yeah the % thing is dumb but just have a minimum tip and then don’t fo under 20%.

Anonymous wrote:I gave a 20% cash tip at a manicure once and the manicurist stared at it and said incredulously, “that’s it?”

I was so embarrassed that I handed over more cash and realized later she probably does that every time to see how much more she can get.

The whole out of control tipping culture relies on shaming and social pressure like this.

This is why more people are simply just no-tipping, because eff that.

There was a NYT article about Doordashers and the tips they expected. One guy was complaining that a man who ordered $400 worth of sushi only tipped $20. Does it take more energy to deliver $400 of sushi vs. a $10 burger to the same address?

Anonymous wrote:I gave a 20% cash tip at a manicure once and the manicurist stared at it and said incredulously, “that’s it?”

I was so embarrassed that I handed over more cash and realized later she probably does that every time to see how much more she can get.

I would have said “that’s it” and walked off.