Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip
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Re: Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip
#2I used to work for a delivery company with this same pay structure. This is garbage and its taking advantage of young people who are looking for jobs.
Re: Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip
#3Should be shut down.
Re: Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip
#4I don't get it. Should the minimum wage be excluding tips?
Edit: I meant shouldn't.
Re: Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip
#5This is terrible for the worker and highly deceptive to the client. Surely this is fraud? Collecting tips but not passing it on?
Re: Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip
#6I don't get it. Should the minimum wage be excluding tips? Edit: I meant shouldn't.
I mean obviously it should be. This is bananas.
Re: Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip
#7How is this not wage theft? They're literally taking the tips from workers and using it to pay them. I'm tipping the worker, not Instacart.
Re: Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip
#8Instacart started out by secretly marking up groceries. Once that game was played out, it seems they started secretly marking down employee (oh sorry, contractor) wages
Re: Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip
#9I read it as they paid him only $0.38 (not $0.80) for his time.
Re: Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip
#10There's a related blog post up on Medium by this same group (Working Washington) where they placed the same order, once with tip and once without, so people could directly compare.
From my perspective Instacart is stealing from its customers and workers by doing this. I'm a huge fan of instacart (my fiance and I use it regularly), but this is definitely going to push me away from the platform. At a minimum I'm going to be tipping in cash.
https://medium.com/@workingwa/instacart-heres-our-22-cents-n...