Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

[Macha]

@mietze I had a guy who had German sheps trained to act like they were going to kill you, when I delivered pizza. He kept promising he wouldn't do it again. I started carrying milk bones, and he screamed at me, then screamed at my boss when I threw his dogs treats to get them to back the hell off.

My boss: They weren't supposed to be out to begin with. If you have them out and order, she has my approval to do what it takes, or we can just not deliver there anymore.

I'd had guys try to grab me, I've had guys whip it out, etc etc. It got the point I would snort and laugh, and tell them I needed money, not cocktail weiners, no matter what it looked like. But yeah, not blacklisting the guy after repeated BS? Not cool.

[Ganymede]

@wizz said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I highly doubt the average consumer knows about these practices, so I am not sure that tracks.

Even if they knew, would they still use it? I would argue, yes.

If the system cannot derive profit without depriving the worker of a proper wage, then it cannot survive without willing labor or demanding consumers.

Hence, I don't use these services. At all. Especially not Doordash, given my friend's experiences (who was in management of a retail chain of fast food restaurants).

[Too Old For This]

@macha CNY = Chinese New Year

Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig deal for them. A lot of places will just shut down for the duration.

[mietze]

@ganymede when the first round of shenanigans with instacart hit the news almost all of my regulars started tipping me in cash. I was asked by other people quite a bit and was honest about educating them. So knowledge can guide behaviors. This was years before the pandemic, but most of my customers were elderly or moms of lots of little kids or needed assistance as far as not being able to carry bunches of groceries from the car to the door, ect.

But there are still issues like people not knowing that by choosing "delivery" from their grocery store app they're actually using instacart even though they thought that they were avoiding a gig thing and supporting a job with benefits, ect. Theres still a lot of deceptive stuff (personally I think if a grocery delivery is "powered by" instacart it should be all over/change the appearance of the app to the instacart logo instead of grocery store logo.)

[kk]

I have used Door Dash and Grocery delivery a lot during the pandemic for a few reasons.

One is working so many hours. Like I had some shifts longer than 16 hours where I couldn't leave to go get food.

The other reason is that is reduces the spread of covid, if someone who worked a covid unit is not going out into the store.

That being said I have always done a few things to try be ethical about it.

1. I tip generously. I tip more than most would say I should. But I would rather over tip than under tip.
2. I don't complain, write bad reviews, give the driver a hard time. Even if things are not perfect, I assume they were busy, things were out of stock or the resturant not them messed up the order and etc. Things are hard now and I am just glad someone brought me coffee, I don't sweat the small stuff!
3. If I am able to, such as if they call me or text me, I always say thank you.
4. I try to limit their exposure to covid and to me when I am around covid, saying leave it by the door and etc. Most the the time the drivers don't even see me. I am like don't even come near me, just leave it and run!

[Tinuviel]

I detest that apps like this, with their introduction to Australia, insist on requiring tips. No. Tipping is not a thing here. We pay our serving staff, our bar staff, our cleaners, every one a wage. Comply with our standards or fuck off.

[kk]

Also I am super greatful to all the Door Dash, Delivery, Grocery store workers who worked through the pandemic.

Door Dash saved my ass on some of those crazy long shifts and I super appreciate that there were people willing to do such work.

I think they are pandemic heros.

[Derp]

@macha said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@too-old-for-this CNY?

Chinese New Year

[Ganymede]

@derp

Hope you get rich!

[Derp]

@ganymede

May your money and treasures be plentiful!

[BetterNow]

@too-old-for-this said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Soooooo, I work in material logistics/transportation for a major automotive company. These shortages are deep-rooted and spreading farther and wider as ports are coming under heavier and heavier restrictions for going into/out of America.

This is not the sole problem. The larger problem is labor, both the longshoremen who are the ones to offload cargo ships, and truck drivers. Neither have been willing to die from COVID for their jobs (I cannot blame them) so it's not just restrictions, it's lack of transport once the items get into the country.

[Too Old For This]

@betternow I won't say that's not true, but it is not the biggest issue. We can get the parts to where they need to be once they're in the country and through customs. But we're experiencing MAJOR delays in getting the parts into the country and ready for transport. And it's not just sea shipping. Air shipping is getting delayed too. Transport is available, but we lack the parts to take.

[Solstice]

@greenflashlight @Macha

Currently have thermal curtains up (they help a little, but not quite enough) and am indeed sleeping with earplugs in. The ideal would be to get to a place where the earplugs come out.

@Jeshin

Teach me your waaaaays.

[Macha]

@solstice I've been considering one of the wide headbands that have the bluetooth speakers in them.

[Too Old For This]

@macha So my mother SWEARS by these headphones, and I have to admit that the sound on calls with her has been MUCH clearer since she started using them. She apparently uses them for work, too.

[Macha]

@too-old-for-this I was talking about for sleeping.

[Too Old For This]

@macha Fair enough!

[Wizz]

Utah's infamous for (among other things) new parents spelling their children's otherwise common names like they just suffered a severe head injury, and I wanted to present my new favorite that I saw today: Jaush. JAUSH. I think you're legally obligated to pronounce it with a nasally twang, like that Tiger King guy would?

It also must be short, one can reasonably assume, for Jaushooah.

"JAUSH! GO UNLOAD THE GAT DANG LAWNDRY!!"

[Macha]

@wizz One of my favorite 'new' spellings - Bruklin.

[Wizz]

@macha

Oh my god.

Strong Idiocracy vibes from both of those, for sure, hahaha.