u/LeanCrafterUK

If Deliveroo Is So Terrible, Why Do Riders Keep Choosing to Log In?

Every time Deliveroo advertises work, the same critics appear claiming that riders are paid less than minimum wage, forced to work long hours, and exploited because they are vulnerable.

But if the platform is genuinely so awful, why do thousands of people continue choosing to sign up, log in, and accept orders?

Deliveroo is flexible work. Riders can decide when to work, whether to accept orders, and whether the opportunity fits around their existing job, studies, or personal commitments. It is not being presented as a traditional salaried job with guaranteed hours; it is self-employed delivery work, and that model naturally comes with different responsibilities and risks.

That does not mean every rider has a perfect experience, or that concerns about earnings should be ignored. But describing every independent worker as “exploited” simply because they choose flexible work is patronising. Adults are capable of deciding whether the pay, hours, costs, and freedom make sense for them.

If people believe the rates are unacceptable, they are free to reject orders—or choose another job. What is the point of attacking Deliveroo every time it hires when the very flexibility people criticise is exactly why many riders use it?

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I’m beyond pissed off with Indeed now.

Half the jobs on there feel fake, half feel dead, and the rest get reposted over and over like some cheap scam to keep desperate people clicking. You spend time applying properly, tailoring your CV, writing a decent cover letter, and then get absolutely nothing. No reply. No update. No rejection. Just silence like the vacancy never existed in the first place.

And the worst part is the competition is completely cooked. You’re not just competing with people in the UK anymore, you’re competing with everyone and their dog spamming the same role from every country on earth. So even when a job is real, the pool is bloated, the response rate is dead, and the whole thing feels rigged from the start.

That’s what really boils my blood. Not just that the jobs are fake — it’s that they waste your time while pretending to offer opportunity. It’s disrespectful. It’s lazy. It’s dishonest. And the platforms just let it happen because they care more about traffic than whether anyone actually gets hired.

Indeed has turned into a landfill of ghost jobs, recycled adverts, and fake urgency.

Apply once.

Get ghosted.

See the same job back up next week.

Repeat until you want to throw your phone at the wall.

This job market is an absolute joke.

Just watched a woman walk out of Tesco Express with stolen

goods in her hands and the security guard — the man whose

ENTIRE job is to stop that exact thing — did NOTHING. Stood

at the door like a hi-vis scarecrow while she strolled past

him, bold as you like. Didn't challenge her. Didn't move.

Didn't even blink. He watched her walk out with the stuff

and I'm convinced he was still processing it when she was

already round the corner.

You've got ONE job, mate. ONE. Catch the shoplifters.

That's it. That's the whole job. And you let one walk out

with her hands full while you stood there polishing the

floor with your boots. I did more in five seconds than

you've done all year. Honestly, hand me the hi-vis. I'll

do the job properly. You can go stand in the freezer aisle

and think about what you've done, you absolute plum.

So Tesco is bringing in more delivery orders through Whoosh, Just Eat, Deliveroo and Uber Eats — just in time for the Christmas period.

Brilliant.

Because nothing says “good planning” like reducing tills and expecting a skeleton crew to somehow do even more.

The same few people will be expected to serve customers, deal with Christmas queues, monitor self-checkouts, fill shelves, pull cages, clean spillages, pick online orders, pack them and hand them over to drivers.

All while keeping the shop looking like everything is under control.

And when it all starts falling apart, guess who gets the blame?

The worker.

Not the people making the staffing decisions.

Not the people adding more work.

Not the people expecting one colleague to cover several roles at once.

The worker.

Customers will be standing in queues getting frustrated, while staff are being pulled away to complete delivery orders. Then someone will complain that the service is slow, as though the person on the till personally decided to make Christmas chaotic.

They did not.

They are just being expected to do multiple jobs with fewer people around them.

Tesco wants customers to believe delivery is quick, easy and convenient. What they do not see is the exhausted colleague in the store trying to find every item while also being expected to serve the people physically standing in front of them.

You cannot keep cutting tills, running on a skeleton crew and adding more delivery work, then pretend the pressure will not land somewhere.

It lands on the staff.

It lands on the queues.

It lands on the customers.

And then Tesco will probably act surprised when Christmas service is slower, workers are burnt out and everyone is blaming everyone else.

This is not about refusing to work.

It is about being honest: one person cannot be in four places at once.

