I had to tell an Instacart guy he's supposed to check the ripeness of my avocado he said that's not his problem (preview)
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I don't understand it because it's like, I mean, your job is to make my life remarkably easy and you're going to make it difficult for me?
Like, yeah, I think that part of being able to, uh, you know, be in Instacart, you should know, you should know how to pick fresh produce and I want you to know what's in season.
I want you to tell, I want to be able to say seasonal and then you bring me the produce that's called for and I shouldn't have to tell you I need to be organic either.
Yeah, I mean you got... I'm furious with these people.
You got farm workers picking the produce for like five cents apiece, right?
Yeah.
And you can't even pick it up for five cents?
Alright.
That's... okay.
It sounds like privilege.
You have to do the hard part.
It sounds like privilege to me.
You don't have to bend over to pick up that produce.
It's just right there.
Who do you think you are?
You ever see something go viral and you're like, hmm, I wonder what institute or libertarian think tank is behind all these retweets.
Right.
Yeah, who's doing this?
Yeah, I saw this shit when I woke up this morning.
I was exercising.
I don't know if I want to name her.
I don't know how much she deserves.
She's pretty nasty.
It was this tweet about complaining about specifically male Instacart delivery workers.
Which is like... Man, get a fucking real problem.
For God's sakes.
This is something that goes viral.
It's like easy points.
It's easy points to score in the battle of the sexes shit that happens on Twitter and on social media a lot.
And you can like...
You can just obliterate, you can just ether like the guy making $12 an hour on Twitter, uh, pretty easily.
Yeah.
You just say some shit about he didn't know what hair product you wanted or whatever.
Yeah, it's no, no problem.
It's like, I don't even know why you're grocery shopping.
You probably can't do anything in the kitchen anyways, you know?
I was checking out at my local grocery the other day and for some reason she I just go there like a lot I guess and she thought I was working for Instacart and she's like because I asked him about ringing something up and she's oh for like Instacart I said oh no oh I thought you were for Instacart I said no she goes yeah you seem like too happy to to be working I was like oh damn that sucks but yeah I'm just here all the time is all Uh, let me read this tweet.
My last time using grocery delivery and I got a man.
And God, it's boo!
Sounds like you got a boy, is what it sounds like to me.
I love it.
I got a man.
Can you believe this fucking company sent me a man?
I explicitly said no males, no men.
No, thank you.
Yeah.
Uh, he started refunding stuff that I knew dang on well the store had.
I was so pissed I got in the car and went to the store he was at.
Bro was literally standing in one aisle on the phone.
When he's supposed to be working for you, he's supposed to be doing your bidding, and he was fucking on his phone.
If you got time to be on the phone, you got time to deliver to my home.
What's funny is, like, that is the job.
The job is the phone.
He's on the phone because he's doing his job.
But Tony, he was only standing in one aisle, though.
Oh, that's true.
That's bullshit.
Never mind.
I retract that.
I need you to be, if you're going to be my Instacart guy, I need you to go above and beyond.
I need you to be standing in two aisles, three aisles.
I need you to be in all the aisles.
Why are you stopping?
There's more aisles, bro.
I need you to at least pretend you're trying, you know?
Uh, she replied, I decided from that day forward I was discriminating.
Men can't grocery shop for me.
So, sorry, sorry boys, you've been cancelled.
You can't, uh, you can't do Instacart for her anymore.
I mean, I know I was clamoring to do, do Instacart for this person.
It's like, it's so funny, man.
Like, the app revolution, the gig economy, like, uh other workers that they could have their slaves to oh you get to have an employee too that's exactly what it is yeah i'm not i'm not paying you to be on your phone because you're that's what you're thinking you're thinking like you're paying them even though you probably have a coupon code for like two free deliveries yeah and it's the same price regardless um yeah your uh your fake employee
your fake gig employee uh wasn't wasn't working to the best of their ability, so you fired them.
By which you mean you just like cancelled your order and complained about it on Twitter?
Yeah, you sound like a small business owner.
You do, you're fitting the bill perfectly.
I really do want to know what's going on with this person's life when like, so you needed Instacart, right?
You needed your stuff delivered to you, but you could also drop whatever you were doing to go harass the person.
Instead of like making a second trip, because you were, if you're going to make the trip anyways, I guess you were, maybe that was your thought, was I have to go to the store anyways after this fuck up, fucked my shit up.
You know, because like, but wow, you just dropped it right then and there and went to the store.
That's, that's wild.
Yeah, uh... I've never done grocery delivery, Instacart delivery.
I've never done, like, food delivery.
I don't even like bringing my own food home because it's fucking cold by the time it gets to my house when I bring it.
Yeah, very valid.
Think about somebody else, you know?
They don't care about my food.
Why should they care about my food?
That's the whole thing, is...
Underlying all of this is, yeah, okay, Silicon Valley or Uber Eats or Instacart, they promised you a great service, service with a smile.
You just tap on the thing you want and somebody's gonna do it for you.
And like, sure, they promised you that.
Somebody else has to actually do it.
Yeah.
And guess what?
Maybe that day they decided $12 an hour, $15 an hour wasn't worth it to do it.
So they decided to refund you your shit.
Sorry.
That's, that's what fucking happens when you only pay, when you only pay people what?
10, $15 in order?
Yeah.
Like what?
They don't, they don't, they're paying for their own car.
They're paying for their own insurance.
They're paying for licensing.
They're paying for gas.
They're paying for road wear.
All that stuff.
And they don't get paid more when gas goes up, which has just gone up.
It's gone up over a dollar in the past week and a half here.
Yeah.
It would shut out.
And like they don't get paid more.
There's an old saying.
It's a union saying, but it's like a labor saying in general.
And it's, good labor ain't cheap, cheap labor ain't good.
