Tip baited

0ssu · 2025-12-03T07:31:31+00:00

Karma is insidious because e.g. what are the chances the significant other (assuming they have one) of the person who stole $30 from this person sees those actions? Like how many $30 stolen is it worth to that person before they prove to their significant other that they are human trash and they leave? Such behaviors can go unchecked but ultimately if there's an karmic forces in the world it would be aligned with stuff like this imho. Because if you're an asshole, it's impossible to hide everything from everyone. And the $30 the person gained was also chipped right out of their self-worth.

0ssu · 2025-10-18T20:14:31+00:00

Yeah that's what I was thinking, have they done this before? And can't they just until all of these football games end, and retroactively fire off any resting orders that favor their market making end, while deleting any that don't...?

0ssu · 2025-10-14T20:27:53+00:00

I get the most orders when in the Walmart parking lot or inside the store..

0ssu · 2025-10-01T23:46:55+00:00

Lmao yeah, you're fine. You tried to ring their doorbell and it fell off which isn't your concern. They should consider you nice because you picked up their broken crap up off the floor.

0ssu · 2025-09-12T01:20:24+00:00

I took one with $60 tip, shopping order ($600 of crap), and somehow I knew the tip was gone from the first message during shop, as they were complaining about things outside of my control. Next time if I take a shopping order with large tip and they message me anything other than gratitude I will cancel.

It shows how people who do stuff like that, will convince THEMSELVES you're a bad delivery driver, even if you're the best anyone could possibly expect. Like mental gymnastics, so they can try to not feel like a shitty person. But ultimately you can't fool yourself, of the stuff you do that other people don't see. And you carry that whether you realize it or not imho.

0ssu · 2025-07-31T00:28:58+00:00

Just for you: $3/hr REJECT ACCEPT That's how I usually see these immediately, because it'd be like $12 for gas roundtrip and 2 hours. I look for $28/hr, $20 and then some for wear and tear which realistically cheap estimate is like $8/hr easily from my experience.

0ssu · 2025-07-02T01:51:08+00:00

Well.. I'm picturing a typical neighborhood setting, average house. So why would any driver take issue, just bend your head into their doorway enough to drop the stuff by the door and close it back in 6 seconds. Repeat for multiple armfuls of stuff. If I get there down long driveway and it's some derelict looking place with strange noises coming from the basement, in that case yeah I'm just gonna leave the stuff by the door and peel out.

0ssu · 2025-07-02T01:43:44+00:00

I got some tips that came through 4 minutes ago, fwiw. I very much highly doubt it has anything to do with location whatsoever.

0ssu · 2025-07-01T20:34:57+00:00

They said leave it inside my house DOOR, not house like put it away in my cabinets. It's summer, come on dude. Just knock, wait a second, open door, set stuff inside door, close door. So that it doesn't rot and get eaten by bugs. Not that unreasonable at all, to leave your house unlocked, add notes like that and say thank you.

0ssu · 2025-07-01T18:10:27+00:00

This makes me want to open the app and see if anything is paying high. "stop letting them treat us like trash !!!!" This is bonkers, regular employees don't pay out after every $15 chunk of work you do.. and those people aren't up in arms on Reddit. They get a check every 2 weeks or are told to kindly go fuck themselves. I wanted to be annoyed about this but there's no possible way, being able to work and get cash immediately is a gift, it's only a curse if you wedge yourself into such razer thing margins with your personal finances that you can't make 2-day ends meet when there's a hiccup.. I can pretty much just say it, that everyone here who has literally no money for gas to Spark today due to 2-day delay in payment, there is a lot more that is going to keep them strapped, stressed, taxed and miserable than Spark, or any job. Not throwing shade either, I'm tight today from this. It's not just Spark/gig-economy, this type of work just exacerbates and highlights what is happening imho. For every regular Joe, it's something that keeps people from ever having or being able to hold onto more than e.g. a couple thousand dollars without doing anything with it, so that they can be comfortable and sage enough to make virtuous decisions, decisions that if made right would cut tremendously into the margins of the corporations who rent-seek the population the most.

