Gather 'Round: Multi-Billion Dollar Corporation Wants to Give Us Budgeting Tips!

DoorDash put out an ever-so-helpful blog post yesterday aimed at customers on a budget.

Stretch your dollar! Master the art of budgeting! Pinch pennies while our app executives point at you and laugh!

DoorDash cites polling data saying that 71% of voters think inflation and prices increases are here to stay, but the company sidesteps the fact that it’s the one raising prices.

Maybe prices are on the rise because corporations like DoorDash continue to raise fees to line CEO and shareholders’ pockets at the expense of workers and consumers alike.

Here are DoorDash’s “suggestions” for using its platform on a budget:

  • Wait until happy hour, or when it manipulates order costs most, to “save an average discount of nearly $5 per order.” That’s odd 🤔– we thought $5 per order was an unacceptable loss when it comes to paying gig workers!

  • Go around the worker and pick up the order yourself! That way, DoorDash remains the middleman that rips off the restaurant, nothing more.

  • Use foodstamps, you peasants!

  • Pay for a monthly DoorDash subscription! The corporation knows it can simply rename its mysterious Service Fee the It’s-Workers’-Fault Fee and get away with it, so why don’t you pay extra money to get around paying… extra money?

Obviously DoorDash cares so much about its customers, which is why it continues to add outrageous and unnecessary fees to gouge all of us.

Wrapping up this groundbreaking life hack list, DoorDash says it saved customers an estimated 446 million hours in 2023.

Let’s be clear: DoorDash did not work those hours – workers did! And the pay we received for that number of working hours was not mathing. 

We fought for and won a minimum pay standard to put a stop to subminimum wages and make corporations like DoorDash #PayUp. DoorDash has been at the forefront of the lobbying effort to crush worker organizing at every turn. Don't let corporations use our rights as workers as an excuse to retaliate with extra fees.  

Since DoorDash has been so generous with advice, we’d like to return the favor. Here’s a helpful list of ideas for DoorDash, too:

  • Trim down the pay packages of your top execs.

  • Stop charging bogus fees.

  • Pay your workers a living wage.

  • And take a hint – Seattle is just the beginning. 

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