Time for the weekly two-wheeled trip report.
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Bicycle 🚲 Total trips: 288
- Trips this week: +1
- Imaginary income total: $774
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Scooter 🛴 Total trips: 221
- Trips this week: +6
- Imaginary income total: $518
Whenever I get frustrated with my computer work, I tell myself that I’ll quit and start working as a pizza delivery rider on an e-bike. But recently, I watched a TV report about food delivery by e-bikes and learned something interesting. I already suspected that delivery work has its own difficulties, but now I’ve realized that this job is also illegal 🥴 Aggregators don’t give out orders directly; instead, they open small intermediary firms in every city. These intermediaries take a cut of the income and forge documents. On paper, you work half a day, but in reality, it’s 10 hours a day. There’s no vacation or health insurance. Furthermore, an intermediary might ask for money just to give you access to the work, and they can shut down at any moment and run off with the delivery person’s money—which was supposedly “in their account” but disappears forever once the firm closes. They can’t (or won’t) bring legal order here because, on paper, the scammer firm is already closed and the aggregator has nothing to do with it. Even though in reality, the aggregator knows everything since every order and delivery goes through a central database 💸
In short, becoming a delivery rider is a bad idea, unfortunately 🤔💭
