So how was it like on the first day of working for Foodpanda? This time I went to Causeway Point to start my shift, since there were many riders over there, so I just followed. So it worked! There, I was so fast to get my first customer on the app and I just parked my bicycle and walked to the shop to collect the food. After I had collected the food, I click on 'pick up' on the app and then the next job is to 'drop off'.
Upon picking up the food, I walked to the bicycle and started cycling to the block number that was shown in the app. Yesterday I worked for 7 hours. Sometimes the distance to deliver is shorter and sometimes it was extremely long. However, the earnings were kept constant at around $4 plus. After 'dropping off' the food at customer's place, I had to cycle back to the 'centre zone'. I had no idea where the 'centre zone' was, but just went back to Causeway Point.
Generally I had constant deliveries coming in. However at 11am to 1130am, I was idle. There was no deliveries at all. I saw that there were so many Grabfood riders around, but few Foodpanda riders. At this timing when I was idle, I saw some Grabfood riders being idle as well. So it was an unproductive time for me.
Being cycling, I need to know my limits. I was given a very far place of deliveries, a place which I was not familiar at 1130am. It was admiralty road. So I had to reject it. It was no good to reject an order but I had no choice. This will affect my acceptance rate.
Yesterday, I tried to accept all the orders except for one mentioned above. At the end of the day, finishing my shift I was dead tired, because there were steep slope at Marsiling 'hill point'. I am not going to accept this area next time. It was not worthwhile considering the same amount of money earn, which was $4 plus only.
On average, within one hour, I just earn an average of $8.70, having two deliveries. So for the seven hours that I worked yesterday, my earning was $60.81. I had thirteen deliveries, some collected cash and some on cards.
So it was a strenuous exercise for me yesterday. I was getting paid to exercise!
