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Re:DoorDash Employees to Be Required to Make Food Deliveries... by phonypc on Thursday December 23, 2021 @07:29PM (#29668341)
Some of the negative responses are baffling, but I guess shouldn't be too surprising seeing as they're anonymous.

>“Making a delivery might literally kill you if you get carjacked and shot. I kinda want to see this happen and see the family sue the company for like a billion dollars and win just so no company ever gets a stupid idea like this ever again.”

But getting some poor scrub contractor to do it for a fraction of the compensation is fine?

Re:DoorDash Employees to Be Required to Make Food Deliveries... by jeegsy on Thursday December 23, 2021 @09:03PM (#29669153)
Its always 'nice' to see the concern for the fellow man that informs most progressive policy discussions being put to practice.
Re:DoorDash Employees to Be Required to Make Food Deliveries... by m-p-3 on Thursday December 23, 2021 @11:54PM (#29670378)
> Making a delivery might literally kill you if you get carjacked and shot

Seems exactly why this is a good reason to put employees to the task: To make them empathizes with what they're putting dashers into. Make them understand the system they enable.

Re:DoorDash Employees to Be Required to Make Food Deliveries... by yawaramin on Thursday December 23, 2021 @11:00PM (#29670009)
Next: PornHub engineers required to become adult entertainers.
Re:DoorDash Employees to Be Required to Make Food Deliveries... by tata71 on Thursday December 23, 2021 @11:18PM (#29670132)
They could be required to be on a set at least one, probably.

Understanding what world you are enabling isn't the worst, as far as bad policies are concerned.

Re:DoorDash Employees to Be Required to Make Food Deliveries... by yawaramin on Saturday December 25, 2021 @03:18PM (#29686600)
So by correlation, the equivalent would be to send devs on the field to shadow the dashers.