• FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Stop fucking using these extortion apps. Drive your lazy ass to the shit food station yourself.

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      1 year ago

      Why do you just assume everyone can drive? Plenty of people either don’t have a license or don’t have a car.

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        1 year ago

        and yet somehow we’ve survived as a species this long. how in the world did we make it without door dash?

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          1 year ago

          That’s not at all a response to what I said. Does it hurt you that much to admit that maybe something you don’t like has a use? Or can you just not live with the idea of not having a car?

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      1 year ago

      I’ve used these apps – when I was quarantining because I had Covid, wasn’t in a state to drive, and needed food.

      I don’t use them anymore, but these types of apps can fill a “need”.

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      1 year ago

      There are times these apps make sense. I crashed my motorcycle doing an ubereats delivery and broke my collarbone, and then used the service myself a bunch of times while healing. Ironic, but that’s life.

      Side note for the people wondering what happens when you don’t tip upfront (on UE at least): Prospective drivers see an offer of $4-6 for a job that will take them 45 minutes and say “fuck that” while they slam the ‘no’ button. This will go on for a while until the system is able to find another order on the way to combine it with, or someone accepts it anyway.

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      1 year ago

      Why? Who’s holding a gun to the head of these drivers and forcing them to work for this gig? The onus isn’t on the customers, it’s on the drivers.

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        1 year ago

        My guess is either their landlord, their hospital, their bank, their supermarket, or their college. Not an actual gun, just metaphorical. A lot of drivers are just desperate to make ends meet however they can. There’s a lot of shit to be said about the gig economy, but it does provide flexible schedules, and while some people just want to monetize as much of their time as possible, some people actually need to.