Eviction startup gets gig workers to help landlords kick people out
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Eviction startup gets gig workers to help landlords kick people out
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Re: Eviction startup gets gig workers to help landlords kick people out
#2What's next? A gig work where you dress like Clooney and go around firing people on behalf of the company?
Re: Eviction startup gets gig workers to help landlords kick people out
#3And 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.
Re: Eviction startup gets gig workers to help landlords kick people out
#4What's next? A gig work where you dress like Clooney and go around firing people on behalf of the company?
And instead of flying around, it'll of course be done over Zoom.
Re: Eviction startup gets gig workers to help landlords kick people out
#5This 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?)
Re: Eviction startup gets gig workers to help landlords kick people out
#6Who 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.
Re: Eviction startup gets gig workers to help landlords kick people out
#7Who 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.
people who wants to earn money and dont have capacity to compete in other job markets.
Re: Eviction startup gets gig workers to help landlords kick people out
#8Oh geez, I can only laugh at the absurdity and audacity. The psychopaths who started this sure have a great idea on what to do in this world of cut-throat capitalism.
I wonder when someone will start a retail mercenary business...
Edit to add: To quote what someone on HN said: the whole gig economy platform is basically like having day labourers hanging out outside your local DIY store until a pick-up truck shows up and tells a few of them to hop in, but this time, it's all happening online!
Re: Eviction startup gets gig workers to help landlords kick people out
#9Civvl's website reveals nothing about the "who" behind this company - which seems to be expected given the nature of the business.
Re: Eviction startup gets gig workers to help landlords kick people out
#10And 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.
Not more intimidating than occupying someone else’s property, I guess.