The GRIM REALITY of Delivering Food in the UK 🇬🇧 (SHOCKING)
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Food delivery companies in the UK are slashing fares, creating a race to the bottom for drivers. With an influx of immigrants taking on delivery jobs, the market is oversaturated, leaving many struggling to earn even minimum wage. This dire situation is reshaping the gig economy and putting immense pressure on those trying to make a living through food delivery.
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I hate this. The companies think that drivers will take anything in desperation to work. It's so insulting. People need to make enough to live on, not just satisfy the race to the bottom. If all the drivers refuse the low paid stuff then they'll have to put the rates up but there will always be someone willing to take a bad price order.
mate, its shocking here in Liverpool, too. The pandemic felt like the straw that broke the camel's back for a very large proportion of the UK. We remain blissfully unaware, but its getting really really bad. Highlighting the problem is of course the first step!
I'll be visiting Liverpool in July on my other channel @JayeshChhaya - gong to be doing a vlog exploring Liverpool :)
@@GigHustle I'd be more than happy to give you a little rough guide for when you're here. Of course like a lot of places kinda all dependent on how long you're down for, as the list becomes a bit of a bottomless pit 😅e.g. John Lennons favourite pub, Courtney Loves Scouse home plus the man who sold his sold to the devil😉 just subbed!
Same here in Oxford.
It’s the same in Hereford too , a lot of people have lost their homes rents have gone up so much . We do have good provisions for the homeless like soup kitchens etc but it’s definitely got worse since the pandemic.
When the food delivery 📦 guys are living out of the soup kitchens you know something is not right with that 😮
Bro immigration has destroyed this buisness
Oversupply of drivers/riders unfortunately :/
Every capitalist done themselves when, by importing tons of them for cheap labor.. from US/CAN/EUR, thats the only way these low slave wage business's survive by exploiting.; instead of paying people a liveable wage; our corporate conservatives are to blame. Even in CAN, they plan to import 300000+ to fill their low wage job sector..and more. In this feudalist era, history will repeat itself, when they(rich) are eaten
Then give the immigrants real jobs so they don't have food delivery as the only option
@paul888B there's not an unlimited amount of jobs in the uk and all this immigration is doing is driving the wages low and making inflation go up and we all become trapped
Migrants who work illegally and students cheating student visa work full time
A McDonald’s leaving a city centre location already rings alarm bells. Britain is incredibly depressing at the moment, even looking on indeed the types of jobs what we’re available with good perks you just don’t see anymore. As for the homelessness situation, council houses are non existent, and it’s sore to see how much is worsening
I live in Hertfordshire and McDonald's are starting to disappear there now too. My area now just becoming full of travellers, who are big time trouble makers
@@80skid83 I do dread to think how our country will look come next 5 years
I think him showing that closed McDonald’s in Notts, was slightly misleading. A new McDonald’s opened in the centre, along with a whole food court, about 2 years back in another part of the centre. If you know Notts well, the area where the closed McDonald’s is located has been dead for years and there’s been a big renovation. It’s seems that they slightly moved the McDonald’s to a better location with more foot fall. I’m not saying there isn’t an economic downfall in the UK, especially when it comes to small businesses. But context is important and I think if any buisness struggling least atm, I would say it’s McDonald’s
@@hannahmaria6887 Yea, ain't no way the Notts folk have suddenly gone off fast food.
Life in the UK has become increasingly brutalised, without bringing politics into this, but years of austerity, brexit, migration crisis, crushing taxation, fuel costs etc. The country needs a reset
We have gone from Austerity 2008-? Then just as things we looking upwards economically we destroyed it with Brexit. Then Brexit was compounded at the same time with the Pandemic.. just as things were due to start picking up again the wars disrupted the global economies.
Also clueless leadership of this country....
@@kieranhudson4938 we all know brexit was an attempt to stop immigration, the moment brexit was voted the immigration went up. If you still can't see all politics in the country are controlled by a hostile anti white group nothing will.
@@RS-B5ZV not clueless, they are achieving the goals they want
@@RS-B5ZV there’s a book about call the great reset - this is all planned
Stuart is manley Tesco Whoosh, Co-op and Londis web orders, tends to give you heavy orders that you would need a cargo bike for, also will give you them in doubles and triples with long pick ups. They should know wight and volume you can take in a backpack.
Yes, how they send bikers that a car can take 50 bags is crazy 😅
i was going to start uber. in a car my quotes for insurance are all 300+ a month on top of the insurance i already have to pay. not to mention fuel costs and vehicle repairs doing so many miles. even if i had a extremely fuel efficient car there is just no way the costs would ever be worth it unless i grinded 12 hours a day. its pretty insane.
That's just taking the mick! No point doing this on a bike let alone a car as the fees are so low and orders too. In order to make minimum wage you would need to be nonstop busy and even then I think you would struggle!
