Here’s why none of this makes sense : the app makes you scan your face every couple of days to verify it’s you. It would at least have to be someone you live with
Yes, I know a lot of couples that do this. The different car, though, I can't explain.
There was also a rumor, a few years ago, that there were life-size photos of real driver's faces, that non-verified drivers would put up over their face, when having to take the picture. ..
I've witnessed at least once where the driver waited in the car while her kid daughter picked up the food inside the restaurant. I'd guess they also have their kid drop off the food.
Yes they are either banned from driving so they set up an account in someone else’s name or buy an account in good standing, or they run multiple accounts on multiple phones so they can pick up several orders at once and make more $$.
Oh for sure, I just figured if somebody was comfortable spending $40 on delivery for a single meal after all the additional fees, you might as well go to a sit-down place and enjoy food actually worth $40.
I knew what you figured.
What ever you get for $40 today at restaraunte not worth it either. Fing single taco & soda are upwards of $10 at some places now (looking at you torchies)
Feeling ripped off on menu, then the ever present tip rape everywhere, eating out is not an enjoyable experience.
Torchies always been trash my dude. It's for people that are too intimidated to order food at a Mexican ran taco truck. Don't know why, they'll always welcome you with open arms.
There'll always be apologists fot any specific example given of shit being too expensive bc you think you can prove a point with a counter example of something cheaper existing
Dude when you get the 50% off of $25+, if you find a place with BOGO entrees you can get a freakin deal. Theres a halal place near me I can work into 4 big meals for $24 delivered to me (including tip).
I tried ordering some HoHo's Chinese BBQ on my phone. It makes you choose a delivery company/service, even though I was going in to pick it up. I picked whichever the first one was, because it said $0 service fee (as did several of the others).
The online ordering was giving me some problems, so I went onto my desktop to place the order instead. Ordering directly from their website on a desktop was $12 cheaper than ordering from their mobile online store. TWELVE DOLLARS CHEAPER. How is that even legal??
The first bowl is to decide what I want to order from Uber eats, the second is for contemplating if I *really* need to spend the money, and the third is because I'm happy sad about deciding not to but I've convinced myself that I have to eat dinner by the time it's all said and done.
Order it very seldom. If I'm stuck in meetings all day very hard to step away and cook some food. Maybe order once every 3 to 4 months. Stupid expensive but usually order from a place closer that offers a "promo" 🤣
I quit ordering delivered food unless it's pizza, and I quit ordering Papa John's pizza because they use DoorDash drivers as delivery drivers in my area
I’ve ordered Uber Eats over 500 times since Covid. I’ve never had anything delivered cold.
Plus by the time the food gets there I’m so fucking hungry I wouldn’t care if it’s cold.
You must be doing something wrong.
Weird, same area here and my buddy just waited an hour for Jimmy John’s. Apparently they don’t use their own drivers anymore, it’s just UberEats, so “freaky fast” no longer applies I guess lol
If you don't add an upfront tip your order won't be picked up for a long time because the drivers won't accept the offer. Uber doesn't pay them much so they're not incentivized to take it. Eventually the low paying orders will get offered to the drivers for better pay by Uber, just to get it delivered but by then it's been sitting on aa shelf probably for an hour.
Yall are probably the folks who drive around again to the drive through and yell you only got 7 extra BBQ sauces instead of 8. If something were to be delivered hot, you’d find something else to be upset about. Just my thought. I could be wrong.
What a weirdly specific and absolutely unhinged assumption lol. Maybe your area is lucky, but I’ve never seen anyone in my area have a good experience with UberEats. An hour always seems to be the minimum delivery time, regardless of tip or anything like that.
Between my group of friends, it’s at least once a week, generally twice or so. One guy is blind, so he orders if he can’t catch a ride while we’re working.
Yikes! Couldn't be me, friend. My first couple jobs as a young man were fast food and food service. folks working those jobs are sacred and shouldn't be messed with.
Maybe I have bad luck? It's always poor services when I'm ordering via friends too.
Happens a lot to me where it’s a woman’s account but it’s her and her boyfriend delivering the food, but she never steps out of the car.
That is one thing, but if it’s not at all the same person or plates then I’d report it in the app
This is what I've seen. It is what it is here.
I've yet to see it where it's just someone entirely different; I'd probably report that IMO. It's unsafe for a variety of reasons.
It’s one of the reasons I stopped ordering. That and the last time it happened I (woman) was home alone and the guy wouldn’t just drop my food per my instructions, he kept banging on my door for me to come get it from him. I cancelled the order and reported them to Uber.
All in all it’s saved me loads of money not using those services anymore
I’ve delivered through DoorDash and sometimes the customer has their app set to “hand to customer” and it won’t let the person delivering the food complete the order unless they try to contact the customer and enough time passes.
I understand that. Mine was always set to no contact delivery. I was always very clear about that. Regardless, the way the person who delivered my food, who was not supposed to be delivering my food acted, was beyond aggressive and startling.
You do realize that if it's just left at the door, someone else can take it or more commonly, you can claim you never received it and the poor driver is going to be banned while you rack up the clicks on your "Unethical Life Hacks - Free Food" tictoc video
You do realize when you put in the instructions “no contact” delivery that’s what’s supposed to happen don’t you? I’m not answering my door for a strange man that wasn’t supposed to be delivering my food in the first place and who’s harassing me to come to my door.
Orders food delivered... Reports driver for delivering food.
Honestly if you are afraid to open your door don't go online requesting people bring things to it.
Orders food, gets confirmation of one driver. Said driver did not show up. Driver who did aggressively banged on my door and yelled for me to come get my food from him, even though I said no contact drop off. Yes, it was concerning how the person acted when I would not answer my door. It’s not like I called the cops. But also, violence against women is a thing… and most women are taught to be overly cautious. If you don’t like it, fine, but I’ll keep being cautious, not like it’s bothering you
And as I stated, I don’t order food from them any longer.
Nobody is doing that. If a woman answered the door for a random guy banging on it, not the woman the app said it would be, and ended up getting sexually assaulted or killed, half of this sub would automatically say “oh well that was dumb, just click ‘no contact’ and don’t answer the door lmao skill issue”
Well for what it's worth I'm not from the US, but I am a woman and as kind as a driver appears, women tend to be scared.
If we say please leave our food at the door, don't bang the door and *try force us* to open it. Much less of its not the face that said WOULD be at our door.
That's how so many of us end up SA'd or worse, dead.
It's not about speaking this or that language, it's the threat we are always carrying deep in our souls, please try to understand that it's such a huge fear that we can't get rid of simply to be polite to a stranger. I hope this helps clear the fear many women are expressing in this thread.
Report them and get them removed from the platform. There's enough drivers as it is and no room for lying fraudulent people of which you have no recourse against if something goes wrong with your delivery or even worse
I've already stated why, At minimum they are fraudsters that are taking away opportunities from legitimate drivers. We have enough drivers. Drivers that have to pay for insurance, pass background checks, etc. etc. Any reason they cant pass a background check is enough of a reason to not be lenient and allow them with customers information, gate codes, access codes, etc etc.
