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[–] 36 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Because if your car has broken down, or you're exhausted from a long day of work and your family is hungry, or you're too drunk to safely drive but still want food, or if you straight up don't have a car and don't want to cook that night, or you are on vacation at a hotel or airbnb and don't have other access to food, or you have a baby that you can't just leave alone for a few minutes to go pick the food up, or you are in the middle of a study session and it would be more convenient to have the food come to you rather than going to get it.

Looks like there's lots of reasons people might take advantage of the service that can deliver food to them, and it's not unreasonable for them to expect that service to not completely fuck it up.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    My main income has been from driving for grubhub for a couple of years now thanks to some physical issues. Anyway, most of the people I deliver to are disabled, elderly, or both. I would feel like shit if I pulled the fuckery presented in the OP.

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  • [–] 5 points 14 hours ago* (1 child)

    Yeah seriously

    I started doing Doordash recently to try and get on top of my finances and I'd feel awful about the stuff here

    And to be honest

    They're fucking everyone over, the Dashers make basically minimum wage if that, Doordash marks up all the items on the menus, and adds a bunch of bullshit fees.

    The only money reliably making it from the customers to the dashers are the tips, and only because they're required to by law.

    But for my case, it's something flexible and relatively low-effort that I can do when I'm not working my day job

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  • [–] 4 points 9 hours ago

    The trick here is to wait out the 7+ month waiting list for GrubHub. My stomach churns at the fact that I'm about to be a corpo shill, but I make an average of ~$27/hr (and yes for all of you that are about to jump on this, that is after taxes, maintenance, and time spent searching). The only thing I have to do to earn is turn things on like a cab. I earn about $10/hr above what is the average here and that's the only reason I'm not sleeping in my car. And, also - this applies to all of the delivery apps, but you sadly need to find a heavily gentrified area to do this. To pay the bills this way, you have to find and exploit the petite bourgeoisie.

    I make fucking good money doing this bullshit, even more than I did in my 20+ year career as a machinist. What fucking sucks about it is that you have to toe the red line, no matter where you are. If you are willing to drive to the suburbs with unnecessarily large houses, you will make money.

    I fucking hate this, but in the end by doing this kind of work you are in a way preying on the disabled and infirm, but they have no other choice so you are in a way helping. On the other hand, there's a good chance that you are draining class traitors of their capital. I don't know what to say beyond this other than what people say about "underpaid labor!" is, in fact, entirely dependent on area, and there are high odds that the people saying that it is impossible to make enough to live doing any sort of labor that nets you less than $100,000/yr.

    I want to go on a rant about how "office job labor"-centric mentality is way more prevalent than anything US-centric, but I digress.

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  • [–] 1 point 20 hours ago (1 child)

    This is why living in a city is awesome. Just walk 6 blocks and get a bite to eat.

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  • [–] 6 points 18 hours ago

    Did you read a fucking word they said? About being exhausted, or having to look after kids, or having housework to do... You're still gonna find time for 45+ minutes to walk 6 blocks, wait in line, pay, and walk back and still have all the shit you need to do and still eat before it gets cold?

    Christ sake... "Just walk 6 blocks". Tell a single mom that.

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  • [+] -10 points 1 day ago (2 children)
  • [–] 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Yea dude. Not wanting to drive after drinking is just laziness.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Getting drunk without food prepared ahead of time is laziness. People safely fed themselves for centuries before delivery apps existed, they can do it now too.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago*

    Yes, and for centuries, leaving your house while drunk to go get food was a viable option because walking or riding a horse while drunk is a lot safer than driving a car.

    Then we got cars, and the roads became dangerous. And yes, there was a brief period where there were no delivery services from restaurants. But very quickly, restaurants realized they could get more sales if they offered to deliver food to people for reasons like the many I listed above.

    So to be clear, are you pining for that brief period of time a handful of decades long, between the time of cars being widely adopted and restaurants offering delivery and using that as an example for something you believe everyone should return to?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Yeah bro. Before all these slop delivery apps how did anyone ever survive. Do better. For fucks sake. Such a lazy excuse.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago*

    They ordered pizza or Chinese or some local store that had their own delivery drivers. That doesn't exist anymore. Stores outsource their deliveries to companies like door dash.

    Oh sorry, was this supposed to be some dumbass "gotcha" that completely ignores reality?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Completely impossible to get food ahead of time. Just no way to have a pizza in your freezer in case you get hungry after a night out drinking. I just spontaneously get drunk sometimes so it comes out of nowhere and I'm not able to plan ahead. I need DoorDash or I would literally starve.

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  • [–] 3 points 21 hours ago

    The freezer pizza is nowhere near as good as a fresh pizza from a decent pizzeria though?

    You'd have to cook your own pizza for it to even be comparable.

    Like yes I always have something I can heat up at 3 AM if I'm working an all nighter to catch up on shit, but you know what tastes best when drunk? Hot fast food I didn't have to prepare at all.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago

    I mean literally. We all had to get food before these apps came in. I don’t understand the why we can’t now besides being pure fucking lazy and not willing to do anything to change the status quo instead just bitching about it online acting like there is nothing left to do. It’s so fucking maddening.

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