Few things from someone who’s delivered food at multiple places pre the apps. This would not apply to random mom and pops, but at Pizza Hut, Jimmy John’s, etc
1. The driving rate is paid when you are delivering, when you aren’t on the road you get the standard wage. At Pizza Hut i made the same $8 an hour the in shop employees made if i wasn’t delivering.
2. You are actually paid per stop as well - usually $1 per, depending on the POS system of the restaurant, mileage, often ~ $0.40 per mile, for the route.
I made $20+ an hour at every delivery job i had except when i worked at a potbelly’s at a mall - minimal delivery opportunity. By far the easiest money i ever had. Don’t let people trick you into thinking it doesn’t pay well - it does, i made more than my managers.
Markets always care about fundamentals after a year to 18months just mongloids looking at hour to hour price changes and monthly patterns arent bothered with it as just trading momentum.
Tipped wage. Meaning, you accept a lower per hour rate at the chance to make up the rest (hopefully more) in tips.
Pizza Maker: $7.50 an hour.
Delivery Driver: $2.50 an hour.
Imagine if you are on a beach and you see a tsunami coming. But it takes several days. It's far away but big enough to be seen. Every hour you warn others that seem to be sleeping and don't see it coming. Everyday they complain you are a pain in the ass and nothing happens because you are warning them non stop. Some days later it arrives and all are destroyed.
Hey all,
Not a buy/sell call — sharing a setup I’m watching because the risk/reward is changing with time-boxed catalysts and shorts are still in.
1. Structure first: why this even matters
• Ticker: $ALT
• Float: relatively tight vs. daily volume on news days
• Shorts: still meaningful — which = fuel if they’re wrong on timing
• Catalyst window: company already put dates in the public domain (earnings + liver data), so we actually know when the next info hits
• Sector narrative: obesity/MASH names are back in rotation — attention helps.
When you get (shorts) + (attention sector) + (dated catalyst) you don’t need everyone to pile in — you just need enough volume ahead of the date to make shorts uncomfortable.
2. What the crowd is likely to react to
• It’s a data/name stock, not a zombie shell.
• The drug (pemvidutide) has real 24-week data in MASH/weight already out there.
• Management already said they’re moving toward 48-week data + FDA conversation. That’s a story people understand: “data → talk to FDA → Phase 3”.
• That’s easy for Reddit/FinTwit to narrate.
So you’ve got a story people can repeat in 1–2 sentences — that’s underrated.
3. Why shorts stay in (and why that’s a tell)
Shorts love these because:
1. It’s biotech (binary outcomes, dilution risk).
2. Phase 3 in MASH is expensive → “they’ll raise”.
3. Data not 100% de-risked → “I can stay short until the readout”.
That’s fine — but when the calendar gets close and volume wakes up, shorts have to rethink sizing. That rethink = potential upside pressure.
4. What to watch (this is the important part)
• Volume spike before the event – if average daily volume suddenly 2–3x’s without bad news, someone is positioning.
• Option chain getting busy – especially if OTM calls pick up in the same expiry as the catalyst.
• Tape around pre-market/last hour – if it keeps getting bought back after dips, that’s someone absorbing.
• Company IR drops slides/posters – gives fresh material for socials to circulate.
If 2 or more of those happen at the same time, shorts don’t have a free ride anymore.
5. Possible headlines the market can latch onto
This is how I expect people to talk about it (this is psychology):
• “Small float MASH name with real data coming”
• “Shorts still in before the 48-week readout”
• “Next GLP-1/MASH sympathy runner?”
• “Call today – management will have to guide”
You don’t need them to be true in the strongest sense — you just need them to be plausible based on public info.
6. Risks (read these, seriously)
• If the company pushes the timeline → setup weakens.
• If they guide to a big, near-term raise → shorts relax.
• If the 48-week data underwhelms → it unwinds fast (biotech).
• This is not BYND — that was a perfect storm of short interest, meme ETF flows, and viral clips. Don’t assume repeat.
That’s what happens when you’re trading wya above your fundamentals. But I wish I had got in on that after hour dip. I went to jack off and came back and it was too late.