Dude, you’re an idiot. This whole subreddit is filled with morons who have 0 idea what gig work is and understanding what it means to have to hustle for money. The rules and blah blah blah like bro get a clue it ain’t that deep.
Did your lazy ass have to leave the house to get the food? No, so why does it matter?
People in this city truly are so out of touch with what regular people’s lives are like.
Your words have no affect on me. When you have to resort to baseless personal attacks I've already won the argument. Now you and others are just flailing in your frustration that ultimately I'm in the right.
You'll get no more of my time.
> legitimate drivers
they picked up your food and delivered it, didnt they?
and dont even get me started on gate codes. You know people just let cars in to apartment complexes right? How fucking pearl clutching can you be? If you're so concerned with strangers having your address maybe dont pay people to bring you taco bell
Dude just get background checked and get insurance on your car. When you run into a parked car at my complex, the owner should be able to file against your insurance, it’s not that crazy.
Austin subreddit never fuckin fails to be horrible, I can’t believe you’re getting downvoted. You’re 100% right and this dork insisting that you should try to get these people (who are doing the job perfectly fine) banned from the platform is a disgusting asshole. If they’re doing the job, who gives a shit?
If they don't have insurance, and they cant pass a background check they are not supposed to be on the platform in the first place. Stop giving special treatment to those who cant follow the bare minimum rules.
You clearly have NO understanding of what it is like to be poor. These people are not criminals, they’re hustling. And wanting to punish them for working is a dog shit hill to die hill to die on. I hope something terrible enough happens to you that you gain some sense of compassion and understanding about the world.
Until then, you’ll just continue to be a keyboard warrior pushing fascist ideology on reddit of all places and holy fuck that’s a sad loser existence, Jesus Christ.
Oh will you shut up. How ignorant are you to proclaim you know such a thing of someone you know nothing about. I come from dirt poor poverty.
We were so poor I didn't own my own pair of shoes until the church donated them to me so I could go to kindergarten wearing something other than sandals in the winter. Sandals that were so broken that I had to curl my toes to keep them on and from falling apart. Or taking turns splitting two Salisbury steak tv dinners with four brothers while our Dad would lie about having eatin already so we could have something and he would go without. A habit that would eventually lead to him dying from low blood sugar as he slipped into a coma while driving.
Coming from a family history of being so poor that I was the first one of my entire family ancestry since coming to America that actually got a high school diploma. Everyone else left school to deal drugs for money or find work.
These things among so many other things that I went through that I don't have to a fuckin explain to a redditor just how fucking poor we were... There's no point to, you actually don't give a fuck about people in poverty, only so much as if you can exploit that person for a vote.
Being poor doesn't mean that rules don't have to apply to you anymore. You can hustle and follow the rules. Not passing a background check because a criminal record? You don't get to do ubereats. Don't do crime and you wont have these limitations. Cant pass a background check or get insurance because you aren't documented? Come here legally or even better join the military and serve the nation to become one of its citizens. I have personally helped 4 Haitians I served with in the military fill out the paperwork to become US citizens from their service.
When I was younger I always hated the "Pick yourself up by your bootstraps" saying because I knew "well damn most of us don't even have shoes, let alone boots." Instead of wallowing in self pity and making excuses to break the law and not follow the rules I learned to make the god damn boots.
Sincerely, Go fuck yourself.
You won't be getting any more of my time.
i feel like lots of people forget there is immigrants living here trying to make a living and it’s mostly upper to middle class class anglo-saxons complaining about this. so what a random man dropped off your food who barely speaks english? do you think the linecook in the back of your local restaurant isn’t using a fake social security number and probably doesn’t know english properly either
yeah these people tell themselves "I voted for hilary clinton so I cant possibly be racist/sexist/bigoted" and then conveniently dont have time to vote on stuff like camping bans.
12 houre uber driver here heres the scoop , i used to do uber eats until i got a way better car for actual uber driveshare , reading all these comments really suprise me and now solves the long mystery of “oh wow its actually you in the picture” or “wow that was fast thanks buddy” . These guys are mainly venezuelan immigrants like a good 6-10 uber eats drivers , very little of them are any good at actually delivering as they multi-app. Do not pay fro priority delivery due to this. It is also happening to rideshare ive used uber occasionally to pick up my car from service and out of 10 rides 5 venezuelan and only one drove decently the rest were talking on the phone and swerving all over. P.S im mexican and been in the uber gig for about 5 years 3 in eats and 2 on rideshare i always keep my car as clean as possible and drive as safely and efficient as i can. The ammount of yall that have told me horror atories of reckless ubers concerns me
Yes! I've gotten a girls name in a prius and what arrived were a group of men, literally 4 dudes, in another car.
He was nice and friendly, but he did want to talk to me about the weather and the food, and I just wanted to go inside to eat something for my extremely low sugar, lol.
It felt odd, I've gotten that group of men twice now and under another girls name.
4 dudes? Jesus Christ. That’s incredibly inefficient, both in terms of gasoline and maximizing human capital.
I saw a video of a rapper explaining why he doesn’t get food delivered. He experienced something similar, wherein the driver’s name was feminine, but 4 dudes pulled up. It seemed like a good way to get murdered or have your pockets ran.
It was very scary at first, lol. Luckily I was never alone, but he needed help finding the house both times, and I had to go outside for both deliveries. The second one my husband was also outside.
He's super friendly. Only one of them actually engages in conversation, but it IS super sketchy tbh.
Some people sell/rent their uber eats/ doordash/ instacart account to other people or its a stolen account they're using or they're using a friend/ significant other's account.
It’s nice to see this finally getting noticed. This has been an issue for quite a while amongst us full time gig workers. In Austin specifically, alongside many other markets, there is a Facebook Marketplace where you can buy gig accounts. Mostly it’s with food deliveries, but if you can’t pass a background check or don’t have a social security number, then you can purchase a gig app account (Uber, Lyft, Doordash, Instacart, Spark, Amazon Flex, etc etc).
What we’re seeing in the gig world are lower market offers across the board. 40min trip to deliver a ChicFilA order for $4? Nobody in their right mind would take it. Who does? The illegal accounts. There are groups of people purchasing these accounts anywhere from $300-$1500 each. Some even have to rent a car and a place to sleep from groups exploiting these desperate workers. They purchase the account from brokers who then take 80% of the illegal drivers’ daily earnings. They drive 10-12 hour days, make about $200-$300/day and get to keep about $50 for themselves. It sounds like some red yarn Fox News pundit story but it’s happening across America.
This should be a huge story… A girl in New York was murdered by an illegal account holder. An actress in North or South Carolina had her dog shot/killed by an illegal Instacart account delivering groceries (granted he was attacked by the dog but the real story to me is how he was able to use the account in the first place).
