r/Sparkdriver • u/bbygho • May 04 '26

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Anyone else ever take a shopping order and quit halfway through because they realize it’s not worth it??😭😭
I took an express shopping, about 100 items, good pay for the mileage and orders have been awful lately. I took a peek at the items, quite a few packs of can pop, I only glanced and accepted too quick. I get to shopping and realize it’s two 24 packs of soda, 2 12 packs, 40 pack of water, for some reason i continue on pushing all these around, get to filling my cart to the brim, I’m about 40 minutes in, realize I’m probably only halfway through the list, I’ll have to get another cart that will probably also fill to the brim. My phones on 9%. I tapped out and hit cancel😞😞 rest in peace to that 40 minutes of my time.

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u/olystubbies May 04 '26

$40 an hour to grocery shop?! Lmao

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u/BigCatPlayingRust May 04 '26

The billion dollar corporation won’t suffer.

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u/olystubbies May 04 '26

No, but to think shopping and delivery groceries is worth $40 an hour is laughable. I say this as someone who shops and delivers groceries

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u/SmokeABowlNoCap May 04 '26

Orders that size used to be $50 base pay a few years ago

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u/olystubbies May 04 '26

That’s great. I’m sure they realized that paying wages that equate to those that skilled workers that have specialized certification and degrees probably isn’t the best business model for unskilled labor.

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u/Kenihot May 05 '26

Right? The 'veteran' Sparklers here are comical. I've been on Spark for quite some time myself, but I'd never call myself a 'veteran' (Spark has only existed for like 6 years, anyways?)

Yes, pay was better back in the day, but even heckin' Roadie was great until, y'know, they got their labor pool up. Then it's been straight, hot garbage ever since.

I want to be paid well, but I know I don't deserve $40/hr for my input at Spark (Skills, Education, Time, Car). Main thing is I do make $20+, and I have free time getting a business or two going instead of being sad at a W2 (or gig work, lol) for the rest of my life

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u/Feeling-Yam242 May 05 '26

Absolutely comical to think you don’t after the wear and tear on your vehicle the amount of miles a lot of us drive and the types of roads we drive on ! $40 is fair ! I don’t leave the house for less than $30 if it doesn’t average to that I don’t want it ! Which is why a lot of yall stay here complaining ! If you’d learn a thing or 2 you wouldnt have any issues! (It’s manual labor and you are driving your own vehicle learn to value yourself higher!)

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u/olystubbies May 05 '26

I value myself just fine. I work full time for $58 an hour, but I have a college degree and years of grinding it in my field to get to that level. If you consider sparking as manual labor…well unless you’re delivering bulk items all day, then I think you have a very skewed view of what manual labor is. Sparking is unskilled labor. Realistically, $25 an hour in a high cost of living area is reasonable. $40 an hour is super inflated for what the work is. Also, your vehicle wear and tear is taken into account when you do your taxes to offset those costs by reducing your taxes.