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DoorDash + Waymo Launch Self-Driving Deliveries | Uber Tip Guarantee Explained | Ep 274
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We dig into DoorDash’s partnership with Waymo and Uber’s new tip guarantee while weighing what automation, policy tweaks, and platform rules mean for working drivers. Along the way, we break down viral delivery controversies and why doing the right thing still matters most.
News Ep 274
• DoorDash and Waymo autonomous delivery pilot in Phoenix
• DashPass $10 Waymo ride credit details and limits
• Uber tip guarantee mechanics and third-party exclusions
• Uber rider-rating filters and how strict to set them
• Three-way chat for teen and family rides
• Amazon drone crash concerns and public safety
• Delivery ethics: no-entry, no-recording, follow instructions
• Flood deliveries and when to stand down for safety
• Mirror mishap: own mistakes and resolve fast
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SPEAKER_07Welcome to the economy show. Uh we're going to do today. Alright, I think we're good. Maybe. Oh my goodness. There we go.
SPEAKER_06Sorry, I went a little late. Larry's running the show tonight, guys.
SPEAKER_07There we go.
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SPEAKER_07All right, now here we go. Let's try this again. Welcome to the economy show. Uh, tonight we're on episode 274. We are creeping into that 300 range, which is hard to believe. So we're gonna start planning something good for that. Uh, tonight we're gonna be talking about uh Doordash and Waymo are launching a self-driving delivery service, which is kind of cool. And then we're also gonna talk about an Uber tip guarantee that they're coming out with. So we want to thank everyone for supporting the show. Come and watch the show. If you want to learn anything about the gig economy show, you can go to gig economy show.com. You can sign up for our newsletter. Uh, we promise not to spam you, but we'll just send out some reminders about the show, uh, things we're talking about. Um, you can also go to uh Patreon if you'd like to support the show. We would appreciate it very much. We do have a couple of different levels. Well, there is currently a free seven-day trial that you can try it out. Uh, sign up for it, um, listen to the Patreon shows. If you decide it's not for you, you can always cancel that and you will not be charged anything. But we do want to thank all of our Patreon members, Samson from Grand Rapids, Bud from North Carolina, Omar from Detroit, Delivery Cats from Michigan, Frank from Philly, Tom from Volo, Jim from Connecticut, my Miguel from GR, Linda from Tampa, Jerry Gillette, my homeboy from here in Bowling Green, Faith from Las Vegas, Metal Kick Ass from Louisiana, and Anna from New York City by uh Ann Arbor, Michigan. And uh so yeah, you can try out the seven-day trial. We think you'll like it, but if you don't, you can always cancel that. Uh, we also have a telegram group that we use to communicate with, and Jason's gonna tell you a little bit about that.
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SPEAKER_07So stories from the road, Jason. Uh it's gonna be a long segment. It's gonna be settle back, settle back, guys. We're getting ready to get into it.
SPEAKER_06Uh yeah, no, nothing for me. Uh I was up north at uh my mother-in-law's cabin to help her close it up. So nothing for me. Um, I did, I think I mentioned on the last show, um, I ended up getting extra run for school. So it's kind of put me up close to 40, and we have a rule you can't bid into overtime for field trips. So I know that's boring, but that being said, I will have some more free time on the weekend to do some gig work, but it won't be this weekend. October's a busy month. It's it's closing the cabin. It's anniversary weekend is coming up for my wife and I. Yeah, we got stuff to do. But the following weekend, there's literally nothing. And uh, I'm looking forward to getting back into working for sure.
SPEAKER_07Good deal. Uh on my end, uh, no gig work either. I went to uh our church had a men's retreat this weekend, uh, which I went to on Friday and Saturday, which was really cool. Had a great time hanging out with a bunch of really good guys from church. Uh it was pretty neat camp. They had a lot of different things. Uh, some of the they have a really nice uh wiffle ball field that they have set up that looks like to make it look like Finway Park.
SPEAKER_06Oh wow, that's sweet.
SPEAKER_07It was pretty cool. They had pickleball, they had repelling, they had paintball, they had ropes course, they got horses there, lots of stuff, lots of stuff to do there. Um, but yeah, I had a good time, had a good speaker, and uh heard some heard some good, good uh instructive you know stuff about the ministry. So yeah. Um but um trying to think this weekend, you got anything coming up? Uh uh anniversary weekend, so anniversary weekend, so yeah, you you will be out, you will be calling Ubers.
SPEAKER_06Well no, I I don't drink as I can't all the freaking meds, like I always like I'll here I'm stuttering already. Um I'll go into that day going, okay, I'm gonna hydrate and like day before, and I still like three beers in, I'm like, all right, I'm cooked, and then the next day I have a headache, and I'm just like, fuck, I can't, I can't do this shit anymore. Man, so uh, but no, I definitely have a few beers for sure. I uh I'll I'll be responsible. But no, Friday night we're working at a concession stand. Oh, exciting. Uh for my daughter. Uh it's last football game, so they do like a little fundraiser where we get a portion of whatever.
SPEAKER_07Oh, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_06We've done that with all a lot of kids. Yeah, and then Saturday night we're going out, so yeah. No gig work for me. Um, I was gonna ask you, and I forgot about it. Uh oh, you know the brewery we always go to, the mitten? Yeah, yeah, they have a wiffle ball tournament, and I've always wanted to do that because shit. I remember playing that as a kid, and I had so much fun in. Oh, yeah, that used to be a blast playing wiffle ball. You need like five or five or six people, something like that. So I just you know, I don't have that many friends. Well, I shouldn't say that would play it. You know what I mean? I'm not really like I've been walking, but I'm like a little out of shape, but still wiffle ball. It's like, come on, you're just like you're trying to hit a home run. That's all it is. You're not pretty pretty much you're not sprinting on the bases, but yeah, yeah, I love me some woofle ball.
SPEAKER_07So yeah, oh yeah, yeah, it's a fun game. Great game growing up. Yeah. Cool. All right. Uh as far as me, I'm trying to think this weekend. Um, I don't think I've got anything planned. There's no, I don't think there's a home football game. Uh Western played last night. They've been playing on Tuesdays last night. Really, really exciting, exciting win last night. Went into double overtime. We ended up going for a two-point conversion to win the game, and it was successful. So yeah, that's uh that's a great way to win the game. For sure. Um, so yeah, I I plan on being out and doing some gig work uh tomorrow night and this weekend. Yeah. All right, moving on to gig economy in the news.
