Government reviews law defining 'employees' and 'contractors'.
  • garpujol@discuss.onlineEnglish
    686·
    2 months ago

    I got tboned by an Uber eats employee because they weren’t paying attention and ran a red light. The driver had only been driving for a few months, and had no business being rushed by some app to meet some quota. Because of them, I’m permanently fucked up.

    • daddy32@lemmy.worldEnglish
      102·
      2 months ago

      This is too bad, wish you the best. I already had a thought these apps are effectively decreasing safely of the cities for the profit, but haven’t experienced it myself…

      • Tja@programming.devEnglish
        72·
        2 months ago

        If it had be a local pizza place instead it would have been better? Safer?

        The problem here is a bad driver, not their employer / contracting app.

        • daddy32@lemmy.worldEnglish
          51·
          2 months ago

          Well yes, pizza delivery guys are pushed into the reckless driving too - some of the most absurd crashes I’ve seen involved them - however there is a big difference in the immediacy of the pushing. There’s a difference between your boss yelling at you to be faster once per day or a week and the app constantly pushing you with realtime feedback and ever changing incentives.

          • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
            22·
            2 months ago

            I am an Uber driver and I do not feel forced into reckless driving.

            Yes I expect all the “shill” comments and the downvotes. I will continue to tell the truth despite it going against the “free market evil” narrative.

            • daddy32@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              Uber “people” or uber eats? Is there a difference in driver experience between the two?

              • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
                2·
                2 months ago

                Uber rideshare is what I do.

                I’ve done Instacart and there were definitely time quotas. Same for doordash.

                Both of those are extremely stressful jobs because of being on tight time deadlines that are not under one’s own control.