Wolt are utter shite in Gozo.
I don’t know how they are in Malta but multiple times this month when I’ve tried to use Wolt I haven’t been able to because there haven’t been enough drivers.
Just in the last two days there have been at least three times when deliveries have been closed to Nadur due to this lack of drivers.
Today I ordered from two different restaurants (because someone wanted sushi and someone else wanted an Indian) before they closed deliveries, so my order was still showing but they’ve delayed my order four times. With delivery going from 2:15pm 2:30pm to 2:50pm to 3:15pm to almost 4pm and they ended up cancelling the Indian because the restaurant closed before they picked up.
Eventually they cancelled the order from the Indian restaurant because it closed before it was picked up.
I get the drivers are striking over working conditions but if you do this too much I’m just going to change the company I use for food delivery, and if other people do the same, including restaurants who maybe made food that the driver didn’t pick it up, they’re going to be pissed and maybe stop paying wolt as their delivery company too…so then you lose your jobs as suddenly they don’t need as many drivers.
Right now I’m hungry and pissed off and finding it very hard to feel any empathy for the drivers at all.
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Posted by Morriadeth
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Immigrants complaining about low wages due to market oversaturation will never not be funny to me, they didn’t have a problem when they did it to locals lmao
Yeah well when youve calmed down a bit and started thinking again, maybe youll realise a few things.
1) People like you who keep threatening to stop using services – the companies dont care. Neither does someone else. You will never get any leverage or anything other than ridicule (rightfully so) using this argument.
2) You dont really have any other option unless you go and pick it up yourself.
3) The workers – like any worker – want to be treated like a human. This lack of empathy – I hope every single one of your orders are all delayed like this.
The workers are not shooting themselves anywhere. The companies are the problem. The scumbag agencies that steals a chunk of the drivers salaries are the problem. Your stupid government is the problem. Not the workers.
Have you tried tipping aggressively?
“right now I’m hungry and finding it hard to find empathy for the drivers” sorry that they don’t serve you on demand 🙄
What do the workers expect? The time to negotiate employment conditions is before you join not whilst already employed. Striking for a day and then going back to business as usual is quite inconsequential to the employer.
I don’t approve of the abusive employment contracts and structures that these employers use by any means. However the only reason that it is possible is because of the massive oversupply pf third-country nationals willing to sign those same contracts to come here.
As a people in general, they are doing it to themselves. And whilst I disapprove of the conduct of the delivery platforms and preferred employment agencies, I equally disapprove of anybody accepting work conditions that they know undercut the local wage market just for the sake of an EU work permit and then protesting after getting comfortable in the country.
The bottom line is that if the delivery platforms wanted to pay decent wages they would, and they would be able to recruit locally or within the EU. The drivers are not recruited for their talent or exceptional communication skills, they are simply recruited because they will accept less than minimum wage and as soon as that is no longer their selling point they lose their value to their employer. It is a harsh reality but you are not exactly scoring great karma points when you knowingly undercut good wages and conditions that local workers fought for over decades in the name of a visa.