If Tesco wants to push more deliveries during the busiest period of the year, then it needs to provide enough staff to handle them.

Otherwise, stop pretending this is innovation.

It is just more work being dumped on the same people and marketed as convenience.

Tesco wants Christmas-level sales with skeleton-crew staffing.

Then, when the queues build and the service suffers, they will expect the workers to smile, apologise and somehow take the blame for a problem they did not create.

This is what Tesco Express workplace culture looks like when people start competing over who suffers the most.

“I walk 25,000 steps.”

“I pull cages.”

“I clean spillages.”

“I pick stock.”

“Then apply.”

Nobody is denying that those jobs are demanding.

But working a more physical role does not make you more hardworking, more important or more deserving than the colleague standing 1-to-1 on a till.

A Tesco Express till worker is still dealing with customers, queues, complaints, payments, pressure and constant concentration. They cannot simply walk off the till whenever they want, which is exactly why reasonable access to water matters.

Yet the response is:

“Stop bitching.”

“Do the bare minimum.”

“Then apply.”

That is not a defence of hard work. It is just one low-paid worker attacking another low-paid worker for expecting basic consideration.

Wanting water while working is not laziness.

It is not refusing to work.

It is not asking for special treatment.

It is a basic human need.

And the “I cope without it, so you should too” argument is one of the most selfish attitudes in any workplace. Your ability to tolerate discomfort does not make everyone else weak. It only proves that you have decided your personal experience matters more than theirs.

If you are proud of suffering through a shift, that is your choice.

But when you mock a Tesco colleague for needing water, you are not proving that you are tougher. You are proving that you have confused exhaustion with a personality and resentment with a work ethic.

Tesco colleagues should not be fighting each other over who has the worst conditions.

The real question is why anyone thinks a worker should feel ashamed for needing water while serving customers on a Tesco Express till.

If your answer is “then apply,” you have missed the point completely.

Workers should not have to earn the right to stay hydrated.

The colleague asking for water is not the problem.

The problem is the Tesco worker so desperate to feel superior that they would rather defend needless discomfort than show basic empathy to someone doing the same low-paid job.

ADA isn’t “early” anymore — it’s just been dead money

At what point are we allowed to stop pretending ADA is just “undervalued” and admit it’s been one of the most painful long-term holds in crypto? One recent Reddit post flat-out called it one of the worst long-term investments they’ve ever made, and honestly it’s hard to argue when the chart looks like this.

ADA is sitting at $0.1454 right now. Not $1.45. Not anywhere close to the levels people were dreaming about when the 2021 hype was in full force.

And that’s the real sting: people didn’t buy this thing to celebrate that it “probably won’t go to zero.” Recent coverage says a literal zero is extremely unlikely, but that is such a pathetic standard for something that was sold as a serious long-term winner.

This is what bagholders still don’t want to hear: surviving is not the same as performing. If you’ve been holding since the mania era, you’re not looking at some misunderstood gem — you’re looking at years of opportunity cost, broken expectations, and a chart that keeps humbling anyone still calling it a top-tier play.

Even now, ADA’s 50-day moving average is $0.20946 and its 200-day moving average is $0.27989, both well above the current $0.1454 price. That’s not strength. That’s a coin trading below both trend lines while people on social media keep recycling the same “just wait” story.

Maybe ADA doesn’t go to zero. But for anyone who bought the dream years ago, watching it sit at $0.1454 is close enough to a financial insult.

To the Tesco workers on £13.28 an hour who are still expected to move like machines, smile through abuse, and act grateful for scraps: why are some of you using that stress to attack your own coworkers?

The company is not your friend. The rota is not fair. The workload keeps climbing. The customers are rude. The pressure is constant. But somehow the anger keeps getting passed sideways onto the person stacking the shelf next to you instead of where it belongs.

That part makes no sense.

Your coworker didn’t set the pay.

Your coworker didn’t cut the hours.

Your coworker didn’t create the understaffing, the mess, or the chaos.

And yet every shift there’s always one person acting like the real enemy is the person in the same uniform. That’s how they keep us weak — tired, frustrated, and busy beefing with each other while the people above just watch it happen.

If Tesco wants loyalty, it should start by paying properly, staffing properly, and treating people like humans. Until then, stop taking the frustration out on the wrong people. Back each other. Protect each other. Move like a team.

Because when workers fight workers, management wins.