Stories From The Road And Weekend Plans
SPEAKER_07Okay, so uh this first story we're gonna talk about DoorDash and Waymo have uh kind of collaborated to um one, they're gonna do uh you know autonomous deliveries, and also they have a way my Waymo promotion for for DoorPass members. I guess Dash Pass is their like membership service that uh explains it a little bit in here. But they they announced a new partnership, uh DoorDash and Waymo to launch an autonomous delivery service in Phoenix and also gonna introduce a limited uh ten dollar Waymo promotion for anybody that has Dash Pass in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix. So from now to the end of the year, anybody that has a that is a Dash Pash member in one of those cities can receive a $10 credit off of one Waymo ride per month. So I think that's pretty cool.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Uh so a new promo code will be issued at the start of every month through the end of the year. And then also they're gonna um be start testing this new autonomous delivery service. So if you order from DoorDash, your DoorDash might get delivered in a in a Waymo car. So I guess you're gonna have to walk your happy ass up there and get it because it's not gonna bring it to the city.
SPEAKER_06Well, yeah, well, you know, everyone I think I posted uh oh, what was the TikTok? It was about that disabled person that wouldn't walk it up and like, well, I ordered DoorDash to get it to my door. Well, what are you gonna do now? Yeah. What are you gonna do now?
SPEAKER_07So yeah, uh, so yeah, says any DoorDash consumers in the area maybe matched with a fully autonomous Waymo vehicle for deliveries from participating participating merchants using DoorDash's autonomous delivery platform, uh, a system that helps orchestrate different types of delivery methods together, whether that's DoorDash, Dashers, robots, drones, or Waymo. So yeah, pretty interesting.
SPEAKER_06That is gonna cook us. Like I get the drone, okay, and the little robots. I don't feel much pressure, but a car? Yeah, that's gonna cook us because guess what? People are gonna get used to that, and they're like, okay, I guess it's not that big of a deal to walk out to get it. I don't really care. I'm gonna use the Waymo thing, so I don't have to deal with something we're gonna talk about a little bit later with a DoorDash driver that's a creeper.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, yeah, you don't have to worry about somebody you know licking your the lid of your milkshake, you know, like we've seen on unless you like that, unless you want to. We're not we're not here to judge. We're not judge, we don't judge judge free zone here. Uh yeah, right. We judge shit up here. Yeah, we do. Uh so yeah, so door uh dash pass, if you don't know about it, it uh it offers exclusive deals, member-only benefits, and zero dollar delivery fees and reduced service fees on eligible orders. It says on average Dash Pass members say five dollars per eligible order. So yeah, it's their membership program.
SPEAKER_06I was wondering, I mean, um I do see people talk about like the Dash Pass, and it doesn't feel like it's a huge savings. So you're paying like 10 a month, but you still see a lot of like it says no fees, but there's I've seen screenshots of it, and it just doesn't look as like to me.
SPEAKER_07If I if I was paying a certain amount, I want I don't want any fees, like yeah, well you're gonna have yeah, it's zero delivery fees and may possibly reduce service fees. So you're still gonna pay service fees, yeah. Yeah, and somehow I get dashed pass uh through I think with the one of the credit card, yeah. It's chase because yeah, it it all it automatically came up because I tell you what, because I think I told you oh uh when I was sick last week. The emotium, I I dash I door dashed that I I like that's probably the third time I've ever, you know, probably door dashed in my life, but I door dashed some memorium to the house and it it's you know it saved him some money on the uh with the dash pass. So you must have signed up for it because I see it in my little app from Chase, but uh it says activate it, but I must have activated it at some point, I guess, if you just click on it, because yeah, it popped up there and said said I was you know a member of the dash pass. So saved me a little money.
SPEAKER_06Where did you end up? I just curious of your experience. Like how much did all of it cost? And you just ordered the emodium, so that's usually especially if it's the branded stuff. It was not branded, pro brand. It was like three dollars. Three dollars. Okay, so it was three dollars. What what ended up did you pay after tip, or you do or did you skip them?
SPEAKER_07No, I tipped them three three bucks, I think. Okay, no, no, I tipped them four dollars, three, four, seven. I think it ended up being at like nine dollars. Okay, that's not horrible. No, it wasn't terrible. I mean, it was worth it to me.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, yeah. I'm glad I suggested it worked, it worked, yeah.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I took it that night and yeah, I was all done.
SPEAKER_06This is the the poop podcast. Yeah, it is if you if you if you have not listened to the show in the last couple weeks, you're like, what are these guys talking about? Like, no, Larry's been sick, so yeah. So was yeah, that's crazy. Well, I guess it doesn't, you know. So on that order, do you know how did it save how much it was saving you because of the dash pass? Or don't you remember? I just I do I don't remember.
SPEAKER_07Okay, I do not remember I'm sure it does though.
SPEAKER_06I mean, I d I I don't want to use it just because while we the stories we talk about and it's so expensive, but I might activate it just in a pinch, you know, like might as well save a little money if I get it free through the credit card, you know.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, if it's free. I mean, that's the only reason
DoorDash–Waymo Partnership Details
SPEAKER_07I activated it. It popped up either when I was on my credit card site or on Doordash's site or something. And you know, since that's the credit card that I have linked, I'm sure it just you know kind of popped up and yeah, sure, might as well activate it, save a couple bucks.
SPEAKER_06I do feel like DoorDash does a lot of these promotions because I think they realize the deal that they're giving their Dash Pass customers isn't all that great. So they throw in these little collabs and stuff like that, and sure. I mean, talk it up. Well, yeah, I mean you get uh did you say it's like oh yeah, ten dollars oh per month. Okay, so it's one ten dollar credit per month. Um that that's toward Waymo, yeah. But I'm just saying, so if you think about it, like you get you know, you pay ten dollars for Dash Pass. Let's say you don't get it for free, and then you get this credit, so it's kind of a wash for a couple of months. So I just feel like they do this because you know they're trying to be like, ooh, sorry.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, yeah, could be, yeah, I wouldn't doubt it. Uh all right, all right, moving on. Jason is gonna tell us about a new uh new filter that that Uber has available or is gonna be coming available.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, so um I don't know a lot about this because I don't do rides, but uh I don't know where we pulled this from, but there's a a filter and it's a rider rating and it says set a minimum rider rating for your trip requests. Now I don't see any number setting it. He he or she has toggled it on, but it doesn't show anywhere where you could see it.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I think when you toggle it on, it's gonna pop up a screen and you put in what's your minimum rating that you're willing to accept.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, and I'd be curious if it lets you do whatever. Like, can you put 2.0 or can you put 4.9 or I'm sure you can. I don't know why they're actually allowing this, to be honest with you. I mean, you feel like some people are gonna be super stringent on this and it's gonna be I don't know. I guess it kind of hurts them, right? Because like yeah, it does.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, they're gonna get less rides.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. So it should be interesting. If anyone else has seen this or what whatever, just definitely uh let us know because I'd be curious. Uh, although I you probably, if you're gonna do Uber, you're probably gonna have this opportunity to see this. Or is it select markets?
