Uber eats/Deliveroo

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Does anyone work with any of these food gig economies and what have your experiences been working with these companies?

Do they also make any adjustments if you have any disabilities and if they don't, what would you wished they have done?

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Blint.

A friend worked for Skip The Dishes here. Said he made around $20-25/hr including tips. Not bad for a side gig with nearly zero skills. Major con is the expense of driving - it's Very Expensive to drive here (fuel, insurance, car payments, wear & tear etc).. but still worked out to Ok money, certainly better than he could have earned working at one of the restaurants who's food he was picking up and delivering.

Someone might to better if they lived in a downtown centre where they could deliver a lot of orders via bicycle or e-bike with no car expense. However, I read an article about how Uber Eats changed their pay structure - basically cut pay way down - making it next to impossible for delivery people to earn a living even in major Canadian cities like Toronto.

Overall, these companies seem to take advantage of jobless people desperate to make a few dollars to make ends meet.. and then reduce their pay. Locally, people seem to jump ship from one delivery service to the next depending on which one is offering higher pay/which one lowers pay. All of the companies are relatively new so they're constantly changing their offerings to employees in order to attract gig workers as well as market share for deliveries. The business math is ridiculous: They're all losing money due to how much they spend on advertising. Restaurants are giving up huge %'s to these companies - it was something like 30%, then there was a massive outcry and the creation of a local app that would charge less, so the big players reduced their fees to 15% or something like that. In the end, I'm not sure if any of it is going to be sustainable.

If you do a job like this, just do it day by day. This companies aren't loyal to their workers AT ALL and thus you owe them no loyalty or long term commitment beyond the order you've agreed to pick up and deliver That Moment, never mind the rest of your day's time. Shifts aren't even scheduled - you can just open up your app and accept a delivery gig in that moment, do it, and then clock out and not do another order that day or week or month. It can be that casual and irregular if you want it to be. Also, don't count on the amount you get paid for deliveries now to be the same in the future - these companies keep intentionally changing their pay structures and making them too complicated to fully understand On Purpose so that deliverers are confused and can't easily calculate how much money they're going to be paid for something and then just accept whatever they're paid when the dust settles and it's payday. Over time deliverers have noticed that with changes to their pay structure that are promoted to them as "improvements," end up reducing their pay.

There are no accommodations for people with disabilities as far as I'm aware. The job is the job, get it done and get paid for it as agreed. (Until they change the agreement and pay you less - which will happen.. and that's when drivers jump ship and work for a competing delivery service that pays them more.) Some regions might pay Okay for a few months, and then they change the pay structure and it becomes impossible to make ends meet and you may as well apply for a regular job somewhere else if you can get it. Such is the nature of the gig economy and being used and abused by mega corporations that don't want to pay fair wages or benefits to anyone. Just know that that's what you're signing up for: A gig, not a career with stability or long term potential.

The only local I know that truly made good money doing deliveries for an app service worked for InstaCart doing peoples grocery shopping and delivering it to their homes. He would work Long Days, 6-7 days a week, like 10-12 hours/day as long as major grocery stores were open, and really hustle. He would also target wealthier neighbourhoods in hopes that quick accurate service would yield higher tips - and there are a lot of wealthy people in the city. After tax he was clearing something like $5,000.00/month - which is really impressive pay for shopping for groceries.. but we're talking power-walking & really hustling, not lazily strolling through grocery store aisles and getting distracted by things.

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Yes, as a matter of fact I do Uber Eats and Deliveroo primarily in South London. In a way, it’s somewhat sustainable but way too much uncertainty, wouldn’t even advice it for anyone truthfully. (Although it’s far better than where I was working before).

In terms of adjusting to those with disabilities. Nope. I can’t think of why or how. Although Uber does do this with their cab services, not so much with their sister Ubereats.

Also, you would have to file your own taxes every year (although it’s easier having an accountant).

A lot of the things goldfish21 said, I can agree with as I myself have experienced a lot of those things. Even to the point where I’ve been flagged and suspended just for rejecting a number of orders from a restaurant that was closed (even though they told me to).
Thankfully I was able to appeal and get it reinstated, usually so many people are not so lucky.

If you are considering it Blint, I’d do my research before even going there. It’s not as pretty as they make it seems.

I’m American and I worked for doordash, instacart, Shipt, and I quit the Instacart and Shipt it was too much for me too many jerks reporting missing items to get free stuff. Now I’m going to assume doordash and Uber eats and the other one you mention are similar. It’s been a lot easier for me so far. Majority of customers just want me to leave their food on their front steps. I take a picture of every delivery because regardless of where you are people will try to pull a fast one on you. Doordash doesn’t pay much at least not in my area I usually take the 8 dollar orders around lunch time just to have some spare change