Nice hopefully it means it will be safe to walk through the city centre without dickheads on illegal ebikes nearly running me down
Are we so lazy we can’t even be bothered to cook for our partner on Valentine’s Day??
Good.
Everyone else in London will be able to get a takeaway without wading through hordes of drivers.
Who’s the lucky girl who was getting a valentines dinner from a dark kitchen?
The fucking L plates in the picture. Delivery riders are enough justification for reforming the entire CBT process because these fuckers haven’t got a clue how the roads work.
Well at least if they’re at a standstill I won’t have them darting past me on roads and roundabouts lol
Lol the way it works is that deliveries are priced by demand. If there’s high demand and not many divers then the apps put boosts on so they make more money per delivery. I did it on a bicycle during a 45 degree heatwave in Australia and made $65 per hour.
Any delivery driver with a brain would be drooling at this opportunity.
Good.
Last week we tried to order Chinese from a local takeaway we hadn’t used for a while and couldn’t get past the online booking fee and delivery fee. Gave up.
Yesterday we tried again (Chinese new year) and found another one we had used 2 years ago. Called them, booked the collection, no problem. Rocked up and 10 minutes later was on my way home with a free extra dish and fortune cookies.
No mopeds were harmed in this adventure.
Good. They can stay the fuck away so we can use the cycle paths safely without motorbikes being in them.
thousands more waiting to make £100 more that night, rip
This will be the first day in a decade that McDonald’s will go back to actual _fast_ food service.
Good, maybe they can take a fucking theory test whilst they’re at it!
Oh dear, that’s the end of the world as we know it.
How will we ever survive for 24 hours without pizza delivered to our front doors?
I support workers’ rights without question, however I see this going nowhere because a business that relies on the gig economy will always find workers. As long as someone has a bike/moped and no knowledge of the Highway Code, they can become a delivery driver. The barrier to entry being so low and people being desperate for a side gig means that striking delivery drivers are easy to replace.
Good, the fuckers are a blight on town/city centres. When I was a HGV driver trying to deliver on a high street and utilize the delivery bays was almost impossible as these folks were parking their mepeds or shitty bMWs everywhere
How they can have L plates and use them for a job amazes me, it’s just a job full of exploitation
I bet barely any of these delivery drivers on L plates actually have a CBT.
Perhaps they could consider striking the rest of the year too.
Time for Border Force to do another sting can’t see the illegals striking somehow.
Result, I can go out for a meal without having a group of drivers hanging around the entrance getting in the way
Nevermind. They can spend the time learning how to use Google Maps instead of phoning me saying “I am outside” when they clearly aren’t.
Now I just go and collect the food instead, it is cheaper and much quicker.
Either that or they steal food.
Won’t that be unlovely? Of all days to strike, why strike on such a day? It isn’t a day of something important….
I wouldn’t notice as I always collect my own take away. I know not everyone can drive to pick up their food but it’s better than using a delivery app.
Oh no, lazy cunts will have to touch grass for once. What a shame!
They’ll kill the competitive edge they have, if deliveroo etc have increased costs they’ll just pass them on to point people won’t get deliveries.
Perhaps people can learn to cook something for their partners instead. Having a takeaway sounds so fucking depressing.
There’s a very easy way to get all those employment rights they want: Eliminate substitution. If you’re a Deliveroo rider, and you want full employment rights, you don’t get to give the job to your mate and make them do it for you.
The entire court case classifying Deliveroo riders as contractors and not workers hinged on the fact that Deliveroo doesn’t restrict who else you can deliver for, nor does it prevent you from having substitutes. Eliminate both of those elements and Deliveroo riders would be workers, just like Uber drivers.
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Nice hopefully it means it will be safe to walk through the city centre without dickheads on illegal ebikes nearly running me down
Are we so lazy we can’t even be bothered to cook for our partner on Valentine’s Day??
Good.
Everyone else in London will be able to get a takeaway without wading through hordes of drivers.
Who’s the lucky girl who was getting a valentines dinner from a dark kitchen?
The fucking L plates in the picture. Delivery riders are enough justification for reforming the entire CBT process because these fuckers haven’t got a clue how the roads work.
Well at least if they’re at a standstill I won’t have them darting past me on roads and roundabouts lol
Lol the way it works is that deliveries are priced by demand. If there’s high demand and not many divers then the apps put boosts on so they make more money per delivery. I did it on a bicycle during a 45 degree heatwave in Australia and made $65 per hour.
Any delivery driver with a brain would be drooling at this opportunity.
Good.
Last week we tried to order Chinese from a local takeaway we hadn’t used for a while and couldn’t get past the online booking fee and delivery fee. Gave up.
Yesterday we tried again (Chinese new year) and found another one we had used 2 years ago. Called them, booked the collection, no problem. Rocked up and 10 minutes later was on my way home with a free extra dish and fortune cookies.
No mopeds were harmed in this adventure.
Good. They can stay the fuck away so we can use the cycle paths safely without motorbikes being in them.
thousands more waiting to make £100 more that night, rip
This will be the first day in a decade that McDonald’s will go back to actual _fast_ food service.
Good, maybe they can take a fucking theory test whilst they’re at it!
Oh dear, that’s the end of the world as we know it.
How will we ever survive for 24 hours without pizza delivered to our front doors?
I support workers’ rights without question, however I see this going nowhere because a business that relies on the gig economy will always find workers. As long as someone has a bike/moped and no knowledge of the Highway Code, they can become a delivery driver. The barrier to entry being so low and people being desperate for a side gig means that striking delivery drivers are easy to replace.
Good, the fuckers are a blight on town/city centres. When I was a HGV driver trying to deliver on a high street and utilize the delivery bays was almost impossible as these folks were parking their mepeds or shitty bMWs everywhere
How they can have L plates and use them for a job amazes me, it’s just a job full of exploitation
I bet barely any of these delivery drivers on L plates actually have a CBT.
Perhaps they could consider striking the rest of the year too.
Time for Border Force to do another sting can’t see the illegals striking somehow.
Result, I can go out for a meal without having a group of drivers hanging around the entrance getting in the way
Nevermind. They can spend the time learning how to use Google Maps instead of phoning me saying “I am outside” when they clearly aren’t.
Now I just go and collect the food instead, it is cheaper and much quicker.
Either that or they steal food.
Won’t that be unlovely? Of all days to strike, why strike on such a day? It isn’t a day of something important….
I wouldn’t notice as I always collect my own take away. I know not everyone can drive to pick up their food but it’s better than using a delivery app.
Oh no, lazy cunts will have to touch grass for once. What a shame!
They’ll kill the competitive edge they have, if deliveroo etc have increased costs they’ll just pass them on to point people won’t get deliveries.
Perhaps people can learn to cook something for their partners instead. Having a takeaway sounds so fucking depressing.
There’s a very easy way to get all those employment rights they want: Eliminate substitution. If you’re a Deliveroo rider, and you want full employment rights, you don’t get to give the job to your mate and make them do it for you.
The entire court case classifying Deliveroo riders as contractors and not workers hinged on the fact that Deliveroo doesn’t restrict who else you can deliver for, nor does it prevent you from having substitutes. Eliminate both of those elements and Deliveroo riders would be workers, just like Uber drivers.