Gripe of the day - What is yours?

[Seeker]

I think the medical profession call it a fecal transplant

(when it's performed in a hospital and not a fast food restaurant)

[Red ones]

Just Deliveroo Uber food collection people.
My dislike of them hits a new low.
Why are they so rude?

Wife backing in to a space in a car park. Moped guy whizzes in to the space in rush to get his 50p delivering a lazy persons happy meal. I call out "Hey, we're reversing in there!"

Argue etc
He walks off and mutters "f&@&ing c&**"
I say, "oi come here"
Him: "don't speak to me like that"

Wtf?

At this point two kids in the car burst in to tears.



God I hate these delivery service people. Not met a polite one yet.

Last week I followed one on my way home. He had that lovely Polite vest and was mopedding through little gaps in traffic swearing at drivers and waving fingers at them. I was tempted to tell him about Trade Descriptions.



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[Seeker]

I've heard of uber, I had to look up deliveroo (my excuse is that they aren't in my area). I've never had food delivered, is that common now? Do you have to tip? Is the food still hot?

[Red ones]

Originally Posted by Seeker

I've heard of uber, I had to look up deliveroo (my excuse is that they aren't in my area). I've never had food delivered, is that common now? Do you have to tip? Is the food still hot?

It appears to be a thing at the moment to get your McDonald's delivered etc.
I get that take away for delivery was inefficient. The pizza shop had a delivery guy, so did the Indian take away and the Chinese etc and they must have spent most time sitting on their backsides. So getting a small number of freelancers delivering all of them makes some sense. But gone is the customer service. The take away owners no longer have a touch point with the consumer. The delivery guy doesn't care if you think he's rude. He is allocated your delivery by algorithm, not because he's pleasant.

Maybe I dislike them for other reasons. If you order your take away through an app then it makes sense as the take away owner to lower costs by moving to an industrial estate or a shed somewhere and being an anonymous building. Slowly the High Street becomes vacant, loses that evening vibrancy. Don't then complain when high streets start dying if you don't go there to buy your food, clothes etc


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[Chris_SVS]

I always manage to take a huge chunk of skin off at least one of my fingers when washing the bike. It's never a gentle bleed, always a massacre

[Adam Ef]

Originally Posted by Red ones

Just Deliveroo Uber food collection people.
My dislike of them hits a new low.
Why are they so rude?

I think I'd have reparked his moped for him.


The one thing I noticed when I moved out of Bristol and didn't go back into the city centre for a year, when I did there were suddenly Uber drivers and Deliveroo scooters/ bicycles everywhere! It was like the era of App based employment had suddenly exploded.


Every time I go in now the main problems I encounter are usually with either Deliveroo or Uber drivers / riders. Every trip in I've, without fail, been nearly wiped out by a swerving / u-turning Uber driver and had numerous near misses / cut ups by Deliveroo riders. Often suddenly appearing off pavements etc. The latest was a kid who didn't seem to be entriely concious bombing one of Bristol's steepest busiest hills on the wrong side of the road jabbering away to himself sometimes swerving to avoid oncoming traffic.


It looks to me that the App based nature of employment has no filter or barrier to employment for nutter / morons / selfish idiots, and as a result the city is now full of them.


Quite a few Bristol Uber cars are owned between a few people apparently who can't afford the car on their own, are to trying to make some quick money and have no vested interest in keeping the car dent free, so drive without a care in the world, barging eveyone else out of the way. My experience seems to back this up.


I'm sure there's a few decent Deliveroo riders out there, but in Bristol it often looks like they've opened the doors to the asylum, slapped a few big backpacks on people and set them off to wreak mayhem on the streets and pavements.

[SV650rules]

There was a tv documentary on deliveroo a few nights ago, seems their deliveries are not what they seem. People order from what they think is a local place but your food can come from an unlicensed back street food place on a local industrial estate, using cheap Labour in unsanitary conditions...

That is what you get when you are lazy and want to use your smart phone for everything - smart phones, dumb people LOL

[Bibio]

Originally Posted by Adam Ef

o2 do..
"
£10 data Big Bundle (without international calls)

• 500 minutes, 5000 texts and 2GB of 2G/3G/4G data in exchange for £10 each month. Includes data rollover of up to 2GB a month, subject to bundle caps."

https://www.o2.co.uk/help/pay-as-you-go/big-bundles

i dont do data.. i PAYG as i only occasionally use the phone. i only have a phone not some huge toy with a screen. weird thing is i sent some txt's last night and they were 10p each when they are supposed to be 2p (i'm now on classic 3-2-1p) O2 are at it.

i have as far as i can remember only had one mobile phone number for the past 20 odd years its that old that it went through that first 4-5 number change i have always been on PAYG but they basically forced me to take a new bundle this new bundle has a contract that says i must put £10 credit in every six months or i loose my number where before i could go as long as i liked without putting credit in. or they are trying to get me onto a monthly contract with one of those funking huge stupid things that dont have any battery life, ermmm no.

they never informed me that they were changing the details of my last PAYG data deal and just hiked the price up.

anyway its all sorted now sort of..

oooohhhh and the currants now send me fuk loads of txt's that i never used to get offering me this and that...

[Adam Ef]

Originally Posted by Bibio

i dont do data..

I don't use much either but have it as part of a deal that makes calls and texts free so I buy it anyway and just don't use it.

[Adam Ef]

Originally Posted by SV650rules

That is what you get when you are lazy and want to use your smart phone for everything - smart phones, dumb people LOL

I never understood the attraction. Take away food is already expensive enough without adding on delivery.
It does seem to be people who can least afford it who use it the most too. Convenience is king as always. Especially for a young poor smartphone generation it seems.