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A hidden consequence of the gig economy is that workers keep asking customers for sex or dates
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2023
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This has nothing to do with "gig economy"
It doesn't help.
Most companies tend to have a "don't hit on the customers" rule and people can generally learn and share which don't.
But. Once again, untrained and unregulated pseudo employees don't have that training and can pick orders that are likely to be who they are stalking
Are you saying that traditional food delivery drivers get trained specifically not to hit on people when they deliver food? I don't have any data but I feel like that's not really a thing. Maybe my concept of the training a good delivery driver gets is way off the mark?
I'm also pretty sure that it's easier to give a bad review that others will see via one of these food delivery apps than it is if you go directly to the business.
I think we all agree that this is inappropriate and should not be happening, I just don't see how it doesn't apply at least equally to traditional delivery drivers.
I think the issue may have been less prevelant with traditional delivery drivers because there was less delivery going on before delivery apps took off. You're also making the assumption that anything is done about gig workers someone complains about or gives a low rating too, it seems unlikely that these apps are doing background checks and other things traditional delivery drivers may have been subjected too.
There were no background checks at any of the pizza places I delivered for. Two of them didn't even have interviews.
For one of them my buddy's starter died while we were picking up pizza and the driver helped out by giving us a ride home and mentioned he was looking for someone to cover for him while he was on vacation and I offered, then just had to show up the first day of his vacation.
For the other one, I had asked if they were looking for a driver, they had said no but then later that week one of the drivers shows up at my door to ask if I still wanted the job (I was a regular so he knew where I lived). Once again, I just showed up the first day and started delivering.
Ah, internet, never change
Hey, I was up front about my data (or lack thereof) and we're not talking about climate change or string theory, we're talking about fast food delivery driver's onboarding.
"The Internet" would just state it like a fact.