concrete spacetime katabasis

So if you're tipping $2 on an order that's 5 miles away, which is 10 miles round trip, while gas is $4/gallon and the person delivering your order gets 20mpg, you've only covered the cost of gas. Not to mention that your order is probably gonna take around 20 minutes to get to you, and then add the ~10 minutes it'll take to drive back to the area with multiple restaurants, and that's 30 minutes of lost pay. Two orders like that in a row, now they've worked an entire hour for free. If both of those orders doubled their tips, that's $4/hr. Quadruple them, that's $12/hr. Either way, no one can survive off of that in this economy.

If you live near a busy area with multiple restaurants, it's not as bad, but it's still pretty bad.

Signed, someone who didn't get any orders for an entire hour the other day and was forced to do a 20 mile round-trip out-of-town order for a total of $5 in their 20mpg vehicle. I love my $-5 to $5/hr job! I love that sometimes work COSTS me money instead of getting paid anything at all :))))

For me, sometimes that wait is 10 minutes, sometimes it's an hour or more. I've worked 4 hour days while 3 of those hours were spent idling in my car waiting. One week, I worked 16 hours and only got paid for three of them.

And with it being this hot outside, I have to run the car's AC the entire time, costing me even MORE in gas. It was 101°F (38.3°C) yesterday.

No, I can't just drive home and wait for orders there. It's nowhere near any restaurants and I either won't get any orders at all, or I'll only get the lowest paying orders that every other driver rejected which will end up costing me more money than I what I'll get back.

No, most of us can't just "get another job" (and if we do, who's gonna deliver your fuckin food?). This is the only available job I can do with my disabilities. I can't work a scheduled job when I can't schedule when my symptoms will hit me the worst. I make $826/mo on disability, except for the last 3 months, in which I've lost a THOUSAND dollars due to a medicare premium that was taken out of my check after medicaid was cut. I've had to repeatedly crowdfund money to survive.

Most drivers, like me, prefer to do orders that are at least a dollar per mile. But with the cost of gas (and everything else) rising, we need closer to $2 or more per mile in order to make any kind of slightly livable wage. I make $10/hr on a GOOD day.

I shall cut down all who stand in my way

I shall cut down all who stand in my way

I shall cut down all who stand in my way

I shall cut down all who stand in my way

I shall cut down all who stand in my way

I shall cut down all who stand in my way

I shall cut down all who stand in my way

I shall cut down all who stand in my way

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