DoorDash Tasks

#1

Post by ChrisArchitect » Sun, Mar 22, 2026, 4:48 PM UTC

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#2

Post by wxw » Sun, Mar 22, 2026, 5:50 PM UTC

Neat product expansion. Isn’t this what store employees are already doing though? Maybe it’s more for building datasets.

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#3

Post by notatoad » Sun, Mar 22, 2026, 5:53 PM UTC

wxw wrote: post #2

Neat product expansion. Isn’t this what store employees are already doing though? Maybe it’s more for building datasets.

i think it's just a formalization of this https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/waymo-is-paying-doordash-gig...

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#4

Post by cheesecompiler » Sun, Mar 22, 2026, 5:59 PM UTC

Labour getting ever-granular in the age of micro-loans and RentAHuman.

> "Dashers have a new way to earn on their own terms"

The classic meaning inversion of precariousness and lack of benefits as a virtue.

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#5

Post by ocdtrekkie » Sun, Mar 22, 2026, 6:00 PM UTC

wxw wrote: post #2

Neat product expansion. Isn’t this what store employees are already doing though? Maybe it’s more for building datasets.

It's essentially mystery shopping. There's a pretty big disconnect between what a large corporate HQ thinks occurs at their stores and what actually occurs at their stores.

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#6

Post by vovavili » Sun, Mar 22, 2026, 6:04 PM UTC

cheesecompiler wrote: post #4

Labour getting ever-granular in the age of micro-loans and RentAHuman. > "Dashers have a new way to earn on their own terms" The classic meaning inversion of precariousness and lack of benefits as a virtue.

Neither of these two things are something that DoorDash as a company can realistically do anything about.

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#7

Post by simonw » Sun, Mar 22, 2026, 6:04 PM UTC

> Tasks and the new app are currently available in select places in the U.S., excluding California, New York City, Seattle and Colorado.

Anyone know why that is?

(Claude thinks it's because those places have gig worker protection laws such that "classifying Dashers as independent contractors for non-delivery work is most legally risky")

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#8

Post by malfist » Sun, Mar 22, 2026, 6:08 PM UTC

simonw wrote: post #7

> Tasks and the new app are currently available in select places in the U.S., excluding California, New York City, Seattle and Colorado. Anyone know why that is? (Claude thinks it's because those places have gig worker protection laws such that "classifying Dashers as independent contractors for non-delivery work is most legally risky")

Probably exactly that. Those places have minimum wage laws for gig workers.

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#9

Post by flufluflufluffy » Sun, Mar 22, 2026, 6:09 PM UTC

simonw wrote: post #7

> Tasks and the new app are currently available in select places in the U.S., excluding California, New York City, Seattle and Colorado. Anyone know why that is? (Claude thinks it's because those places have gig worker protection laws such that "classifying Dashers as independent contractors for non-delivery work is most legally risky")

I have no idea but when reading the article my mind immediately went to businesses having dashers take photos of competing businesses as some type of weird crowdsourced corporate espionage.

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#10

Post by malfist » Sun, Mar 22, 2026, 6:09 PM UTC

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #5

wxw wrote: post #2

Neat product expansion. Isn’t this what store employees are already doing though? Maybe it’s more for building datasets.

It's essentially mystery shopping. There's a pretty big disconnect between what a large corporate HQ thinks occurs at their stores and what actually occurs at their stores.

Its mystery shopping without any of those pesky minimum wage requirements