You can get dual insurance with zero for less then normal insurance on pay as you go on a scooter 🛵 around £20 a month I heard similar for cars 🚘
Yeah its Quite Shocking here too in West Yorkshire Area
I agree with the illegal delivery rider which Home office is not doing anything about it
I see the same thing in my city of Leeds
I commend you for broaching these subjects. The UK is a mess. Rents have gone through the roof and homelessness is at an all time high. Inflation is damaging everyone and everything. High immigration on top of everything else is compounding our problems and things are gonna get a whole lot worse before they get better. Kudos to you for bringing these points up...
You are so right. The current government, brexxit and inflation turned England upside down.
The current prime minister is literally delaying the elections, clinging to power.
Look at the last local elections, tories losses were heavy. Everyone wants Labour and a big change. We really need it ASAP
@@chrisadish Putting labour in charge won't change anything my friend. They are both puppets to the same strings (i.e. globalism) which is hell bent on wrecking national economies to bring about a world government. Hang on to your hat...
Great honest & entertaining video as always. I hope you're keeping well 🙏
Thanks mate! I'm doing well - I had an accident in Poland and dislocated my arm so I haven't been able to create much content but I'm trying my best as I have two channels now - the other is my travel channel where I'll be doing UK travels @JayeshChhaya
How many times did we hear "F073C" and yet it had "Ella" written at the top of the receipt! 😂
I always thought for most delivery apps you could tell them the first name and they would be able to identify the order but seems like I had to keep saying F073C 😂
@@GigHustle once upon a time maybe… language barriers are a thing & I think the reason the name is no longer enough is simply because most of the workers cannot understand us but they know the alphabet and numbers from 1-10 at least. I’m in London… it’s a sorry state of affairs here too!
@@GigHustlemaybe she wants to talk you more :))
Over work and burnout combined with hideously cruel wages and punitive rent or impossible house prices create an unsustainable precarity, which leads to homelessness and permanent intoxication.
UBI
Good to see you creating vids again , particularly like the variation in vids myself, keep thinking outside the box 👍
I'm toying with the idea of travelling around the UK to vlog the downward spiral of cities/towns. I feel like it's an important topic just as food delivery was during the pandemic. Lots of issues happening in the UK and so either I travel outside of the country or document what is happening inside. I'm already filming travel videos for the UK on my other channel in June @JayeshChhaya
@@GigHustle looking at how popular bald and bankrupt Britain vids have been I'd go for it
Nice to see a delivery rider utuber show a real picture of delivering in 2024. To many people see the likes of London eats earning good money on a fri / sat night & think its that way every day in every city. The reality is far from it. Theirs now to many deliverers chasing to few orders. Ive been delivering full time for 4 years & it feels like every year i get less orders & less pay per order. Not good.
Yeah I reckon he works like you said at the busiest times - he's also on a moped which has always been the vehicle that get's the most orders. Most of the guys doing this illegally are doing it on bike/e-bike accounts. Oh and he's in London which I think helps!
@GigHustle so true, London eats is spot on, similar to my situation I commented earlier. Its the environs around london,London surburbs and central London that still pays well.
We made quite a killing this bank holiday weekend, taking a day off to relax and get back to it tomorrow 😀
As a car driver, the only way to economise is to get a cheap Toyota /nissan or Honda car. Gives great gas mileage and parts and maintenance are very cheap
There is an old quote from a very well known person here in Germany: "Whoever takes in half of Calcutta doesn't help Calcutta, but becomes Calcutta itself." As we all know, there is no Calcutta anymore and other places are now the problem for us today, but the warning he gave, is the reality we live in now.
Over here in Ireland things are no better sadly. Good video thanks
Thank you for the video, interesting as always. It was watching your videos that gave me the confidence to start delivering. 22/23 I did it in my car part time but couldn't justify the insurance costs. This year I will be going out my electric bike, just as top up to my other income. It will be interesting to see how things have changed.
No problem at all :) Yes this is probably the best way to look at it! If you don't have any income expectations then you can't lose in this game!
so true in EVERY respect. Many thanks from Cornwall.
Thanks mate!
It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been away or if your last upload was months ago. As soon as I see a GigHustle video I’m watching 👍
Thanks bro :)
Happy to see you back Jay!
Hey mate! I'll be filming a UK series on my other channel @JayeshChhaya - hoping to take some trains :)
Love your vid mate. Do more of this stuff. We can see the way the situation is changing before or eyes. Cost of living crisis is biting on peoples expenditure and incomes. What is the answer and what is the next move? I don't know.
Cheers John! On my other channel @JayeshChhaya I'll be travelling around the UK good and bad so might be of interest to you - videos for the UK will start in June :)
It's quite scary how things have changed so quickly!
Regarding the scanning, there's usually an # followed by numbers that you need to scan or you can also take a picture of the order.
On the Nando's receipt it didn't have the # that's why it took long!
@@GigHustle I couldn't see it either! Yep, picture then but it's so fiddly!
Nottingham city centre is on its arse! Thank the council for that.
I heard the Nottingham council is broke? 😳
@GigHustle yeah full of greedy dodgy people in the council.
