Documentation Diary
This article will be updated regularly with documentation as it happens. I’ll let you, the reader, decide if you think is normal behaviour by any stretch of the imagination.
BACKGROUND
When I first started using the Gig Economy services, there was no problem with drivers finding my apartment building or having problems with my buzzer connecting. None of these shenanigans occurred at the beginning. And as Ann East, herself, admits, I’m the only one in the building having these issues.
These issues began after I observed an Instacart delivery person handing over one bag of my groceries containing plain yogurt and a frozen dinner to a resident in the apartment building. The resident then gave the delivery person another bag she had brought with her containing what also appeared to be yogurt and a frozen dinner.
When I opened both of those items, they had been tampered with.
After Ann realized the scam had been outed, the process was changed so that the delivery drivers went to the apartment building next door, drove into the parking in the back and exchanged the groceries there.
When I began questioning this unusual behaviour of the drivers, both with the drivers and the Support team of UberEats and Instacart, the Support Team of UberEats backed the drivers many excuses and lies and often enhanced them to cover for the drivers despite the proof in the map.
Now, the behaviour expanded to ALL of the drivers. Not all of the drivers were doing the exchange however. Some did and others just ran around the parking lots of the apartment building next door and the town houses on the other side.
This was also when the buzzer “issues” started. Now, the first time a person delivers, there’s a buzzer “issue”. After that, the nonsense begins.
The Support Team behaviour is also unusual. Normally the Support team would investigate this type of strange behaviour and it would be acted on. In addition, the Support teams for ALL of the Gig Economy services I currently use behave the same way.
I dumped UberEats because of Support harassment but am still using Instacart and Skip The Dishes. With Skip The Dishes, my food often comes with one dish partially eaten.
The only way that Ann can know that I’m getting a delivery so that she can mess with the buzzer or create other issues is through the Support teams and by forwarding my buzzer to her or another residents number so that the delivery person can be waylaid and recruited.
Note that I’m not publicly identifying all of the food items being tampered with. Just the really obvious ones. I see no reason why I should help these criminals know which tampering is successfully fooling me and which isn’t. Although I’m pretty sure I’m identifying all of it.
This is why I started monitoring their behaviour.
DOCUMENTATION
January 15, 2024. Instacart Delivery:
This is the type of nonsense I put with for most of my deliveries. Whether they tamper with the food or not, they go through these shenanigans. Those who don’t tamper with the food are providing cover for those who do and are, therefore, part of the criminal activity.
When Manish finally got around to buzzing my apartment, he phoned and told me the buzzer didn’t work. I came down to let him in and check the buzzer myself. Ann East, the Building Superintendent was in the office and while smirking, asked me if I was having trouble with the buzzer again.
I said, “yes”.
I opened the door and re-entered my Buzzer number but got no response. This always worked when I tested it in the past with the door open, but according to Ann the door needed to be closed. I closed the door, heard a click coming from the buzzer speaker and then the call went through. I’m guessing the door needed to be shut for Ann to reconnect the buzzer.
I tried the buzzer a second time and the call went through immediately. No click.
Ann then claimed it must be a “signal problem” and I’m the only one having an issue.
Ann knows nothing about technology but pretends to be some sort of expert.
The click that occurred was, in my opinion, Ann reconnecting the buzzer to my phone.
I don’t have a “signal problem” except when Ann decides to mess with my buzzer.
I can go into a technical explanation for why Ann’s “assessment” is idiotic but it’s not worth the trouble. Most high school kids will know the answer.
NOTE: Just to clear up any potential confusion: Deliveries to multiple locations aren’t displayed. Only the delivery to my location will display for me.
It's a good idea to put this kind of evidence where it can be found online; this can be found but it's hardly advertised to those without an actual interest in it and it can hardly be presented as defamation.
For those who don't understand; the delivery driver spends more than three quarters of an hour in the vicinity without actually delivering the goods. It's not evident that he's making other drops in this time; he's just circling the delivery address, or sitting still. This is not what the delivery firm pays him for, and they may well not pay him for the time wasted, which begs the question of why he's doing this?
Medawar experienced this kind of harassment for a couple of years before more serious stuff started to happen, so it may be best to nip this kind of thing in the bud.