The drug war in a nutshell ladies and gentlemen.

The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.

How many stars do I have to give my Uber driver till they get paid sick days, paid vacation, healthcare and a pension?

There is a non violent solution to this, I'm just not smart enough to know what that is.

Sure

Body cams for police? Huge deal guys! How we gonna pay for this? Oh gee my body cam was off judge my bad

#wholesomeHN

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I used to work GrubHub for a year. I even moved up to the catering delivery but it still sucked. Let me try to explain why.

When you tip with your credit card through grubhub, 99% of the time it goes to grubhub and it never reaches the driver. Grubhub guarantees a hourly wage, but to keep your tips that you have to earn more then your hourly rate. This means the driver won't receive any tips until he/she makes themselves free for grubhub. Pretty ingenious IMO, make the driver a contractor so you don't pay payroll tax, and the drivers basically work to make themselves free for you to hire.

I'll break it down for you how it works because I was confused for a long while about how it works (which is probably by design).

You work 8 hours for grubhub. For brevity, lets assume in your area grubhub pays $10 a hour, the mileage they pay you is 25 cents a mile (from restaurant to customer only, you don't get anything driving to restaurant) and the delivery fee is $2. You deliver 10 deliveries during that time, your (payable) mileage is 40 miles:

You worked 8 hours, so your hourly wage is $80. Now lets see how much in tips you need to make before you can start keeping your tips!

Delivery fees - $20 Mileage - $10

You would need to make $50 in tips to start actually getting your tips.

Now I'm getting a new pizza delivery job where the hourly rate is a couple bucks an hour lower, so my hourly rate in this example would be $8, so while I would only make $64 dollars from my hourly rate, I get to keep my delivery fees, mileage, and tips on top of that.

The Grubhub I worked for spreads the work around so that people earn the minimum hourly rate. Why wouldn't they? it lowers their labor costs to near zero.

It's not that I want the tips, I really do think tipping is a horrendous system and it is "my fault" for signing up to work for them (I was incredibly desperate for money). I just feel it is disingenuous to call it a tip when it should be called a "please pay my driver's hourly wage for me" fund. I know that is basically what a tip is, but when someone tips me very well I have this sick feeling in my stomach because they wanted it to go to me not grubhub. That is why I'm left grubhub.

If you have to use grubhub tip in cash, or better yet just don't tip. I don't care I am making the minimum hourly rate 99% of the time. If grubhub can't survive without stealing the credit card tips from their drivers it shouldn't be around.

Source: I'm currently involved in a class action lawsuit over GrubHub's labor violations.

If the wealthy are the only one with disposable income, it makes sense the market will conform to their needs.

"Well if I give you a raise, you won't get more money! Get back to work!"

We have a waiting period here in the USA when you purchase a firearm from a store. Is the waiting period not long enough in your opinion?

- Aldous Huxley

From my understanding, 100% worker owned and operated co-ops that give the average worker more democratic control in the work place.