It's not just Nottingham. Pretty much everywhere in the UK is suffering.
In some restorants in the Netherlands some Uber employees approach Uber Eats couriers to check their accounds if it is their accound or not .
When you say Uber employees, i am picturing like traffic wardens walking down the street what do you mean.
Never seen that happen in the UK!
I remember Nottingham back in the 80's-90's and it was a good shopping centre, but visiting it recently I found it had definitely declined. There is far less spare money in people's pockets than back then, and coupled with online shopping, many retail centres are in a poor state commercially. Coupled with that crime, homelessness, poverty, uncontrolled migration, it all feels that the whole country is in a downward spiral.
I couldn't agree more - hence why I feel like I need to share my thoughts as these changes are clear as day and quite depressing!
I was eating at a subway and I heard that they were cracking down on drivers registering as bikes on deliveroo.
It's funny, because I signed up as a rider in my town, but I have never seen a rider here before.
You should checkout lesser known towns to see if the situation is the same as the big cities which probably get more riders.
Yeah the towns are probably less affected then cities but the towns were always not great to deliver in because there aren't many restaurants and not as many people orders + you get quite a lot of guys in cars just waiting all day outside of the restaurants. I've even started to see couple of riders in my town that look like international students lol
Regarding that McDonald's, the local franchisee already owned another 2 stores within 5 minutes walk, along with the newly built store within the Victoria Centre. It didn't make much financial sense to have 4 McDonald's branches in such a small city centre and the landlord of the building wanted to double the rent. The property will stay empty for a long time as that part of the city centre is pretty much dead and only really hanging on because of M&S being located there.
Yeah I did a bit more digging and found out about this! It's a shame that it's going to be an eye sore in the city centre for a very long time as the rent is probably too high for most businesses. It's quite sad to see the city centre declining in this way :(
There's low skill in every industry now too. Due to taxes and regulatory fees there's no incentive to give customers a greater service because they can't afford it and you have your income taken. Prices are high based on population increases. The UK is more like an economic zone for the billionaires rather than a country.
Welcome back !!
Thanks mate!
I really appreciate videos like these, exposing the reality of things. I’m from Canada and things are getting bad too, especially the housing situation. I’m from Montreal, which used to be one of the cheapest places to live. Rent has skyrocketed since before the pandemic, still not as bad as Toronto and Vancouver.. but from what I hear it’s starting to catch up. Also salaries here are way lower, and have stagnated same as everywhere else. The govt is sitting on its hands, not building affordable housing for low income folks and the waiting list is many years long. We also have lots of immigrants coming in (which would generally be a good thing, and I am not against), but the govt isn’t accommodating for this. Things are not looking good.
That's why I use Just Eat, there's too many Riders on Uber and Deliveroo, and its free login so drivers come out whenever they want, which means there's loads of drivers but no orders.
However, with Just Eat shifts have to be scheduled, so there's a limited amount of people working as it's not free login, which means there's a even amount of orders and drivers out.
So without Just Eat there's no point at all doing deliveries unless your in a big city with alot of people ordering, like London.
I like the videos anyways mate, good luck for whatever you have planned in the future.
Thanks for shedding some light on a real topic here in the UK and not caring about getting a drone shot for a thumb nail. Refreshing.
Well spoken Intelligent young man on utube a breath of fresh air very impressed me sub
Honestly, in a way, regarding that McDonalds I think delivery apps are part of the reasoning for that.
Back years ago when you wanted a McDonalds you had to... well... go TO McDonalds. Now these apps exists there's less reason for the existence of many in a city centre when only 1 is really needed to feed about these delivery orders.
Why pay 50 staff wages, pay for electricity, gas, water etc in 4 different McDonalds when you can have 12-15 staff, pay for only one building and just have all staff basically be free to deal with delivery/drive-thru?
It's a very similar situation to how services like Amazon have killed the high street. Part of this can be blamed on the pandemic... but ultimately I think a part of it is due to how we're still not out of the pandemic mindset. In my opinion, delivery apps need to largely go away, and people should begin leaving the house again to eat out at local restaurants, etc, if only to help create a better sense of community. Not only are these delivery apps killing each cities sense of community largely as people continue to sit in and towns are dead, but they're also fostering worse health because people aren't getting that exercise they'd have to do at least before eating their relatively unhealthy meal. lol
Mean no offense, it sucks for delivery drivers, but in my opinion it's done more harm than good for sure. Jobs will be lost, but those jobs would just exist at actual locations then, instead.
Hard one really. Apply what you have said to the people who have jobs doing this and suddenly the opposite could also be said although I get what you are saying
"I hear a lot about immigration and labour and conservative and blah blah blah blah" Exactly. Tory led media.