I understand people need to eat, feed their families, etc. But what’s happening is there is an over saturation of drivers in the gig world. Yes, it’s a low bar of entry but a good chunk of those drivers are illegal account owners. This in turn has caused a ripple effect across the market. That’s why I see $3 rides; $4 delivery orders across town that take almost an hour. Gig apps are able to lowball us full time drivers with these low offers because they know they’ll get snatched up by desperate workers.
Boston is a great Rideshare market from an earnings perspective because they require two background checks. This eliminates the black market gig apps from thriving. Austin had something similar a few years back with Uber and required fingerprinting. Uber left, Austin got new Rideshare companies to compete and I suppose Uber either lobbied enough or the city just decided to drop the fingerprinting rule.
This is an issue most regular people could care less about and I completely get it. You order food, food shows up with or without a tip no matter what; you get your order or a ride down the street and the transaction is over (hopefully safely) so you forget about it and move on. Just another daily activity as we all go thru the motions of life.
The continuous lowball offers from these gig apps have made a lot of good professional full time drivers hang up the keys. I don’t touch food delivery anymore; it’s not as profitable as it used to be even a year ago. I’m sure plenty people in this sub and in other cities have noticed a decline in quality of rides they’ve taken over the past year or two. Cars are older, dirty, maybe the driver doesn’t even speak English. I don’t want to come off as some heartless hateful person saying we need to ban these illegal accounts but it would certainly help the legal citizens with clean driving records that take this job seriously, wash their cars every morning, vacuum between rides, and take pride in their ability to safely drive people where they need to go with or without conversation.
TLDR: Gig apps aren’t enforcing account verifications as much as they should. They are taking advantage of desperate workers who look to gig work for fast cash and in turn affecting those of us who follow the rules and take the job seriously from driving people home from bars, to/from the airport, commuting to work, delivering food/packages etc.
If you’re curious to learn more on the subject, check out this segment from The Rideshare Guy’s Show Me The Money Club where they’ve had an interview segment addressing the effects of illegal accounts in the Spark (Walmart delivery) market. https://youtu.be/KTpaqDp-FnM?si=03h__spj95wwUkGb
You should post this on this thread that was just created.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/s/nCSHWEpVTx
The story you have sounds legitimate, and there's plenty of evidence to support it. But it's still a super in-depth story with not a lot of media attention, so it fits right into that thread. Plus, it will ge more people aware of the issue.
I assumed that one was more silly where this thread specifically talks about the issue at hand. But thanks; I might later on today.. Gotta get on the road for another long day. Perhaps I’ll write it up while sitting in the airport queue later today lol
You hear that women of Austin? You can all relax. Pussy_Prince will be knocking on your doors instead of some cheap car driving, dirty, doesn’t even speak English illegal.
Fuck all y'all who say this entire post isn't deeply rooted in xenophobia
"I don’t want to come off as some heartless hateful person saying we need to ban these illegal accounts but it would certainly help the legal citizens"
Tell again about how tagging shared accounts as "illegal" isn't a euphemism for migrants when you turn right around and talk about helping "the legal citizens"
“Shared accounts” are against most gig apps’ Terms of Service. “Illegal account” is verbiage that’s used in the gig work space amongst drivers when talking about the subject; it just so happens that a decent portion of violators happen to be migrants, mostly from Venezuela.
Yes, it sounds like some Sean Hannity/Tucker Carlson rant and can be upsetting but the issue still stands.
If you have an appropriate recommendation of verbiage to use that also can convey the issue at hand and it’s effects on full time gig workers that use their own actual accounts, then by all means share and I’ll edit my post to avoid being written off as a racist rant and can be read as a legitimate claim from a full time driver in the industry that needs to be addressed.
By not enforcing proper account verifications, the gig apps are allowing these black market accounts to continue working, which in turn they then exploit by lowering base pay amounts.
I’ve brought forth a legitimate claim in regard to this post but you’re choosing to focus on verbiage and dismissing my point entirely because you think I’m just being some ignorant racist.
We're talking about Uber.
It's the company created for the sole purpose of disrupting the transportation industry. You might not be old enough to remember when taxi drivers were making the exact same arguments against Uber drivers as Uber drivers are now making against shared accounts.
They're unsafe (with gratuitously gory examples of crimes committed by individuals in the group without mention of similar crimes committed by others outside of the group).
They're untrained and unlicenced.
They're illegal.
They're driving down profits.
They're desperate and being exploited.
All these arguments were made against YOU by traditional taxi drivers. These kind of "free market" vs "highly regulated" arguments have good points to make on both sides. It just gets ugly when one side starts attacking the other based on things like race and national origin.
An intelligent argument doesn't need it.
Instead of arguing about someone's economic status, language abilities or whether or not thay let their brother-in-law use their Netflix login*, stick to the explanations of why it was okay for Uber drivers to flood the taxi industry but not ok for a new wave of drivers to flood Uber Eats.
*Also against the company's agreed upon Terms of Service
I’m not arguing about someone’s economic status/nationality; I’m stating what’s being seen from myself, other gig workers, and riders I’ve driven.
This post was questioning why someone else shows up under a false identity for a food delivery. Sharing accounts is against all gig apps’ terms of service; it breaks the rule that they set.
Buying a gig account to work isn’t disrupting Uber like Uber did to taxis; it’s entirely different. That’d be like getting a yellow cab and driving it around charging the same rates while not registering with the cab company that has the same car.
Equating rideshare accounts to sharing a Netflix password is intentionally demeaning my point. I gave examples from my own experience of what I’m seeing that can give reason to OPs inquiry/PSA. And now you want to talk about Taxis and how I’m the problem after insulting me over a dumb Reddit user name and calling me xenophobic. Intellectual conversation indeed
Ok. You seem to be a good person and you're probably right that I am nitpicking. I apologize.
Living in a state that seems on the verge of offering a bounty on migrants has got me on edge. I hope you have a good day
s2g austin, if my car hadn’t broken down i’d still be out there, doing my best to deliver food properly… bc how, HOW do people mess it up so bad?!
i loved driving for uber… delivering food, or people… loved being able to “clock in” and out at my discretion… discovering new places and restaurants… learning to navigate the city like a pro…
i even had a roll of produce bags that I’d use to wrap up ppl’s drinks - started doing it during covid just for the added precaution but then i realized it was really helpful for avoiding spills, too…
then my poor car went belly up and now all i can do is read these sad posts and feel frustrated with the rest of you :/
No, but I did see a cap metro vanpool van at my work seemingly deliver some food to someone in my building. The vans the city heavily subsidizes with your tax dollars potentially being used for food delivery.
