The algorithm demands the enragement bait.

Tipping culture is bullshit anyway. If you run a business where you can't afford to pay your employees enough without going out of business, then your business shouldn't exist.

And the service fee, and the priority fee so it's not cold, and the mark-up on the food

You don't get rid of tipping culture by fucking over the people that need money the most.

The customer chose to tell OOP they deserve the bare minimum for their labor, despite clearly having money to blow. They deserved it. You reap what you sow.

Correct me if I’m wrong but the job is basically:

You're wrong, but it's understandable. The key point you're getting wrong is: You make money from a job.

The pay for most of the assignments you get from DD or UE is usually not enough to cover fuel, let alone maintenance on your vehicle. Certainly less than minimum wage for your time. Which is legal for them to do, because you are a contractor, paid per job and not per hour. If the customer doesn't tip, you are earning less than minimum wage at best. In many cases, you're actually paying to work, but you're forced to take these unprofitable orders just to maintain your rating and keep getting assignments. (In my area, drivers call this "eating shit")

At best, you can take about 6 assignments an hour. To net minimum wage, you need at least three of them to tip well. When a restaurant doesn't bother to start preparing the order until you arrive, the time you waste waiting is 2-3 orders. If any of the remaining orders that hour don't tip, you're below minimum wage.

It is a shitty, exploitative service that nobody should be using. If you are going to use it, be aware that the service is taking everything you're paying, and completely shafting your driver.

I think the tipping should be dealt away with. Instead something like: vehicle value, insurance cost, vehicle depreciation, maintenance, fuel costs, idle vehicle use time, "acts of god"--traffic accident delays, unexpected failures (wrong orders basically); should be factored into the pay instead of hoping for tips.

Then again none of this would exist if that was done.

$300 of food is probably multiple bags. They can guess the cost if the average Uber Eats order is $30.

Chick fila is somehow cheaper than mcdonalds for me.

I hear this a lot, but it doesn't seem true anymore. Every country I go to in Europe, tipping culture is creeping in and more expected in small amounts.

In Germany it's pretty common to tip a bit, even if not nearly as much as in the US. I wouldn't know what to tip for a 300€ order though because... What the fuck, did they order cocaine?

Yeah, random stuff happens and normal people don't assume something like a pregnant mistress.

One time someone left a few roses under my windshield at work on valentine's day. I assume someone mistook my car for someone else's, not that I had some secret admirer who wanted to do a pointlessly anonymous gesture.

One time someone let out the air from one of my tires overnight in my driveway, for no apparent reason and it caused me mild annoyance.

Anyway, fake internet story for fake internet points.

I think the implication would be that an angry mistress left it

Now there's a pay ~$5 extra option to have your order delivered first. I doubt that goes to the driver. I tip pretty well when I do order but I've been getting barely warm food for awhile. Once I did tip less and just pay the $5 fee to get my food faster. Just more enshittifaction.

They don't know the tip until after the delivery. I've had a driver be like "they're making me wait to pick this up, please add a tip for extra time" (yeah ok buddy) I had already put a large tip on the delivery. I really wanted to remove it after the driver pulled that shit though.

Now, I just elect to not order any delivery at all. There is a 15% service fee, a delivery fee, AND food markup because they charge restaurant like 30%.

I am not sure how is this a fair deal. The guy ordering $300 worth of food probably already paid $60-$100 to get his food. This is already way higher than any traditional delivery service would ask for. The price tag just no longer makes sense for me.