[rel2thr]

Illegal immigration has really hit gig work wages. So many people without valid work visas are sharing/renting uber and other accounts to do work. At least in Texas, I would guess 30-40% of gig workers are not legally allowed to be doing it.

[chaps]

Do you have any source that would agree with your 30-40%?

[alephnerd]

Anecdotally, around 40-55% of my DoorDash (YC S13) delivery drivers can only speak Spanish (I set my deliveries to require a PIN so I meet them), and the style of Spanish they speak is a Central American register (I think Honduran, El Salvadoran, and Guatemalan) based on accent and word choice.

I'm not sure if they are "officially" illegal, but they are most likely waiting on an Asylum or Immigration hearing.

This is in SF.

I can also provide FB groups that sell DoorDash (YC S13) and Uber Eats delivery driver accounts to those who lack documentation if needed.

[xethos]

Hardly brand new, but at least done by an actual publication. Uber will never want to publish stats for this kind of thing, so I suspect this is the best we'll get for awhile

https://www.wired.com/story/priscila-queen-of-the-rideshare-...

[knodi123]

I'm someone else, but I can vouch that most of my doordash driver names are female, and most of my delivery people are male.

[rel2thr]

nobody could possibly have that data

[knodi123]

I would guess based on personal visual observation that at least 50% of doordash drivers are not the person listed on the account. Although over maybe 100 orders, I've only had 2 real problems.

[fHr]

and this corpos don't give one fuck as usual