SPEAKER_07I'm sure they're rolling it out in uh, you know, if you select markets at first like they always do. Uh, but when it rolls out here, um, I'll I'll definitely play with it and see. Although, you know, we've talked about it a lot. I I I don't ever unless I'm just killing time, I don't ever look at it. You don't at the driver at the passenger ratings.
SPEAKER_06Very rarely, very rarely. Uh Bubba Seuss says she has it, she's on the East Coast. Um I look at it, and if it's terrible, I'll think a couple not a couple minutes, I don't have that much time, but I'll think about it either while it's like uh yeah, maybe I don't know. Like it it it really boils down to how slow it's been and if I you know and if their picture's hot. I don't know. Well Uber didn't even have pictures. Oh yeah, that's right. Maybe the name. But yeah, I will I've definitely denied rides because of So what's your what what's kind of your your base point where you would cancel I mean if you're below a four, I'm I'm thinking there's something cooking.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I don't know. I don't think I've ever seen anybody below a four.
SPEAKER_06Really? I don't think so. I wish but then again I don't look so yeah, that's true. Maybe you should start looking. Um especially you have a lot of college kids, so I bet they're lower than they probably should be because you know they make dumb uh can set as high as four point nine. Okay, well that yeah, obviously you can't go four point nine nine nine nine. Um what I would like to see is if it says rating four point oh out of five hundred rides, yeah. Then I'm like, oh, okay, well, you know, that's that's fine. Yeah. Um or if it was lower than four point oh, I don't know. Whatever, whatever would look better if it would be because I mean if you're a four point oh and you had two rides, I'm like, I mean, it could have been a bad ride, you know. But some so some drivers rate low if they don't tip.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, yeah. I mean you have to take that on account. Yeah, so that we used to hear about that a lot. People are like, hey, if you don't tip, man, I'm I'm I'm rating you I'm rating you low. Yeah, you know, which is crazy.
SPEAKER_06Which I would never do that. I would I would do it if you said you were gonna tip and you didn't. That's although it's too much work to go back and do it. I probably wouldn't have done it.
SPEAKER_07I probably Yeah, yeah, you didn't go back and look and see because sometimes they'll tip, you know, you know how they are too you'll get tipped two weeks later.
SPEAKER_06Unless someone really pissed me off, like and they were just like whatever, whatever reason, you know, touch your radio or something, yeah. Touch my ox or ask if they had an ox. Yeah, if I had an ox. I haven't been asked that in so long. You know what? Because I don't think people use aux anymore. It it's the Bluetooth. It's all Bluetooth now, yeah.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, and I have had somebody ask, can I connect to your Bluetooth? I'm like, and that's a pain in the ass.
SPEAKER_06No. The aux is at least you just plug it in and you're good to go. The Bluetooth, you're like, Do you want to pair or use this code? Blah, blah, blah, blah.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, and you have to like you have to stop the car to pair it with some new. You can't do it while it's moving. Yeah. So I'm like, no, no, no. Here, I was like, Here, I've got Spotify. I'll let you pick whatever song you want and I'll play it on my phone through the Bluetooth.
SPEAKER_06I just I just don't understand the the need to, I don't know. Maybe because I'm not a I'm an old man now, but the need to have to have the music for this three-minute ride.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, yeah. It's different if I'm taking you to the airport, you know, we're gonna be in the car for an hour. Right. Yeah, if I'm taking you on a five-minute ride, I'm not I'm not spending any time worrying about setting things up for you.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, they gotta they gotta figure like they gotta figure a better way to to seamlessly integrate it somehow. Um like even through the tablet would be cool if they could do all the connecting through there and somehow that could play the mute, although it's gonna be a terrible speaker, but um, I don't know. Something like where you don't have to mess around with it, like somehow it's integrated some somewhere else. So yeah.
SPEAKER_07But yeah, I guess you could have a tablet back in the back of your own that was connected to your Bluetooth, and they could pick the music.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, and then play it, and then then it would be already connected to your tablet, so you wouldn't have to worry about it. Yeah. Something like that. That's an idea. Yep. Sign it up, verbal trademark.
SPEAKER_07All right, moving on. All right, so uh this next video is about um uh Amazon driver who runs into a lady and she's not real happy with you. So we'll play it and we'll discuss.
SPEAKER_02This woman just got on my Amazon. Look, look. Your track looked. If you if you try to veer to the left a little bit, you can see. So what here? You could have passed me three times.
unknownI can't see from here.
SPEAKER_02If you can't see from here, you might need to get your license to re-evaluate it.
SPEAKER_03Please remove your trash.
SPEAKER_02I am working! Yes, you can go around, but you could have passed me like five or six times already. Huh?
SPEAKER_04What's your name?
SPEAKER_02My name's Miguel. What's yours, Karen?
SPEAKER_04No, it's a sensible woman.
SPEAKER_02Sensible woman? Yeah, I think it's Karen.
SPEAKER_04Okay.
SPEAKER_02Look, now you're in the way. People can see around you. Thank you. Have a good day. Jesus loves you. Okay, okay.
SPEAKER_07Yeah.
SPEAKER_06I I don't I don't I can't believe she got in the van. I I have to say she was kind of polite. I mean, she wasn't horrible.
SPEAKER_07No, no, no, she wasn't. And and I mean, he was he could have he could have reacted better. Yeah, he started to get a little bit more. He was dragging her on, man.
SPEAKER_06But they're in she's in his work van. That is his private space.
SPEAKER_07Like,
Uber Rider-Rating Filter Rollout
SPEAKER_07yeah, that's crazy. And he wasn't pulled way out in the road, it did not appear. He was parked pretty close to the curb.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, and I I was glad he he turned the camera because I'm like, I want to see how much room I could have fit my bus through that. Yeah, like there was no way that she he was blocking her.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, no, she had plenty of room to go around. And I mean, if she stops every time she sees a delivery vehicle parked like that, she must stop a lot because you see those all the time, right? Yeah, like I said, it's different if he was out in the middle of the road, but he was not, he was not out in the middle of the road.
SPEAKER_06Well, the problem is is he was a little saucy, like she called her Karen. I mean, I get on. I mean, I give him credit though, because I would be livid if somebody got in the truck. I would be I would it I would be rough, and uh, I wouldn't be recording it though, because I don't want anyone recording it. If she brought her camera out, I wouldn't be because I didn't want to get fired. But he might get a talking to for being a little saucy at the end, but he wasn't being like so.
