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I spent two weeks delivering for Uber Eats and made $4.40 per hour

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383 points imartin2k | 1 comments | 13 May 17 10:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.688s | source
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fastball ◴[13 May 17 11:38 UTC] No.14330444[source]▶
I rode for UberEats for two weeks and made roughly £22 an hour.

To be fair, this was when they were just coming into London and offering crazy bonuses to steal market share from Deliveroo, but still, this isn't controversial - if someone pays you bad wages, don't work for them...

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libeclipse ◴[13 May 17 12:13 UTC] No.14330546[source]▶
That's some solid advice, but for some people, that's simply not an option.

If you can't find work elsewhere, you'd rather work for pennies than for nothing.

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Murkin ◴[13 May 17 12:35 UTC] No.14330657[source]▶
So its better that Uber didn't offer this job at all?
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1. rawicki ◴[13 May 17 19:55 UTC] No.14332681[source]▶
The salary model of Uber doesn't give its contractors enough information to estimate how much they will earn.

If they had offered flat 4.40$ rate probably noone would take the job.

Would people take the job if they were presented with a distribution of hourly rates among already employed workers?