Come downstairs or we’ll eat your order, delivery workers tell customers
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Re: Come downstairs or we’ll eat your order, delivery workers tell customers
#2Imagine getting paid to deliver something and complaining about actually having to deliver it. I can see the problems they face, but delivering an item...most of the way...isn't the solution.
Re: Come downstairs or we’ll eat your order, delivery workers tell customers
#3Imagine getting paid to deliver something and complaining about actually having to deliver it. I can see the problems they face, but delivering an item...most of the way...isn't the solution.
What are customers going to do? Go get it themselves? Clearly not. The potential loss of someone's property they use to deliver isn't worth it, as the article mentions. It also mentions laws enacted to support the delivery workers.
> Two Brazilian cities and one state are discussing bills to allow drivers to refuse deliveries at the door — three cities have already approved them.
Kick out delivery apps who don't adhere to the law, simple as that. Important to remember that these workers are humans; remember the human.
Re: Come downstairs or we’ll eat your order, delivery workers tell customers
#4Imagine getting paid to deliver something and complaining about actually having to deliver it. I can see the problems they face, but delivering an item...most of the way...isn't the solution.
Imagine a world in which doing the job right (and taking pride in doing so, regardless of how trivial a job it is) is actually the norm.
In some parts of some countries, it still is.
Re: Come downstairs or we’ll eat your order, delivery workers tell customers
#5Imagine getting paid to deliver something and complaining about actually having to deliver it. I can see the problems they face, but delivering an item...most of the way...isn't the solution.
Sounds like the primary worry is having their bike or other gear stolen, which is reasonable I think. If you can't earn without those things, then you won't want to risk them.
The solution seems to be either to get customers to come down, or to eliminate crime. I'd take a guess that having customers come down is a quicker and cheaper solution to implement.
Re: Come downstairs or we’ll eat your order, delivery workers tell customers
#6Wonder how many times you can threaten this before being permanently banned. 3 times?
Re: Come downstairs or we’ll eat your order, delivery workers tell customers
#7Imagine getting paid to deliver something and complaining about actually having to deliver it. I can see the problems they face, but delivering an item...most of the way...isn't the solution.
The article says the deal is delivery to the street entrance. They are doing their job.
Re: Come downstairs or we’ll eat your order, delivery workers tell customers
#8Imagine getting paid to deliver something and complaining about actually having to deliver it. I can see the problems they face, but delivering an item...most of the way...isn't the solution.
Imagine a world in which doing the job right (and taking pride in doing so, regardless of how trivial a job it is) is actually the norm. In some parts of some countries, it still is.
Imagine thinking everything is so black and white.
Re: Come downstairs or we’ll eat your order, delivery workers tell customers
#9The absolute entitlement to believe that delivery workers should be coming up to your door at the 9th floor, while complaining about "ethics".
You're using a delivery service like Uber Eats, Deliveroo or Doordash that are well known to underpay, overwork and unjustly punish workers that do not maximize their deliveries per hour, and you have the gall to complain that they're not taking pride in their jobs from your ivory tower.
Your feet are not going to die because your fat ass has to get up from the couch. Put on some slippers, some pants and go down. Do it early too, every app offers tracking, don't make them wait for five minutes while you find your keys.
Re: Come downstairs or we’ll eat your order, delivery workers tell customers
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Imagine a world in which doing the job right (and taking pride in doing so, regardless of how trivial a job it is) is actually the norm. In some parts of some countries, it still is.
Imagine thinking everything is so black and white.
Imagine someone thinking you can spend pride somewhere. This, in my experience, is a dog whistle for "do the shit job regardless of negative costs inflicted on the worker for someone else's benefit." People became accustom to the consumer excess from the abuse gig workers take, and now that workers have some leverage, consumers are clutching their pearls over the loss.