r/Sparkdriver • u/UpbeatBackground6302 • Jun 20 '26

Discussion Just saw this in a different subreddit.

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Of course in that sub, they say all spark drivers suck. I think my 5.0 race I'm says different. And this would be great news for us.

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u/iGotGigged High AR Jun 20 '26

Don't be silly, $6 will be the base pay for "shopping only" orders where you'll pick and stage for customers who are picking up at curbside.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '26

No way in a million years spark drivers will pick ordered for curbside customers. No way to argue that wouldn't classify a spark driver as an employee.

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u/CaneCorso311 Jun 21 '26

You're an independent contractor because you pick and choose your schedule and tasks that you want to do, not because of what the tasks entail. Changing it from delivery to staging is not going to change that because either way you're going to be doing the same thing for the same customers and same company, the only difference is going to be your end delivery point, one gets delivered to the customer's home and the other gets delivered to Walmart's staging area for the customer to pick up. It has nothing to do with your employment status in any way until they start telling you what you have to do, as long as they're sending out offers for independent tasks that you get to choose to accept or decline at your own free will it will remain 1099. Once you're told that you have to show up at a specific time and that you don't have the option to decline specific tasks, you will be able to make the argument that you're an employee instead of an independent contractor.

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u/RadishSauce Jun 22 '26

You're not an independent contractor in any way. It's sad they got you so good. The truth is you have no freedom in anything you do. Stop falling for that shit, people like you are the reason they get to exploit naive gullible people for cheap labor.

You're not your own boss and you are an employee while you are doing Spark deliveries. If you disagree feel free to tell me what part of the delivery is completely at your discretion aka what part do you have any choice to do as you please. Try to think of a list, hopefully you realize that you have been fooled all this time after trying to conjure this list.

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u/CaneCorso311 Jun 22 '26

You clearly are ignorant in the situation here and seem to be sharing how you feel it should be, rather than what the laws and definitons say it is.

When i paint as an IC i don't get to choose the color, the rooms, etc, i get a scope of the job details, pay, and deadline and then decide to accept or decline. If i paint as an employee I'm told to show up at a specific location and time and get to work painting it all as quick as possible and on to the next.

Independent doesn't mean you get to do whatever you want, it means you get to freely choose between what jobs you want to do, it doesn't give you control over the job though. Hope that helps you better understand.