Which Gig work platform is better? Staffie vs FastGig vs JOD.

 

Although there are more than just these three platforms (like Troopers and EL Connect), I’m not including those in this comparison for a few reasons:

- Limited job variety that doesn’t interest me.

- Messy systems or frequent last-minute cancellations.

- I’ve never successfully gotten a shift despite trying several times.

For example, I wasn't able to work with EL Connect because they cancelled my shifts last minute. I did try a few more times and seems like they still have the same problem.

So, I’ve chosen to focus on Jobs on Demand (JOD), FastGig, and Staffie, because I’ve personally worked with them.

Job varieties

Staffie:

Mainly F&B roles like servers, dishwashers, and kitchen assistants. Many jobs require a Food Hygiene cert, but not all. Roles like cashier or dishwasher often don’t require it.

JOD (Jobs on Demand):

Widest range of jobs — from retail and F&B to hotels and logistics. Best variety overall.

FastGig:

A mix of packers and F&B (especially fast food and NTUC). Not as wide as JOD, but occasionally has food/fashion promoter jobs that JOD rarely offers.

Payments and Penalties

Staffie:

Staffie process payouts weekly on Monday by 9pm after they have confirmed the working hours with the manager of the outlet you worked at. If Monday is a public holiday, it'll be process the next business day. They pay for the exact hours stated for the shift with no insurance fee.

Penalty wise, they will deprioritised you for future applications if you cancelled with less than 24 hours before shift, without a valid reason (like MC). No penalty if you cancelled with more than 24 hours before shift.

Suspension will occurs if you missed work too often. I talked with another "Staffie-er" I met at work, he told me his friend was suspended for a month after he didn't turn up for 8 shift straight. But was reinstated after he managed to produce evidence (swollen leg).

JOD (Jobs on Demand):

JOD pays promptly on the next day, so far I haven't faced any delay from them. And they do pay for the extra time you worked. Which means if you clocked in at 1:45 instead of 2:00 for your shift, you'll be paid for that extra 15 minutes, same if you end work later. However, JOD do take a small amount for insurance fee.

Last minute cancellation (less than 48 hours before shift start) without a valid reason will result in suspension of your account! As for how long the suspension will be, it really depends. I have been suspended once due to unfortunate circumstances and it was for about 2 weeks. (That was when I discovered other platforms like EL Connect and FastGig)

FastGig:

FastGig process payouts weekly on Friday the following week. Meaning if you work on Monday on Week 1, you will only get your pay on the Friday of Week 2. They pay for the exact hours stated for the shift with no insurance fee.

Same with Satffie, they allow cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your shift. Any shift less than 24 hours before start of shift cannot be cancelled.

Acceptance Rate and Cancellation by Employer

Staffie:

I think Staffie is the most straight forward of the 3. It will only allow you to book for shifts that are available. Usually, if you book a shift, you'll get it immediately.

I also love it that you can try to contact the restaurant by leaving questions on their company page. And after you've booked your shift, you will be added to a chat with the company and you can ask questions there too. (just don't expect fast respond)

Unfortunately for cancellation by employer, you would only be notified via the app.

JOD (Jobs on Demand):

JOD is known for being very difficult to get a shift. Confirmation may not be immediate also, and could takes up to 48 hours. 

JOD will notify you if you're selected/rejected for a shift via email and it will also be reflected in the app.

Cancellation by employer is rare and I have never encountered before.

FastGig:

FastGig has got to be the most messy one out of the 3. The reason being that you would be put into the "waitlist" and "in reserved" despite them stating that the particular slot still have multiple openings. 

I often applied for a job with multiple openings, got put into waitlist then "in reserved" and finally didn't get the job. FastGig would inform you if you get selected/rejected via email and it could be very last minute. Say less than 5hours before the start of shift.

The most annoying part of FastGig is that, they'll keep suggesting you to other shifts but wouldn't confirm any of the shift you booked. Sometimes, they may even Whatsapp you to ask if you can work for another shift.

They should really improve their communication because their current way of communication is confusing and caused 2 people to turn up for the same shift. After which, they just dump the problem to the company to ask one of the gigger who turned up to leave.