SPEAKER_07Why do you think she you think she got in to move it?
SPEAKER_06I do.
SPEAKER_07You think so?
SPEAKER_06I think I think she sat down to to move it over, which would have been what, Larry? Six inches, yeah, yeah, or maybe a foot.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, probably probably not even.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, so it wasn't even like he was that far out, but yeah, I think she did, and he caught her, so she got out. But I think she was literally gonna move that van.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, sure.
SPEAKER_06I mean, sure he didn't leave the keys in it. I don't know. I mean, these guys are supposed to like I remember when I worked for UPS and Faith will will probably figure although she's gonna be using her own car, so that doesn't matter. But when I worked for them, they were so strict. Like, if you did not take that key out, oh my god, bro. Like that was a problem, or lock it up and everything. So he may really would have had that. That key might have been in there, especially if it's cold, you know, run that heat. I mean, I got I got guys in my neighborhood driving down the road with their fucking side door open. Yeah, yeah, they don't even close it because they know they have a lot of stops, they just drive to the next one with it wide open. I'm like, yeah, you do you, bro.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I can see that.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, I mean, that was I mean, it he could have handled it a little bit better, but honestly, for for the the interaction, it wasn't that bad.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, yeah, we've seen a whole lot worse. Uh that could have gone gone real south, but yeah, that just I I would be so shocked if I was him and and turn around. There's a there's somebody in your like in your van trying to move it.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Well, she'll tell her husband that story and he'll say, honey, you probably shouldn't have done that.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, probably not. Oh, that's crazy. Yeah, okay. All right, our next story. Uh our next story is uh uh video, uh one of my favorite things, the Amazon drones. So we'll play that and then we'll talk about it.
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SPEAKER_07So yeah, for the audio listeners that it was flashing up there, that this is apparently a third drone crash here recently.
SPEAKER_06Damn. I mean, those things aren't tiny either.
SPEAKER_07Oh no, no, that would put a hurting on you if it felt oh yeah, you're going to the hospital. Yes, yeah, you're gonna you're gonna get some uh free prime membership for a few years.
SPEAKER_06More than that, I'm gonna sue your ass. It's Bezos.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, so it was just laying on the sidewalk, it looked like, or in the street. And it's a pretty good sized drone. You know, they they don't use the little tiny ones to look at.
SPEAKER_06I mean, what would you like equate it to something that people might be like a small garbage can? Uh yeah, or even bigger than like think about like uh your that those metal garbage cans that aren't the big ones, but like probably waist level. Like, yeah, it was it was pretty big.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, yeah, pretty good size. And uh yeah, that would not that would not feel good.
SPEAKER_06What do you think's happening with that?
SPEAKER_07If they've had the third one that week, three out of I don't know how many, you know, without knowing exactly how many they fly and how often they fly and all that kind of stuff, you know. Yeah, it I mean there's probably a very low percentage, uh, but it's just one of those things that's brand new, it's so unexpected.
SPEAKER_06Uh that it you know it makes the news. Right. Yeah, especially if you're just walking, like walking your dog and you find this drone sitting there.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, uh yeah. I'm surprised it's laying there. I'm surprised somebody didn't snatch it up.
SPEAKER_06I'm surprised, and maybe that guy did after he took the video.
SPEAKER_07It could have.
SPEAKER_06I mean, I don't know what I would do with it. Like, what am I gonna do? Hold it for ransom.
SPEAKER_07I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. It'd just be cool.
SPEAKER_06You're gonna tinker with it, yeah. Tinker around. No, I'm not tinkering with it. I'm not a tinker.
SPEAKER_07No, no, unless you have the exact same model drone, you can part it out.
SPEAKER_06Well, yeah, I think that's built by Amazon. I don't think that's yeah, maybe it's not, maybe it's built by that off the shelf. You don't think that's off the shelf? Yeah, I don't think it's off the shelf.
SPEAKER_07So probably not. Probably not. All right, moving
Amazon Drones And Safety Concerns
SPEAKER_07on. So our next one, this is uh this this one's this this video is just crazy. First, first off, uh the interviewer is just annoying as all games.
SPEAKER_06I don't remember this one.
SPEAKER_07I'm I'm I'm so yeah, we'll play. It's about door dashing, but um, yeah, it it's it's to me, it's very cringy for both of them.
SPEAKER_05Oh boy.
SPEAKER_04You're door dashing to your car while you're door dashing.
SPEAKER_05Right. Door dashing all the time. You kind of have to eat while you're out driving.
SPEAKER_04Were you door dashing?
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_04What you have to eat, go out to eat while you're doing it. So you order door dash to your car while you're parked in a parking lot waiting for a door dash? What are you talking about?
SPEAKER_05Oh yeah. That's real life, yeah. No, you didn't. That's real life. You did not door dash to a parked car. Sometimes, yeah. Do what you gotta do when you're door dash.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, is that what you gotta do? You're in a car, you're near the restaurants, yeah.
SPEAKER_05But if sometimes you're too lazy to get out of the car and you get another order, what are the drive-through is? It's easier just to door dash it to your car.
SPEAKER_04Is it? Yeah, is it actually? Because that is a much longer wait than you're already in the car near the restaurant waiting for an order.
SPEAKER_05Right. So then you can play around on your phone and do other things.
SPEAKER_04Oh, buddy, you're trying to pay the bills for your two kids, want to be a 10-month-old. And you find this acceptable. What the f what the f dude? That's the craziest thing I've ever heard heard in my life. And reminder literally about 10 minutes ago, you opened with, My wife is bringing me into debt. You're door dashing to your car while you're door dashing.
SPEAKER_05Right.
SPEAKER_04Which, by the way, a single door dash to your own car, you have to work what an hour and a half to even make that back?
SPEAKER_05Just about almost two hours sometimes on a low day on the weekend if you're fully admitting this and fully accepting this.
SPEAKER_04Dude, this is the most insane thing I've ever heard in my life.
SPEAKER_05That's how you get in debt. You just don't think about it.
SPEAKER_04What did he say at the end?
SPEAKER_06Which one, who, which guy? Uh Caleb. Not not the wife. You did he say you twit?
SPEAKER_07No, he said tit.
SPEAKER_06Oh, I thought so.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. But anyway, first the the first of all, the the interviewer is very annoying to me.
