SkipTheDishes Employee Reviews in Victoria, BC
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Food Delivery Driver (Current Employee) - Victoria, BC - 14 November 2019
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The most useful review selected by IndeedThis job must be the second job. Otherwise, you might feel stress.
Daily money seems good. but we have to pay for everything such as gas, tire, oil change, car insurance.
And, you have to pay tax and pension at the tax return.
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horrible
Courier Driver (Former Employee) - Victoria, BC - 20 June 2021
did not make any money it's basically a scam. you don't even get an employee discount on skip and the pay was supposed to be 20-25 an hour but turned out it was only 15 most days.
Pros
flexible hours
Cons
non suitable for a living wage job
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it was very casual
Driver (Former Employee) - Victoria, BC - 8 May 2020
Although the job is fast paced, you get to do it in the comfort of your own car. The job it self is not competitive, yet it is necessary to have a good acceptance rate in order to be matched with more jobs. The hardest part is just to stay motivate into driving for long hours alone everyday, but taking that the job itself is very straight forward and easy.
Pros
you get to choose your own time slots, and do it in any vehicle of your choice.
Cons
It gets very boring
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good
Food Courier (Former Employee) - Victoria, BC - 21 February 2020
good experience and fast money sometime it gets slow but even the slowest day you get to earn enough. the best thing about that is the flexible schedule.
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Low pay after expenses
Courier (Former Employee) - Victoria, BC - 18 July 2019
The economics of this simply don't make any sense for drivers.
On a good day, in a compact city with short distances between places, you might make about $80 in a 4h shift if people are tipping decently. Sounds pretty good for a part time job right? Think again.
You will drive roughly 50km in that time period. Revenue Canada uses $0.58/km estimate for the expenses of operating a vehicle. This includes gas, insurance, maintenance, and depreciation.
50km*$0.58= $29 in expenses for a typical shift. Sometimes it will be lower, and sometimes higher, but this is a pretty good average from my experience.
$80-$28=$51 for 4 hours of work, or $12.75/hr. BC minimum wage is $13.85. So you're working for less than minimum wage, right off the bat.
On top of that, if you want ICBC to cover you in an accident, which is now way more likely, given the nature of the work, you have to pay nearly double for commercial insurance. My monthly premium was $140 with the full discount, where it was $80 before. Now you're even further behind from minimum wage if you want to stay legal and not make false claims should you get in an accident (which can get you in big trouble). If you only drive occasionally, that extra $60/mo stacks up against your skip earnings pretty quick. It's 3/4 of an entire shift just to cover your extra insurance for the month.
Did I mention parking? Either pay for parking out of pocket or risk getting a $30+ ticket.
I think you get the picture. This is a below minimum wage job that puts you and your car at a lot of risk.
It's also pretty thankless. The restaurants -
Pros
You make your own schedule and are your own boss
Cons
Below minimum wage, risky, thankless.
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Flexible hours
Driver/Delivery (Current Employee) - Victoria, BC - 17 July 2019
Have to pay for your own gas, insurance, maintenance etc.
Hours are flexible, but sometimes limited.
Income per shift is unpredictable
Pros
Flexible hours
Cons
Pay is unpredictable, Have to pay for gas
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You will be frustrated, it's a lot like gambling.
Driver/Delivery (Former Employee) - Victoria, BC - 13 March 2019
Skip the Dishes is an ok place to work for on the side but the system does not allow one to make even minimum wage without driving at inopportune times. You will also be frustrated by the lack of help and escalation through the app that would allow better customer service and increased $/per hour.
Often the lack of communication between the app services, the driver, and customer seems lacking and could use a more direct approach to improve the business. At the time being, working for SkiptheDishes has made me avoid them due to what I've experienced in terms of wait times.
Food often takes up to an hour to be delivered and has been waiting for 20-30 minutes at the restaurant depending on drivers. This leads to very old food being delivered on a regular basis due to inefficiencies rather than slow driving.
Pros
Work or stop working virtually whenever you want.
Cons
the $$$ shifts are late at night or during lunch hours, and $/per hour depends highly on customer tipping 15%+, or getting 'lucky' with routes and high value orders
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Easy time managing
Delivery Driver - Victoria/Langford (Current Employee) - Victoria, BC, - 10 March 2019
This job isn't going to fill your pockets easy but it definitely is a good way to make extra cash on top of a full time job. This job works great cause you pick when you work and you can end your shift really easily if you are too tired or don't want to work any more
Pros
Time Management
Cons
Low Money
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Was better, now it's a waste of time!