Mate, there is not 700,000 illegal migrants during 2023. There was a net migration of 643,000. 40,000 arrived illegally, not 700,000. Of the 600,000 net migration that were legal the most common professions were doctors, nurses and teachers, 35% of them came from Austrailia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and other pacific islands. The reason so many of them are in top professions is we have a points based system, some jobs it is easier to get a visa than others. You need to start reading what the people you are watching said in the past, the people who told me to vote brexit, and what they said to sell it. Farage said... and this is a quote you can google. : 'I believe in the Commonwealth, I believe our relationship with the Commonwealth is vital, I think we've been stupid to turn our backs on it in favour of EU membership. What has happened, because of the huge numbers of people coming from the EU, is it's now very difficult for somebody who's qualified from India or from Africa to get into this country because we have an unlimited open door to unskilled labour from southern and eastern Europe. And the effect of what I'm proposing - a points system, call it the Australian one or whatever you like - actually more black people would qualify to come in under that.' Yes mate, that is right... the brexit that we got was exactly the one he campaigned for. And now he is using those the same workers he wanted to come as a reason to get angry again. But these are the workers and the points based rules he invented! "Our" industry, and one day we will have to call a spade a spade, has become rife with what must be slavery. You have what I think are probably slave masters, with slaves working their accounts, any they are out all day and night in all weathers. And me and you both know they are not earning minimum wage, and that is before they have given the "owner" the slice that he must have. Every so often some of them get rounded up in London and are found to be illegal... The industry says it has account owners and sub contracted workers underneath them.... How many red flags does an industry need before it admits it has as its business what looks more like a network of slave masters running a ring. Below minimum wage, working long hours, having to pay a portion of their money out, and illegal workers caught several times... isn't it obvious? It is not illegal migrants... its a blummin slavery ring running the grass roots of the entire business.
It's not a homeless problem, it's a beggars problem, and it is a pretty lucrative gig.
Many of these "Homeless" people have benefits, a home and sometimes even a car.
I'm clueless to the reality of it to be honest - I wouldn't have even thought they had a home and benefits!
@@GigHustle Best thing you can do is learn about your local homeless charities, and what they offer.
If anyone looks like they are in serious need of help, you can let them know where they can get it.
Usually these places offer services to get people onto the benefits system, and in the meantime offer food, water and blankets while they wait for a home.
I've never been homeless, but I nearly was and got help through a charity once, and also helped a freind of a freind who was homeless get into the system.
Unfortunately, it's not usually a lack of service that stops people, but mental illness and lack of knowledge of what services you can actually get.
Usually the real homeless people don't ask for money, they ask for food or water. If I see a new face around town I sometimes will buy them something, but will never give them money.
@@Bluelightzero A lot are just homeless. I was say since the UK started letting loads of people in through immigration though the sheer amount has grown massively. Now in my city you can't even really go by any traffic lights in the town centre without seeing tons of people begging. This is why for the most part now people will give beggars food instead of money, because there's ton of them who just drop it on drugs or alchohol and there's no point funding that expense for them.
About 20 ish years ago in my city when I was a kid, I remember there being a particular "homeless" man in my city that was outed to have a job in a bank, and because of that the suspicion towards homeless people grew and people tended to just not give anything then.
It's always the few twats who ruin it for the genuine people in need.
How do you know?
(Just asking out of curiosit) do you follow them around to see if they go home or something?
Beggars are just the ice Berg as you also get the rats 🐀 working in organised gangs stealing peoples rides to fuel further crimes and the same issues with homelessness drug addictions and mental health probables and so on that the tax payer has to cover. You should know that the homeless people are generally not homeless as it they were you would find them under bridges and in shelter areas and not affluent areas or shops asking for money for drugs after they most likely have blown their benefits on intoxication. The Goverment is trying to help the asylum seekers from warn torn countries and who are in need of aid. Use your brain 🧠 and try and figure out what the guy is saying is that some of these people are also getting on the delivery platforms and also ruining them not just the economy
I think the main reason for the lower pay with deliveroo etc is the fact the these companies want to have a surplus of riders because they want every customer to get their order delivered in the least time as possible which means the gig firms make are making more money. Less drivers on the roads means that customers may be put off from ordering and may go to restaurants instead so the apps dont want that. It happened to me in 2015 when I joined Uber as a cab driver and the money was decent until they recruited an insane amount of drivers. Their model is similar to the food apps in that they want as many riders on the road as possible so the customer has to wait the least amount of time. They dont care if you dont make much money lol. I dont think immigration is the problem for the low wages in this case its actually those greedy companies who are to blame.
Yeah I agree that it's the delivery apps that are responsible. They allow through substitution people who don't have the right to work to do this work. So the numbers of riders/drivers are just too much for the demand. So you can't deliver many orders and that's the reason for not being able to make even minimum wage. Also they are cutting their fees every year. So it's a combination of the delivery apps and mass migration from what I can see.
I'm not a driver but gettr are leaving the UK and certain countries now it's only going to get worse for drivers and riders
The UK is saturated with lots of different food delivery companies because I think our country eats more takeaways than most if not all other countries in Europe. Hardly surprising that Getir failed to enter the market, that isn't really a demand issue, but a competition issue. Uber/JustEat/Deliveroo are already too established for anyone else.