SPEAKER_06You don't know who Caleb is? No, I do not. Dude, he's huge on YouTube and on TikTok. Like, he's a financial guy. So uh just to let you know, like I liked him at the beginning, but he really I wonder how legit this is. I think it might be legit, but I like he gets really dramatic and gets high-pitched Mickey Mouse. But before he started his thing to like help people get out of debt, now it's turned into like an influencer. Yeah. Um, but that's fucking stupid though.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, and the and that and the guy, the the Door Dasher guy, he's like, Yeah, yeah, that's what you do. Yeah, I'm like that. That's just I have to agree, that's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard of. If you're if you're if you're out working and you door door dash your that that's insane. That is that would be insane to me. If if if that's true, that's it. Yeah, if I that's why that's why I don't I don't think this is a setup because dude, you're going in to pick up somebody's food, it takes you two minutes to order your own food, right? Yeah, that that's that, and I mean. That's just crazy.
SPEAKER_06If if this is true, he's contributing to the gene pool by having children. That is a wrong yeah. Do not have children. Stop. Take the children away from him right now. Um if you're Door Dashing while you're DoorDash. Sorry. When you're if you order DoorDash while you're taking and then I can't even talk. It doesn't make any sense. Your mind can't wrap itself around it. How can somebody be this stupid? And and he's right. It probably takes him two hours to pay for a $20 meal.
SPEAKER_07Yeah.
SPEAKER_06When you when you're in all these restaurants. This can't be that can't be true.
SPEAKER_07I I yeah, I I don't I don't think so. I think it's a setup.
SPEAKER_06I mean, maybe, but yeah, no, I like that you want you're gonna see it on TikTok now. You're gonna see that guy, but he's got like my god, he's got like 700,000 subscribers.
SPEAKER_05Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_06Like he's fucking making bank. But uh yeah, I don't like him as much anymore. He really is gets a little annoying, but uh without
Viral DoorDash Controversies Unpacked
SPEAKER_06the Mickey Mouse voice, I think he'd be fine. I don't mind the Mickey Mouse voice because I do that when I get really excited. So I can't hate on him too much. So oh man.
SPEAKER_07All right. So yeah, moving on. So yeah, big Doordash night. So this uh this next one's gonna be two different videos. We're gonna play the first one and it kind of lays out the story, and then we'll play in the second one, which which is about the first video. So yeah, yeah, here's the first one.
SPEAKER_08Hey guys, so Doordash just deactivated me two days after I uh reported my sexual assault. Hey guys, I just lost my job and they won't tell me why. I uh they're supposed to send an email immediately after deactivation providing you the reason why and a link to uh appeal. And they didn't. So I contacted support and they made me sit on the phone with them for 50 minutes just to tell me that they can't tell me the reason why, and I have to just go ahead and appeal without knowing why. So my chances of getting my account back, they have my money in that account.
SPEAKER_09I was working, I was literally working, and they deactivated me. This is not this is related. They just punished me for posting about my sexual assault while DoorDashing. They just fired me and the police are doing nothing. I lost my job and the pol That was my only way to make money to pay my bills.
SPEAKER_06Oh wow. So she first of all, yeah, don't put your eggs in one basket. Babasu, oh not this damn story. Well, you know we had to talk about it because it's like viral everywhere now. So um, so yeah, so apparently she was had uh sexual assault while delivering, um, and we'll play the next video and then we'll talk about a little bit more because there's some some other things that have kind of come up since then, too.
SPEAKER_07So yeah, here's the second part. So this is just kind of a rebuttal. Yeah.
SPEAKER_09They just punished me for posting about my sexual assault while door dashing.
SPEAKER_01Because you weren't sexually assaulted. Like, oh, I maybe this video gets me in trouble, but she was not SA'd. Like, I know this video went super viral, and everybody's like, oh, poor dear. Guys, she was not SA'd. What happened was she was door dashing. The person that she was delivering to put on the instructions, leave my order at the door. However, when she got there, the door was slightly open and she went in the motherfucker's house. And in the house, in this person's own house, this person was passed out with their junk exposed. That's not SA. She wasn't essayed. It just was a person in their own house, not wearing pants, told her to leave the shit at the door, and she said, nah, I want to go in this person's house. And then recorded video in the home of the person who told her to leave the shit at the door. Yeah, you weren't essayed. You just invaded someone's privacy. You went into someone's house and was upset by what they were doing in their house, even though they told you to leave it at the fucking door. Yeah, you're not the victim. The person you recorded passed out in their own house. They're the victim. You're a creep.
SPEAKER_06Uh, real quick, if you're on TikTok and you're wondering why we're just staring, uh, the full show is at uh YouTube. Uh go to YouTube and uh search the Gig Economy podcast. Uh, we were watching a long video, so that's we don't have the full access to TikTok yet. So there we go.
SPEAKER_07Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Um, so yeah, that's the story. She recorded a video and I've seen it. Um and his well, no, I take that back. I've seen a snippet of it where he's passed out and they like blurred out his junk. But yeah, I don't know what she thought was gonna happen. Like, let's let's break it down for for the sexual or essay or whatever. Yeah, that was not.
SPEAKER_07No, that that's not. That is not you go in somebody else's house, you're not invited in, not told to come in, they're passed out, and you videotake them. Yeah, but there's hey, but it was against him, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_06I mean, yeah, exactly. It's like rev like, yeah, you put it on the internet of his dingling hanging out there. Um, so yeah, that is basically the gist of it. Um, he's finally come forward because he's getting an attorney. That's what he's doing. You haven't heard much from him, so I mean he's suing, which I think he's playing it smart. I he's playing it smart. Yeah, when you never hear the other party talk, and which I say he's come out, but he hasn't. I think he said he or he had retained an attorney. You they're talking to a lawyer. Yeah. Um, so yeah, I don't know why she what like so that first video, she was just she seemed really visibly upset and she was shaking, but I think she I don't know. I mean, like, was she just upset because she got fired? Probably not because of like she is supposedly was, you know, had seen his wiener and was yeah, I don't know what she was expecting to happen when she posted you know, yeah. I mean you can't post that shit and like like people are gonna see it. Like this is a viral world, and you post that stuff, you're done, you're cooked. Yeah, yeah, the internet is forever, it's undefeated.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, you you you you I just don't I I can't imagine what what her best case scenario was in that.
SPEAKER_06Like she she may have gotten away, not gotten away, but without getting in trouble, because now she's in trouble. If she wouldn't have recorded it, like let's say she took the whole thing out of it, she said she saw it, right? And um, I mean, but the guy video taping, yeah. That that's what that's over the line, way over the line. Yeah, Baba Sue, that was our third video because yeah, they kept deleting him because she kept showing the pic the video of him with his wiener out. Of course they're gonna delete delete it. Yeah, but apparently there's ring cameras showing that she pushed the door open of his ring cam. Oh man. So it's like, what did you expect to happen? Like I said, go back to what I was saying before. If she just talked about what she did, but didn't didn't uh post that video, people might have been on her side. Although they still would have said that's right.
