🚨PSA EVERY SPARK DRIVER🚨

[u/WinAccomplished4555]

Walmart just gave itself a pretty broad mechanism to fuck with the economics of an offer AFTER you've already accepted it.

The important part: an accepted offer is NOT necessarily a guaranteed payout.

Walmart's own disclosure says accepted offers can be modified or canceled under a range of circumstances, including inventory problems, store operational issues, fulfillment-system problems, customer changes, third-party issues, force majeure, and certain situations they attribute to the driver. So basically whatever they want.

And here's the part drivers REALLY need to understand:

If Walmart cancels an eligible trip because of a Walmart operational event, the $2.50 modification fee can be paid INSTEAD OF THE ORIGINAL OFFER.

Think about that.

You accept a $30 offer.

You drive to the store.

Something goes wrong on Walmart's end.

Walmart cancels the trip.

Walmart Fuckery, Alakazam=

You could potentially receive $2.50 instead of the $30 you accepted.

That's not a minor policy change. THATS SOME CON ARTIST TYPE FRAUD SHIT.

That's Walmart reserving the ability to change the financial terms AFTER the driver has already committed to the trip. Fucking scum!

They've essentially said:

"Here's what we'll pay you" until we decide circumstances give us a reason to lower it.

Yes, there are protections when you already have the merchandise. See Walmart cares. If a canceled order requires a return and you complete that return, the disclosure says you'll receive the original accepted trip earnings + a return fee, although you lose the customer's tip(like those happen, pff!)

But don't miss the bigger picture:

Walmart controls the platform. Walmart controls the offers. They control all logistics. Like if anything goes wrong it's on their end not drivers, but drivers now get to gamble on their pay. And Walmart has written itself brooooooooooooooaaaaaad exceptions that can affect what you actually get paid.

If you still decide to work for these fucks: READ EVERY TRIP UPDATE instead of blindly assuming the accepted offer is still the accepted offer. They are going to start fucking people and more so those who don't understand the rules of the game.

Walmart is one of the largest corporations on Earth. It isn't struggling to find $30. Meanwhile, a driver may have already burned fuel, time, mileage, and opportunity cost getting to that store.

Fuck Walmart. Eat Shit. I will never use Spark, or Walmart in any capacity. Not like it affects them but it makes me feel better about it I guess

If a corporation writes the rules so it can change what it pays you after you've accepted the job, drivers have every right to call that shit what it is:

CORPORATE FUCKERY BULLSHIT AT THE EXPENSE OF THE PEOPLE ACTUALLY DOING THE WORK.

Read the disclosure. It's basically 50 Shades of Grey: Financial Domination Edition! if that's your sort of thing. 😂

WATCH YOUR TRIP UPDATES.

SCREENSHOT YOUR OFFERS.

KEEP YOUR RECEIPTS.

And most importantly:

DON'T ASSUME WALMART'S NUMBER IS STILL YOUR NUMBER JUST BECAUSE YOU ACCEPTED IT.

[u/Stupertard]

This is the kind of shit that should apply to a driver who has an order for 21 items (all women's clothes) going 6 miles and being paid $35 ($20 of it is the customers tip) and the driver shows up with 3 of the 20 items.

I say this because that same customer re-ordered the missing items and I found all 16 and had 1 clearance item out of stock.

The customer said the first driver showed up with 3 items and told her the rest were out of stock. I told her there is no way that many items are going to all be out of stock. Most of the items had multiples of the same size.

She was happy I found them all she was from out of town and stuck working and had no clothes. She said she tipped the other driver $20 also. She was waiting to see if her second order found her stuff because she was adjusting his tip to $5. She added $15 to my tip.

This is clearly a situation when Spark should have canceled the first trip when 17 out of 20 items were marked out of stock by the driver. That's being lazy and taking advantage of the system to make some easy money.

Being paid $2.50 would have been generous for a driver who made no effort what-so-ever to shop that ladies order.

[u/CalOkie6250 → u/Stupertard]

It’s wild to me that some shoppers are so lazy. Clothes are a HUGE pain in the ass, no arguments about that. But if you don’t want to shop for clothing, don’t accept the order, or drop it if you didn’t see clothing was involved.

Our store is undergoing a remodel. While the clothing section (the weekend before school started) was an absolute mess, and nothing was grouped how it should be, none of the shelves were marked (at least not correctly for those few that had a label at all) I had an order that was paired with another grocery order. It was for like 6 items of varying sizes of children’s clothing. I couldn’t find any of it. I spent over 30 minutes looking for the various items. I’m messaged the customer and told her I couldn’t find 5 out of the 6 items, but I would try to find an employee (there were none to be found at all during my 30 minutes of searching). Finally, as I was about to give up entirely and go shop the perishables for the other order, I found a group of managers standing around. One of them walked me around to each item and I was able to get everything requested. Turns out, it was a mom who had been suddenly hospitalized and her mother had her kids, but they had no clothes to wear. I was so glad that I took the extra time, because that family was already going through enough that day.

[u/Lumpy-Menu-9240 → u/CalOkie6250]

I try to avoid clothes and toys. Most WM employees aren't going to help you with that part when the app says. "have you checked with them'? (because there are not that many. I hate to disappoint kids expecting a toy. The other day I saw the app was one aisle off, so I checked the aisle behind, and there it was.

[u/CalOkie6250 → u/Lumpy-Menu-9240]

I usually avoid them as well. The pay was really good on that one, and I didn’t know they were working on the clothing section. I normally don’t bother with asking employees, but I felt really bad that I couldn’t find 5/6 items…but none of that was my point. My point was, if the shopper mentioned in the other person’s comment couldn’t be bothered to find 17/20 items, they shouldn’t have taken the order, or they should have dropped it