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A while back, I came to the conclusion that in spite of the fact that I make more money than I\u2019ve ever made in my career, I basically still have no money when it comes to any sort of leisure or just wanting to treat yo-self on rare instances.\u00a0 To no surprise, it\u2019s all going towards my children or expenses related to my children, and this is one of those instances where I think about how much simpler life can be for those without kids, not to say I have any regrets at all for having them they\u2019re perfect and I love them until the end of existence.<\/span><\/p>\n But I don\u2019t really do well when it comes to financial anxiety, and a lot of my general well-being is often tied to how comfortable I feel about paying bills while staying out of debt, and over the last few months, as much as I loathe and avoid it at all costs, I\u2019ve had to carry partial balances over with my credit cards, simply because my outgoing money was surpassing incoming money, no matter how much I try to avoid it.<\/span><\/p>\n In the prior two years, I made a pretty penny on doing online surveys for nickels and dimes, enough to make people take notice in like the ten new wrestling blet replicas I was able to get with all of them, but that well has kind of dried up in the sense that the circumstances in which I was able to do them aren\u2019t really applicable anymore, because my kids command a lot of attention, and I can\u2019t absent mindedly bullshit my way through multiple surveys a day like I used to.<\/span><\/p>\n Needless to say, I had this revelation while I was in the car one day, that my household now has a third car that\u2019s kind of dormant, and how it would be an ideal ride if I were to get into online food delivery.\u00a0 It\u2019s small, gets great mileage and is pretty fun and agile to drive, and it would be getting some use, instead of just sitting around deteriorating in dormancy.\u00a0 Plus, the take home from doing online food delivery would be exponentially larger than doing online surveys, and it was something that I could do when the girls were down for the night.<\/span><\/p>\n And so I signed up for both DoorDash and UberEats, and over the last 6-7 weeks, I\u2019ve embarked on moonlighting as a delivery driver.\u00a0 Suffice to say, I\u2019ve learned a lot in that span, but overall I can\u2019t say that it\u2019s been that negative of an experience as far as wanting to make some side cash for only as much effort as driving around picking up and dropping off bags of food takes.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s also been giving me a lot of perspective of being on the other side of the transaction, and naturally a remark like that isn\u2019t said if it wasn\u2019t to commentate on the sheer lack of respect and consideration customers have for their drivers.\u00a0 Which is all a more eloquent way of saying that the vast majority of customers are a bunch of cheap motherfuckers who by all right shouldn\u2019t deserve to eat if they\u2019re unwilling to pay the people that bring their food to them.<\/span><\/p>\n For every generous tip I get from a customer who seems to recognize that I beat the estimated time, took into consideration the swing of their doors when placing their shit so they didn\u2019t hit it, or other little things I do to make sure everything is right, I will have probably like 6-7 cheap motherfuckers who tip the bare minimum it takes for their order to not get outright rejected by all other drivers.\u00a0 Like in 98%* of instances, I won\u2019t even entertain a request where my take away is $2.75 or less because there\u2019s a 100% chance that $0.00 is a tip and you\u2019ll just be getting the base fare, and these are the shitheads that truly don\u2019t deserve to eat if they\u2019re not willing to pay for any labor.<\/span><\/p>\n *why not 100%?\u00a0 Because sometimes UberEats will do these quests that give you bonus money for completion of trips, regardless of their amount, so if I\u2019m teetering on a quest completion, I\u2019ll take a shit fare if it means getting a bonus afterward<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n But the majority of tips that I accrue are somewhere in the $2-3 range, and these are orders that looking at the things they\u2019re ordering, are usually well over $20-30, meaning on average, these are barely 10% tips.<\/span><\/p>\n The point is, it\u2019s a good thing that I\u2019m doing this as a side hustle and not relying on this to be my primary income, because I think I would go insane by how much passive abuse I\u2019m getting from cheap-ass customers who use the veil of anonymity to justify being cheap assholes to have their shit delivered to their doors.<\/span><\/p>\n Another thing I\u2019ve observed is that initially, I thought doing this, I\u2019d be exposed to a lot of new restaurants where I could passively learn about through delivering their stuff.\u00a0 I mean I\u2019ve found a few places that I wasn\u2019t really aware of, but when it really comes down to it, I\u2019d have to say the majority of the drops that I\u2019m doing are usually delivering someone their fast food, or Chinese food, or chain-establishment pizza, which really befuddles me, because I\u2019m usually passing a number of Chinese or pizza joints on the way to these delivery spots, so I have no idea how these algorithms are when it comes to people and their choice of food.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019ve learned that chain joints like McDonald\u2019s, Popeyes and other massive chains don\u2019t really give two shits about service time and having an order ready for pickup, because no amount of negative feedback to them is going to really improve their operations, so when I\u2019m able to be picky about things, I try to tell myself to avoid them, because the bane of my existence is waiting for these businesses to prepare orders, and not a single night has gone by where there hasn\u2019t been one pickup that hasn\u2019t made me wait because I\u2019m fast and they\u2019re slow, and as far as I\u2019m concerned, they\u2019re the ones who cost me the chances at getting better tips on account of being extra early.<\/span><\/p>\n Favorite words to see<\/em>: Leave at door<\/span> Overall, the experience hasn\u2019t been that bad.\u00a0 I\u2019m making some side cash in about 60-90 minutes on the nights I decide to go out, and I can usually do like 2-3 drops whenever I do go out.\u00a0 It\u2019s a decent way to clear my head and do something mindless, but at least make money in the process, and with these funds, I\u2019ll hopefully be able to supplement my income for the ever-mounting expenditures that seem to be creeping into my life, or maybe even sack some of it away for some me-shit like a new raptop or inevitably, moar wrestling blets.<\/span><\/p>\n And to get in front of an inevitable question: yes, I have taken a French fry from a customer\u2019s order before.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t tip, Chick fil-A didn\u2019t seal the bag, I was hungry, and I didn\u2019t know how to cancel orders yet, so in order to feel like I was getting any sort of retribution to an asshole, I totally took a French fry out of their order.\u00a0 So the picture of Johnny Lawrence from Cobra Kai<\/em> isn\u2019t entirely just coincidental.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A while back, I came to the conclusion that in spite of the fact that I make more money than I\u2019ve ever made in my career, I basically still have no money when it comes to any sort of leisure or just wanting to treat yo-self on rare instances.\u00a0 To no surprise, it\u2019s all going … Continue reading Observations of doing online food 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\nLeast favorite words to see<\/em>: Meet at door<\/span>
\nYou guys are assholes:<\/em> Customer PIN required<\/span><\/p>\n