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Re: I'm a developer for a major food delivery app

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post #9

Without evidence this is just fiction, I don’t trust some random Reddit post.

Including evidence in a public post will out them to the company and make the upcoming lawsuit against them more serious by giving ammo to the company. The evidence should be given to the journalist OP will soon talk to.

Re: I'm a developer for a major food delivery app

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post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember when everyone was talking how we would all be gig workers and it was going to be the best thing ever. I am eagerly awaiting seeing whose legal department if any poop their pants tomorrow. Maybe if we're lucky we'll even see an 8-K soon.

some countries do a better job of protecting their population from corp psychopath companies. Australia is one. but its not enough and the moment the right wing side of Gov gets in they start rolling back a lot of the labor law protections the left wing work at putting in.

The average gig worker here is a migrant, hard to see how that is protecting Australians.

Re: I'm a developer for a major food delivery app

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A sprint planning meeting seems like the wrong place to put that topic. I'm also not used to developers having that much visibility into accounting practices. And that seems like an odd way to structure things.

Why not? They have to implement the systems that power this.

Also, water-cooler gossip

Re: I'm a developer for a major food delivery app

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With Deliveroo, I already caught the app lying. One time the order was stuck at "waiting for the restaurant/cooking" for a very unusual time, like 40 mins instead of the usual 10 mins.

So I called the restaurant and they told me that the order was ready for like 25 mins but the driver didn't pick it up yet.

When I called the custom service after that, they told me that the driver was finishing another delivery and will pick it up soon.

But so the drive was trying to pin the delay on restaurant when it was their fault and that in the end you will get cold food.

Re: I'm a developer for a major food delivery app

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post #9

Without evidence this is just fiction, I don’t trust some random Reddit post.

By that same token, couldn’t someone say, without evidence, your response is obfuscation and don’t trust someone telling you food deliver services are not taking advantage of people using an algorithm? Not that I think you are but neither response proves identity or motive.

Re: I'm a developer for a major food delivery app

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With Deliveroo, I already caught the app lying. One time the order was stuck at "waiting for the restaurant/cooking" for a very unusual time, like 40 mins instead of the usual 10 mins. So I called the restaurant and they told me that the order was ready for like 25 mins but the driver didn't pick it up yet. When I called the custom service after that, they told me that the driver was finishing another delivery and wi…

Same experience here, both with Deliveroo and Uber Eats. I'm surprised this doesn't get them in trouble on libel/defamation bases.

Re: I'm a developer for a major food delivery app

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A sprint planning meeting seems like the wrong place to put that topic. I'm also not used to developers having that much visibility into accounting practices. And that seems like an odd way to structure things.

I used to write tests for a cryptocurrency trading platform. I regularly talked to the auditors, as they were the ones who made sure that the crypto we transferred into external wallets made it back into internal wallets after the test.

I wouldn't say that I knew a bunch of accounting practices from talking to them, but I _did_ learn that the CTO and director of QA both lied to me during my interview. Sure, we made _some_ money from the spread as claimed in my interview, but in truth, the bulk of our money came from loaning our customer deposits to 3 Arrows Capital. I knew we were fucked _months_ before the company suddenly went under.

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