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Re: I changed my name on a food delivery app to a masculine name

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Post by 1letterunixname » Tue, Oct 31, 2023, 9:10 PM UTC

Some gig workers here, including DoorDash, Favor, and Lyft, don't read instructions, are unreliable, act unprofessionally, are lazy, and are prone to outbursts of anger. I gave up on them for personal security, cost, and reliability reasons. The problem is "YGWYPF", but I think the platforms are keeping all of the money and exploiting their "contractors".

One Lyft driver took me on a half mile "bank heist escape" ride and refused to let me out the vehicle. Fuck that. Contacted the platform and the cops, but of course they didn't do anything because there's zero accountability.

Re: I changed my name on a food delivery app to a masculine name

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Post by Turing_Machine » Tue, Oct 31, 2023, 9:43 PM UTC

random42_ wrote: post #10

Turing_Machine wrote: post #7

> knock on my door and wait for me to answer even though my instructions are clearly no contact > or just straight up left my food outside in the cold Wait: she DOES want them to leave the food "outside in the cold" (i.e., "no contact") and also DOESN'T want them leave the food "outside in the cold"? That would be a neat trick. Yeah, there's a problem here, all right, but it doesn't lie where she's claiming it does.

When I ask for the no contact option, normally the drivers will ring the bell after they left the food at my door. I know the food arrived and I don't have to meet the driver. I have the impression that that's her expectation.

All the apps I use (DoorDash, Uber Eats, occasionally GrubHub) notify me when my food has been dropped off. There's no need for anyone to ring the bell (and in fact it's pretty rare in my experience, though it does happen occasionally).

Also, she is explicitly claiming that she doesn't want them knocking on her door, right before explicitly claiming that she doesn't want them to leave her food outdoors.

There is no way those two criteria can be satisfied at the same time.

Re: I changed my name on a food delivery app to a masculine name

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Post by orev » Wed, Nov 01, 2023, 3:15 AM UTC

Turing_Machine wrote: post #7

> knock on my door and wait for me to answer even though my instructions are clearly no contact > or just straight up left my food outside in the cold Wait: she DOES want them to leave the food "outside in the cold" (i.e., "no contact") and also DOESN'T want them leave the food "outside in the cold"? That would be a neat trick. Yeah, there's a problem here, all right, but it doesn't lie where she's claiming it does.

Your bias is showing in your omission of the main point (which is clearly stated in the post): they’re insisting she opens the door. The desire is for them to leave the food and then go away, so she can open the door to get the food. This is not the same thing as leaving it out in the cold, which implies they did not notify her it was there (so it sat outside for a long time).

This is not difficult to reason out, unless your initial inclination is to try to discredit the claim, which is exactly the type of treatment often raised on that sub).

Re: I changed my name on a food delivery app to a masculine name

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Post by Ckirby » Wed, Nov 01, 2023, 2:38 PM UTC

nicbou wrote: post #5

/r/TwoXChromosomes is not the nicest, most neutral place on the internet, but it's worth reading if you're a man. You get a sense of what it's like to navigate the world as a woman. It's a good way to build empathy for people in a very different social context, and as you can see here, it might impact how you build products around that context.

All they do is bitch and moan about nothing

There's a difference between making a problem out of everything vs having an actual problem