The behind-the-scenes of these DoorDash delivery robots and drones are even further stressful. When you think that how ridesharing media describe the dynamics of these delivery robots looks so perfect, DoorDash actually needed to employ delivery personnel in order to load food into those robots.
Things don’t happen automatically in every case.
But, DoorDash isn’t doing it in such a way like, “Hey, delivery driver! Can you help load food into the robot?” Then, they get paid the same come payday.
This is because DoorDash is offering drivers around $5 to pick-up restaurant orders and load these into the delivery robots.
Well, here’s the thing, considering how easy and fast the task is, it’s like earning from app-testing apps that pay cash.
The drivers are not complaining, well, if the media reported right.
“Had a DOT order today. Had to load her up and send her on her way, quick $5.00 for going .25 miles to get there – in Scottsdale, AZ,” a person wrote in June in a Facebook Group for DoorDash drivers.
Dot is the name of the delivery robots of DoorDash.
Then, there’s also Devena Bybee, a DoorDash worker in Mesa, Arizona, saying how she received an offer last July through the app to load a robot. She was tasked to drive around two miles to a restaurant, pick-up an order, and place it inside a Dot waiting inside the parking lot. She also had to take an image and document each step of the process. The job took only five minutes, so she got paid $5.
When asked about this, a DoorDash representative told RSF, “This limited pilot is designed to support merchants during busy periods, while creating more earning opportunities for Dashers outside of traditional deliveries.”
It’s not easy to prepare the food to get delivered by these robots, who can only do so much, but at the very least, DoorDash is compensating those people who are sending help along the way.
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