Re:Seattle Law Mandating Higher Delivery Driver Pay Is a Dis...
by FireBeyond on Saturday March 16, 2024 @09:05PM
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> The article deftly deploys some fine rhetoric borrowed from bleeding heart liberals--"think of the elderly who are relying on these deliveries!! Think of the CHILDREN!!!" But yeah, not that long ago everybody was doing without delivery services, and we didn't even notice that we didn't have it.
I see myself as very liberal, but this sounds like quite a straw man. What do I think of people deleting DoorDash, et al, en masse? "Good". Very good.
It's a wasteful racket.
Let alone dealing with the entitlement of some of the drivers who think that they deserve special treatment at stores and restaurants because they're "on the clock", or "late", or whatever. A non-trivial amount of times, I've had them ask to cut in line (or just straight attempt to), or serve up attitude to servers and other customers alike just to get back to the "hustle".
I see myself as very liberal, but this sounds like quite a straw man. What do I think of people deleting DoorDash, et al, en masse? "Good". Very good.
It's a wasteful racket.
Let alone dealing with the entitlement of some of the drivers who think that they deserve special treatment at stores and restaurants because they're "on the clock", or "late", or whatever. A non-trivial amount of times, I've had them ask to cut in line (or just straight attempt to), or serve up attitude to servers and other customers alike just to get back to the "hustle".