Just note that, even if they contacted you via Whatsapp to ask if you are free or could take up a certain shift, do double confirm with them before heading out. It might be them needing a "backup" in case the person who got the shift didn't turn up/cancelled.

Cancellation and change of shift time by employer is possible, you will be inform via email.

Help when Needed

Staffie:

I haven't have the need to contact customer service for help when working with Staffie, however I do have access to the chat whereby the owner/manager of the outlet inside too. But just that no one really respond in that chat.

One a side note, Staffie doesn't require the gig worker to do any kind of login and log out on the app when turning up for a shift. So I do keep a record of my shift in case there's any discrepancy.

JOD (Jobs on Demand):

Face problems when logging out for a shift. Contacted JOD via whatsapp, didn't respond till 2 days later. Very slow.

JOD requires the gig worker to login and log out via their app and sometimes this caused problems when either party have no access to the account. Happened to me once.

FastGig:

Same with JOD, CS is non existence when you needed them.

FastGig system is kinda inflexible. You not only need to scan in via the app, they also track your GPS to see if you're at the exact location. It's very annoying because, their GPS is not very accurate and makes it impossible to login! Giggers need the manager approval to scan the QR code to login, so then why do we still need to verify their location as well? It just add unnecessarily steps and problem.

Overall, my experience with gig platforms have been quite good. I love how easy it's to get shifts on Staffie and how fast I can get my pay on JOD. 

I also realised that although Staffie and FastGig enters the scene much later than JOD, it seems that they have been growing (with more and more jobs options) however, JOD seems to have lesser jobs as compared to when I first used it.

My personal take is that JOD is much more strict when it comes to applying and cancellation of jobs and have a harsher punishment to the point it seems quite unfair. I feel asking for MC for cancellation within 48hours is a little too excessive. It's not advisable for one to work and be in contact with food if they're sick (flu) but sometimes, gig workers don't have the luxury to see a doctor over every small flu.

Poco F7 pro after 2 months of use!

  

Well, I have the Poco F7 pro for 2 months now and here is my updated review about it!

Display

I know I have said that the screen is bright enough under the sun at outdoors but turned out that, it's just that I haven't encountered extreme sunlight - actually not extreme lah, it's just the more normal sunny day sunlight of Singapore.

Under such conditions, you do need closer to 100% brightness to just be able to see anything on the screen. It wouldn't be a comfortable viewing experience but at least you can still see and read ...

Gaming

Honestly, I see the problem with Poco phones - it's always the best for the first few weeks or month. I do encounter lags and heating issue with the phone now. And it's quite bad!

If you ever game excessively - say more than a few hours while charging, expect lags and a frying pan. Yes, the back of the phone gets so hot. 

Lags starts to come in due to the temperature. 

Battery

I started with charging the phone every 1.5 day to now I sometimes need to charge 1-2x a day. Of course, I am gaming and using it much more. But where is the 15hours of continuous use? 

Oh and I even turned off Live wallpaper except for my lock screen.

Other Issues

I don't know if it's just bad luck that I have gotten a phone that seems to have some problem with either the touch sensor or Chrome(?) or other things. The phone have problem with ghost clicking, usually at the bottom of the screen. It just clicks continuously for nothing and nothing I do can stop it at all.

Just the other day, the control menu at bottom (about 1cm of the screen) won't response to touch at all. It happened while I was browsing on Chrome browser and I have to kill app to make it work again.

It's kinda frustrating that the phone is showing signs of problem so early. I have contacted Xiaomi and they told me the phone was out of the 7-day exchange policy (I contacted them about 2-3 weeks after I bought the phone) and their solution is for me to reset the phone/boot to factory settings ...

If it still doesn't work, I have to go down to Xiaomi service center... which I haven't find the time to go down. To be honest, the ghost clicking have happened a few times already and I think I should go down soon or at least before my 2 years warranty is up!

Poco F7 Pro review after 3 days of use

 

It's time to retire my Poco x3 pro. It's battery is dead again and I am tired of getting replacement battery. And honestly, the amount I spent on replacing the battery is almost the cost of the phone itself.

