pizza delivery was always notoriously a shitty job! starting to suspect that some people who claim to advocate for a workers' utopia haven't known very many service workers irl...
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Pizza delivery was niche uber-profitable in certain markets and cities for SOME people during the late nineties and early aughts, and it acquired a sort of mystique because of it, but as someone who has done that job in multiple cities and states, it was always exploitative.
I'm sure that was a big part of it for a lot of people, but another factor was the fact that in most places delivery drivers got full hourly wages in addition to gas reimbursement (or company cars to drive) and 100% of the tips for your deliveries, which on a Friday night/game night could easily be
I like the idea specifically that DoorDash is some sort of overpriced middleman that broke a perfectly functional system when DoorDash literally loses money
Losing money doesn't also mean it isn't overpriced. They are using a hugely inefficient system that offloads most of their operating expenses onto their 'contractor' employees and *still aren't profitable* because there is no way to make their model profitable.
Interesting, I was going off of the wikipedia numbers that said they made a loss with the 2023 numbers. I knew all the delivery apps made a killing during the pandemic
vulgar marxism absorbed through cultural osmosis typically doesn't teach people about finance at all (in contrast to marx himself closely studying financial markets), leaving many totally unprepared to understand the liquidity trap of the 2010s. sad!
What's ET? (Sorry, GenXer here, so I'm out of it.) Yeah, 'exponsive' LOOKED like something slang-y. Which is why I thought you were doing it on purpose. Whatever its heritage, it's now part of my lexicon! 😂
I just kind of assumed everyone, even well to do people, worked a shitty service job at least once even if just as a teenager. Learning I was wrong about this!
mine was just summer camp counselor but it was shitty (try working outside for min. wage in DC summer) and plenty of friends worked retail jobs such that they encouraged me to avoid it if I could lol
Tbh I’ve waited tables and worked in kitchens and restaurants while I didn’t like it I enjoyed it a lot more than what I went to my undergrad for which is funny
Pro tip to get them off your back: Land yourself a 2-week stint at the local psychiatric hospital after months of telling them how you go to bed wishing you'll die in in your sleep because of the job they told you'd be ruining your life not to take in the field they said the same about.
Came of teenage working age in 2008/2009, aka the era of "lines out the door for fast food jobs". Only got offered pizza delivery gigs which parents wouldn't allow (fear of robbery). Then in college- got a campus job that wasn't people facing, and grad school = no jobs allowed.
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They're a VC cash sink.