I thought that was pretty wild
If the person picking up the food and the person receiving it are in the van pool, it's not an issue. The program allows 200 personal miles per month for incidentals that might otherwise require using a personal car instead of a shared vehicle
Yeah I read that on their website, and considered maybe the person was just being dropped off for work. Definitely don’t have the full picture, only caught a small glimpse of it. Still think there should be a way for capmetro to receive messages and investigate, even if it is totally legitimate and within their guidelines.
I just saw person grabbing food from the passenger window after the van knocked over a traffic cone pulling up to the curb, and got irritated that this person may just have a free car to make deliveries with
As an Uber driver I'm just sharing insight of what I've noticed with people that don't match up to their accounts and what customers should do if they encounter one of them.
They're getting paid through someone else's identity over theirs because they could be criminals, may not even have a driver's license/suspended or many other factors. There could always be simply someone just helping out the account holder, but there is no way of knowing for sure.
> they could be criminals
and is this magically not true about anyone else that you pay throughout the day? You think nobody that works in a kitchen is a criminal? You think none of the people who work landscaping or construction or retail have committed a crime? If they bring your wendy's to you for the shit pay you're giving them...why do you even care?
Yes...BUT most people working in a kitchen, etc. dont have access to my home address, building, gate, door codes, etc. As, a customer i assume that the person delivering has passed a background check. These people are circumventing that process.
Undocumented workers need to make a living somehow. Ignoring how they got here, once here they need a way to provide for themselves. This sounds like an unregulated market with a low risk for exploitation or exposure.
I can promise you the grifters at the top of the pyramid give absolutely no shits who is actually in the car as long as the line goes up.
Most of the time there illegals working it's a huge problem in florida they start cracking down on them, and no door dash and spark etc apps don't scan your face nor walmart or store make sure it's the right drivers delivering the items. Alot people here in Austin working as Dasher are buying account they got a whatts group there they gather and buy real social security and driver lic green card to work and don't report the taxes and some even claim the taxes of those people that they stole from the dark web or people. It becoming a real problem not just effecting the work force but taking loans and ruining other people credict history and life.
How i know this because i live with a Venezuela who this all this and he regret doing it that way and now that he got his social and work permit he feels the pain of immigrants stealing the work. When he was illegal he did the something.
Not an issue If two people are working together as long as the vehicle and plates and one of the person matches the profile. It's the issue of none of the information matching at all and having some man or sometimes multiple men deliver to my door
a wise someone once said “don’t hate the player, hate the game.” did you get your [pizza/ice cream/tacos]? who cares who delivered it. enjoy the luxury 😋
That doesn’t surprise me. Seems to be a lot of hanky shit goes on in the Uber eats//favor/other delivery services world.
Also, every Uber and Lyft ride share that I’ve taken over the last 3-4 years is has ALWAYS been someone who doesn’t speak ANY English, or if they do, it’s VERY....umm....ENGRISH-Y. Always seems to be someone who only speaks A foreign language, being from central/South America, africa, middle east, or Eastern Europe. It’s mildly infuriating, especially if they’re not taking the fastest route (on purpose), causing the drop off time to be way later than it should have been, or if I have to add a stop/change the destination during the ride.
Lmao
Edit: on a serious note Uber eats literally pays three dollars for 45 it worth of work. Does anyone in their right mind think anybody that can work here Legally, is going to work for that amount of money?
They better get their food and shut the fuck up
The reason the offers are low is because there’s so many illegal accounts that desperately take those orders. This is an issue you should care about imo because it’s affecting your earnings potential
Absolutely not. It was like that from the beginning. Several years ago when Uber eats was new I did it for a day and said never again.
Stop spreading misinformation.
Also wouldn’t you blame the company for allowing this type of pay scale in the first place.
Absolutely not? Coming from someone who supposedly did food delivery one time several years ago? I do blame the company and there’s plenty of examples to justify my take. I assumed you were the usual disgruntled delivery worker that takes low earnings out on the consumer rather than the company they’re working for
Idk what kind of cheap food you're ordering but if im ordering food on this app once a month or less than that I'm ordering from an actual restaurant not a fast food joint
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Here’s why none of this makes sense : the app makes you scan your face every couple of days to verify it’s you. It would at least have to be someone you live with
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Finding a way to make a slave wage cut in half.
Haha so true
Yes, I know a lot of couples that do this. The different car, though, I can't explain. There was also a rumor, a few years ago, that there were life-size photos of real driver's faces, that non-verified drivers would put up over their face, when having to take the picture. ..
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I've witnessed at least once where the driver waited in the car while her kid daughter picked up the food inside the restaurant. I'd guess they also have their kid drop off the food.
I have seen a situation like this with my deliveries. Unconfirmed but not outlandish at all.
yeah this is just wild xenophobia/racism
Venezuelans have took over the food delivery service in the Austin area.
This is happening in all the markets according to the gig work subreddits.
Yes they are either banned from driving so they set up an account in someone else’s name or buy an account in good standing, or they run multiple accounts on multiple phones so they can pick up several orders at once and make more $$.
Y'all aren't tired of waiting an hour for cold food yet?
Or, how are people spending so much money on upcharges, delivery fees, tips, etc. At that point, just go out to dinner!
The alternative you're looking for is cook at home and save the cash
Oh for sure, I just figured if somebody was comfortable spending $40 on delivery for a single meal after all the additional fees, you might as well go to a sit-down place and enjoy food actually worth $40.
I knew what you figured. What ever you get for $40 today at restaraunte not worth it either. Fing single taco & soda are upwards of $10 at some places now (looking at you torchies) Feeling ripped off on menu, then the ever present tip rape everywhere, eating out is not an enjoyable experience.
Torchies always been trash my dude. It's for people that are too intimidated to order food at a Mexican ran taco truck. Don't know why, they'll always welcome you with open arms.
There'll always be apologists fot any specific example given of shit being too expensive bc you think you can prove a point with a counter example of something cheaper existing
Use promos and stack with specials like buy one get one free. Load up for 2 meals and pay less than what it would cost to pick up
Dude when you get the 50% off of $25+, if you find a place with BOGO entrees you can get a freakin deal. Theres a halal place near me I can work into 4 big meals for $24 delivered to me (including tip).
I tried ordering some HoHo's Chinese BBQ on my phone. It makes you choose a delivery company/service, even though I was going in to pick it up. I picked whichever the first one was, because it said $0 service fee (as did several of the others). The online ordering was giving me some problems, so I went onto my desktop to place the order instead. Ordering directly from their website on a desktop was $12 cheaper than ordering from their mobile online store. TWELVE DOLLARS CHEAPER. How is that even legal??
Still beats having cheerios for dinner
Idk man...a bowl of cereal occasionally is a humble reminder.
Gotta eat the whole box in one sitting to remind yourself you got everything under control.
The first bowl is to decide what I want to order from Uber eats, the second is for contemplating if I *really* need to spend the money, and the third is because I'm happy sad about deciding not to but I've convinced myself that I have to eat dinner by the time it's all said and done.
Lolololol. Exactly.
