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It surely can’t be long before all these gig driver/delivery jobs are subject to the same court ruling.
TfL denied Uber operator license, ride hailing service wins on appeal (Sept 2020)
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Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Is Uber Eats bad then? They’re my favourite delivery merchants. With some restaurants round here they deliver almost as soon as you click the “send” button.
And there’s an additional delivery charge so you don’t feel like the restaurant is scalping the rider.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
If it's like most jobs in the so-called "gig economy", then there's bound to be something stinky going on. This new breed of businesses founded by Silicon Valley Tech Bro cunts have done more than enough to lose any benefit of the doubt.
stdP
One Swiss dinosaur in Polly Gosling's anorak hood
They're about as ethical as you'd expect them to be give their provenance. Not to say they might give an excellent delivery service but even ignoring the plight of the workers their track record on caring about the stuff they send is somewhat lackadaisical and they take a 30% swipe of the money that I'd rather went to the restaurant and delivery driver.
Uber Eats allowed deliveries from fake restaurant man set up in front garden
Inspectors 'almost speechless with horror' upon discovering firm was collecting from man cooking on filthy barbecue in front of home
www.independent.co.uk
Why Uber Eats Will Eat You Into Bankruptcy
Why Uber Eats Will Eat You Into Bankruptcy
www.forbes.com
One of our local curry houses (the only place we regularly order takeaway from; we'll usually walk to pick up others) refuses to use them as it's cheaper for him or one have one of his staff do it. Three of the local places we pick up from give us a discount for bypassing the app so that can goes in to the tip or charity jar.
I'm sure there will be lobbying going on to change the law instead though.
Agreed, they are great service wise and you'd think the business model would be sound - it should be a win all around. But like most of these new 'disruptive' companies they some how manage to fuck it for everyone - somehow despite taking massive cuts from the people making the food, paying the drivers fuck all with no employment rights/benefits, charging the customer extra fees and having huge sale volumes they seem to be making a big loss.
Added to which Uber eats seems to rely on dodgy* labour / uninsured drivers to get stuff delivered
* I'm tired and can't think of a better word than dodgy. But frequently the person who delivers the food isn't the person it says it'll be - loads and loads of people renting their accounts on gumtree - if the money is shit when you're working for them legit it's even worse when the person with the papers is taking a cut on top. Uber is able to willingly exploit this labour market by turning a blind eye to what's going on. And then I don't think I've ever actually had a real bicycle deliver my food despite it saying it. Uber with all their fancy AI bollocks don't seem to think it's odd that their cyclists manage to maintain a regular 30 miles an hour up a steep hill. Again Uber eats profits from uninsured delivery scooters/cars but it's the driver that's taking the risk.
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