Courier Driver (Current Employee) - Victoria, BC - 21 November 2018
I joined Skip in April while I was still in university as a part time job. It was pretty decent with I was making $20 per hour on average with some days making even more. But it has really gone down since October with way too many couriers on the road and no ones making any decent money. I've been making like 40-60 frequently on a 4 hr shift which is really a waste of my time. I guess Skip got greedy with their golden goose and started to put more couriers on the road and pretty soon they will see it would not be sustainable with so many couriers leaving for a better job.
Pros
Flexibility, Being your own boss
Cons
Low pay, Mileage on the vehicle, Accidents, Fines, Tickets
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It is a delivery job
Driver (Current Employee) - Victoria, BC - 3 July 2018
Skip the Dishes and it has been a great experience so far.
They align the transit fee to cover distance traveled so that you are always getting a fair rate for delivery.
Tips are added at the time of purchase if the order is paid for online. You are really getting tipped before you have started the order process, which does lead to a smaller tip. You have to remember that that is just a bonus.
The hours are flexible and you get to choose your hours a week in advance.
I use Waze as the GPS system of choice and this allows me to find quick routes with live traffic info.
The courier app has a step by step process so they are with you the entire way. If you get to a restaurant and have to wait too long, they will automatically get onto the restaurant about it.
Recommended Tools:
1) A small gas friendly car
2) Great driving skills
3) A sense of urgency
4) A car dock that you can constantly be putting your phone in and out of, with a car charger.
Pros
Flexible Hours
Cons
Pay is not consistent
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in Victoria, BCDon’t waste your time!
Driver (Former Employee) - Victoria, BC - 14 April 2018
Don’t bother working for these people! They don’t pay by the hour so they “hire” so many people that they are constantly over staffed. Too many drivers and not enough orders... you’ll spend quite a bit of time just waiting for orders in your car or even waiting for a restaurant to finish making an order!
Customers also seem crazy cheap! I’ve worked in a pizza place before and the tip per order is pretty much 1/2 on average!
Pros
Flexible hours
Cons
Horrible pay, call center agents, bad tips
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Not Worth It!
Courier Delivery Driver (Former Employee) - Victoria, BC - 19 March 2018
The only positive thing about working for Skip the Dishes is the flexibility of the shifts.
Just the start up costs of joining Skip is heavy.... You'll need:
Your own car and be able to pay for gas out of pocket
Smartphone with at least 2 gigs data
Pay at least 150$ for 2 delivery bags BEFORE getting a single shift
The pay is commission based that is calculated ONLY for the drive to the customer. !So your effectively only earning money for half the effort that goes into each delivery!. The tips you receive from customers is on average half than you would normally get at a similar job. The pay rate between deliveries of similar distance tends to be random.
At best on average you'll get 1 delivery per hour. Only getting more on rare occasions or the 1-2 "busy" days of the week.
The Operators on the Courier "Success" Team are terrible at their jobs. If you have a problem expect to wait 10min or more just to get their attention. They constantly mix-up information and tend to be quite rude when drivers do things "Exactly" as they supposed to.
This company has many divers already (Hundreds PER City). At one point I heard that Skip had almost 300 drivers in my city alone. Which limits extra shifts in the area.
Conclusion:
Low Pay
Pay for your own gas
Limited extra shifts available
Incompetent Operators/Dispatchers
Minimum 150$ start up cost
NOT WORTH IT!!!!
Pros
Flexible hours
Cons
Terrible Pay and extremely rude Operators
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Great company!
Delivery Driver (Current Employee) - Victoria, BC - 12 September 2017
Great company to work for! Super flexible hours and get to work by yourself and find awesome places to eat! You can work as much or as little as you like and management is super nice to deal with.
Pros
Flexible
Cons
Low pay
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Get Delivery Insurance
Courier (Current Employee) - Victoria, BC - 2 August 2017
There are enough reviews here from couriers that I don't have much to add there except to comment on the insurance issue. If you are doing deliveries with your car, you must have delivery insurance. It takes no more than telling your broker to change the rate group to delivery and paying a slightly higher premium. Otherwise, no, of course, your vehicle would be rated for leisure and to-from an office so you could end up being very very sorry. There's a big difference when you are putting 100 km on your car every day vs. commuting 5 km each way to work.
Pros
Generally flexible
Cons
Couriers are treated like commodities, but this is improving a bit.
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Avoid if possible.
Driver (Former Employee) - Victoria, BC - 2 July 2017
I am leaving this review because I feel like I have put time and effort in a company that seriously did not deserve it. I want people to understand that Skip the dishes is not a real job.
At skip the dishes you mean nothing. Everyday you have different dispatchers who runs the show however they please, your wage often is 3.75$ and no tips for being stuck in traffic. You'll receive messages saying to update frequently when you're simply trying to drive. Reassignments while on the job. Dispatchers and restaurant owners can be very rude.
And that is, if you get deliveries at all. Not worth it.
Pros
Flexible schedules
Cons
Dispatch
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