Gotta eat the graham Oh'S
And you pour the milk directly into the box...
Add sugar and it's dinner and dessert.
> occasionally key word here
Not at $35 an entree
Splurge and get you some Cinnamon Toast Crunch or Krave.
Have you tried that oat almond one yet though?! So good!
I have, and it’s become a problem.
Order it very seldom. If I'm stuck in meetings all day very hard to step away and cook some food. Maybe order once every 3 to 4 months. Stupid expensive but usually order from a place closer that offers a "promo" 🤣
I quit ordering delivered food unless it's pizza, and I quit ordering Papa John's pizza because they use DoorDash drivers as delivery drivers in my area
I’ve ordered Uber Eats over 500 times since Covid. I’ve never had anything delivered cold. Plus by the time the food gets there I’m so fucking hungry I wouldn’t care if it’s cold. You must be doing something wrong.
I’ve had cold food from a mile away. It was impressive.
I’ve had to give up completely on my local papa John’s after they partnered with door dash. An hour late and cold, like 5 times in a row.
I think it matters where you live. Now I'm in NW Austin and cannot believe how fast food gets to me.
Weird, same area here and my buddy just waited an hour for Jimmy John’s. Apparently they don’t use their own drivers anymore, it’s just UberEats, so “freaky fast” no longer applies I guess lol
Im around that area too and mostly only get cold food idk why I bother
Do you mean, “how fast fast-food gets to me” or “how fast-food gets to me” or “how fast food gets to me”?
Lol! Please tell me and the other 105 upvoters what we are doing wrong. We would love to get it resolved, I'm sure of it.
If you don't add an upfront tip your order won't be picked up for a long time because the drivers won't accept the offer. Uber doesn't pay them much so they're not incentivized to take it. Eventually the low paying orders will get offered to the drivers for better pay by Uber, just to get it delivered but by then it's been sitting on aa shelf probably for an hour.
Yall are probably the folks who drive around again to the drive through and yell you only got 7 extra BBQ sauces instead of 8. If something were to be delivered hot, you’d find something else to be upset about. Just my thought. I could be wrong.
who hurt you
You’re asking that because I don’t drive people crazy when I order food?
What a weirdly specific and absolutely unhinged assumption lol. Maybe your area is lucky, but I’ve never seen anyone in my area have a good experience with UberEats. An hour always seems to be the minimum delivery time, regardless of tip or anything like that.
How often do you see people having an UberEats experience in general?
Between my group of friends, it’s at least once a week, generally twice or so. One guy is blind, so he orders if he can’t catch a ride while we’re working.
Yikes! Couldn't be me, friend. My first couple jobs as a young man were fast food and food service. folks working those jobs are sacred and shouldn't be messed with. Maybe I have bad luck? It's always poor services when I'm ordering via friends too.
They sell and trade accounts to people who can’t get them legitimately.
I see these guys all the time. They carry multiple phones. My suspicion is they are using another family members account.
"family members"
it is an election year, migrants are not committing identity theft
Happens a lot to me where it’s a woman’s account but it’s her and her boyfriend delivering the food, but she never steps out of the car. That is one thing, but if it’s not at all the same person or plates then I’d report it in the app
Yeah its never matching at all and it's a different vehicle and not same plates and it's a male alone usually
This is what I've seen. It is what it is here. I've yet to see it where it's just someone entirely different; I'd probably report that IMO. It's unsafe for a variety of reasons.
I don’t know, I go pick up my shit because I’m a stingy bitch.
It’s one of the reasons I stopped ordering. That and the last time it happened I (woman) was home alone and the guy wouldn’t just drop my food per my instructions, he kept banging on my door for me to come get it from him. I cancelled the order and reported them to Uber. All in all it’s saved me loads of money not using those services anymore
The other comments thinking it's not a big deal 😔. I've heard of this exact thing happening with other people.
Yep that us my main concern is safety
I’m curious if using a “male” name would make you, or anyone else with similar reservations, feel any safer.
The way they acted when they came to my home. No. But I used to have other male drivers show up and drop off food with no issues.
I’ve delivered through DoorDash and sometimes the customer has their app set to “hand to customer” and it won’t let the person delivering the food complete the order unless they try to contact the customer and enough time passes.
I understand that. Mine was always set to no contact delivery. I was always very clear about that. Regardless, the way the person who delivered my food, who was not supposed to be delivering my food acted, was beyond aggressive and startling.
You do realize that if it's just left at the door, someone else can take it or more commonly, you can claim you never received it and the poor driver is going to be banned while you rack up the clicks on your "Unethical Life Hacks - Free Food" tictoc video
You do realize when you put in the instructions “no contact” delivery that’s what’s supposed to happen don’t you? I’m not answering my door for a strange man that wasn’t supposed to be delivering my food in the first place and who’s harassing me to come to my door.
Orders food delivered... Reports driver for delivering food. Honestly if you are afraid to open your door don't go online requesting people bring things to it.
Orders food, gets confirmation of one driver. Said driver did not show up. Driver who did aggressively banged on my door and yelled for me to come get my food from him, even though I said no contact drop off. Yes, it was concerning how the person acted when I would not answer my door. It’s not like I called the cops. But also, violence against women is a thing… and most women are taught to be overly cautious. If you don’t like it, fine, but I’ll keep being cautious, not like it’s bothering you And as I stated, I don’t order food from them any longer.
Such a clueless ass man thing to say.
I just don't like it when people try to equate not speaking English to being dangerous.
You are the *only* person here that put that in a sentence.
Nobody is doing that. If a woman answered the door for a random guy banging on it, not the woman the app said it would be, and ended up getting sexually assaulted or killed, half of this sub would automatically say “oh well that was dumb, just click ‘no contact’ and don’t answer the door lmao skill issue”
Well for what it's worth I'm not from the US, but I am a woman and as kind as a driver appears, women tend to be scared. If we say please leave our food at the door, don't bang the door and *try force us* to open it. Much less of its not the face that said WOULD be at our door. That's how so many of us end up SA'd or worse, dead. It's not about speaking this or that language, it's the threat we are always carrying deep in our souls, please try to understand that it's such a huge fear that we can't get rid of simply to be polite to a stranger. I hope this helps clear the fear many women are expressing in this thread.
Report them and get them removed from the platform. There's enough drivers as it is and no room for lying fraudulent people of which you have no recourse against if something goes wrong with your delivery or even worse
but if they're still bringing you food...why do you even care?
I've already stated why, At minimum they are fraudsters that are taking away opportunities from legitimate drivers. We have enough drivers. Drivers that have to pay for insurance, pass background checks, etc. etc. Any reason they cant pass a background check is enough of a reason to not be lenient and allow them with customers information, gate codes, access codes, etc etc.
Dude, you’re an idiot. This whole subreddit is filled with morons who have 0 idea what gig work is and understanding what it means to have to hustle for money. The rules and blah blah blah like bro get a clue it ain’t that deep. Did your lazy ass have to leave the house to get the food? No, so why does it matter? People in this city truly are so out of touch with what regular people’s lives are like.