Packaging and Design

I do love the design of the packaging. Very simple, but elegant. In the box, it comes with the phone, a 90W charging brick and a USB type C cable. Oh, and also a SIM card ejection pin.

I think the phone design is a huge jump from the x3 pro. The rim is metal and the back feels like a combination of glossy glass an matte. When I picked it up, I can feel it's quality and it feels more premium than the x3 pro. 

The SIM tray is at the bottom along side the charging port and speaker. The camera bump is kinda meh... but ok, I can get pass it. 

Transferring Data and Fingerprint Unlock

Setting up and transferring data from another phone is easy. However do not that those Apps that you sideloaded will highly not be transferred over. For one, my Notes didn't get transferred over.

I love it that the F7 uses in-display fingerprint sensors and it's fast as hell! And even when I just contact the sensor with my thumb slightly titled. 

Display

I find the screen being bright and sharp. It's very comfortable to use in indoors situation. I do see great improvements over the x3 pro. Not that the x3 pro is bad but the F7 pro brightness and sharpness is definitely more. 

While using outdoors, especially under sunlight, it's still visible with a 70ish% brightness. But of course I didn't test it under the strongest sunlight. 

HyperOS and Ads

Having tried both MIUI and HyperOS, I actually find HyperOS faster and not that "heavy" so booting up is faster. However, it's still as "heavy" in the sense it took up 10.13GB and another 23.80GB of system files.

The only problem I have with HyperOS is that it locks the phone and no longer allow custom roms or reverting to stock OS. 

Ads are still here and there but honestly not overwhelming. Some Ads, I can just "skip" it by exiting the App because it comes at the end of the process. Also, yes there are preinstalled Apps that you have to manually remove.

They\re mainly some casual games and shopping Apps like Lazada. 

Camera

Wide (main): 50MP OmniVision OVX8000 (likely same as OV50E, 1/1.55", 1.0µm - 2.0µm), f/1.6, 24mm, multi-directional PDAF; 8K@24fps, 4K@60fps

Ultrawide: 8MP OmniVision OV08D (1/4.0", 1.12µm), f/2.2, 15mm, fixed focus; FullHD@60fps

Front camera: 20MP OmniVision OV20B (1/4.0", 0.7µm-1.4µm), f/2.2, 21mm, fixed focus; FullHD@60fps

Honestly, I don't know what these statistic means. But I can share what I feel. I don't think I really like the camera at least in darker situation. I feel the blur around the main subject feels a little unnatural.

Photos taken with 0.6x, 1x and 2x in a semi dark room.

The selfie camera is much sharper than I expected. Especially when compared to the x3 pro. But it's nothing impressive too.

In situation whereby it's bright and lights are ample, photos turns out quite well. 

This is 2.4x zoom

Gaming

I only play games that aren't very demanding, I mainly play Kairosoft games and NDS and PSP games on emulation. 

I have no problem at all playing for more than a few hours consecutively. The phone does gets warm to touch but it didn't lag much. 

The thing I notice that has improve from the x3 pro is that Kairosoft games, which usually drains battery and heats phone up pretty fast, didn't get the F7 pro too hot. Battery drop is also not that drastic.

Of ocurse, I must be fair that F7 pro have much more ram (12GB) that the x3 pro (6GB) that I own. 

I actually also took a short 2 minute screen recording while play games on emulation and I don't feel any lag at all. No crazy temperature too, just warm to touch.

Battery

The F7 pro comes with massive 6000mAh (typ) battery which promises 15 hours of Continuous use. I honestly am quite confident that it will live up to it's promise if you're not gaming/video surfing heavily.

I have the phone charged to 100% and used it for light gaming for at least 2 hours and some light video surfing and still have 70% after 5 hours. I used it sparingly and then left it idle till next day noon and it still have 30%.

I am glad emulation doesn't drain battery as much as the x3 pro. But to be fair, the x3 pro is much older and the battery is an OEM. I will definitely come back here to update how the battery is after using for longer time.

Overall, I am happy with my F7 pro. It's definitely an upgrade from my x3 pro in many ways. The screen is brighter and sharper, it runs game with less heat and lags.

