No humans, just algorithm based judgement - Personal Shopper Shipt Employee Review

1.0
Dec 20, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

They make it easy to schedule your hours & the app functions better than most gig apps.

Cons

They're inflexible, be careful about dropping orders early on because if you drop below 90% completion they will automatically deactivate you. The appeal process is automatic, no human sees it, and the deactivations are permanent. You'll get a warning email, but if your area isn't busy enough to do enough orders to raise the percentage before the deadline then there is nothing you can do and the algorithm doesn't have he ability to care. After deactivation you'll keep receiving kudos from the app and tips from customers as they're sent in after the fact, so you'll keep getting notifications that say "your doing a great job!" "your on time bonus is on the way!" "you have more top ratings!" etc knowing that they've already put a permanent block on you via your SSN so you never have the chance to even try again. Honestly I don't know that I would ever recommend trying Shipt solely on the basis that the termination system doesn't actually give anyone the chance to fix any mistakes they make early on, allowing that kind of snap judgement without a human involved while under 100 orders is frankly bizarre.

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Pros

You can pick your own schedule

Cons

Tips aren't always given on the orders.

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Pros

Flexibility—Could set my own schedule. It could also be fun, and sometimes quite rewarding when customers were nice and appreciative. I credit Shipt for introducing me to gig work, as it led me to other, better-paying gig jobs while keeping the schedule flexibility that I need.

Cons

Pay—it’s pretty much poverty-level considering how much work goes into shopping for customers. While I didn’t Shipt full-time, I DID put in at least 30 hours a week doing this shopping. For all of that, the most I made in any given year was $13,000! And I worked hard, got great customer reviews and consistently good tips. Occasionally, there would be newspaper articles about the random Shipt shopper who made $100,000/year! What such articles glossed over (this fact would be buried somewhere deep in the text) was that the shopper in question consistently worked some 80-100 hours per week. So if you broke down that fabulous six-figure pay by how much time the shopper was spending doing the work, it really doesn’t come out to all that much. The other pay issue worth mentioning is that in 2020, right when Covid was rampant, Shipt announced that they were “restructuring” the way they paid shoppers. What this translated to was that they were now paying us even less than they had previously done! That’s when I began to be soured on Shipt. I continued to do it for a while longer, but eventually went to other gigs that paid more.

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