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This sounds extremely ableist and as a disabled sr developer whose disability bars operating any vehicles it certainly made me raise an eyebrow. But it turns o
by chx 5y ago
This sounds extremely ableist and as a disabled sr developer whose disability bars operating any vehicles it certainly made me raise an eyebrow. But it turns out this is just shoddy reporting. A better version is at https://www.marketwatch.com/story/doordash-will-require-all-workers-to-deliver-goods-or-perform-other-gigs-and-some-of-them-arent-happy-11640300491 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/doordash-will-require-all-...
> The renewed push adds choices for employees who may not be able to do deliveries, a spokeswoman said.
- Xeronate 5y agoDon't you think you have to be reading with bad faith or a huge amount of preemptive judgement to jump to the conclusion that DoorDash would penalize disabled employees based on this?
- alistairSH 5y agoGiven the track record of employers in general, and gig economy “employers” in particular, I don’t think his initial leap was unfounded.
- chx 5y agoApply Hanlon's Razor. I would guess they simply forgot -- as usual! -- initially and when realized they just opened themselves to an ADA lawsuit which they would surely lose then they hastily issued this comment and then scrambled to fill it with meaning. They forget because neurological disabilities of this kind most of the time are completely invisible at a "white collar" workplace and even in personal lives most of us live mostly normal lives. You can live fine without swimming, skydiving, driving...