Rich men act all strong, but as soon as they have to do stuff that like the poors
have to do, they crumble like little children.
There is a new policy at Doordash that rich engineers are complaining
about because they have to actually go out and
Doordash delivery to people and they're crying about it.
So it's an episode of
When Rich Men Cry.
>> I care.
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That's it. [MUSIC]
>> Leon Cooperman.
All right, so here's the program, WeDash is the company's flagship employee
engagement program, which aims to have workers quote,
learn firsthand how the technology products we build empower local economies,
which in turn helps us build a better product.
So they have to go do what they build.
And employees including those in DoorDash has corporate offices must serve as
delivery drivers at least once a month.
If they can't deliver, there is a backup,
they can choose other experiences such as shadowing customer service staff.
And now for the rich person tears, here is someone crying about it.
One DoorDash employee who reported a total annual compensation of $400,000
complained about the DoorDash initiative on the anonymous employee social platform,
Blind in a post titled quote, DoorDash making engineers deliver food, quote.
Mandatory, WeDash starts from next year.
You need to dash once a month will be tracked in performance reviews what
the actual f.
I didn't sign up for this,
there was nothing in the offer letter/job description about this.
So there you go.
He's crying because he actually has to see if the project that he works on works and
experience what these people that his company and, or at least companies like
that have spent millions in lobbying dollars to prevent the actual workers from
having a living wage and benefits that this person completely enjoys.
And I don't know if it's a man or a woman, but-
>> Yeah, so, and he or she was not alone,
there were other people on the site that were agreeing with them and
then others came in and massively disagreed of course.
So look, it's unbearable.
It's one thing if someone is not a well paid executive or
engineer or whoever it might be, and they say,
well, this is outside of my job description.
And, I always think about it our example, like I'm a Stage Line and I'm this,
I don't, I am not in that group, right?
Okay that's kind of understandable, right?
But you say, I don't even wanna know our product.
I have to now go deliver at real people's doors.
My God, I might have to interact with people that aren't really wealthy.
Now you're fired.
Go, move along, move along.
Hey, you don't wanna do the program, no problem.
Move along, okay?
So I know some people catch feelings over that, right?
But no, if you're really well paid, this person happens to be
an engineer, but like that's executive level pay, right?
And then I got no sympathy for you.
The point is, you're supposed to know the customers, you're supposed to know
the process, there's a reason why they made that decision.
If you don't like it, that's why God made doors.
You're not under duress, you don't like for people who don't make as much,
it's too crass to say, why don't you leave?
Well, it's hard to find a job and there's 1000 things that go along with that you're
making $400,000 a year you're gonna be fine brother, there's the door,
move along.
>> We have a poll that we wanna know your opinion on.
So if you go to tyt.com/polls, you'll see is DoorDash,
is new initiative a good idea, option one, yes.
Every employee should understand their company's service or
no delivering isn't part of their job.
I similarly understand the delivering isn't or
this wasn't in my job description and this isn't part of my job.
I understand, I think that maybe once a month is a little overkill, but
like I totally here, I know a lot of software engineers and they all are like,
I am God, I built this system that controls everybody's lives and
everything is revolving around me and all these.
People that I dispatched to go, my algorithm is perfect and
I can send you on the optimal path.
And everyone who uses these things completely in a second,
points out everything wrong with them because they actually have to use it.
Like it makes a lot of sense.
I think people should know exactly what product they're building and
what effect it has on people.
>> Yeah, look, I want you to be clear about this.
So engineers are some of the best people on earth and not just because my dad's
an engineer, but because they build things [LAUGH] like it and
they're usually very logical because you can't have built a bridge.
But in Silicon Valley there's a culture of engineers being kings.
And so Google once paid an engineer $50 million to retain them.
So then that has created an entitlement complex where they think I
don't wanna be with the riffraff, I'm an engineer.
Okay, well, good for you, but brother.
But yeah, and by the way saying, having issues with this, saying,
hey, once a month might be a bit too much or hey,
listen, this could affect this job description, but not that job description
doesn't quite make sense for the accountants to go door to door, right?
Okay, but it actually made me really like DoorDash.
>> Yeah. >> It made me wanna use it more.
And their leaders have decided, no,
this is going to help people on average is gonna help the company on average.
If you don't want to help the company and you don't wanna actually use the product
and get real life experience with it, there's the door.
>> Yeah. >> Right?
You're gonna find another job in Silicon Valley,
you're well paid engineer, you're gonna be fine.
Go to an elitist place or something.
No, it made me like DoorDash 1000 times more.
>> Yeah, I'm trying to think which one we use the most.
Like definitely there's other ones that you're just like that this isn't
gonna get here ever.
But what always jumps back in my mind when I think about when I was reading this
story is, how these companies treat the folks who actually bring food to people?
And the living in California, how hard they fought against giving everybody like
full time and all the corners they cut.
It's just funny to see this person who is in an ivory tower, then turn around and
be like, no, I can't do that, I don't wanna.
>> Totally and it's called WeDash.
And I thought for a [LAUGH] second it was a weed ash.
[LAUGH] >> Yeah, I-
>> I'd like to see even more,
[LAUGH] can I participate?