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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—”They’d probably be amazed how many of them are stoned out of their minds.”
Some things never change?
From 1972.
It was raining hard in ‘Frisco...
And here, she’s acting happy
Inside her handsome home
And me, I’m flying in my taxi
Taking tips and getting stoned
I go flying so high, when I’m stoned
““What the actual f—k?” the engineer wrote on the platform. “I didn’t sign up for this.....”
‘Jones, I don’t like your attitude. You are delivering for a week now.’
LOL!
I would leave. Of course, I wouldn’t work for any company in San Fransicko, to start with.
If you don't know that engineers are needed for online services, you should stop using them. Including FR.
Jerk.
Absolutely. Great idea on DD’s part.
Dumbest company employee policy ever. What the actual fk indeed. A liability risk and complete misallocation of valuable company resources.
According to Uber Eats, our favorite Mexican restaurant serves “Been Burritos”, as just one of many examples, and we constantly run into roadblocks in the software that prevent ordering things that we know the restaurants offer. There are tons of examples where these services’ menus require nonsensical combinations of choices to be selected in order to get anything close to what you actually want, and it often results in indecipherable instructions that confuse the restaurants trying to fulfill the orders.
From my experience with the resulting product, “Mr. $400,000” should be thankful that he has a job at all.
My daughter left SF in 2010 and took a job in Louisville, IOW she came back to America (well KY is America, Louisville is debatable in that regard. Libs are working overtime to destroy it).
She said that at a little more than one third of the SF income she had more real disposable income.
I see no problem at all with this work requirement. It’s called, “product awareness.” The engineer needs to suck it up and STFU.
“Why does DoorDash even need engineers?”
It’s a ‘creative’ use of the term to call them engineers (software engineers, to be specific), since the real engineering professions have a lot in common, such as specific math and physics requirements.
Decades ago, I took a refrigeration class using an RSES (Refrigeration Service Engineers Society) curriculum. I still remember a guy there asking why the hell we were calling ourselves ‘engineers’, as we were MECHANICS.
So, I guess, the term ‘engineer’ is used in some cases to make people feel important.
Indeed, so many employers seem to demand loyalty from employees, but show NONE.
It doesn’t work that way. Never should have, won’t again. Not for a very long time anyway.
Is the company you’re driving for requiring you to wear a mask? Or are the customers requiring it?
Send them on deliveries to Oakland. They know EXACTLY what the drivers deal with.
A lot of folks think engineers just drive choo choo trains.
Keep that in mind.
For $400k per year, I’d clean the toilets at HQ.
# 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
I don’t really understand the concept of work that is ‘beneath me’. Years ago, I was working for a large telecommunications company and was supporting some minicomputer systems that were local to me. We didn’t allow cleaning crew in the computer room, so once a quarter, my co-workers and I would spend a day cleaning the computer room from top to bottom. I was salary at the time, and it didn’t matter to me at all that I was washing windows, mopping floors, or dusting hardware for the money they were paying me. In fact, it was kinda peaceful, and non stressy.
# Your company isn’t likely to be loyal to you.
Modern companies have zero loyalty to their workers. This is actually detrimental to the company itself in the long run, but in am age where no one looks beyond the next quarterly results, this is largely ignored. Only fools think modern corporations give a rats ass about their employees.
They request we follow local protocols
I’d hire a DoorDash driver to make my delivery for me. And tip him well.
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