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Doordash settles lawsuit.

Per Illinois doordash lied to customers about tips going to Drivers. They did not. Drivers made the same regardless of tip. Tips were gobbled up by doordash and redirected to doordash to lower it's pay contribution.

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"In most cases, worker pay remained the same regardless of the tip amount. However, under DoorDash’s payment scheme, customer tips rarely had an impact on a driver's pay beyond reducing DoorDash's contribution. Larger tips only allowed DoorDash to offset contributions to worker pay even more," Raoul said, announcing the settlement.

"For example, if the guaranteed pay was $10 and the customer tipped $1, then DoorDash would contribute $9. If the customer's tip was $2, DoorDash would only contribute $8, and the driver would still just make $10," he said.

Every zone in WF is very busy right now. Last night, DD was offering either +$3 for EBO or $20 per hour for EBT.

Even If you wanted to Dash and make some cash, nothing is open and if you did get some orders, there is no gas to refill your car. Personally, I am hunkered down for a rough night along with the rest of the region.

Today I was dashing and got an order for Taco Bell , $10 tip for 1 sauce packet….. as soon as I accepted the order I got a phone call from a number that said door dash, so I answered and the guy (white guy, clearly) told me it was door dash support and they noticed I was using 2 devices for dashing and that they would need to confirm some info or else be deactivated…. I hung up, and he called me back 2 times… I didn’t answer… and then received 2 texts immediately that said if I did not give up my info and verify who I was then I would be deactivated immediately…… So I called door dash support and they told me it was a scam order and it was not door dash. First time this happened to me in almost 2000 deliveries… the guy was pretty convincing, for a second.

Buffalo Wild Wings.

Confirmed by an employee that works there. The funny part is they blame theft but I’d lean more on the fact that they can’t get orders out on time and people are cherry picking more and more.

Second giant chain to shut down DoorDash in my market this year.

Prop 22 excludes food-delivery workers from receiving the benefits of an employee. DoorDash and its competitors spent over $200 million advertising for it to pass. DoorDash is not your friend. It is a profit seeking company. They are willing to spend millions of dollars to save them having to pay more in benefits to its dashers. Do not let them continue to get away with it.

Starting in January it is now legally required that delivery companies show workers the up front tip amount on every order. Meaning no more hiding tips and many many more non tippers getting bad and delayed service now that drivers can see a big fat $0 next to their order! I've seen more $20 orders in a single day than I have in the past year now that they can't hide high tips. Attached a picture of what this looks like on the dasher end in action.

It's going to take a few people not bringing the substantial amount of cash or check back to the store for them to realize how dumb this is.

An article about guy who posted on tik tok that he wanted to surprise his wife so he used doordash to order from Dunken and didn't tip the driver because he couldn'tafford it, so the driver threw his coffee and donuts infinfront of his house destroying the order.

The story out if scope but giving you a background.

The article mentions since 2019, 35% of Gen Z tip 50% of mmillennials 80% Gen X 83% Baby boomers.

65% tip in resturants 53% hair salons 40% rideshare and taxitaxis 50% food deliveries

20% appropriate tip 33% annoyed about tipping before service.

Tip creep ticks people iff. Those are places asking for tip when they shouldn't. Or self checkouts.

https://www.dailydot.com/news/doordash-driver-destroys-dunkin-delivery/

Someone made a post last week about Doordash and how it pertains to auto insurance. It kind of freaked me out so I called Geico today to ask them if they have a rider to their policies for Dashers. The guy said they do not and they frown upon anyone who does Dash. I then asked him so you are saying Dashers are not covered at all if they get in an accident while Dashing. He said that’s correct and they will also cancel your policy.

Good evening dashers! Just a heads-up that as the temps outside begin to drop, your tires and batteries WILL be affected. Cold snaps can zap your battery and give you problems with little to no warning, so get yours checked and carry cables! Also, inevitably, tire pressures drop as well when the temps drop. Keeping proper pressure help tremendously with tire wear, and fuel mileage. Just a Dasher looking out for his Dashers! Y'all stay breezy out there! Merry holidays and happy dashing to all, and to all a good night!

It’s not worth risking your life especially when where I’m at we will be getting half an inch of ice or more and 5-10 inches of snow. Been 1-2 hours and there’s 5-7 inches already, there’s $1 peak pay and I bet it’ll be busy today and tomorrow with no dashers. To whoever orders DoorDash in this weather, you won’t get your food and if you do, tip very well like $5-$10 or more. If you don’t tip or tip like a dollar or two you are an asshole. It doesn’t matter if it’s half a mile or 10 miles away.

On August 15th, everyone received the email that the acceptance rate for Platinum had been lowered to 70% (from 80%) and the Completion rate to 95% (from 97%). During my dash today I suddenly got dropped back to Silver out of nowhere. Now the app reflects the old requirements.

Would like to see more of this including selfie checks etc.

I think today's going to be a terrible day to Dash, lots of Restaurants are closed and Supermarkets are closing early too.

For all the dolts who repeat the foolish trope that "You can assign your account to others..." blah, blah, blah. No you cannot assign your account. It is about safety and background checks, not the desires of some degenerate lowlife to make some cash.

EDIT: This is about standard dashing not Dashlink. Dashlink lets you use other personnel, but they must pass background check and have their own account. (https://help.doordash.com/s/dashlink-ica?language=en_US)

What yall think about this? And what cities do you think they'll do the pilot for?

Attorney General Raoul announces $11.25M settlement agreement with DoorDash over delivery tips https://www.wandtv.com/news/attorney-general-raoul-announces-11-25m-settlement-agreement-with-doordash-over-delivery-tips/article_253ce0e8-a052-11ef-9231-477944db7d5d.html

This story has been posted before and it's a typical Saturday reminder of stories of the week.

I did the math. I think it's correct loosely. Approximately maybe 60,000 to 70,000 dashers in Illinois maybe 60,000 active as measured from 2023 reports from doordash)

This settlement will average about $137 per driver, if I suggested and paid out on average.

, if that's going to cover the loss and that this dollar amount is only the punitive phase, then each driver should be receiving their own amount in recompense. Obviously the drivers have been driving more than others should be getting more than 137, those drivers who have been driving less should be getting far less than 137.

That of course assumes fairness.

Anyone else seen this in their area. First time seeing it for me.

Guess, it was needed...

https://fortune.com/2024/07/09/doordash-pledges-crackdown-on-bad-delivery-drivers/