I’m kinda being dramatic here, but I’m legitimately experiencing a sort of cognitive dissonance over this. I deliver for Doordash, and most of the time I choose to get paid by the offer, which allows me to see the tip before delivering. The other option is pay by the hour, which expects you to take all deliveries regardless of tip (which you don’t see till after you deliver) and in exchange you get higher base-pay in the form of an hourly wage. Here’s my issue with that: by not seeing the tip, you are inevitably delivering orders to people who don’t tip, and it therefore encourages people to not tip their dashers, which I think is wrong. I hate that Doordash has built a system that encourages their users to tip less. I hate their capitalist greed for finding a way to make employees take more orders to people who don’t tip. But here’s the other thing: by working by the hour last night, I made so much more money than I did previous days. Like quadruple what I made previous days. It just kinda worked out that I got some high tippers to offset the no/low tippers. I’m so frustrated right now, because on one hand I don’t want to encourage people not to tip and support a greedy system, but in the other hand I made sooo much more money and I’m not making a lot of money these days and really need to be frugal. So shoot, I guess I’m sacrificing my morals to not be scraping by, but at least it’s not just pure greed like the Doordash company.
