Posted on 12/28/2021 1:03:37 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
DoorDash, the food delivery app based out of San Francisco, is requiring all its nondelivery employees, including CEO Tony Xu, to do a “dash” once a month — and some employees are seemingly furious.
An engineer with a reported total compensation, or TC, of $400,000 a year griped about the responsibility of having to do a once-a-month delivery. “What the actual f—k?” the engineer wrote on the platform. “I didn’t sign up for this, there was nothing in the offer letter/job description about this.”
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A good idea.
Mr 400k; DON'T LIKE IT LEAVE.
Duties as otherwise assigned.
Boo hoo.
More companies should do this, make the employees use or deal with the product or service.
Does the driver get to do the engineer’s job?
What would Wally do?
Uhh, yeah, you did. If you take the paycheck from them, they can tell you what to do.
The engineers could use some humility.
Oh, absolutely.
However, I think it is situations like this that have caused so many people to walk away from jobs recently. There is a realization that you have to do stuff that you feel is beneath you, you aren't respected, you aren't valued, in some cases you aren't well compensated (Mr 400K probably can't claim this one). Your company isn't likely to be loyal to you. They will chew you up and spit you out any time their bottomline looks threatened. And why shouldn't they? But many workers are realizing that they are also in that situation. "You want me to do WHAT? Hey, I'm leaving."
If companies wonder why people leave, maybe they should pause and reflect.
In previous places I’ve worked for, I’ve seen VPs dragging the luggage around for CEOs. Start your own company, make it really successful, then sell it for a bundle. Then you can choose your work assignments, going forward. Easy peasy.
>>Does the driver get to do the engineer’s job?
Mostly that just means sitting in useless zoom meetings all day long. My guess is the driver could probably do it just fine.
Someone like this who is annoyed by experiencing how his product functions in the real world is not worth 400k.
As an engineer, it would do a lot of good for us to spend more time with the customer directly rather than seeing what they want through a list of requirements that have been filtered through a dozen layers of requirements writing by managers and contract officials on both sides.
I know someone who was delivering for them. After several bad experiences, he quit. He was making good money.
Let’s see...two dog attacks, falling through a rotted porch, people lying about not getting the food so they could get a free meal. He had to pay for the food even though he’d taken a photo of the delivery. They also took him off deliveries for a few days as a punishment. That means he got moved down the list for jobs, when he was formerly at the top.
San Fran is a very dangerous place now. Oh, and $400k probably isn’t a lot of money if you live there.
If he’s making that much there, he could move to Iowa and telecommute and live at a higher standard for probably $100k.
He arrived early and came across the CEO of the company cleaning the men's bathroom.
Japanese companies are very egalitarian that way. Everyone all the way up to the CEO takes a turn at doing the menial jobs that keep the offices and plants in order.
As long as the C-Suite types do it too ..
“If you take the paycheck from them, they can tell you what to do.”
That is untrue, especially if there were negotiations during the hiring process that required interviews and contractual instruments signed to that effect. If it’s not on the contractual obligations a person hired under contract is not obligated to have a shift in their job description without further negotiation.
If you’re an hourly wage employee it’s a totally different deal.
One delivery a month sure is easier than looking for a job.
I suspect for some it would be the first time they’ve actually done something productive in awhile.
Sounds like a fun chance to get away from the computer to me.
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