@@kieranhudson4938 Getir were great while they lasted. fun fact - The last day of Getir is today. Thank you Getir for providing such a fantastic service for riders & customers. I will always have fond memories of working for you ❤
Smashing video, if there was a way we could connect I could give you a video for the retail home delivery side which is equally affected! Love your work all the same 👍🏻👌🏻
im in utah usa its the same for me, rents unpayable, food is super expensive the cost of living in general is killing me i make 17.50 an hour its baffling that i cant afford to live we are going down quick
food delivery is so bad in my area i've been on a waiting list for just eat and deliveroo for 2 months now. Uber was the only one to accept instantly and got working within 1 week. There is too many drivers (most likely illegal workers) for the demand of deliveries thus no orders coming through to e bike users compared to car/motorcycle which is also the reason the pay is so bad. HMRC have recently forced uber into providing tax info to cut down on illegal workers i think.
Yep I was speaking to a guy who is from a country where a lot of the asylum seekers are coming from and he's been here since before the pandemic and has residency but he says most of the guys working in Nottingham are working illegally!
@@GigHustle most people working full time as delivery drivers while on student visa. I have an Indian classmate who is here for masters but works as delivery driver full time. He told me there are many like him working as rider illegally
Yes this must be what is happening it only makes sense that the orders have gone down because the delivery companies are cutting corners by using illegal unskilled workers that can not sell English let alone deliver 😅, you can tell as at first the riders wore uniforms and followed the rules and guidelines now none of them do all illegal Ebikes, I tried to report it but nothing
The reason there is so many homeless... about 25 years ago councils started knocking down multi story blocks of flats. No matter what people used to think of them, they were a cheap, council, roof over peoples heads. Private landlords filled the gap. This was not too much of a problem at first because housing benefit got paid directly to landlords by councils. Then the last government got in ( tories) and for no apparent reason decided to make it so that the housing benefit went to the tenant. Well, when you have someone that has... shall we say... money issues, or even substance issues, and you suddenly start giving them hundreds of pounds in their pockets... end result, Landlords didn't get the money, tenants losts their homes, by the design of the system that evolved around them. It is the result of 14 yrs of not caring mate. Nothing more, nothing less. Maybe a bit of not caring is good, but this is what not caring looks like if you embrace it long enough.
I would like to add the title says it all the reason we are not getting paid fairly is because Britain is broke on so many levels.
You touched on an important subject-now I have nothing wrong with these South American Brazilian 🇧🇷 delivery guys is that I think it’s a case of all the gear but no idea 🤷🏻♂️ they can not even speak English let alone do the most basic of unskilled jobs like the Ebike guys and you can tell because none of them even lock their bikes how clueless is that. What compounds this is the delivery companies probably would like to use them despite high staff turnover around and have them mess up the orders so their margins shrink as they have to claw back the money on our orders, now this is just speculation but why else apart from the already harsh economic pressures we are under are fees going down bit interest and minimum wage going up?,
Growing up my family being middle working class could not afford takeaways so take into account “broke Britain” and this would all add up
still not convinced that it busy in pandemic because of people order more .....i think ordered less .....But reason you had more work because less people working taking the risk ....there was way less riders .....when pandemic ended ...all riders came out and now the issue is too many riders ......i dont think anything changed other than more workers
food delivery for me is literally a side income when I need a few extra quid to get through the month or if I am saving towards something specific. I could never survive on it as a full time income and advise others the same. Realistically, I think its only London where you can make or exceed minimum wage and even then it would be tight.
Is the problem because of illegals...kind of, but then I would say the companies themselves are a bigger part of the problem in not policing the issue and dealing with the accounts that have been rented out. They need to step up and take responsibility for ensuring all those on their platform are legal to work in the UK and not offload that responsibility onto their 'independent couriers' that is frankly a cop out to protect their own arses. But then that's what corporations do, cover their own arses to ensure their profits while throwing workers under the bus
Well said! I agree with you on all of these points - I'm actually impressed with how you articulated it so well! 👏👏👏
Again, depends on the area where you live, I live in a London suburb abd being full time driver and delivering only on the peak times during the day, I'm making a decent amount. No need to drive for 14 hours straight
@@chrisadish absolutely! It is very much location dependent. I am in a smaller city in the South West of the UK so could never make the money needed to be full time as a food courier (also wouldn't want to do it full time). Props to you for making it work for you 🙂
Did you hear about the food delivery rider who bite off customer's thumb in America and went to court over it, she just used someone else's account and is happily delivering still.
@@kieranhudson4938I have heard worse about cloned and identify theft, but really I think the delivery companies give as much a crap about illegals on their platforms then some of their let’s say our dated systems l, I mean surely when a customer places an order they should verify their age when they place their order and not pass the buck onto the over worked riders, they could get us to confirm a picture of the customer for example just like we have to verify our identify but somehow like the presented said their margins are probably aimed at profits in the short term rather then improving their systems for the longer term, naturally no one will work for these wages and they may run their course, also you can study access courses for free with the open university. Best feed this back to the companies and ask them why fees are criminally low 😢
UK finished want to leave London with my family.
