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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Checkers/Rallys have required the same thing for ALL employees for over 30 years.
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Something else to consider here:
Many engineers in the SF Bay Area are now from India.
They grew up with servants - even those just in the middle class - and with at least the remnants - or stronger - of an ancient Caste system.
For people raised in this kind of environment, telling them that they must now take on tasks that they’ve historically passed off the the “lower” class - it would be taken as quite an insult indeed.
This is another reason why I’m all for this practice from the Door Dash Corporation.
Something I discovered about Uber. Every time I used them, I’d get a call from a driver and be asked where I was and where I was going. Finally, I asked a talkative driver why. She said, “Obviously, we only make money on longer trips.
The university students call for a ride and they want to go a few hundred or a thousand yards. Especially if it’s raining or hot. It costs more in gas to get there than we make. They never tip and they aren’t nice people.” (This was shortly after they started in Tallahassee. Don’t know if they can still do that. The driver told me they weren’t supposed to do anything of the sort. They were supposed to treat everyone equally. She snorted at that. “People are assholes and students feel entitled to everything they can get.”)
“I didn’t sign up for this, there was nothing in the offer letter/job description about this.”
It’s under the sentence that states: “other duties as assigned” every offer letter I ever got
The same thing for police departments. Once per month or 2 months all senior desk jockeys should work patrol- all hours- weekends-holidays. After time many seem to not remember the basics.
My helpers would consider that “taking a break.”
Prolly industrial engineers, which aren’t real engineers.
—” If the software engineers really did their job like riding along with dashers, they would see the real world problems with the app we are forced to live with.”
I do not know but would like to think, that is the intent of the exercise?
Over the years, I’ve had a few of our suppliers spend time reviewing how we use their products.
It happens.
They'd probably be amazed how many of them are stoned out of their minds.
I work for a big tech company. They require we eat our own dog food all the time, and we are asked often for our feedback. I give it to them. I figure it makes our products better if I’m honest, and I’ve seen some things I’ve suggested (and others likely suggested it too) actually implemented.
However, I’m not sure I’d be down with having to do a delivery for an organization in a shit hole like San Fran. Sounds like they should be granting hazard pay for something like that.
Bingo. Thank you for sharing. I suspect management at DoorDash is tired of poorly written and managed software and systems impacting their operations. If I was the CEO, I'd do the same until the programming team could get it right.
I regularly live through application support failures from staff who don't have to live with the consequences of their incompetence. They fail at basic understanding of users' needs and standards on the users' end.
Overall, there's a massive regression in the IT industry, mostly due to wage suppression for more than a decade, where user interface, data retrieval, etc. are written as though all the lessons learned in the 1990s and early 2000s never happened.
Our particular division got called out once because our newspaper recycling rate was below 100%. Simple cause: people were taking newspapers home to read on the train. Simple solution: start bringing them back (and maybe include a few from home). We were at 107% the following month.
It sounds silly but it does enhance the teamwork concept.
—”I’ve spent a lot of time in warehouses and production lines and on trucks delivering products to customers. I know better what they need because of this.”
And you produce a better product too!
Not a dasher but a five year gig worker on another platform. I truly believe that anyone that works at the headquarters in any support function for any gig platform should be required to do a minimum of 10 per month. Otherwise they have zero clue what we actually go through on a daily basis and it might just fix some abject stupidity coming from HQ.
I do! I made so much money last year that my accountant admonished me to get more write offs!
There’s an idea that should be carried over to Planned Abortionhood administrators: mandate performing a ‘procedure’ once a month and hear the harpies scream.
The ole military clause.
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