For thise of you wondering about Door Dash. They just updated the app and now it includes a handy income statement. Here ya go:
$CAD$986
That's on:
26 dashes
120 deliveries
$443 of that total is tips
Active time (picking up/delivering): 29hrs
Dashed time (inc waiting/driving): 48hrs
Ave. Hourly with car expenses: $18.58 #DoorDash#GigWork#Delivery
Door Dash on Wednesday: “Hey Dashers! We're on your side! Don't let Government take away your money by regulating us!”
Door Dash on Friday: “Hey Dashers! You're great! Here's a coupon for a free catering bag ($22 value). Please pay $35 shipping, or only $113.97 if you'd like us* to deliver it “Priority”
*none of these options use door dash as a delivery of course...
You might have heard Gig workers are taking time out of their day today to protest working conditions from companies like #Uber#Lyft#DoorDash#SkipTheDishes and others.
Well, I just got this email from Door Dash at exactly 11AM PST when many people are doing this 'strike’.
The link goes to a form letter to the BC Government. But it's locked, you can't personalize it. I was going to remove all their text and say “I support regulating Gig work and improving working conditions”.
If you support workers rights, if you use these services, or if you're a gig worker yourself. Please contact your government in your area and urge them to follow the lead of others regulating gig work.
A statement read on the CBC this morning from Door Dash said they're not concerned.
Obviously.... they are.
Why? Because we're taking action together for fair wages and protection.
If you would like to send an actual letter to the BC Minister of Labour supporting Gig Workers in their fight for fair working conditions, send an email to LBR.Minister@gov.bc.ca
If you'd like a "form letter" (that you can modify!) I'll put what I wrote to Minister Bains in the next reply.
Here's the letter I sent to Minister of Labour Harry Bains:
Dear Minister Bains,
I am a “Dasher”.
Today I am withdrawing my services from Door Dash in solidarity with other gig workers who are protesting the working conditions and unfair pay that the “gig economy” has been allowed to get away with.
I support BC’s efforts to regulate these companies and bring them in line with the expectations of any workplace.
For your information, I have included a message I received from Door Dash at exactly 11AM today, coinciding with the protests/withdrawal of service in this timezone, encouraging me to contact the BC Government. They did not allow me to personalize my message to you on their form. They wanted me to send their canned rhetoric that tries to make it sound like gig workers are on their side. They’re wrong.
Gig workers want fairness and respect and we are working, and withdrawing our service, in solidarity with each other.
Thank you for your efforts in supporting us.
@chris
Thanks for the useful info. I’ll be emailing support for you and fellow gig workers. The cut these middlemen take from just running their app is outrageous
Just discovered the Category Groupings in Apple Numbers. Useful! Extended my spreadsheet for Dasher tracking all the way out to the full year and now I can group by year, month and week (the Dasher app goes by week).
The one trick is if you want subgroups you really have to do it at the beginning. It's very hard (impossible?) to properly add subgroups after. They get all mixed up.
The groups create their own calculation line where you can sum, average, etc that column in the group.
I’m going to have to use this for my historical weather spreadsheets!
I prepaid a year of DashPass with some promo last January, thinking I'd use it a lot. I used it occasionally, but honestly my local business’s delivery options are on-point so I'd just deal with them. My year was up and it switched to a monthly plan, which I of course forgot about. Oh well, I'll just cancel so I don't get charged next month.
A couple days later, I get an email from Doordash refunding my January charges, completely unprompted.
@stux I legit wonder if #Doordash realizes, even in America, we all know tipping only exists because employees are paid so little they're forced to beg for money, and this is just doubling down on a bad look.
Never used it and never will. Tips are retroactive for good service AFTER the fact; places that ask for a tip before service is even rendered can FO.
—- #DoorDash now warns customers that not tipping ahead of time may result in slower delivery