Tipping is horrible for employees in most cases and is generally a stupid and oppressive idea special to the US https://www.eater.com/a/case-against-tipping
DoorDash is a particularly aggressive with their tipping using it to subsidize the workers so they can justify not paying them a decent wage, and DoorDash was even caught stealing those tips https://www.classlawgroup.com/doordash-stole-drivers-to-mount-a-30-million-campaign-to-crush-workers-rights/
It's a tough situation they put a user in:
– Do I not tip and hope to force DoorDash to pay their employees a livable wage for their work? Downside is that the driver gets shafted in the short term.
OR
– Do I tip DoorDash's recommended tip so that the driver gets paid a decent amount, but DoorDash is allowed to continue this nasty practice.
The dumbest part is your forced to choose the tip before the service is rendered! Zero logic to this scam. And further, they're just gunna batch up my order with a bunch of others and deliver according to some algorithm, so its not like I could even pay a good tip to get fast fresh fried chicken or something.
Every time I reluctantly use DoorDash I get sad about this. What can we do about this? Or even tipping in general?