How dangerous can it be to beat up minorities 5v1?
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you could hurt yourself, maybe tore a muscle
Yeah my dad is retired today, but back when he was in college he was a pizza delivery guy for a hot minute... Until his car got t-boned in an intersection. He was OK with minor injuries, but he was delivering pizza during the most violent event of his life!
Pizza guy comes to party: everyone happy
Police officer comes to party: everyone stressed
Police officer takes off clothes: Everyone Happy
Pizza delivery person takes off their clothes: everyone is confused
That's what happens when you order your pizza with extra sausage.
Dunno how things are in America, but at lest here in continental Europe, during the pandemic, the app-economy delivery shit was mostly run by befuddled immigrants. Who got absolutely screwed over what comes to fair wages. Not to mention the fact that most of the small and medium sized restaurants that had an existing delivery services basically got bullied to joining the app-economy shit. It's capitalism in it's raw form. Fuck all of these apps.
Most of the gig work stuff everywhere will earn less than minimum wage in most areas (where minimum wage is reasonable at least). The only benefit is that there's basically no skill required, just get a thing (person/food/whatever) and take it somewhere, and you can basically work whatever hours you want; you're and independent contractor for all intents and purposes.
So if a person has the ability to pick things up, carry them short distances and put them down, plus the ability to transport yourself from place to place, usually via a car, and having a driver's license, then you can do most of the modern gig work. Whether transporting people or food/whatever... Knowing English isn't even a requirement even if you're working in a predominantly English speaking country.
It's essentially perfect for anyone who doesn't have the skills or knowledge to do much of anything yet. Not to disparage people that work the job, but everyone should already have these skills with the possible exception of having a driver's license. Even a "McJob" or similar will require a basic conversational English (or other native language) understanding.
Don't get me wrong, knowing the language helps, but it's not a requirement. Translations are pretty good these days, so you can get by without really knowing anything of the language, as long as you can translate stuff to whatever language you speak, you're all set.
In this way, the "jobs" tend to attract people of a certain type, immigrants are particularly prone to being taken in by it and immigrants have the least agency in the society they live in.... At least until they become full citizens of the country they find themselves in.
It's both unsurprising and sad that it's happening, but there's pretty much nothing that most people can do about it. If you boycott the services then those that would need that income will go without. So, is it better to get screwed, but still get something, or not get screwed, and get nothing?
Where I am in the US, delivery basically means using one of the apps, and it’s much more expensive but the fees are typically hidden in insidious ways like just having the menu item prices be more expensive instead of having a delivery fee.
No, genuinely, fuck these apps. I'm dashing to survive right now, and it's a fucking joke. You make just enough to cover your gas and collect a tiny bit for paying whatever pressing, dire thing it is that day, and never make enough to cover the taxes you're going to owe or the maintenance on your vehicle. And guess what? You also can't seem to earn enough to get decent clothes for an interview, or the extra gas to drive to one. I'm lucky I have family support, if I didn't... I don't want to think about it
If you really break it down they're not really covering your time. They're just paying you to extract value from your car on their behalf.
There used to be a way to game Flex/Whole Foods and make decent cash in a couple (early morning or late) hours. Afternoons were even better if you could get the shifts, flirt with people for better tips, and Amazon probably only kept like 40% of the tips. I could hit $120-150 usually in 2 hours. But other drivers would do the shadiest shit to get the blocks before you, like hanging cell phones in trees
Hanging cell phones in trees? O.o
Yep! You're being stolen from by a megacorp.
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Some of my local restaurants had to cut their own delivery service and only use DoorDash. There's approximately 3 places that deliver near me now, it absolutely sucks.
Things are in America (pls send help...
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Especially in the USA. Knock on the "wrong" door and the asshole inside will greet you with bullets.
Ive had at least two jobs more dangerous then being a cop yet the pig suckers call me a pussy
Is that Snow Crash?
Hiro was my first thought when I saw him, too, probably the inspiration. But it's from the original Don't Feed the Monkeys game.
If you deliver pizzas long enough, you're going to get a gun pulled on you
America is wild man
I don't think I did it long enough, and it was a long time ago so probably safer in some respects. I did deliver to some very sketchy places that I didn't have great feelings about, but nothing ever happened. I will say that I was more likely to get a better proportional tip from the "worse" places than from the well-to-do mini-mansions. Even got a tip once in handfuls of loose change. Sounds cheap, but it was all they had and far more than those rich snobs would do. The giveaway is when you'd ask them if they wanted change back (this was back when credit was still a new thing and we did cash or check). There would be two groups - the ones who said yes but were okay with rounding to the nearest dollar, and then the ones who got pissed because you didn't have change to the penny. For the latter, fuck you and your pizza.
It took me 3 months. Luckily it was just a wrong address, and I'm white. It could have been a different story if it were darker or if I were.
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In Vexillology (the study of flags), when you change the colour, symbols or any image of a flag, it's a sign to everyone else that you've changed your allegiance from the first flag and now stand with the new flag.
This is the problem with the idea of the Thin Blue Line flag ... it shows that they no longer stand with America, it shows they now only stand for themselves and their cop friends and not America.
Flags are important because they convey an idea without words which is important for those people who are illiterate ... symbols and flags are easily understood by everyone regardless of their education.
So I think delivery drivers in America would be better served if they flew the flag that they would be most proud to stand by .... which is ...
Flags are important cause they are really practicle for wiping your ass with
Proud ...... Not sure delivery drivers really have much to be proud of under that flag.
Worst "first world" worker protections. Highest healthcare costs. Largest disparity between lowest and highest compensated.
Highest healthcare costs. Largest disparity between lowest and highest compensated.
What boot licking violent racist Christmas adventurers club-ass shitheel is still loyal to that symbol of slavery, of oppression, of imperialism and injustice?
the problem is that this flag has become pretty compromised since it is so frequently flown alongside overt fascist symbols and has a long history of being affiliated with covert fascist movements
Vexillology is not a science that can decide what stuff means to people, though. People waving the "thin blue line" flag are idiots, we don't need some special science to see that.
I mean you do realize that the flag of America does not stand for as many people as you think it does. And it never has. I haven't stood for the flag for a very long time as native American because fuck the people that it stands for. I used to be very patriotic and then America proved who it actually is. Now I would never fly that flag anywhere near myself or my property or my vehicles.
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I'm tired of the victim complex of out pizza delivery drivers they insist they hold society together single handed and are targeted by "the worst of the worst".
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