how is that not consider 'racist'?
Uber Eats removes delivery fee for Black-owned restaurants
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#22What I don't understand how come ideas like this are generated and even passed by the management?
Management just doesn't have any particular skill at not generating flagrantly illegal ideas. I once saw a guy announce in a company-wide email that he was leading an initiative to help the recruiting team bucket incoming applications by gender. I strongly suspect that whoever approved this program is currently being yelled at by their legal department.
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#23This is disgusting virtue-signaling from an awful company.
If Uber really wanted to help the Black community (and other minorities) how about actually treating their delivery drivers (a lot of which come from low-class backgrounds and part of minorities) fairly with decent wages and benefits?
How about a fair, transparent fee structure? As others have pointed out, the delivery fee is just one of many fees, the rest of which are conveniently hidden from the user and passed onto the restaurants which have no choice but to pay them because Uber Eats is one of a handful of delivery services and they're all equally scummy.
How about decent customer service that plays fair when things go wrong instead of fobbing the customer off and hope they don't do a chargeback? (not many people do which is why they get away with it)
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#24is it even legal to have explicitly race-based policies like this? could a company do the same thing for other race groups?
Expect class action suits to follow. What if you are losing business as a restaurant because your competitors get free delivery?
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#25While a wonderful gesture, something about this feels a bit... tangential to the real issue to me in a way that's distracting. Am I off base here? It feels like it's leaning toward opportunistic.
How is that a wonderful gesture? This is a corporate PR stunt that has nothing to do with anything and that perpetuates racial discrimination. This is awful.
Our political establishment has no interest in ending racism; each "side" benefits from dividing Americans into identity-based groups and pitting them against other Americans on wedge issues. The hypocritical irony now is of promoting these identity-based groups for the purposes of some vague "justice" when doing so will necessarily widen the divides and propagate hatred further. It's a cynical distraction from the reality that the actual institutionalized racism predominantly occurs under the watchful leadership of the same politicians decrying it, and then you have hangers on like Uber trying to seize an issue for their own profit. It's as transparently self-serving as all the companies changing their logo avatars to rainbows for "Pride Month" a year ago, once it was politically risk-free to do so.
As one party to an interracial gay marriage I say "no thanks."
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#26"My country club allows anyone to join regardless of race. Just $100 a year for the membership and a one time fee of one billion dollars for the delivery of your membership card. Since white people tend to get sunburn on our course, the membership card delivery fee is waved for them."
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#27How is this supporting the current situation, when this is a literal example of racism? People don't need or DESERVE special treatment, be it negative or positive, people deserve to be treated as equal. I don't understand why is it so hard to fathom?
It seems like you are finding it hard to understand what makes racism systemic, white restaurant owners are not an oppressed group, nobody is being racist against them.
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#28If anyone is interested, here's an interview with a human rights lawyer Robert Barnes, a man that has litigated wrongful death cases against police, and supreme court cases.
Very pertinent, internal take on the courts, BLM, Antifa, police, Covid, and current cases before the supreme court.
Re: Uber Eats removes delivery fee for Black-owned restaurants
#29Actually Seems like predatory pricing targeting this one group to make these businesses unfairly dependent on Uber Eats in a monopoly grab
Re: Uber Eats removes delivery fee for Black-owned restaurants
#30What I don't understand how come ideas like this are generated and even passed by the management?
Management just doesn't have any particular skill at not generating flagrantly illegal ideas. I once saw a guy announce in a company-wide email that he was leading an initiative to help the recruiting team bucket incoming applications by gender. I strongly suspect that whoever approved this program is currently being yelled at by their legal department.
I don’t expect managers to know the law, I do expect them to check with those that do.