GrabFood riders wait to pick up their order at Ampang, Kuala Lumpur October 14, 2020. — Picture by Shafwan Zaidon
“At the moment, with the lockdown I end up with €500 a month net,” said the 32-year-old who has driven for Deliveroo since 2017 but also takes jobs for Uber Eats and Stuart. Her grown son had left the house and she thought it would be a great move until she found a job in bookkeeping or property management.Mighetto lived in Sacramento but would drive more than an hour to the San Francisco area on weekends because there was more work in the richer towns.Mighetto was pulling in US$60-80 an hour before expenses in 2017 but a series of rate cuts caused that to fall to US$20 at the beginning of the year and to less than US$10 in March.
She received a US$600 per week supplemental federal benefit that the US introduced as part of its Covid-19 stimulus measures but it ran out after four months.
... 'gig' is a slang word for a job that lasts a specified period of time. (sic). What were these fellows thinking? Did they think they could live out the lives doing odd-jobs? Don't be lazy. Go get a proper job that pays a proper salary.