SPEAKER_07What are you doing? You went, yeah, it's not such no matter what, video or no video, you go into some it said leave it at the door. Yeah, she she went in on her own accord.
SPEAKER_06Yes, yeah, that's but what I don't know why she like I bet she I wonder if it just you know we have those intrusive thoughts and curiosity, and she saw it cracked and she thought, you know, I'm just gonna peek in there. Why? I don't know why. Yeah to me that scared the shit out of me. I'd be like, I'm gonna get the fuck out of here. Like, I mean, I obviously if someone was crying help, help, I mean, even then, I probably would have called 911 and stayed back. Like, I mean, I'm what what are you even thinking?
SPEAKER_07But so Yeah, that this blows my mind. I mean, as a guy, I'm not gonna pop any anybody's door open and go in their house when I'm door when I'm delivering food or anything, and for her as a woman to do that, I think the only reason she posted that video is because she posted or so sorry, the one that we watched.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, she posted the original one, and DoorDash got sign of it and deactivator, and then she posted the one we watched saying, Oh, I did I got I was blah blah blah, and because she was panicking because she was stupid and shouldn't have posted that video.
SPEAKER_07You would have probably with the first one.
SPEAKER_06I think she was. I think young kids don't realize, like, yeah, they're they're trying to get likes, and maybe she thought it was funny. Yeah, like I don't believe this essay thing. I think she's only saying that because she got deactivated, and she's trying to figure out a way to like get her job back, and maybe she had worked all week and there's you know sixteen hundred dollars in there.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, because I mean there's no way that any anybody's gonna say, Oh, you were yeah, she was sexually assaulted.
SPEAKER_06Right to somebody's I think she posted it for fun, yeah, and trying to get to be funny and it's like, oh my god, look what I stumbled upon, and then when she got deactivated, yeah, she just flipped the script. So oh, her parents must be proud. I'd rather have my daughter be a stripper. All right.
SPEAKER_07Watch it with you. Yeah, no, yeah, you're right. Oh, goodness. All right. Uh now it is time for In the News.
SPEAKER_06Oh. Oh, we're good. That's all right. It cut out. I think I had stopped it. Yeah, try again. Waymo. Yeah, I think I had played it and then quick stopped it, so that's my bad. Good job, man.
SPEAKER_07That's all right. All right, so here we will watch uh our uh weekly Waymo in the news about uh Waymo being a little aggressive. Holy shitballs, holy cow. Play that one more time.
SPEAKER_06Okay, right in front of that bus. Yeah, look for the bus on the left.
Waymo Driving Behavior Caught On Video
SPEAKER_07Holy shit balls, holy cow.
SPEAKER_06Shit balls. God, I used to say that all the time. That that needs to come back. Shitballs. Yeah, that needs to come back. Holy shit balls. Oh, but yeah, that was I mean, I because somebody like I think in the article it said that they wanting Waymo to be a little bit, or maybe yeah, let me click on it. We're talking about last week. Was that last week?
SPEAKER_07Yeah, talking about maybe being more aggressive because that one pulled out into the emergency lane and and moved up one spot.
SPEAKER_06Oh, oh, yeah, yeah. I remember us talking about the aggressiveness of it. Um, but I mean, we've all waited at a green light and the car in front of you is dicking the dog and they're they're on their phone, and I've turned left. But that bus was not doing that.
SPEAKER_07The bus was moving. No, he was coming. That bus was coming. Yeah, he wasn't he wasn't hesitating to that Waymo just zipped right in front of me.
SPEAKER_06I mean, I would I would if I was in that Waymo, I would report it as an incident. Just be like, hey, that's that. I mean, I would never have done that personally, yeah. You know, and they that I mean it was right at the line, like it was moving. There's no way you shouldn't be fucking doing that. Although some hillbilly might be like, Yeah, let's go, you know, might be fine with it. I personally wouldn't be fine with it.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, no, I I would not be happy. I would not be happy as a hillbilly.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, yeah. Well, you're not a hillbilly. You're not a hillbilly. I mean, maybe you were back in the day, but you're definitely not a hillbilly now. No, I mean, are you pouring your oil in the backyard? Uh like after if you would change your oil in your car, would you put it pour it in the backyard? Yeah, exactly. You're not a hillbilly.
SPEAKER_07No, all right.
SPEAKER_06Oh, sorry. Yeah, so yeah, next uh so useful.
SPEAKER_07I know it's hard, it's hard to buy. I mean, you've only done this, you know, 300 episodes.
SPEAKER_06I know it's so hard to not do it. My bad.
SPEAKER_07So, yeah, we're gonna talk about octopus tablet. Uh, octopus tablet is a uh free tablet that they will give you, they'll actually pay you to put it in their car. Um, your your riders, uh, passengers can play games on there, uh, they can um tip you on the tip if you tip you in the tablet uh if if you hook it up to your Uber account. Uh, but passengers really seem to enjoy it, especially the late night crowd that's uh had a few drinks. They like to play the trivia against each other. And uh it's just a really good company. They will replace anything for free. You don't have to worry about it. If some you know you have the cable break, I've had a couple of my my charging cables break. You just request a new one, they send it to you. They said if you know somebody steals the tablet, don't worry about it, just let us know, they'll send you a new one. So, yeah, all you do is install it, hook it up, and then it's just passive money. If you're a full-time driver, you can make about a hundred dollars a month. Um, if you're a part-time driver, obviously obviously it's gonna be less than that. They pay you based upon how many games uh people play and how many passengers you have. But it's uh it's a great way to make some passive income. You really, once you set it up, you really don't have to do anything with it.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, absolutely. Link is in the description if you're doing right here. I don't know why you're not using this because it's you're losing money.
SPEAKER_07It is zero hassle and you're definitely losing money. Yeah. Uh so next up we're gonna show a very dedicated Amazon Amazon delivery person.
SPEAKER_06Oh, there's no are we muted? Oh no, we're not. So for audio, it's basically flooded in the streets.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, it's weird, it's real flooded.
SPEAKER_06I want to know where his van is.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, he's gotta be a couple blocks away. Yeah, he's got no no no shoes on.
SPEAKER_06There's no way I would do this.
