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A comment on DoorDash’s about-face on tipping shows customers have more clout than workers.

Re:DoorDash’s about-face on tipping shows customers have mor... by cheeky78 on Thursday July 25, 2019 @03:13PM (#20528458)
"they should have proactively said he would repay the wages taken from their workers. Instead, DoorDash will have pocketed millions of dollars taken from customer tips."

They didn't really 'take wages' from any of the workers. All of the money coming in is owned by DoorDash. They are now choosing to give a portion of that to the drivers (the tips).

DoorDash doesn't have a monopoly on gig jobs. You can choose to do something else if you don't feel the pay is fair. The reason they didn't really care about the drivers' opinions is because it obviously didn't stop many from driving.

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Re:DoorDash’s about-face on tipping shows customers have mor... by markkanof on Thursday July 25, 2019 @03:20PM (#20528534)
They really did. The expectation when tipping is that there is some base pay being paid to the worker and then whatever I tip will be additional pay to the worker on top of that base. DoorDash was taking money out of that tip to pay the base pay so workers would then be getting less money than they should otherwise be getting.
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