Where u looking to move too?
I think whilst immigration may be part of the reason on the reduced fees being paid out by these companies nobody is talking about the rise of delivery influencers. That’s promoted more people to take up delivering on a part time basis causing an influx of drivers and hence bringing the fees down. This has all happened since the pandemic so I don’t think immigration is the sole reason. The only people making money in all of this is the delivery companies themselves. Honestly the only way to genuinely live comfortably is to set up your own business. Companies want to earn the highest amount of profits and don’t pay employees enough. The national living wage is a joke.
I'm not sure about that to be honest. Me and London Eats were making plenty of videos during the pandemic and earnings were good for quite a long time. It's only when lockdown ended and there was mass migration that things started to get bad - it was very noticeable to me on the streets that it was a completely different group of people delivering and way higher numbers. This means there is more competition for orders so even if fees stay the same you can't make enough money from this work. Also year upon year the companies are cutting fees so that makes it worst.
I do this job because it’s fun, I actually look forward to spending the whole day seeing sights and earning money for it. The pay is bad compared to the hours you put in riding but if you do it enough I can earn £800 plus a month. If it goes quiet I just go and look at some views, I love it.
Although they could pay us more.
Firstly, wicked content Jay. I enjoyed it genuinely however you definitely purposefully painted this job in a bad light.
One of the worst things about this job is travelling on motorways which is something people don't think about but this unfortunate video is filled with motor ways. On the bright side, it didn't rain which is something to be happy about.
If you didn't devote time to recording yourself & travelled a bit faster, you would definitely make more money.
Where is the gratitude? Some people only have 1 app to work with & they are content. You have 4 apps. It's important to be grateful.
I don't enjoy this work as much anymore because of these issues we are facing. During the pandemic I had a lot of fun doing this work.
Whilst I was recording I had the apps all switched on - I barely got any orders tbh.
I have 4 apps and still made £4-5 an hour - it's not about being grateful I'm just documenting the true reality good or bad. I was singing its praises during the pandemic because it was good work.
Anyways thank you and I appreciate your respectfulness in this comment!
I started uber recently I have been out on a Friday and Saturday night my first order was OK 3 pound for very local then next one was 4.1 miles for £5.13 and had one more since done over 4 hours for under £15 lol
Well, at least you can say the mcdonalds wasnt covered in spraypaint. Anywhere in north america that’d have been tagged 1000 times over in a week
Tbh From my perspective, when I worked In Gloucester I was one of 3 cyclists up until about then end of 2021. I then moved to Cheltenham. Only a few months after coming back to Gloucester to visit, there was 20-30 cyclists, all of similar race that seemed to influx into the city. Interesting how it happened and I wonder if they are all from the same country / living out of the same 4 star hotel !
Pepes is AWESOME! You really should try it and if you like it hot please try the extreme sauce!
Welcome back
Thanks mate!
You are totally right.
Is going to get worse.
Les disposable income means less money to spend on luxuries, living wage outside of affluent areas is at base rates
I think a lot of the problem comes down to addiction which occurs for all sorts of reasons and prevents you from holding down a 9-5 life. And there's no help. It just feels like people are on self destruct and have given up because there is no help and it's so much easier right now to lose your job, your home and your family and then spiral into addiction as a means to numb the pain of it all, and then you just can't get out of that. There's not enough money in people's pockets, and they don't have the savings to make it through price rises, bill rises and job losses. They reckon you now need 6 months of emergency savings to get through if you lose your job but there are people having to go a lot longer before finding another job. I also don't think enough people know about all the side hustles you can do easily to bring in something - anything. And I'm not talking driving for Deliveroo!
Welcome back! So are you officially back to the delivery game after the travel blogs? Any plans to go out again?
The whole problem is by law the only way they can make us self employed is if we are allowed to sub our accounts out. It is a bit of a silly law. Really we should not be campaigning the delivery companies, we should be campaigning the government to get a clause put in to stop it. But what would the clause look like? Something like... if an industry ticks numerous illegal operators and potential slavery red flags then that industry shall not be allowed to sub out their work. I will try and find out who the slavery minister is in this new parliament and maybe someone reading my follow up can post it to whatever groups they are in... It would be quite nice for a new government to be offered a potential solution.
What you wanted to say was loads of Eastern European people coming over using rented accounts, doing it in cars that don't have food delivery insurance. It infuriated me when drivers were bragging about not paying tax or insurance when you were picking up orders. It was a joke I'm White British and I was getting told by foreign people mainly Bulgarian and Romanian to get lost and I'm taking their jobs. I turned round one day and said. You're telling me that yet you're in my country and I'm a British citizen and they turned round and called me racist. Towards the end of me doing deliveries it was getting to the point where they'd scared off all but 2 of us British because of the aggression and scare tactics and if you weren't taking 3 or 4 orders it wasn't worth doing and only sticking to 2 jobs meant you were on about £4-5 an hour on a good day and on the quiet days you were paying to be there. I stopped doing it as I couldn't afford too.
