- Vox Nihili
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It sounds like at this point you are effectively working a full-time job with Insta-Cart. The job sounds miserable and, well, not particularly remunerative, even before the additional payroll taxes for being a "contractor" are considered
Why not get a "real" job (either salaried or hourly) elsewhere?
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May 22, 2024 06:42
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- Vox Nihili
- May 28, 2008
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Since you have a master's degree, you might consider tutoring, particularly if you're near a wealthy enclave of some sort. Pay is variable but even the most basic work would be around $25/hour. Heck, even waiting tables (in CA you get the full minimum wage PLUS tips) beats the hell out of what you're doing now. They always need folks who can do weekend hours.
If you live near a major CA city there should be a ton of demand for part-time service employees.
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Oct 5, 2019 02:09
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- Vox Nihili
- May 28, 2008
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You have great taste in affordable whiskey, if nothing else!
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Oct 5, 2019 06:10
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- Vox Nihili
- May 28, 2008
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It only takes 600 hours of hard labor to earn a pinball machine. The American Dream is still alive, folks.
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Oct 12, 2019 02:17
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- Vox Nihili
- May 28, 2008
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for sure
yeah, i haven't met/talked to a single other driver that's been doing it for more than a month that likes it. it sucks pretty loving bad tbh  i can spot someone working from a mile away...the desperation radiates off of us
almost walked out on an order today. $70 batch, over $600 worth of stuff at Costco. heavy item bonus (two 36 packs of water). i have a ford focus, i think i mentioned. they gave me one hour and five minutes to pick the order. the lady then texts me for extra poo poo and to hurry because she has to pick her kid up or something? i was like 15 minutes over the time they allotted me, the little timer in the corner was red, i was looking at like 9 more trips across the store, i said gently caress it. marked everything left in the order as out of stock and told customer service, hey she's gonna be pissed about this
she lowered her top from $40 to $30 so i still made $60 for the ninety minutes but man. i wanted to just walk in the worst way. first time i've honestly felt screwed; the low pay i expect but that poo poo was flustrating. i got to her house and put all the poo poo on the porch and then rang the bell and was like here you go thanks bye, when normally i bend over backwards to be nice and help and carry stuff to the kitchen for them. loving BOUGIE rear end HOE ORDERING $600 WORTH OF poo poo FROM A STORE THAT'S 3 MILES AWAY THEN RUNNING ME AROUND WITH A 200 POUND CART FOR ORANGE JUICE AND HOT COCOA AND TELLING ME YOU DIDNT MEAN TO RUSH ME, KISS MY rear end oh sorry about that haha
edit: Gei, in your experience, are the people who just shop and don't drive like...super weird? or is it just here
also the whole 'tipping' thing is a way for them to cook their books. the explanation for how they figure fees is suuuuuuper shady
edit again: as a shopper, here's my advice to you as a customer
don't get produce through instacart, especially if you are getting $250 worth of organic bullshit from mother's market. don't trust some instacart tweaker to divine what level of avocado ripeness is acceptable from across town, telepathically. buy that poo poo yourself
the service is not designed to replace water delivery and ordering 10 6 packs of 5 gallon water jugs is just a dick move
the service is not for $600 costco orders
if you order weird organic hard to find bullshit and get a replacement you dont like, tough poo poo, shop for it yourself
making people carry heavy poo poo up 3 flights of stairs if you are capable of doing it yourself is pretty lovely
its a bougie as gently caress service for bougie as gently caress people, don't complain that it's expensive
bear in mind that if you add poo poo to your order during it, the app doesn't add time to the timer. give your shopper a break 
Isn't that quite a bit more per hour than you usually make?
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Oct 15, 2019 08:05
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- Vox Nihili
- May 28, 2008
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IC are definitely gaming the gently caress out of your tip. what you choose to tip in the app has no correlation with what IC calls a tip. if you want to tip your driver do it in cash
IMO folks should generally pay cash tips for everything when convenient, but if you're using an app-based service like Insta-Cart, Doordash, or Uber you are morally obligated to pay that tip in cash. You can assume that any tip paid via the app itself is getting at least partially hoovered up by management.
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Dec 7, 2019 02:46
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- Vox Nihili
- May 28, 2008
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So did you get the pinball machine yet???
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May 22, 2024 06:42
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- Vox Nihili
- May 28, 2008
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Let's see the drat pinball machine!
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