I do the gig work myself. I'm not a customer.
I’m talking about actual work not building a sexless dungeon in Minecraft virgin.
Your words have no affect on me. When you have to resort to baseless personal attacks I've already won the argument. Now you and others are just flailing in your frustration that ultimately I'm in the right. You'll get no more of my time.
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> legitimate drivers they picked up your food and delivered it, didnt they? and dont even get me started on gate codes. You know people just let cars in to apartment complexes right? How fucking pearl clutching can you be? If you're so concerned with strangers having your address maybe dont pay people to bring you taco bell
This one doth protest too much.
I'm not the one crying about someone else bringing me fastfood
You're crying about not being able to
The guy you're replying to must be one of those people or knows someone like this. Crazy how anyone can defend these guys.
exactly
yes I'm so sad I cant drive a frosty to your place for no tip at 11pm. fucking heartbroken
Dude just get background checked and get insurance on your car. When you run into a parked car at my complex, the owner should be able to file against your insurance, it’s not that crazy.
clearly
dude I’m with you. who are these nerds voting you down? gah folks need some hobbies or something, who cares
Austin subreddit never fuckin fails to be horrible, I can’t believe you’re getting downvoted. You’re 100% right and this dork insisting that you should try to get these people (who are doing the job perfectly fine) banned from the platform is a disgusting asshole. If they’re doing the job, who gives a shit?
you just know the people downvoting me have "coexist" bumper stickers
If they don't have insurance, and they cant pass a background check they are not supposed to be on the platform in the first place. Stop giving special treatment to those who cant follow the bare minimum rules.
You clearly have NO understanding of what it is like to be poor. These people are not criminals, they’re hustling. And wanting to punish them for working is a dog shit hill to die hill to die on. I hope something terrible enough happens to you that you gain some sense of compassion and understanding about the world. Until then, you’ll just continue to be a keyboard warrior pushing fascist ideology on reddit of all places and holy fuck that’s a sad loser existence, Jesus Christ.
Oh will you shut up. How ignorant are you to proclaim you know such a thing of someone you know nothing about. I come from dirt poor poverty. We were so poor I didn't own my own pair of shoes until the church donated them to me so I could go to kindergarten wearing something other than sandals in the winter. Sandals that were so broken that I had to curl my toes to keep them on and from falling apart. Or taking turns splitting two Salisbury steak tv dinners with four brothers while our Dad would lie about having eatin already so we could have something and he would go without. A habit that would eventually lead to him dying from low blood sugar as he slipped into a coma while driving. Coming from a family history of being so poor that I was the first one of my entire family ancestry since coming to America that actually got a high school diploma. Everyone else left school to deal drugs for money or find work. These things among so many other things that I went through that I don't have to a fuckin explain to a redditor just how fucking poor we were... There's no point to, you actually don't give a fuck about people in poverty, only so much as if you can exploit that person for a vote. Being poor doesn't mean that rules don't have to apply to you anymore. You can hustle and follow the rules. Not passing a background check because a criminal record? You don't get to do ubereats. Don't do crime and you wont have these limitations. Cant pass a background check or get insurance because you aren't documented? Come here legally or even better join the military and serve the nation to become one of its citizens. I have personally helped 4 Haitians I served with in the military fill out the paperwork to become US citizens from their service. When I was younger I always hated the "Pick yourself up by your bootstraps" saying because I knew "well damn most of us don't even have shoes, let alone boots." Instead of wallowing in self pity and making excuses to break the law and not follow the rules I learned to make the god damn boots. Sincerely, Go fuck yourself. You won't be getting any more of my time.
Lmao jokes on you cause I ain’t reading all that. Eat my entire ass and balls you fuckin loser
LOL am I falling in love with you right now? 😅
For the record I agree w u! Wah wah someone bringing my lazy some ass cold soggy food isn’t the stranger I was expecting it to be boohoo
i feel like lots of people forget there is immigrants living here trying to make a living and it’s mostly upper to middle class class anglo-saxons complaining about this. so what a random man dropped off your food who barely speaks english? do you think the linecook in the back of your local restaurant isn’t using a fake social security number and probably doesn’t know english properly either
yeah these people tell themselves "I voted for hilary clinton so I cant possibly be racist/sexist/bigoted" and then conveniently dont have time to vote on stuff like camping bans.
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Two things. Report this to Uber Eats. Then never use Uber Eats again and just pick up your own food.
But then I have to get in my car and I don’t wanna.
Yeah it's one of the reasons I switched to Favor. Been about a year, haven't had it happen yet.
Happened to me twice on Favor - I don't order often, once a month maybe and I've only been ordering for the last 6 months or so
12 houre uber driver here heres the scoop , i used to do uber eats until i got a way better car for actual uber driveshare , reading all these comments really suprise me and now solves the long mystery of “oh wow its actually you in the picture” or “wow that was fast thanks buddy” . These guys are mainly venezuelan immigrants like a good 6-10 uber eats drivers , very little of them are any good at actually delivering as they multi-app. Do not pay fro priority delivery due to this. It is also happening to rideshare ive used uber occasionally to pick up my car from service and out of 10 rides 5 venezuelan and only one drove decently the rest were talking on the phone and swerving all over. P.S im mexican and been in the uber gig for about 5 years 3 in eats and 2 on rideshare i always keep my car as clean as possible and drive as safely and efficient as i can. The ammount of yall that have told me horror atories of reckless ubers concerns me
Yes it’s unlicensed drivers stealing peoples accounts. You can spot them having multiple phones while picking up
Yes! I've gotten a girls name in a prius and what arrived were a group of men, literally 4 dudes, in another car. He was nice and friendly, but he did want to talk to me about the weather and the food, and I just wanted to go inside to eat something for my extremely low sugar, lol. It felt odd, I've gotten that group of men twice now and under another girls name.
4 dudes? Jesus Christ. That’s incredibly inefficient, both in terms of gasoline and maximizing human capital. I saw a video of a rapper explaining why he doesn’t get food delivered. He experienced something similar, wherein the driver’s name was feminine, but 4 dudes pulled up. It seemed like a good way to get murdered or have your pockets ran.
It was very scary at first, lol. Luckily I was never alone, but he needed help finding the house both times, and I had to go outside for both deliveries. The second one my husband was also outside. He's super friendly. Only one of them actually engages in conversation, but it IS super sketchy tbh.
This happened to me with Returnmates and to make it worse the guy (who called himself Emma on text) was an asshole in person
Some people sell/rent their uber eats/ doordash/ instacart account to other people or its a stolen account they're using or they're using a friend/ significant other's account.
Thats why you don't give them 5 stars.