Brother I am struggling to open my Uber eats account for delivery when I give my current living Adress it doesn’t accept it, even I send email they said last 5 years proof of adress, and I got only 3 years proof of address, but they take long time for opening account even I got all legal documents,share code,right to work but nothing what I supposed to do? Same problem in just eat.
The issue is that they don't need more drivers/riders because there is an over supply of them and not enough orders. It can take months to even get activated and that was during the pandemic when they needed more people. I'd recommend looking for other work to not waste your time and this is poorly paid not even minimum wage!
@@GigHustle thany appreciate for replying me, i apply other places my profession is caring job, support worker for mental health learning disabilities autism patients, I tell you honestly I gave interview on defferent places and they said you are not selected, what kind of professional staff you are looking, I applied in care home, still applying through Indeed, recruiting process is very poor, very slow, they are taking long time for response 😭😭
Stay positive if we are going to get an apprenticeship wage then we must be getting the experience that we would get from an apprenticeship I would hope. I started 8 years ago when deliveroo launched and noticed the high staff turnaround, just follow the rules and guidelines which no one does that also contributes to low standards and a loss of earnings across the board the delivery companies and authorities need to listen up but they do nothing as not one rider in my town really even follows the rules 😅
Enough food banks here in Oxford.
I interact with drivers all the time and it's shocking how many of them don't speak English. How can these companies give jobs to people who can't perform one of the basic functions? I have no way of knowing whether they have the right to work here but I suspect most of them don't. I don't see how these companies can abdicate the responsibility for this with the substitution system.
which apps are the most popular?
Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats
@@GigHustleI used to use Just Eat exclusively but now have been using Uber a lot more as the delivery fees are a lot lower. Every order I place is like £1 service fee and £1 or less delivery fee, not sure how they pay drivers on that? Deliveroo never used before. Just Eat is usually £1.99~3.99 delivery depending on minimum spends.
Averages itself out if you know what I mean 😪
Every 4 star hotel has loads of bikes & delivery bags outside
Yeah I forgot to mention that they are able to do this work for £5 an hour because they don't have to pay for accommodation, bills etc because they are having that covered!
Yes 👍 I can imagine all the local homeless people and asylum seekers fleeing from war torn countries are having a great time together in the shelters with hundreds of bikes outside the hotels are not hotels anymore
Sadly since i started doing it in 2019. The Apps dont do the basics of a sit down interview etc.
Most riders have 2-3 phones in there hands.
I noticed when Romania played in the Euros. The orders were like the old days.
Sadly riders dont even do the basics of closing the bag to kerp the orders warm.
Then you have riders stealing orders from restaurants on a regular occurrence.
Go back to the multiple phones. Each have deliveroo, Uber and just eats on them. So your talking nearly double/treble amount of riders out there even if you only see 10 riders physically.
They take 1 hour to drop the customers orders off usually cold.
Then moan why orders are dropping.
They are the reason why orders are dropping.
Cold food taking ages to arrive.
Sadly they get banned on one account and by another minutes later.
Now you got to think if these scumbags have 3/4 phones. And the 12.5 k is the base before tax is taken. They are even hiding tax that way.
Sadly this is why immigration is so high.
We are basically building the other countries up and making the uk poor.
I seen in Hereford beggers now being dropped off purely to scam us uk people.
I've even been shown the village in Romania that they have 3 bedroom big houses.
They just beg/scam the system.
my man forgot that his parents were also immigrants
I don’t have bad feelings towards immigrants. I’m just pointing out the fact that this work is no longer worth it because there is way too many people doing it - mostly because there is mass migration and most of them are low skilled workers so they are doing this work…I hear lots of them are doing it illegally - unlike my grandparents who came over here legally and worked legally.
It’s basic economics. Why on earth would a government encourage immigration when the economy is on its arse and AI is taking over? Makes zero sense.
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I’d something more to say
Would you say its still worth it to do on the side aswell as another part time job? On a ebike
The Nando’s order is sometimes difficult to scan because of the receipt. Its when customers order through the Nando’s website not the deliveroo app. Also there is a button in the top right hand corner that will let you take a picture
Yeah that is the case! They don't have the # to scan - thanks for the tip I'll take a picture next time!
Would you say its still worth it to do on the side aswell as another part time job?
Ive heard shelters can be risky for homeless people because its very likely that they will be subject to harrassment/violence and being lured into drugs, so much its safer for them to be on streets
Hi gig, I’m also from Notts, i only have uber eats right now unfortunately, what do you suggest are some of the best area and times to make deliveries? Thank you
Another Amazing Episode👍👍👍🎉🎉🎉
All those issues are political, the way I see it, when two parties are tight their first alternative solution will be seeking for outside solution (outside allys…), the quickest way is open the gate so you have new comers as the new voting partners(it happened in the history…, I suppose) you pass all the needed laws to make things legalized so they get to vote for your party to secure all your party’s needs (interests, most likely 💰💰💰related), during the process of doing so, the certain rights in general of the original locals might get compromised in some ways, not sure if it’s the case in the UK?
