Door Dash workers in New York get huge wage increase

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{{ New York City gig economy workers just scored a significant victory as Mayor Eric Adams and the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) announced on Sunday a new minimum wage of $17.96 per hour, effective on July 12th, for food delivery workers (via Quartz). That wage will grow to $19.96 on April 1st, 2025.

The new pay rate bumps workers up from their current $7.09 per hour minimum wage, and when it reaches its full rate, it amounts to a near-tripled base pay for more than 60,000 food delivery workers in the city, with annual inflation-adjusted raises.}}

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Prediction: Rather than face increased cost of millions of dollars investors in delivery services will spend billions of dollars on attempting and mostly failing to develop automated delivery drone tech.

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Or more folks will cease to use delivery services.

Here in the hinterlands of Charlotte NC, we don’t order delivery at all. Between the delivery fee and the tip, I can be looking at doubling the cost. Not worth it to us.

Rob
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

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Some people are amazingly foolish with their money. I take it as a given the vast majority on this board are not that foolish, and can’t even grasp how foolish some people are.

Example, I was standing in a Tim Horton’s ordering my lunch: sandwich, chips and pop, for approx $10, (yes, I know I could eat at home for cheaper, but eating at home would not offer the variety of fresh items, and it gets me out of the house, but I digress)

Anyway, standing behind me was a Doordash driver, to pick up an order for one doughnut. One doughnut. The girls at Tim’s told me they get delivery orders that small all the time.

Steve

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Are we talking a bear claw or a simple plain doughnut?

Andy

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That would also be a reduction in medical and funeral expenses.

People that cook at home live longer. I really need a link for that. The obviousness might be challenging for some.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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I am careful about what I eat at restaurants and it can be DARN HARD to order a meal with reasonable calories!

Sometimes you just grin and bear it for social reasons…

Rob
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

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When we hear about the French eating out a lot with butter etc…the 60 Minutes show and endless other American commentators…

They never say, 'oh and the portions are not doubled in France for ejits to consume".

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Does Tim’s have “simple plain doughnut”? I don’t recall. iirc, what he was sent there for was out of stock. He called the client, gave the client the options, and took something else. Whatever it was, it wasn’t big. It fit in the usual Tim’s single doughnut bag.

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I would never use DoorDash either, but quite a few of my neighbors do. My dog often finds abandoned orders in the bushes (I assume because the driver can’t find the address.) Don’t know who eats the cost when that happens, the customer, the driver, or the restaurant.

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At least many restaurants give you calories to work with.

The reason I avoid restaurants is the darn salt content.

Not a restaurant, but we tried Costco’s Rotisserie Chicken Noodle soup one time. They list ingredients, but not the nutritional information. So I looked it up on the interweb and 1 cup of the soup contains 909mg of sodium, 40% of your daily allowance! And I can pack in a lot more than 1 cup! LOL

I do enjoy going out occasionally, but restaurants can ruin your budget AND your health.

Nutritional information takes the fun out of food shopping, but it’s a life saver (if you know how to read and care about staying above ground).

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It’s not always simple stupidity on the part of the person ordering. Sometimes it’s “stupidity” on the part of the service and their promotions.

For example, a delivery service gave a friend three coupons for $15 off a $20+ order. The coupons were expiring shortly. So she placed 3 separate orders for a $21.95 item instead of one order for 3 of them. In this case, she put a note in order #2 and order #3 saying that the three orders are all for the same address and should use the same delivery person. Sure enough, two of the items came with one delivery person and the other one came with a different delivery person (who stopped at 3 or 4 different places before coming and the item was cold by the time it arrived!)

Sometimes they have “free delivery” promos, so that’s possibly where the one donut order came from.

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In a somewhat related case, Florida has exempted minor league baseball players from the minimum wage. Apparently, the Florida minimum of $10/hr is too much of a “burden” on the “JCs”.

Seems there is considerable overlap among advocates of the legislation, and baseball team ownership.

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Well, that was fascinating. It would seem that minor league players are now being represented by the MLB Players Union and now have a union contract. Minor league baseball players get their first contract - CBS News

The rookie pay scale is $19,800 for the season (which is probably about $850/week) and they get guaranteed housing or a stipend.

From my previous awareness of the conditions of minor league ball - which is really from many, many, many years ago - the life of a minor league ball-player has improved considerably.

JimA

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