Untrained gig workers. Angry tenants.
I can't imagine what could go wrong here.
Eviction startup gets gig workers to help landlords kick people out
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#12This is kinda sick: hire someone desperate to have a job and that job is to evict someone from where they live. How many ways could this possibly go wrong? (And has Fix television optioned this for reality TV yet?)
There's already a series in the UK where sheriffs come to your house to reposes items or evict you. It's brutal but it's their job. I would not be able to do such a job.
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#13Civvl's website reveals nothing about the "who" behind this company - which seems to be expected given the nature of the business.
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#14What's next? A gig work where you dress like Clooney and go around firing people on behalf of the company?
Wasn't that the premise of the movie? Anna Kendrick's character was hired by the company to capture the process of firing people so they could do it remotely.
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#15Who in their right mind would work this type of job? I suppose if you were going to get kicked out of your apartment, you might do this. Evicting people can be very dangerous, not to mention depressing.
When I was a landlord and had to evict people, I hired a guy who got a crew of day laborers to actually move everything out.
If you evict people legally - at least in my state - you have to schedule a 2 hour window with the police and they are present supervising during the entire process.
Also, the eviction process required at least 5 people to be present to actual clean the unit out depending on the size of the house/apartment.
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#16What's next? A gig work where you dress like Clooney and go around firing people on behalf of the company?
Here in Japan, you can hire people to resign your job for you.
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/28/642597968/for-450-this-japane...
You want something even weirder?
There's also a service where you can hire somewhere to apologise for you/your company's fuck ups. I actually had a roommate that ran such a business. His clients will even issue him official name cards and an email address so he looks like a real employee, which they'll promptly burn once the case is over. Then they get to say that the guy that caused the issue has been fired and everythings all good now. Amazing guy, extremely resourceful, probably would've been running a successful start up if he ever found a way into SV.
https://www.tokyoweekender.com/2018/11/never-say-youre-sorry...
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#17And people say that startups often operate not in line with market trends. In Europe such debt collectors are notorious for very direct intimidation. But people at least still call them gangs instead of startups.
You don’t just knock on people’s door and start putting their things out. There is a legal process and you have to get approval from the court. I’m assuming they are doing it legally.
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#18Here in Florid an eviction is a legal process fought in the courts, once the tenant is 'convicted' the landlord can use the police to evict.
I don't understand how this could be better than the police other than the timing? This is going to end terribly, just some John Doe showing up to peoples homes?
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#19Civvl's website reveals nothing about the "who" behind this company - which seems to be expected given the nature of the business.
Their website has a bunch of broken links on it. Default links from the theme that they haven't changed or something. Sloppy as hell.
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#20Untrained gig workers. Angry tenants. I can't imagine what could go wrong here.
As I said below, when you do it legally, someone from the sheriffs department is involved. A clean out crew is often made up of day laborers anyway.
You also don’t have to be gentle with the tenants stuff. You just throw it out on the curb.
Edit: I usually don’t comment on downvotes. But why is a factually correct comment being downvoted? I was a landlord, this is exactly the process in my state.