SPEAKER_07Pants rolled up. Yeah, there's like a couple feet of water covering the street.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, there's no way I would do this. And if if that person is a flex worker, okay, but usually the DSPs, when stuff like this happens, they they'll they'll pull you back. As much as they ride your ass to the you know to the ground because they want you to get your shit done. They also know that Amazon's
Octopus Tablet: Passive Driver Income
SPEAKER_06pretty strict on if stuff like that happens to uh to do it. But yeah, I wouldn't do that. Nope, nope. I'm gonna be going home. So I give that person, I don't know, a man or woman, I give them uh the dedication award. Yep.
SPEAKER_07Very good, very good.
SPEAKER_06I was gonna say we should do an asshole of the day segment, and but that person wouldn't get the asshole of the day because they're dedicated.
SPEAKER_07Definitely not. They were very dedicated.
SPEAKER_06Who's the asshole of the day? Probably that girl.
SPEAKER_07That girl. They would have to be for today's show.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, I mean, we're not even done.
SPEAKER_07And it's a toss-up between him and the person who's door dashing to themselves while they're outdoors.
SPEAKER_06Oh, God, no, that is the asshole.
SPEAKER_07That's the asshole of the day.
SPEAKER_06That for sure. He is the asshole of the day.
SPEAKER_07You're gonna complain because your wife's getting you in debt and you're you're doordashing while you're outdoor dashing.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, you're you're a stupid idiot. Yeah. Uh, I think we skipped one. Did you catch that?
SPEAKER_07I did not.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, we cat skipped the uh the tip guarantee.
SPEAKER_07No, that's next. That's number nine. Uh nope. Wait, wait a minute, wait a minute.
SPEAKER_06It's actually number seven, but uh apparently I deleted number seven.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, there we go.
SPEAKER_06You're good.
SPEAKER_07Uh let me see.
SPEAKER_06Do I have I don't think there's a picture, just an article.
SPEAKER_07So, yeah, so anyway, um, we all know uh if you've done food delivery um of any kind, you know that uh there are people who will tip bait you, they'll do it on groceries as well, any kind of delivery. They'll put a tip on there, try to get their order delivered, and then they have a chance to take it back. And sometimes they will do that. So coming up, Uber is going to offer a tip guarantee for any kind of career work for them. This says uh for them, uh starting in November, they're rolling out a new tip guarantee. It's supposed to give more confidence with every trip. So when a delivery trip includes a tip, you'll see a guarantee badge, and it says the amount you see on there, including the tip, is the amount you'll receive after the delivery. If there happens to be a change in the tip amount after the delivery, Uber will eat that difference. And if there's a tip increase, as always, you get to keep 100%.
SPEAKER_06Oh, we'll never see that, they'll just pocket that. We all know that.
SPEAKER_07So they're gonna start rolling it out uh on delivery trips in November. Um, of course, they roll it out, you know, certain cities or certain markets at a time. It didn't roll out in the whole whole United States. Um yeah, starting in November says we built this tip guarantee because you've told us loud and clear about how unpredictability around tips adds unnecessary stress. So this is our response to that. So uh we've we've talked about it through the years, you know, the the the tip baiting, and we've all had it happen to us.
SPEAKER_06Uh two two things. One that the guarantee only applies on completed delivery trips placed through Uber, so third party stuff, which what would be give me an example of a third party that like I mean,
Tip Guarantee Coming To Uber Delivery
SPEAKER_06I'm sure there's a lot of them, but what am I thinking that would use delivery as Uber as the delivery service, but you order on let's say like the Pizza Places website? Is that kind of what they're talking about?
SPEAKER_07Yeah, some I think some of the restaurants do that where you order through their website, but it's true.
SPEAKER_06I just answered my own question. Um and then I've only had this happen like maybe one or two times, and and and one of the times I think they just reduced it a little bit. So I don't think it's very common. Although I'm not grinding Uber Eats on the weekends either. So right.
SPEAKER_07And and I'm the same way. I I know I've had it, I remember I've had it happen, but again, it's one of those things uh I don't look back at stuff. Um you're you're we're moving ahead, doing new trips and stuff. It could happen and I wouldn't notice it probably.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, I mean I base it it's so funny, like because this is gonna happen on Walmart Spark too. I base my income for the day on what I've earned. If they take it away later, I guess I I don't know. I don't ever go back and look uh if they've taken it away. Um yeah, I don't, I don't, I mean, I have on Uber Eats, but like I don't regularly look back.
SPEAKER_07I guess who's got time to do that?
SPEAKER_06I mean, unless it's like two or three orders and I know approximately I had how much I'm supposed to get, and you know how it takes like an hour or whatever to process.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, it would have to be a noticeable enough to do it. Yeah, it'd be I'd be like, yeah, like, hey, wait a minute.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, what happened here? If I had thought I was gonna make 30 and then at night I just happen to look at it and there's 22 in there, I'd be like, okay, something's not right. But other than that, like especially Walmart Spark, I mean that shit can go for a couple of days before those tips process. So I'm like, I'm not looking in there. I'm on to other shit. So exactly. But I I'm glad they're doing this. I'm I mean, I I I can't shit on them too much.
SPEAKER_07No, no. I mean, yeah, I mean, it's a it's definitely a nice step in you know in the right direction. Uh especially if you're a big you know, big time food delivery person. Yeah. That's your main gig.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, I mean it's nice to know that what you see is what you get. Um, but again, like Bubba Soussa's Chipotle or Panera or whatever. Um so I guess there is quite now that I think about it, there's probably a lot of third party party, especially the the bigger companies.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, yeah, the chains.
SPEAKER_06Um so at least you'll notice if you see that badge. Although then it'll I don't know. I don't even know if it would make me go back and look at the other shit. I'm just like, I I got too much shit cooking. Like I don't care that much. Yeah, it's not gonna be that much.
SPEAKER_07And what are you gonna do? Yeah.
SPEAKER_06You okay, take one more order just to cover your basis. If you're worried about that, you know, whatever. My goal is like, I know it's not a lot, it's a hundred bucks for me on the weekends per day. And so, like, if I gotta do one more order, I guess, but yeah, not worried about it too much.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_07All right. Uh let's see. So the next one here, uh go through real quick. This is a new feature from Uber. It's called uh three-way chat. So it's a new way to stay connected on trips. This is uh for the audio listeners, it's just a uh screen that says, you know, uh online. It says, Hi Larry, we've added a new feature to help you communicate with parents more easily on trips for teens or for someone added to their family profile. Whenever you accept a teen ride, you'll now have access to a three-way chat with the writer and their guardian, all within the app. This will also work for all trips under their family profile. You can use it to confirm pickup details, share updates, or clarify instructions all in one group chat with everyone involved. This added connection helps make family trips smoother for everyone involved. So probably something I will never use.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. Do you have any teenagers? Um, you might have some grandkids.