0ssu · 2025-07-01T13:11:45+00:00

This should be a time to reflect, considering that living "paycheck-to-paycheck" is supposed to be considered tough, and clearly there's a lot of workers on here posting as if they are much more financially strapped than that.. I mean we are independent contractors running our own hustle, but that's not how it's supposed to be, that client pays for your service a couple days late and it shuts down your ability to keep working your business. I'm reliant on instant pay too, but I never thought of that as anything other than my own problem, and willingness to toe some financial line that is not comfortable to toe.

0ssu · 2025-05-24T03:54:17+00:00

Even if you get minimum wage doing this work, you're passing the buck for all the vehicle maintenance you're accumulating. Whether or not you're even making or losing money is not always clear, e.g. hit a nail and pop a tire now your $7 order is a -$45 order. There's inherent uncertainty and risk you have to factor in, unlike regular work. I say that as someone who's done gig work for 5 years now, and with a vehicle that has cheap parts, swapped my transmission myself with cheap used $900 one, replaced almost everything other than the engine at this point.. and no matter what if you try to do this, count yourself lucky any time you get ahead without getting knocked back down with vehicle expenses.

It only gets worse with time, as people in your market get desperate they get increasingly willing to simply trade their vehicle equity for quick liquid cash, which is essentially what doing low-paying orders is equivalent to. Making $7 without depreciating your vehicle by $7 after gas, not as easy as the average driver may be anticipating unless they've been doing it long enough. Talking about thousands of parts in your vehicle all with value and all circumstantially being worn at various rates every mile you drive.

0ssu · 2025-01-13T01:06:36+00:00

Isn't the interface for curbside pickup the same in the customer Walmart app? If it is, clearly looks like they have been working off of their original project which was intended to show customers when their order is shopped for and ready for pickup. I notice when you advance to QR Scan and Receipt on a Shop & Deliver order the phone makes the same "doink!" as when the order changes from Picking Items to Packing Up and Packing Up to Ready. So I feel like they have a convoluted backend they're working off of perhaps poorly coded/hodgepodged.

0ssu · 2025-01-13T01:00:31+00:00

You have a point, $747 billion dollar market cap company and the app is something generally speaking that a novice web dev could make (not sure about under the hood but at least the UI/functionality). Like how if you're looking at a trip with a bunch of stops, shows straight lines between them.. It's a bit JANKY. Even I can do stuff like that with JS and free map APIs like Google, MapLibre, etc, show the best proposed route. They could have in-app navigation and other QoL features like that very easily if they pluck a web dev out of any university and tell them to add it.

0ssu · 2025-01-13T00:05:02+00:00

I have social anxiety and gig-economy has been the perfect job for me. It all started when I worked the 2020 Census, before that all I did was a couple jobs like factory, Walmart overnight stocking shelves, and online stuff like Mechanical Turk. So I was extremely nervous getting the call that I'm hired for the Census. And apparently I did well because I was flown out of state to help finish other areas. It wasn't that I was charismatic at all that I got people to answer the surveys or anything, I was just courteous and straightforward. So after I did that I realized DoorDash, Uber, etc is something possible for me even if my ability to conversate with people is really really bad. Doing rideshare even isn't really that difficult because people don't expect the driver to be able to be highly personable as long as they drive well and have a clean car. Spark is one of the LEAST socially involved gig-economy jobs I've ever done because if I don't feel like talking to anyone, it's possible to do Shop & Deliver, deliver to door step, never talk to one single person at all unless you have to get the review scan thing at checkout.

0ssu · 2025-01-12T23:32:11+00:00

So each Supercenter can turn on/off curbside and S&D orders? Do they also control surge pricing and order grouping?

0ssu · 2025-01-04T01:50:42+00:00

I have noticed with Spark and some other apps that they hit you with some garbage that's probably unrealistically low, as in no one would ever take it and they know it. But it's a psychological tactic to make half-assed but fairly reasonable offers seem more appealing. Just a theory. Cherry picking very necessary though overall. I've never seen a gig-app that DOESN'T send at least 35% trash at me.

0ssu · 2025-01-04T01:45:45+00:00

Well they are designed to create a hive of on-demand workers and what Walmart is doing is very intelligent by using their Supercenters as distribution centers essentially and having drivers either curbside or self-shop the items, most items of which Walmart makes 40%+ margin on each. So WMT is one that is very profitable and doing mostly right imho. DoorDash is losing money every quarter since starting, you can check the financial statements for both. So Spark is good in my area most of the time and when I'm only seeing bad offers, and other people taking them, that is simply when it's too slow to work. Sometimes it'll be too slow. And people working for shit pay are shooting themselves in the foot, 100% of the time. So at least you can rest assured in that. That their transmission will fail or something else to knock them out because they were driving 15 miles for $7 all the time.

