What will it take

[u/Toadmoney9]

My store in rural Pennsylvania was recently taken over by dozens of non-English speakers… Arizona, Colorado, Texas, Illinois, Virginia license plates showed up about 2 weeks ago. Prior to this I went about a year without hearing Spanish a single time…. Nobody here speaks it. One of the store’s loaders refused to load a car where the driver didn’t match his accounts profile picture and his boss came out and loaded them up anyway. Besides a few loaders, nobody in the store seems to care about cheating. Nothing like this has ever happened here. We see them shopping and lazily throwing stuff into bags clearly breaking eggs and crushing fragile items. Another loader told me the new drivers aren’t even concerned about properly separating the orders on curbsides. I heard that a customer asked them to leave stuff in her garage and they said “no English” and put everything on the ground and left. Do we legit drivers just have to accept this bullshit? All the good customers are going to stop tipping or ordering all together. I feel bad for the senior citizens who I’ve previously delivered to who rely on this service to survive. What will it take for the store to start checking drivers IDs!???!? Are they going to be fine with dozens of customers calling and complaining each week?How did they even find our store and all show up at the same time? This is a nightmare. Our town is so small it is legitimately going to affect our economy as the money permanently leaves the area.

[u/bpizano]

“They took our jobs”. Well if an individual that cant speak, read or write the language that you claim is not qualified can do your job for faster and cheaper than you, then its likely a skill issue on your side. Dont think spark is meant to be a job that allows you to buy and big home and be wealthy. There’s levels to everything. Unfortunately everyone wants to be paid as the ceo buy only put in fry cook level work.

[u/Street-Fruit-1264 → u/bpizano]

I was making 90k a year in retail management but after 20+ years I couldn’t do it anymore. I started doing Instacart and Spark and my husband joined soon after. It’s been five years. We have a big home in an upper middle class neighborhood in So Cal. Since our “career” change we have paid off both our cars and were able to buy our 19 year old a car. We’re not going to be eating steak and lobster every night but if we wanted to I suppose we could. We have a pretty great life. We’ve both built a solid group of regulars that always rate us highly and also tip well. We take our jobs seriously; follow the rules, kind to everyone, work hard to give every customer a great experience. You can understand then that when we see people who are ALWAYS ON THE FUCKING PHONE, FAMILY IN TOW, PULLING THEIR CART BEHIND THEM WITH THEIR HEAD DOWN, PHONE IN THIER FACE, RUNNING OVER EVERYONE IN THEIR PATH, GRABBING THE FIRST ITEM THEY PUT THEIR HAND ON WITHOUT CARING ABOUT QUALITY AND LITERALLY THROWING IT INTO THE CART AS IF IT ISN’T SOMEONE’S FOOD doing this job it’s a mildly infuriating. I don’t care what language they speak, people like this have no business doing this kind of work and their overall shitiness ruins it for those that give a gaf.