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t job in which you inevitably have to pay your own fuel/maintenance costs out of your already sdibbers006 said:
Me neither. Hence the etiquette query.
I don't want to be on the drivers blacklist, because despite living within spitting distance of an A-road, the house is quite tricky to locate.
I used to eat when it was the local Chinese or Indian as I'd pay cash and round it up to the nearest tenner when handing over cash. I don't want to be on the drivers blacklist, because despite living within spitting distance of an A-road, the house is quite tricky to locate.
Now its just eat and the rest I wouldn't. The drivers create a massive nuisance round here collecting orders for McDonald's, KFC etc as for some reason they're not allowed to park in the restaurants car parks so they dump their cars wherever they like. Normally blocking traffic.
I don't really understand why people use just eat but that's off topic now lol.
I used to deliver for Domino's and there wasn't really a pattern as to who tips and who doesn't... Whether cash or card, nice area or rough area it was pretty variable to be honest. Tips weren't that much though, usually under a fiver a night.
On particularly cold and wet nights (I was on a bike) it would sometimes be a bit more.
To be honest it wasn't a bad job, they obviously provided the bike, and fairly decent bike gear as well.
The pay was minimum wage though and the hours were variable and never guaranteed so I ended up moving on after a few months.
Personally I always use cash because if it's cash you can be sure the guy himself actually gets to keep it!
On particularly cold and wet nights (I was on a bike) it would sometimes be a bit more.
To be honest it wasn't a bad job, they obviously provided the bike, and fairly decent bike gear as well.
The pay was minimum wage though and the hours were variable and never guaranteed so I ended up moving on after a few months.
Personally I always use cash because if it's cash you can be sure the guy himself actually gets to keep it!
Order takeaways occasionally but never tip. This option doesn't appear to be on the poll.
Delivering takeaways seems like an easy, zero-skill job that presumably already pays prior to any tipping. They are obliged to deliver the goods, and I've already paid for the delivery, so why reward them additionally for trudging ten feet from their car to my door? They didn't cook the food. They didn't devise the menu or the original recipe for whatever I ordered. They didn't go out and buy the ingredients. As far as I'm concerned the transaction is already complete.
The notion of tipping gig-economy workers for menial tasks seems like a bit of an Americanism.
Delivering takeaways seems like an easy, zero-skill job that presumably already pays prior to any tipping. They are obliged to deliver the goods, and I've already paid for the delivery, so why reward them additionally for trudging ten feet from their car to my door? They didn't cook the food. They didn't devise the menu or the original recipe for whatever I ordered. They didn't go out and buy the ingredients. As far as I'm concerned the transaction is already complete.
The notion of tipping gig-economy workers for menial tasks seems like a bit of an Americanism.
NapierDeltic said:
Order takeaways occasionally but never tip. This option doesn't appear to be on the poll.
Delivering takeaways seems like an easy, zero-skill job that presumably already pays prior to any tipping. They are obliged to deliver the goods, and I've already paid for the delivery, so why reward them additionally for trudging ten feet from their car to my door? They didn't cook the food. They didn't devise the menu or the original recipe for whatever I ordered. They didn't go out and buy the ingredients. As far as I'm concerned the transaction is already complete.
The notion of tipping gig-economy workers for menial tasks seems like a bit of an Americanism.
The poll title doesn't mention takeaway, or gig economy?Delivering takeaways seems like an easy, zero-skill job that presumably already pays prior to any tipping. They are obliged to deliver the goods, and I've already paid for the delivery, so why reward them additionally for trudging ten feet from their car to my door? They didn't cook the food. They didn't devise the menu or the original recipe for whatever I ordered. They didn't go out and buy the ingredients. As far as I'm concerned the transaction is already complete.
The notion of tipping gig-economy workers for menial tasks seems like a bit of an Americanism.
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