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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

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Post by sw104 »

davidsergey wrote: post #105

I think I'm in the minority, but I just would not order a delivery in 90% of the cases. If I remember myself say in 2005-2010 I would order Pizza once in 1.5 months, and I was ready to come downstairs to receive a package. These days I order food, knowing that it will allow me uninterrupted work (I'll just receive a package and get back to work). If I have to interrupt my "flow-ish" state anyway, I'll just go out or…

When you say it allows you uninterrupted work, are you talking about overtime or have you moved towards eating delivered food during working hours?

I couldn't imagine eating takeaways during my lunch break or snacks during the workday. What sort of food is it?

Re: Come downstairs or we’ll eat your order, delivery workers tell customers

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Post by sw104 »

ipaddr wrote: post #226

Ordering in food is probably the most wasteful dangerous thing the average young person can do. Food costs 20x more than making it yourself, getting it in your hands in perfect condition is a random crapshoot (from cold food to left out ingredients multiple difficulty level by number of meals) and there is no more likely way to catch illnesses, food poisoning and lifelong stomach issues. I stopped ordering out and st…

Not sure why you're being downvoted for stating this.

To add to what you said, environmentally it's awful. Where I live it, most of the food deliveries were bicycle based a few years ago. Now it's all cars, mopeds and e-bikes (the best of a bad bunch) as anything less makes the delivery driver less competitive against the others.

The bikes/e-bikes ignore traffic lights and flow, causing close-calls and collisions in pedestrian areas (where they pick up the food).

None of the economic, environmental and moral (laziness) waste can possibly be justified for the sort of rubbish that is being sold on a takeaway app. It's always just junk like burgers, chips, and cakes.

Re: Come downstairs or we’ll eat your order, delivery workers tell customers

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Post by salad-tycoon »

sublinear wrote: post #183
bitwize wrote: post #147

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> US perspective (eg theft of bikes / crime is not AS serious a problem as Brazil, although it can be bad): In the US we take the utilitarian perspective that the thief who took my bike has gained more happiness than I have lost without it, so maybe bike theft is a good thing[0]. In Brazil a bike is probably a fair bit more dear and may more likely be the user's only form of rapid personal transportation. [0] https:/…

> In the US we take the utilitarian perspective that the thief who took my bike has gained more happiness than I have lost without it, so maybe bike theft is a good thing Haha not a snowflake's chance in hell. In much of the USA you can use deadly force to defend against property crime on private property. Conditions do apply, but that's beside the point (and are rarely enforced in self defense cases unless you went…

Per TikTok/YouTube Brazil allows deadly force against thieves on bikes. Some videos out there of suv/truck drives swerving and plowing over gunmen jumping people on streets. Obviously it’s gruesome so you can look it up yourself if interested. Per the videos this was a recent(ish) law passed. Caveat, obviously I was educated on tiktok but the videos certainly don’t look fake.

Re: Come downstairs or we’ll eat your order, delivery workers tell customers

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Post by salad-tycoon »

shrimp_emoji wrote: post #228
shrx wrote: post #153

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Does anyone really think this? The hassle of buying a new bike alone isn't worth it.

It's what rich sheltered people think, which describes most of the online population. And I'm not saying that as a bad thing, necessarily; if anything, it's probably worse to think in the neurotic PTSD terms of defending your bike to the death because you saved a long time for it and can't afford to replace it. Moreso when you can trivially afford to replace it and the person stealing it is probably in a much worse g…

I’ve seen family’s of 7 on a moped, surronded by multiple live chickens dangling and a 20gal propane tank on the back. Incredible skill. Sometimes they do blow up sadly if a suv runs into them.

For a lot of people, that moped is their life. Deadly force is appropriate. Horse thieves were hung right?

Re: Come downstairs or we’ll eat your order, delivery workers tell customers

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Post by minitoar »

kzrdude wrote: post #121
janalsncm wrote: post #114

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It seems like their market is a duopoly, so finding an alternative may not be possible.

Not ordering delivery is an alternative

I do find myself mostly doing this, or ordering delivery from places that self-deliver.

Re: Come downstairs or we’ll eat your order, delivery workers tell customers

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Post by JambalayaJim »

rendall wrote: post #234
JambalayaJim wrote: post #233

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If the tip is necessary part of the service then it should be displayed to me up front. I have zero issues paying for a service as long as there is no ambiguity about what it costs.

If you do not purchase your delivery in a tipping culture and deliverers earn a living wage, e.g. Northern Europe, then don't tip. If you purchase in a place where tipping is the convention (e.g US, Brazil), then do the simple algebra and figure out the real cost. If you do not have the money to tip according to your regional convention, then do not make the purchase. Full stop.

There are NO clear conventions about tipping in North America. It’s such a giant cultural meme because of it.

How much should I tip? Can you answer that?

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