SPEAKER_07No, no, no. I mean, as a driver, I mean, I might pick up some teenagers.
SPEAKER_06Oh, yeah, yeah. I guess yeah, I was thinking, yeah, okay, I'm stupid. Um well.
SPEAKER_07No, I don't have any teenagers anymore.
SPEAKER_06Well, I'm just saying, I'm thinking, like, when would you do this? Like your older kids get married, have kids, and then that yeah, well, you'll be bad.
SPEAKER_07But yeah, yeah, our youngest turned 23 in the last week.
SPEAKER_06So yeah. I think this is another good thing by Uber. Like, group chats eliminate all this middleman shit, and it's just like, hey, this is what's going on. Everyone's on the same page.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, you have some teenager being a smart aleck to you, then the parents can see it.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, and they can jump in and say, yo, what's happening? Um, I think I think that's yeah, you're grounded. Oh, I'm deactivating your Uber account. Um, yeah, I can I can see how that would be beneficial. Uh as far as like, you know, my daughter, I mean, I don't know if she's ever been in an Uber, and she's almost 18, and at that point, she can take an Uber on her own. But um 18 already. That's yeah, December, dude. She's a senior this year, yeah.
SPEAKER_07Man, that's nuts.
SPEAKER_06I know it's crazy. A lot of lot of stuff cooking right now. But yeah, she's gonna be 18. So wow. Um, yeah, she she thinks she's tough stuff. Let me tell you. No, she's a good kid. She's a good kid.
Three-Way Chat For Teen And Family Rides
SPEAKER_06Uh, but yeah, I think this is good. Um, I don't can't see again, even for me. Like, I don't think my maybe my younger son, I don't know when he's gonna be able to drive, but um, I think it's just good to have everyone on the same page.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just another tool, you know, that's available.
SPEAKER_06All right, let's do this last one and then we'll save the other one for the the the awesome the best article for Patreon at 810. Let's do number let's do number 10 and we'll skip number 11.
SPEAKER_07All right, here we go. We'll play another video. Uh it's another Amazon flex driver.
SPEAKER_06No me no sound on this one either. So he creeps by this car. God damn it.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. He's a pretty good sized dude. He's a narrow walkway.
SPEAKER_06So he's he's he's looking at the mirror, he's wondering what to do, and we all know that he doesn't do the right thing. Well, we don't know.
SPEAKER_07But he's walking back trying to go out and he bumps into the mirror and it did it snaps clean.
SPEAKER_06I mean, he yeah, I I don't know why it snapped clean. Like he must have slammed it and it I don't know.
SPEAKER_07There were people in the comments that were like, man, that thing was glued on or taped on.
SPEAKER_06Because those are pretty beefy now. Yeah. So he leaves it on the porch or down and then just walks away. Just if if something like that happens, yeah, just knock on the door. Knock on the door. My when I did lawn care, my bosses were like, Listen, you're gonna well, they didn't say the F-word because they were holy rollers, but they're like, You're gonna mess up. Please knock on the door and say, Listen, I messed up. I'm gonna, we're gonna get this straightened out. If I can't fix it today, Matt and Steve are gonna, my bosses, they're gonna take care of it. They were really big on like, hey, we know you're gonna make mistakes. Don't hide it from us because it just makes us look bad.
SPEAKER_07Right, right.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, nobody gains anything by that.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, it just makes it makes it that much worse. You're compounding the problem.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, I mean, I I bet I had to knock on doors maybe like five or ten times because honestly, like I mean, I've scraped a few cars with my machine, like my boobs out, and I got a little loose, and like and normally they're like, it's fine, it's an old, I mean, it's it's whatever, it's not that big of a deal.
SPEAKER_07But they're hopped up on those monster energies, right?
SPEAKER_06Or I'll go in an area that I shouldn't have and get stuck, and then I gotta pull that shit out, and it's like it's like mud heaven, and I'm like, listen, I will be back tomorrow to fix this because like you know, it's just it's just do the right thing. That's their motto. Do the right thing. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07So there's no reason not to do that.
SPEAKER_06If even if you're a flex driver, just knock on the door. People, people are much more uh forgiving if you're just up front with them.
SPEAKER_07Sure, yeah. They might not, I mean, not maybe happy that you broke their mirror, but they're gonna be a lot, they're gonna they're gonna be a lot happier than would be if they just come out and like, oh man, that dude broke my mirror. You know, they go back and look at the video and he's broke it and walked away.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, they're gonna be like, what the fuck, dude? Yeah, so what would you do? So interesting, like I feel like as a flex worker, you're independent contractor, you break that mirror. Amazon's not gonna fix that, right? Yeah, I mean, they're gonna say, well, he's an independent contractor, you have to go after him. So I feel like you're on the hook for that. But with the DSPs, they actually work for a company.
SPEAKER_07I would feel like it's the company's card, they'd be covered.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, because we don't really have any like workmen's comp, not workman's comp. That's not the right insurance I'm talking about, but liability. Or maybe, maybe we do, maybe we do through Amazon. I don't know. I should probably know that. Yeah. I honestly probably should. I don't know. I don't know if we have any like damage liability through the app somehow. I mean, I maybe we do.
SPEAKER_07I would think, yeah, maybe through our own insurance. I don't know.
SPEAKER_06Well, there's
Amazon Mirror Mishap And Doing Right
SPEAKER_06got to be something because people would be pissed that we're just raw dogging it through these communities with yeah, with no liability. Just woo-ha, you know, yeah, woo-ha and just tearing shit up and like, sorry, Charlie, and not my fucking problem. Call Amazon. Can't do anything about it. Yeah, I I can't believe that. I mean, I know there's liability for like your car, like if you get in an accident and stuff, but yeah, yeah, there's probably some property coverage in there somewhere. It's probably like five hundred dollars or something stupid if you like back into a mailbox.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, of course. That mirror probably costs two thousand dollars now.
SPEAKER_06Oh god. I am dreading. Well, I'm dreading two things. Uh well, I've already had to put a thousand dollars of tech stuff in my car after warranty, which fucking pissed me off. Um but that car is not made anymore. So if I get in a wreck, yeah, like parts. Yeah, it's gonna be a bit that's shit, it's gonna sit there for six months, you know, or or um, you know, I don't know. I'm just yeah, I I worry about that. I have nothing's really happened, but like that that that is an issue for me. I'm worried if it gets and if it gets total, it's fine. I just go buy something else. But yeah, um, yeah, anyways, car talk from Larry and Jason.
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