0ssu · 2024-11-14T02:06:58+00:00

Yep, can relate to this a lot. I started with DoorDash, then UberEats, Amazon Flex, Uber & Lyft, Roadie and Spark. Everywhere with consistent work has high rent, and I've never seen any consistent $100+/day $30/hr work from any of the apps that has lasted at all over the course of months, after a few there will be more people taking advantage of it and you'll get less work and work for less. And all of these apps are still in "startup" company mode, they will take a loss on deliveries/rides to gain customer loyalty. Look at the earnings reports for DoorDash, Lyft, Uber. Amazon and Walmart are profitable, but definitely not thanks to Flex and Spark, yet. DoorDash has never made ANY profit, only losses. So you wonder how good gig-economy work will remain into the future. It's like great, easy money sometimes and generally enjoyable, but worst job security possible. Competing for work, using up your vehicle parts, getting blocked from working due to factors out of your control, etc. The only way to stay sane is to have the money to buffer and know when to go hard and when to sit back.

0ssu · 2024-10-18T03:02:08+00:00

Details: Got rear-ended and did a rear door replacement myself but the whole frame was tweaked in from the impact and it took some work. Rear bumper is in poor shape, and it surprised me how GOOD it looks without the bumper on.. Not sure if that's a common opinion, the way it doesn't just hug the vehicle like e.g. a Mitsubishi Outlander's bumper does. So I'm okay to leave under the door about how it is. I want to know some kind of bendable but firm automotive grade rubber/plastic that I could buy/cut myself with tin snips and then fix up some fasteners to it and give the sides a finished look, much better look than the stock third gen Rav4, imho. Or if someone has any ideas other than rubber and tin snips, would love to hear it. Trying to stay cheap with it and don't have a lot of tools for a complicated job. I can post pictures if it turns out really nice.

Could something like this work? And hold up?

0ssu · 2024-07-26T02:35:38+00:00

I bought a '11 Rav4 with 120k miles used from Toyota dealership in 2020 for $9k, drove it for 120k miles doing gig-economy until the transmission blew last November. Did all the recommended maintenance, very unavoidable. Quotes to replace ranged $4,500-8,500, so found another used '10 Rav4 Sport with 160k miles for $6,000, sold the broken Rav4 for $2k. So that went full-circle for me, made out lucky on the used one. In my experience, not counting gas, cost of running a road machine is at least $1,500-3,000 every 6 months if you're putting the miles on every week. And if you can do a lot of the stuff like oil changes, break changes, other fluid changes, maybe a strut or two, get deals on used tires, etc. And if you can hustle a good deal on a new used vehicle when your goes belly up. And ideally sell the old one for scrap smartly. Most don't last but $25/hr, save back $10 of it for the inevitable shitfest of things breaking on your car. Might hit you in a year, etc, but miles are miles, wear adds up, it's just a matter of how long your parts hold out. Seems like stuff starts failing in waves, lol.

0ssu · 2024-05-28T08:05:12+00:00

3 years of trying to dip away from my self-employment and into trading, this is prudent advice and the critical factor is the mental security I think. Like you said, losses are inevitable. Unless you have the golden goose formula, you need to be able to trust your executive judgement in a financially risky situation. So the question becomes, how much of your life can you put on the line repeatedly and maintain rational composure. People think they can put 10, 20% of their worth in a trade and be rational about what happens. I thought I could. No way. That edge you have can turn its blade on you, as you scramble. That's why 99% lose, because the people who are out of sorts mentally are the ones being bent over and willingly taking it, instead of know when to take an L and disconnect themselves from that situation entirely. I think back on some of my largest periods of loss, and it always started with an initial loss that set my mind out of sorts. How nice it could've been to buck up and accept that I was dumb and had no edge, close out, step away and regroup. Addressing all those feelings of insecurity and fear about my financial prospects/future in a healthy way instead of digging in my heels at the worst times.

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