Current Events > Uber Eats Driver Sobs UNCONTROLLABLY in getting $1.19 TIP for an HOUR DELIVERY!!

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This is why I do take out and not delivery, no tip needed, and everyone is happy, I got the food, they got a sale.

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Tryin2GetDaPipe posted...

He's stuck between a rock and a hard place, probably couldn't afford to reject that order >_>

I'm sorry but this isn't just a case of him being in a shitty situation. He's being inefficient.

If the order is so far that it doesn't even cover gas, why would you even go? That's negative money. You can do 3 orders in that same amount of time.

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Oh cool I guess just ignore my post.
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Tenlaar posted...

Of all the bullshit I've seen people say about tipping drivers, expecting drivers to be tipped at a rate of $60/hr may be the most absurd. Congratulations.

That isn't what he's saying. He's saying to tip at a rate of almost a dollar per minute for your delivery. Factor in return trip and that translates closer to .50 per minute. This doesn't factor in the 2-5 minutes to actually complete the delivery when he gets there, or wait time between orders, wait time picking up orders, or other regular delays. There's no way the driver ever gets close to $60/hour.

How is this payment system setup in which an hour delivery only results in $2 pre-tip?

With all the fees associated with these services, we can't rule out that the customer believed the driver was being properly compensated.

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Don't you see the tip before you take it? It seems like the driver should have just not taken it. Then the the poor tip would never get their food and learn to tip.

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Vigilancespren posted...

How is this payment system setup in which an hour delivery only results in $2 pre-tip?

I'm curious about that too. What is the app payment based on?

RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...

This is why I do take out and not delivery, no tip needed, and everyone is happy, I got the food, they got a sale.

I hate the area for a tip on a to-go order. I was three hours away in Jacksonville for the AEW PPV two weeks ago, and a restaurant added a fraudulent six dollar tip on to go mozzarella sticks (I drew a line through the tip section). I called and the owner told me I would have to come back to get the six dollars, instead of just voiding the transaction one of his thieves pushed through. I ended up having to dispute it, so fuck him, that just hurts his business credit score.

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TheOtherMike posted...

That isn't what he's saying. He's saying to tip at a rate of almost a dollar per minute for your delivery.

This topic says "for an hour delivery" and it seems like you are making up your own rules for when that applies and when it doesn't. Why would the time the person has to spend waiting for the food not factor into the time he spent delivering it?

Tenlaar posted...

This topic says "for an hour delivery" and it seems like you are making up your own rules for when that applies and when it doesn't. Why would the time the person has to spend waiting for the food not factor into the time he spent delivering it?

I'm not making up anything, just correcting your gross misunderstanding of what another user posted.

TheOtherMike posted...

I'm not making up anything, just correcting your gross misunderstanding of what another user posted.

You did not, you added your own extra things to it.

yunalenne10 posted...

I always tip $1 for food delivery.

You are a bad person.

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RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...

This is why I do take out and not delivery, no tip needed, and everyone is happy, I got the food, they got a sale.

You are supposed to tip for that too.

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Tenlaar posted...

You did not, you added your own extra things to it.

Keep failing at reading comprehension. Nothing I can do for you there.

Robot2600 posted...

You are supposed to tip for that too.

lol fuck that

Robot2600 posted...

You are supposed to tip for that too.

No you're not.
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spanky1 posted...

Its been proven this guy is a hustler and fraud. Uber eats pays drivers by the minute or something so he would have been paid like 15 bucks or something like that. This was on reddit.

spanky1 posted...

Oh cool I guess just ignore my post.

I saw and appreciated your post. My first thought from this story was "his whole payment can't be from just the customer's tip". I'm sympathetic to people who work jobs that are tip dependent, but that can't be their entire compensation.

I hate tipping as a practice, but I do it because I don't want to hurt the service worker's income. Other countries have it right: pay your workers a fair wage and put the real price on the menu. None of the hidden fees bullshit. I'd gladly pay an extra 20% on food and drinks (and any other tipping industry service) if it meant the price on the menu was all I had to pay.

Specific to the food delivery apps: as a consumer it really feels like they nickel-and-dime us. Cost of menu items is higher, there is a service fee and a delivery fee? What the hell even are these? On top of the check-out price with these hidden fees we still need to tip the driver. What is considered a good tip? Is a flat $6 tip good regardless of meal price? Will drivers be pissed if I am getting a $80 order and see $6 as an insult because it is under 10%? Do the same drivers get mad when I have a $12 order and tip only $3 (comes out to 25%)? The price of the order has very little to do with the service the driver is able to provide. Previously I used these services more frequently, but now very rarely because I feel like I am getting screwed over (maybe once every other month; really its when I get coupon or voucher for it). To be safe I tip a minimum of $5 and max of 30% depending on service and price of the meal.

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spanky1 posted...

No you're not.

That is what I thought, but restaurant workers blew up on me in a topic when I said that in the middle of 2020.

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I tip a minimum of $4, and usually in the $5-8 range. For delivery the price of the food doesn't really matter. Distance driven is a much more helpful measure.

Yes you are paying extra already for the service fees, and item charge-ups. If you disagree with the fees then don't use the service. Don't take it out on the delivery driver.


