GigglyNarwhal

Another low from YourStory

At this point it's just Boot Licking Delivery app founders. How come the opinion of a sample size of 1000 young people who are not even gig workers, get to be representative of whether gig worker unions should have right to bargain wages.

Everyone knows how harsh and unsafe the working conditions of delivery partners/gig workers are. On top of it now these companies are squeezing their wages to become profitable.

Not trying to moral police folks who order food and groceries online(even I do it), but this is just not sustainable. Sometimes it just feels wrong someone is traveling 5+ kms just to deliver me food and the guy/gal is not even being compensated properly.

And the below article is definitely not journalism or even reporting.

Link to article: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yourstory-com_most-indian-workers-say-no-to-gig-drivers-activity-7121039458933620736-qRVQ?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android

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DerpyBoba

InMobi14mo

Yourstory is just a sham. Mouth piece for founders and not journalism ever. If its coming from them it's likely propoganda or a featured article.

ZestyPenguin

Stealth14mo

Exactly. What is their core group to arrive at 38% of india population. Do they really have the audacity to say they have spoken to the working class to arrive at 38/%?
Matlab kuch bhi?

Shradha ko mid life crisis combined with extremely dangerous levels of delusion and fomo ho Gaya hey to do these kind of sham new pieces.

SillyJellybean

Stealth14mo

It's a funded startup lol, not really a journalistic endeavour.

Their articles are full of errors too. They wrote about me once and I sent corrections in their article which they didn't even bother to fix.

Not much point expecting good reporting from YS.

ZoomyBiscuit

ClearTrip14mo

If you don’t like to work for a gig economy based company, don’t! Before joining itself one knows that its going to give you flexibility and it’s not a job.

Why the fuck would you change expectations suddenly and demand job like perks? Quit and take up a real job then

GigglyNarwhal

Stealth14mo

Same energy as "If you're homeless, just buy a house"

ZoomyBiscuit

ClearTrip14mo

Difference.

Ask your government to help you. Don’t go after private companies who were clear about their policies from the beginning. What’s this entitlement?

CosmicLlama

Stealth14mo

There was a viral video in which a delivery guy was requesting not to order from far off places. He says it is just not profitable for them when the order is far off place. We can start doing our part too.
As a policy I never use these apps, if I can't go out to get my food, I don't eat. Anyways going out on a sat/ sun night to eat is hell in blore.

GigglyNarwhal

Stealth14mo

That's so nice of you buddy. I don't order groceries now online. Also I order food only when it's an emergency like I'm sick and make sure it's not raining when I order food

MagicalDumpling

DotPe14mo

Brothers !! Nice thought but how are we helping these gig workers by not ordering on the Apps. They (Gig workers) always have an option of accepting the order or rejecting it (just like ride hailing apps) and like the yourstory survey,I have also spoken to some and they don't seem to have an issue (small sample size and maybe they were new). They should have a mouthpiece (union) to fight for their rights which I agree ,since many times the food delivery companies or ride hailing apps exploit them but ordering on the app or not ordering doesn't make any difference in their lives since someone would always be doing the hardwork and paid less..

We can give them tips on the app (if it goes directly to them) but it's their fight which they have to take up and we as consumers can't help them win it.

P.S My views which you might or may not agree to and it's absolutely perfect.

DancingCupcake

Stealth14mo

probably, imo, all these problems arise, when startups after raising tons of capital have to show growth and profitability to exist at any costs. This leads to them squeezing everything from all corners. Have you as customers no faced this ? like how the services of startups start getting poorer and poorer, as they become very big and stable. Ironically, their stable versions is as bad or worse than the organizations which they hate like banks or govt. orgs when they start out. This just extends to people who work with them or are their vendors as well. Artificially grown companies, which have not reached that scale because the market has matured but just because they have capital to burn have no other eay to stay alive. And the worst part is by the time, they are in a place to soncolidate the turf changes, (big basket > zepto), happening in cabs etc. and will happen in food delivery as well. The only culprit is artificial growth at the threshold of an immature market.

QuirkyMarshmallow

Walmart14mo

+1, unfortunately the market size is widely exaggeratable in India due to population and that has caused all the problems. The cab or food delivery market size is a max of 1 billion dollars 💰 specific to metro and trier 1 cities only addressable to top 1% only. If Swiggy or Ola have been valued at 5 billion and have accumulated 2-3 billion in cumulative losses, the businesses are insolvent in traditional methodology. No wonder each of them want to show some profit and sneek through IPO.

GigglyNarwhal

Stealth13mo

That's a grat way to look at problem. These delivery services are solving 1st world problems in a 3rd world country. How is this even sustainable?

TwirlyNoodle

Stealth14mo

It is similar to WSJ. They have published many articles on how WFO is good and why WFH is bad for employees. These articles are heavily promoted on social media.

GigglyNarwhal

Stealth14mo

Heavily promoted as in paid promotions?

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