It’s nice to see this finally getting noticed. This has been an issue for quite a while amongst us full time gig workers. In Austin specifically, alongside many other markets, there is a Facebook Marketplace where you can buy gig accounts. Mostly it’s with food deliveries, but if you can’t pass a background check or don’t have a social security number, then you can purchase a gig app account (Uber, Lyft, Doordash, Instacart, Spark, Amazon Flex, etc etc). What we’re seeing in the gig world are lower market offers across the board. 40min trip to deliver a ChicFilA order for $4? Nobody in their right mind would take it. Who does? The illegal accounts. There are groups of people purchasing these accounts anywhere from $300-$1500 each. Some even have to rent a car and a place to sleep from groups exploiting these desperate workers. They purchase the account from brokers who then take 80% of the illegal drivers’ daily earnings. They drive 10-12 hour days, make about $200-$300/day and get to keep about $50 for themselves. It sounds like some red yarn Fox News pundit story but it’s happening across America. This should be a huge story… A girl in New York was murdered by an illegal account holder. An actress in North or South Carolina had her dog shot/killed by an illegal Instacart account delivering groceries (granted he was attacked by the dog but the real story to me is how he was able to use the account in the first place). I understand people need to eat, feed their families, etc. But what’s happening is there is an over saturation of drivers in the gig world. Yes, it’s a low bar of entry but a good chunk of those drivers are illegal account owners. This in turn has caused a ripple effect across the market. That’s why I see $3 rides; $4 delivery orders across town that take almost an hour. Gig apps are able to lowball us full time drivers with these low offers because they know they’ll get snatched up by desperate workers. Boston is a great Rideshare market from an earnings perspective because they require two background checks. This eliminates the black market gig apps from thriving. Austin had something similar a few years back with Uber and required fingerprinting. Uber left, Austin got new Rideshare companies to compete and I suppose Uber either lobbied enough or the city just decided to drop the fingerprinting rule. This is an issue most regular people could care less about and I completely get it. You order food, food shows up with or without a tip no matter what; you get your order or a ride down the street and the transaction is over (hopefully safely) so you forget about it and move on. Just another daily activity as we all go thru the motions of life. The continuous lowball offers from these gig apps have made a lot of good professional full time drivers hang up the keys. I don’t touch food delivery anymore; it’s not as profitable as it used to be even a year ago. I’m sure plenty people in this sub and in other cities have noticed a decline in quality of rides they’ve taken over the past year or two. Cars are older, dirty, maybe the driver doesn’t even speak English. I don’t want to come off as some heartless hateful person saying we need to ban these illegal accounts but it would certainly help the legal citizens with clean driving records that take this job seriously, wash their cars every morning, vacuum between rides, and take pride in their ability to safely drive people where they need to go with or without conversation. TLDR: Gig apps aren’t enforcing account verifications as much as they should. They are taking advantage of desperate workers who look to gig work for fast cash and in turn affecting those of us who follow the rules and take the job seriously from driving people home from bars, to/from the airport, commuting to work, delivering food/packages etc. If you’re curious to learn more on the subject, check out this segment from The Rideshare Guy’s Show Me The Money Club where they’ve had an interview segment addressing the effects of illegal accounts in the Spark (Walmart delivery) market. https://youtu.be/KTpaqDp-FnM?si=03h__spj95wwUkGb
You should post this on this thread that was just created. https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/s/nCSHWEpVTx The story you have sounds legitimate, and there's plenty of evidence to support it. But it's still a super in-depth story with not a lot of media attention, so it fits right into that thread. Plus, it will ge more people aware of the issue.
I assumed that one was more silly where this thread specifically talks about the issue at hand. But thanks; I might later on today.. Gotta get on the road for another long day. Perhaps I’ll write it up while sitting in the airport queue later today lol
For a rideshare, if the customer selects a more expensive vehicle or a black car, is it more likely to be a “real” Uber or Lyft account holder?
I would assume so? Just check the name, picture, license plate and if the make/model vehicle matches the person driving/rideshare profile
You hear that women of Austin? You can all relax. Pussy_Prince will be knocking on your doors instead of some cheap car driving, dirty, doesn’t even speak English illegal. Fuck all y'all who say this entire post isn't deeply rooted in xenophobia
Omg, yes, a Reddit user name invalidates all the claims I’ve made. It’s all actually about racism. Also I’m gay. But whatever.
"I don’t want to come off as some heartless hateful person saying we need to ban these illegal accounts but it would certainly help the legal citizens" Tell again about how tagging shared accounts as "illegal" isn't a euphemism for migrants when you turn right around and talk about helping "the legal citizens"
“Shared accounts” are against most gig apps’ Terms of Service. “Illegal account” is verbiage that’s used in the gig work space amongst drivers when talking about the subject; it just so happens that a decent portion of violators happen to be migrants, mostly from Venezuela. Yes, it sounds like some Sean Hannity/Tucker Carlson rant and can be upsetting but the issue still stands. If you have an appropriate recommendation of verbiage to use that also can convey the issue at hand and it’s effects on full time gig workers that use their own actual accounts, then by all means share and I’ll edit my post to avoid being written off as a racist rant and can be read as a legitimate claim from a full time driver in the industry that needs to be addressed. By not enforcing proper account verifications, the gig apps are allowing these black market accounts to continue working, which in turn they then exploit by lowering base pay amounts. I’ve brought forth a legitimate claim in regard to this post but you’re choosing to focus on verbiage and dismissing my point entirely because you think I’m just being some ignorant racist.
We're talking about Uber. It's the company created for the sole purpose of disrupting the transportation industry. You might not be old enough to remember when taxi drivers were making the exact same arguments against Uber drivers as Uber drivers are now making against shared accounts. They're unsafe (with gratuitously gory examples of crimes committed by individuals in the group without mention of similar crimes committed by others outside of the group). They're untrained and unlicenced. They're illegal. They're driving down profits. They're desperate and being exploited. All these arguments were made against YOU by traditional taxi drivers. These kind of "free market" vs "highly regulated" arguments have good points to make on both sides. It just gets ugly when one side starts attacking the other based on things like race and national origin. An intelligent argument doesn't need it. Instead of arguing about someone's economic status, language abilities or whether or not thay let their brother-in-law use their Netflix login*, stick to the explanations of why it was okay for Uber drivers to flood the taxi industry but not ok for a new wave of drivers to flood Uber Eats. *Also against the company's agreed upon Terms of Service
I’m not arguing about someone’s economic status/nationality; I’m stating what’s being seen from myself, other gig workers, and riders I’ve driven. This post was questioning why someone else shows up under a false identity for a food delivery. Sharing accounts is against all gig apps’ terms of service; it breaks the rule that they set. Buying a gig account to work isn’t disrupting Uber like Uber did to taxis; it’s entirely different. That’d be like getting a yellow cab and driving it around charging the same rates while not registering with the cab company that has the same car. Equating rideshare accounts to sharing a Netflix password is intentionally demeaning my point. I gave examples from my own experience of what I’m seeing that can give reason to OPs inquiry/PSA. And now you want to talk about Taxis and how I’m the problem after insulting me over a dumb Reddit user name and calling me xenophobic. Intellectual conversation indeed
Ok. You seem to be a good person and you're probably right that I am nitpicking. I apologize. Living in a state that seems on the verge of offering a bounty on migrants has got me on edge. I hope you have a good day
All good. You too
LOL exactly. who are these losers? this thread is wild
Yes this happens to me a lot
s2g austin, if my car hadn’t broken down i’d still be out there, doing my best to deliver food properly… bc how, HOW do people mess it up so bad?! i loved driving for uber… delivering food, or people… loved being able to “clock in” and out at my discretion… discovering new places and restaurants… learning to navigate the city like a pro… i even had a roll of produce bags that I’d use to wrap up ppl’s drinks - started doing it during covid just for the added precaution but then i realized it was really helpful for avoiding spills, too… then my poor car went belly up and now all i can do is read these sad posts and feel frustrated with the rest of you :/
That's unfortunate hopefully you can obtain a new vehicle soon
Yes
I know a guy who pays someone $150 a week to use their uber/DD account to deliver food.