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As an Uber Eats driver for most of the past year

That is a fucked delivery and it can definitely be demoralizing

That being said, like someone said above UberEats is the ONLY Uber service that tells you how much youre being paid beforehand, so he shouldve known better

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For awhile UberEats let customers delete/alter tips after the delivery. You could take a run that was a $10 tip then the customer would change it to 0 later.

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I say its the companies fault they charge a delivery fee but say the driver does not get the fee so tip the driver, wtf! Why doesnt the driver get the fee?

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I make soooooo much money as a dasher and i absolutely love it!

Ive never tipped them.

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Tenlaar posted...

Of all the bullshit I've seen people say about tipping drivers, expecting drivers to be tipped at a rate of $60/hr may be the most absurd. Congratulations.

I mean again I know what people tip me and that is about the standard.

Granted it only accounts for ONE way and there is usually never a delivery more then 15 minutes away. But I said almost a dollar per minute, so if we want to get exact, maybe about .80 cents a minute. But as its not a science I would expect at least a 10 dollar tip for taking some ones delivery fifteen minutes away, thats a thirty minute round trip and will easily take 35-40 minutes total. In that time I could have taken 2-3 other shorter deliveries and got $12-22 dollars in tips from those.

Also if you have such an allergic reaction to hearing .80c for each minute your house is away, then we will say per mile instead, but thats a much tougher calculation and you would probably still sneeze at it.

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foxhound101 posted...

Don't take it out on the delivery driver.

dont take it out on the customer.

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Why was it such a small tip?

In any case, those types of jobs aren't meant to be a sole source of income...

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The sympy for some fields of work is fucking funny to me. Call me insensitive, but I have received horrible emails and partaked in meetings where I have had the entire jail built on my ass, while being overworked and disrespected on a daily basis by higher ups who work WITH me. Even though my salary was decent it didn't outweigh the stress everything else put on me, atleast as a waiter or delivery driver you have relatively low expectations. You give people their food on time and be polite, that's literally all they expect from you. As opposed to someone thinking you're their personal bitch and lumping you with 20+ hours of work on a Friday.

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Letron_James posted...

The sympy for some fields of work is fucking funny to me. Call me insensitive, but I have received horrible emails and partaked in meetings where I have had the entire jail built on my ass, while being overworked and disrespected on a daily basis by higher ups who work WITH me. Even though my salary was decent it didn't outweigh the stress everything else put on me, atleast as a waiter or delivery driver you have relatively low expectations. You give people their food on time and be polite, that's literally all they expect from you. As opposed to someone thinking you're their personal bitch and lumping you with 20+ hours of work on a Friday.

Thank you for saying that.

People with bachelor's and master's degrees, working harder skilled jobs get to deal with neurotic bosses who are literally abusive.

You get used quickly the following cycle at many jobs:

- You have a fairly slow Wednesday and Thursday because your psychopathic boss is sitting on a pile of emails and issues he is waiting for Friday at 4:30 PM to dump on you.
- Your boss totally knew about them since Monday night, but he chose not to touch anything or let you know until now.
-All of these issues will be supposedly urgent and you must deal with them all before Monday 8 AM. - - Come Monday you have everything ready and then you find out your boss won't be assed to even look at all this stuff until Wednesday (meaning it wasn't even urgent at all).

Some abusive assholes even set up scripts so emails are sent to you late at night instead of during normal work hours. You get used to warning your boss about issues only to see him disregard the warning and then shit on you when things go south anyway.

Millions of people suffer this every day. but hey, let the uber driver dude ITT tell us we need to tip $20 and give a handjob or else we're losers and mean to him, lol

matchboxsantana posted...

Thank you for saying that.

People with bachelor's and master's degrees, working harder skilled jobs get to deal with neurotic bosses who are literally abusive.

You get used quickly the following cycle at many jobs:

- You have a fairly slow Wednesday and Thursday because your psychopathic boss is sitting on a pile of emails and issues he is waiting for Friday at 4:30 PM to dump on you.
- Your boss totally knew about them since Monday night, but he chose not to touch anything or let you know until now.
-All of these issues will be supposedly urgent and you must deal with them all before Monday 8 AM. - - Come Monday you have everything ready and then you find out your boss won't be assed to even look at all this stuff until Wednesday (meaning it wasn't even urgent at all).

Some abusive assholes even set up scripts so emails are sent to you late at night instead of during normal work hours. You get used to warning your boss about issues only to see him disregard the warning and then shit on you when things go south anyway.

Millions of people suffer this every day. but hey, let the uber driver dude ITT tell us we need to tip $20 and give a handjob or else we're losers and mean to him, lol

I've worked retail, office, and delivery.

They all suck. They all have shitty management. They all have toxic environments. They all overwork you to death.

Stop shaming other job fields just because you think your well paying job is worth more to bitch about.

DomingoGerman posted...

I've worked retail, office, and delivery.

They all suck. They all have shitty management. They all have toxic environments. They all overwork you to death.

Stop shaming other job fields just because you think your well paying job is worth more to bitch about.

I think we should all bitch about the jobs, no matter what those jobs are, because we're all getting exploited and it's inhumane :)