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allison @AllisonFleisch1/9/2024, 10:17 AM

gravis again @cathoderaydude

gravis again @cathoderaydude1/7/2024, 2:29 AM

this is on doordash. i don't like using doordash, or grubhub, or any of those things, but i don't need to explain how we're fucked, nobody even hires delivery drivers anymore, we lost this war, and the gig workers all want you to use it because it's all they have. this is the only way i can order thai food, so, i'm doing that.

and after i placed my order, it offers this odious thing. this is proposing, this is proposing, that after my "dasher" picks up my hot thai food, or perhaps before? (i don't know which is worse) they should go into the walgreens two blocks away and buy some fucking cheetos too.

i don't even need to explain the logistical nightmare here, but the thing that always stands out to me is: obviously this is repugnant to me, but i'm probably in the extreme minority. i see something like this and i roll my eyes at it because clearly this is A) going to place a horrifying set of demands on this poor worker, and B) make my food get here cold.

but like. most people do not know how anything works. most people never think for one second about the reality behind jack shit, behind anything they ask a business to do. it's designed that way: you see a big glowing button and go "oh, i can have that, it's free," the same as amazon sameday's ease and cheapness utterly erases its incomprehensible fossil fuel and human costs.

and that means that every fucking day, people get orders like this, and have to satisfy them or get fired.

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erysdren @erysdren1/7/2024, 2:34 AM

god what a nightmare. i actually found delivery jobs (wage-paying jobs) to be quite relaxing in a way, just being on the road for long stretches listening to my own music and the road. of course the short breaks back at the store were pretty stressful (i've delivered pizza at two different fast food restaurants, and automotive parts at a small distributor). i can't even imagine not having a set wage, not having a set schedule, and having to jump on every opportunity just to make a bit of "extra" cash. sounds like total fucking shit.

Christian Simmers @Xuelder1/7/2024, 2:51 AM

I might have some good news on this front; as far as I can tell on Nextdoor and Facebook, this might actually be annoying normies in my neck of the woods. Especially now that they fired all the delivery drivers at the national pizza chains, they are showing up an hour or more after order, and drivers are having accidents where the cheap bags ~~Waitr~~ ASAP and DoorDash gave them fall open and splatter pizza constantly on peoples' doorsteps. It's been fun the last few weeks in the Greater New Orleans Area.

TL;DR - The Karens are going to ride in like the Rohirrim to save us all from shit delivery.

Kevin López Brante @kddlb1/7/2024, 2:51 AM

One of our local delivery services does that too, but here's the catch: they actually hire another delivery person to go to the other store and pick the items for you.

gravis again @cathoderaydude1/7/2024, 2:52 AM

tbh i strongly suspect that's what they're doing, but i figure it makes it worse

Emi @pardalis1/7/2024, 3:29 AM

reading into this exposed me to Dashmart, another of their great ideas: a cramped warehouse of convenience store items, run by doordash, only accessible by doordash delivery guys. it seems to have failed within six months

living in 16QAM @vxo1/15/2024, 3:53 PM

oh hell i always imagined i hallucinated the existence of that during the dark days of the pandemic. what

Zoey @zoey-1/7/2024, 6:14 AM

no it's actually worse than that
the double dashing is a separate order, which could be fulfilled by the same or different gig worker

ilc @ILC1/7/2024, 9:32 PM

Imagine being one of these workers and someone orders Subway. You pick up the food and continue to read the order, which now it includes an order for some lays chips from a Target nearby. "God damn it" you say to your self and start swearing in your mind, but you do it anyways because it's your job. And then you get to the store and find the chips, and as you're holding them heading to the check out, you realized that the customer could have bought the same exact chips at the Subway you were just at and for cheaper. You didn't even think of buying the chips at Subway because you were too frustrated at that moment to think straight (would you even be reinstated from receipts and logs? idk how it works) So all that ended up happening was you wasted your time, which also means you lost some potential money from tips if you could have gotten another customer within that loss of time.

Hell.

gravis again @cathoderaydude1/7/2024, 9:52 PM

And then, per what somebody else said they had observed, in reality there's a good chance this would be a separate person making a separate trip to the Safeway to pick up just the chips, obscured from the consumer because it would look complicated to them, but according to a spreadsheet it's actually worth it to pay two people to do this - The same way we ship oranges halfway around the world instead of buying the ones that are just across the border solely because economies of scale make that make sense on a spreadsheet, even though the actual literal cost is a truly obscene amount of fossil fuels.

Miawgogo @miawgogo1/8/2024, 11:59 PM

if it works the same way that it does here, the dasher probably doesn't even go in to buy the stuff, instead a tablet in the store shouts at a overworked employee to "pick-up the bill please" to then go around the store and pick out the items.

the overworked driver then turns up with their phone shouting at them and they are under pressure to go quickly so they can get another order as that order only paid them £2.

I have noticed here that Uber Eats specifically have been trying to parcel bus food delivery by getting drivers to deliver 2 orders at once, but that doesn't really change the carbon cost much.

(parcel bus is my term for discribing delivery in the style of postal services, while demonstrating that "buy local" isn't always the best if your method of going local is a car)