Except last time I tried to use Doordash and it took them two hours to finally assign a dasher to get my burrito only for them to message me that it was a food truck and that it was closed… It is a real brick and mortar restaurant that I’ve been to multiple times before. The only thing Doordash is good at is dynamic pricing and increasing the price on the menu based on what they think you will pay.
I bought an ebike online recently and it was 4 days late being delivered. Every day FedEx said it was on the truck for delivery, then every day, the delivery window shifted, before finally getting pushed back to the next day (after their call center was closed).
I finally went outside while the trick was stopped at my house and the guy asked what it was. When I told him it was an ebike, he told me they probably couldn’t fit it on his over packed truck.
I wound up just going to the depot and getting it myself.
I say that to commiserate - it seems companies are squeezing their workers to (and beyond) the limit where they can successfully carry out their work.
Just like any service that was born out of a need and was recognised as a great source of money, its sole purpose now is to extract capital and swiftly put it in the pockets of the already obscenely wealthy.
Except last time I tried to use Doordash and it took them two hours to finally assign a dasher to get my burrito only for them to message me that it was a food truck and that it was closed… It is a real brick and mortar restaurant that I’ve been to multiple times before. The only thing Doordash is good at is dynamic pricing and increasing the price on the menu based on what they think you will pay.
I bought an ebike online recently and it was 4 days late being delivered. Every day FedEx said it was on the truck for delivery, then every day, the delivery window shifted, before finally getting pushed back to the next day (after their call center was closed).
I finally went outside while the trick was stopped at my house and the guy asked what it was. When I told him it was an ebike, he told me they probably couldn’t fit it on his over packed truck.
I wound up just going to the depot and getting it myself.
I say that to commiserate - it seems companies are squeezing their workers to (and beyond) the limit where they can successfully carry out their work.
Just like any service that was born out of a need and was recognised as a great source of money, its sole purpose now is to extract capital and swiftly put it in the pockets of the already obscenely wealthy.