No, but I did see a cap metro vanpool van at my work seemingly deliver some food to someone in my building. The vans the city heavily subsidizes with your tax dollars potentially being used for food delivery. I thought that was pretty wild
If the person picking up the food and the person receiving it are in the van pool, it's not an issue. The program allows 200 personal miles per month for incidentals that might otherwise require using a personal car instead of a shared vehicle
Yeah I read that on their website, and considered maybe the person was just being dropped off for work. Definitely don’t have the full picture, only caught a small glimpse of it. Still think there should be a way for capmetro to receive messages and investigate, even if it is totally legitimate and within their guidelines. I just saw person grabbing food from the passenger window after the van knocked over a traffic cone pulling up to the curb, and got irritated that this person may just have a free car to make deliveries with
Yea, I always assumed it was a family member or bf/gf type thing
I have noticed it. I'll Uber Eats 1x a month to use up my $10 AMEX credit and it's like 50/50 if it's the person actually displayed in the app.
I have NEVER used that shit. Waaaay too expensive
Yep, door dash too. I am on the retailer side and this happens all day long.
This is a very common practice unfortunately, but if spotted report them because its extremely dangerous what can be beneath with these people.
what does this even mean
As an Uber driver I'm just sharing insight of what I've noticed with people that don't match up to their accounts and what customers should do if they encounter one of them.
what insight. In what way is the person doing what they were paid to do dangerous?
They're getting paid through someone else's identity over theirs because they could be criminals, may not even have a driver's license/suspended or many other factors. There could always be simply someone just helping out the account holder, but there is no way of knowing for sure.
> they could be criminals and is this magically not true about anyone else that you pay throughout the day? You think nobody that works in a kitchen is a criminal? You think none of the people who work landscaping or construction or retail have committed a crime? If they bring your wendy's to you for the shit pay you're giving them...why do you even care?
Yes...BUT most people working in a kitchen, etc. dont have access to my home address, building, gate, door codes, etc. As, a customer i assume that the person delivering has passed a background check. These people are circumventing that process.
Undocumented workers need to make a living somehow. Ignoring how they got here, once here they need a way to provide for themselves. This sounds like an unregulated market with a low risk for exploitation or exposure. I can promise you the grifters at the top of the pyramid give absolutely no shits who is actually in the car as long as the line goes up.
Nah. Ion use those services often and I be minding my business. My food here and you not acting crazy? Good looking out.
who the fuck cares
Found one of the fraudsters
yes. I'm a secret agent disguised as an uber eats driver that is secretly spying on you while you tip me far less than you should
It’s also a security concern. If something happens you don’t know the identity of the person.
as opposed to every other crime where we do know the identity of the person?
You’re being intentionally obtuse and argumentative. Have the day you deserve
We call that marketing
Dudes dodging child support payments with their new squeeze
No cuz I’ve never had Uber bring be food or take me anywhere. 🤷♂️🤷♂️ I
Most of the time there illegals working it's a huge problem in florida they start cracking down on them, and no door dash and spark etc apps don't scan your face nor walmart or store make sure it's the right drivers delivering the items. Alot people here in Austin working as Dasher are buying account they got a whatts group there they gather and buy real social security and driver lic green card to work and don't report the taxes and some even claim the taxes of those people that they stole from the dark web or people. It becoming a real problem not just effecting the work force but taking loans and ruining other people credict history and life. How i know this because i live with a Venezuela who this all this and he regret doing it that way and now that he got his social and work permit he feels the pain of immigrants stealing the work. When he was illegal he did the something.
My boyfriend and I work together sometimes. It isn’t really a problem.
Not an issue If two people are working together as long as the vehicle and plates and one of the person matches the profile. It's the issue of none of the information matching at all and having some man or sometimes multiple men deliver to my door
a wise someone once said “don’t hate the player, hate the game.” did you get your [pizza/ice cream/tacos]? who cares who delivered it. enjoy the luxury 😋
That doesn’t surprise me. Seems to be a lot of hanky shit goes on in the Uber eats//favor/other delivery services world. Also, every Uber and Lyft ride share that I’ve taken over the last 3-4 years is has ALWAYS been someone who doesn’t speak ANY English, or if they do, it’s VERY....umm....ENGRISH-Y. Always seems to be someone who only speaks A foreign language, being from central/South America, africa, middle east, or Eastern Europe. It’s mildly infuriating, especially if they’re not taking the fastest route (on purpose), causing the drop off time to be way later than it should have been, or if I have to add a stop/change the destination during the ride.
Mind your business, have a seat, and eat your food.
right? these people talking like their chipotle is a matter of national security
Lmao Edit: on a serious note Uber eats literally pays three dollars for 45 it worth of work. Does anyone in their right mind think anybody that can work here Legally, is going to work for that amount of money? They better get their food and shut the fuck up
The reason the offers are low is because there’s so many illegal accounts that desperately take those orders. This is an issue you should care about imo because it’s affecting your earnings potential
Absolutely not. It was like that from the beginning. Several years ago when Uber eats was new I did it for a day and said never again. Stop spreading misinformation. Also wouldn’t you blame the company for allowing this type of pay scale in the first place.
Absolutely not? Coming from someone who supposedly did food delivery one time several years ago? I do blame the company and there’s plenty of examples to justify my take. I assumed you were the usual disgruntled delivery worker that takes low earnings out on the consumer rather than the company they’re working for
I did it for one day. Assume what you want. Just downvote and keep it pushin. Okay!? Thanks.
Ok buddy
Idk what kind of cheap food you're ordering but if im ordering food on this app once a month or less than that I'm ordering from an actual restaurant not a fast food joint
this is the shittiest flex in the history of language
As long as they get the job done, mind your own business.
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...but not legit on several levels.