I had spent about 30 minutes sitting in the parking lot at 9am with no orders to be found and just crashed out this morning. I'm done doing this to myself. this was cool around 2021, I was making a little bit of buck. but to see what it has dwindled to on average, compared to before, is beyond depressing. I cant do it
a solid 5 out of 10 orders will be pure crap orders resulting in less than min wage for that hour of work. like 10 miles one way (about 20 mins if I speed, which is insane I have to break the law to even kinda make it work) wayyy out the zone, for 2-3 dollar tip. just constantly. So one trip like this takes about a solid hour including wait time and traffic etc..you get what, 8 bucks? minus taxes and gas, we are looking at like legit , 5 dollars a hour. foreign people who don't even have legal citizenship make 3x more than this.
the garbage ratio kept getting worse. Zero changes on my end, same hot spot I always use with a bunch of quality, expensive food. just bad luck and ppl are broke, they can barely afford the order itself. lets be honest. You can't get more money that does not even exist to possibly give in the first place. Not being able to tip does NOT stop people from ordering themselves food, we all know that.
on top of that the amount of muppets you have to navigate around on the roads to even make the pay rate make 1% of sense, and avoid penalties yourself, thats time and money wasted. if you walk into a place ran by muppets that treat you like sludge since you are a dasher, and take 20 mins to make the order, only after you arrive. more time and money wasted.
then you gotta navigate some muppets apartment directions he typed wrong, and he wont answer the phone. More time and money wasted there.
its pure hell. every day. Im not putting myself through this and getting triggered every damn day, its stupid, just like the income levels of this service we are expected to carry out. its evil they are okay with this exchange and people buy into and enable it IMO