CrimeDad's Lemmy
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour

www.thestar.com

external-link
message-square
218
fedilink
497
external-link

Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour

www.thestar.com

cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago
message-square
218
fedilink
I went undercover as an Uber Eats courier and made just $1.74 per hour online. Here’s what I learned about the troubling cost of convenience
www.thestar.com
external-link
Toronto Star reporter Ghada Alsharif spent six weeks working as an Uber Eats food courier and made a shockingly low wage. Uber says this experience was ‘atypical’ — but workers say differently.

Archive https://archive.is/2024.12.17-153624/https://www.thestar.com/business/i-went-undercover-as-an-uber-eats-courier-and-made-just-1-74-per-hour/article_0a9f4dcc-e179-11ee-9256-c7461a39132b.html

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    4 months ago

    Paywall

    I admit I thought it was USA, I’m surprised Canada is just as bad.

    • frostysauce@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      4 months ago

      So you didn’t bother to read the article but felt the need to make a top level comment about it?

    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      7
      ·
      4 months ago

      Good job! You can open websites! We’re so proud.

      • Buffalox@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        4 months ago

        It shows paywall.

        • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          6
          ·
          4 months ago

          Oh, in that case how did you manage to come to such strong conclusions if you didn’t read the article?

          • Buffalox@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            5
            arrow-down
            2
            ·
            edit-2
            4 months ago

            Because I know it happens in USA.

Technology@lemmy.world

technology@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !technology@lemmy.world

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


  • @L4s@lemmy.world
  • @autotldr@lemmings.world
  • @PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks
  • @wikibot@lemmy.world
Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 2.59K users / day
  • 9.1K users / week
  • 16.3K users / month
  • 33.6K users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 69.8K subscribers
  • 11.2K Posts
  • 369K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • L3s@lemmy.world
  • enu@lemmy.world
  • Technopagan@lemmy.world
  • L4sBot@lemmy.world
  • L3s@hackingne.ws
  • L4s@hackingne.ws
  • BE: 0.19.8
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org