Of course, i am not in the position to make any judgements on this topic, just based on what I have observed when I traveled a lot way back for business in EU( UK included), US, & Asian countries and now I actually can tell Taiwan has been going thru this for 2X-30 years, the voting base has definitely been RESHUFFLED.
Welcome Back
I work only uber eats, i usually work between 10 - 12 hours per day and guaranteed to walk away with at least 125 per day which my target. Its hard work but if you do it full time its mostly worthit. Tbh i did spend 4/5 months on a bicycle and its absolutely not worthit. Do it on a motor to make money. Btw my fuel costs are usuall ~£14 per full shift day. Though im only working this hard to fund studies abroad and leave uk. Again full time is decent but it is hard work, but not on a bicycle. Plenty of places will rent you a motorbike
why do you need the code?
You might enjoy a series wandering turnip is doing called death of the high street. Sorry your food is cold but I spent 5 minutes trying to scan a number at nandos
flew to Philippines as well
What is your second account once you eating jco?
@JayeshChhaya :)
Same thing happening here in the US. Our govts are obsolete.
this is exactly what Robin Hood fought against all those years ago! steal from the rich to feed the poor! 😆
Good to see back gig hustle. Like you, I’m wondering why there are so many homeless on our city streets. Could it be the result of easily available powerful synthetic drugs? I don’t know, but it is our society’s responsibility to address. Best wishes. Paul.
Hey Paul! Thanks :) Maybe I should start documenting the issues in the UK across different cities? I noticed a lot of the homeless were on drugs (I think Spice) but I wonder how it got to this stage?
Yes, indeed, spice is a big problem in my city (Stoke on Trent) I don’t have a clue as to how it has become like this.
Personally, I think that it would be good if you did documentaries in different Towns and Cities. Awareness is a way to see and maybe even address these big issues.
What is spice? Didn't we steal that from India 😂@@Paul-67
@@Paul-67exactly I get what the guy is saying as at times there seems to be two gig hustles in my town and homelessness is the result of it
The fact that we're now pumping raw sewage into British rivers really highlights how far into the decline we are. Frankly, a lot of people need to go back.
Bro is that iPhone Pro or Pro Max i wonder
This business will fail very soon. Is not control of how many drivers and the industrie is saturated with drivers. And the Uber taxi is the same thing, sonner or later they will be gone, or by deslelation or by lack of drivers
The cough cough was not real.
The what? 😂
@@GigHustleEvery time I type the C word RUclips automatically deletes my post.
Nice to see you back in the UK.
I thought you said rats 🐀 and wings 😂
I hope they aren't serving rats 😂
Where have you been mate
As you can see food delivery isn't quite the same as it was - it's also not very nice being in the city anymore as it's quite depressing and a bit dystopian. I also had an accident in Poland and dislocated my shoulder so been out of it recovering. My other channel @JayeshChhaya is where I'll be most active!
Your right mate don't blame you for traveling and getting out of the uk😁
@@LFC-q3f funny enough for the travel channel we will be travelling across the UK for a few months. Then we're off to Japan, China & South Korea :D
tory third world country
Did anyone tip this guy ???
Boring, yes its not as good as it was.
But if you stopped talking and delivered you would make money.
in my opinion when it comes to homeless people, I think they know there is support out their but they just don't choose to do it because they would much rather beg on the street because that's all they've done and its easier for them to do that. But, then again when it comes to them trying to find a job its very hard since they've most likely lost a way of identifying themselves, social skills & you know it costs them money to clean themselves up (i.e., shower, haircut, fresh clothes etc)
Oh and also the scanning on orders is a new feature Deliveroo added its to stop riders from stealing orders
Who is giving them money? British people despise tipping, and generally homeless people have a poor (assumed) reputation for spending money on alcohol and drugs so thought people wouldn't give money to them.
I think quite a lot of them are on drugs and so they are probably begging to get money for that - they know where the best places are to get money outside of supermarket shops. They are all doing that because it works. The guy was saying money for a drink but if he had asked me can you buy me a drink I would of but they don't probably want drinks.
They are outside of Tescos across Nottingham because people are most likely giving them change. It's a different mindset when someone is getting paid to deliver your food and tipping them extra compared to homeless on the streets and giving them change.
exactly go outside your local train station and you might see the same sort of beggars getting many times minimum wage fare I say what we get but no one does anything about it begging is illegal and a crime for a reason!
It is hard giving anyone money because if someone is disabled, homeless or anything else does it excuse them breaking the Law?
The answer is no it does not and why we as riders should have just as many rights as anyone else another reason the presenter mentions the living wage something we as hard working honest workers making an honest wage should be entitled to.
Why do people always give the benefit of the doubt to the homeless or destitute. A well known fact for example is that 70% of homeless people in the United Kingdom hold down three or more full time jobs !
You are like an asian version of Boris Johnson. 😮
lol
Always looking for scapegoat.