Updated 18 May: Just 2 weeks of use, I discover the phone have ghost clicks. I have contacted Xiaomi and waiting for their respond.

Pros		Cons
+ Fast charging		- HyperOS not allowing custom roms
+ Great for emulation and games that I play		- camera design kinda ugly
+ 6000mAh battery		- Ads (unless toggle off)
+ Hi res certified stereo speakers		- Unwanted apps preinstalled
+ Cheap (relatively)    + in display fingerprint that is responsive
+ feels premium + bright and sharp display

Is FastGig a good gig platform?

 

I have actually gotten to know about the gig work platform, Fastgig in Feb 2025. That was during Chinese New Year whereby jobs are more and have higher hourly rate.

The interface is simple and pretty straightforward. 

And the functions are ... very simple too. Filtering by time slots, date or companies.

The variety of jobs on Fastgig isn't as much as JOD (Jobs On Demand) but it's decent. Like there are some retail,, promoter, F&B and packer jobs. Occasionally, you get flyers and admin jobs.

The app promises to PAY weekly and on Friday the following week. Which means even if you work on Monday on the first week of Feb, you'll only get paid on the Friday of the 2nd week of Feb.

My experience with them is they do pay and quite timely. However, I think they still need LOTS of improvements!

1) Their GPS is NOT accurate

How does this affect your job? You may ask. It's simple, you have to be at the exact or close enough to the workplace in order to sign in to work! I have encountered an unfortunate event whereby I wasn't allowed to login despite being at the work location. I contacted CS and they didn't respond!

Lucky for me, the employer is very nice and reported the problem to Fastgig for me. 

Not surprising, they contacted me halfway into my shift and then asked me if I was there. I just sent them a screenshot of the problem and a photo of the shop. 

I think Fastgig shouldn't bet on employers being nice or what if the employer decide to be dishonest about the hours worked?

2) Shifts are hard to get

I have tried booking shifts more than 1 week before when there are still ample openings. But I was put on pending for the longest time and then finally on "Reserved" which means that I am on standby for a gig that is fully allocated. 

What the hell, I applied for it when there are ample openings and still didn't get it! Finally, I guess one of the giggers cancelled their shift and they suddenly notified me at 1-ish am that there is an opening. But 5-10 minutes later informed me again that the job was taken.

Who the hell expect someone to be checking their app or email at 1am?

3) Very last Minute allocation

I have applied for a job and it starts at 5pm. I only got the notification that I was selected at around 3pm! I don't know what to say, why is it so hard to select someone for the job?

4) Short Shifts

Well this may not be a bad thing for some people who prefers some shifts but for some, it's just not worth the travel. I have seen them posting gigs with low hourly pay (like $9-11) that are only 2-4 hours. 

It will be OK if you live nearby but some of these gigs are in those industrial areas which make it quite inconvenient and not worthy it. 

5) Sudden change of shift timing

There is this one job with good length and pay. It's an 8 hour shift with 1 paid break, however, after getting selected, it was changed to a 12.5 hour shift but still with 1 break only!

Have to cancel the shift because I couldn't make, I have an appointment before the shift starts. 

Updated on 21 May 2025: An unpleasant incident happen when I was working with Fastgig recently. It didn't happen to me but another lady. We were both at the cafe for the same role. And after many tos and fros, I was given the job. 

Like almost an hour later, the boss of the cafe came down, he had a 15 minutes talk with the lady and she left. He came ranting to us, and we found out that Fastgig had contacted the lady via whatsApp if she would be free for this role I had already taken up (I think they wanted a standby). The way the conversion goes was very misleading. Fastgig made it sounds like she was offered the job so she came down. The boss was quite unhappy with how Fastgig attitude.

So yeah, if you do get whatsApp from Fastgig, have to double confirm again before going down.

Overall, I am ok with Fastgig but it has become extremely hard to get a shift now and that they're not the best when it comes to providing help whenever there are problems. But they do pay on time for the 2 jobs I did with them.

Would I recommend them to a friend who wanted to join? Probably not because they seems to have some "regulars" that they prefer to engaged instead of some newcomers.