• Nusm@yall.theatl.socialEnglish
    67·
    6 months ago

    What I saw: “I’m a Dasher. I don’t make much money, so please don’t hurt me or be mean to me.”

      • ringwraithfish@startrek.website
        354·
        6 months ago

        Can you fault them though? Everywhere you turn you’re being asked to tip or donate. Influencers and corporations constantly astroturf social media. The rise of LLMs has made it necessary to question every interaction that occurs virtually.

        Honestly, I worry for the people who aren’t cynical and how they’re going to be deceived, manipulated, or straight up scammed.

        • Psychodelic@lemmy.world
          87·
          6 months ago

          You can just not tip them, you don’t have to assume they’re out to get you and spread that cynical bs like it’s based on anything. It’s just virtue signaling with shitty virtues

          Honestly, I worry for the people who are cynical and how they’re going to deceive themselves by assuming everyone wants to manipulate and scam them

          • Drusas@kbin.run
            83·
            6 months ago

            Most cynical people don’t assume everyone is out to get them.

            • ringwraithfish@startrek.website
              4·
              6 months ago

              Exactly! But you should use the internet with a heavy level of skepticism. Anonymity and the power to connect any one from anywhere is what makes it great, but is also extremely easy for bad actors to take advantage of.

        • Rediphile@lemmy.ca
          12·
          6 months ago

          I never blame the people asking for tips, I instead blame those giving them.

          I’ll list my Bitcoin address for anyone who would like to tip me! As I wrote out this whole comment for free, a tip seems quite reasonable here. If you disagree and choose not to tip me, that’s ok since tips are optional…but please don’t start rambling about how others should be tipping when you yourself did not tip me when provided the opportunity.

        • Donjuanme@lemmy.world
          14·
          6 months ago

          Glad you’re not on my well wishes list, I’d hate to think my weekly reminders that I’m thinking about, and appreciating, people in my life we’re taken as attempts to extract their resources.

          It takes very little to try to offer happiness into someone’s life, and you never know when a random offering of positivity might be what someone was needing at that moment.

          We’re all human. And even if this is copy and pasted I applaud that delivery driver making an effort to spread pleasantness.

      • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
        41·
        6 months ago

        That’s the optimistic interpretation. The cynical interpretation is that they’ll hit you with “Have you heard about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” when you open the door.

  • Donjuanme@lemmy.world
    111·
    6 months ago

    I’m down with this positivity. I make it my mission to remind the people I’m close to it’s Friday (or retired Saturday) at least 75% of the weeks of the month.

  • modifier@lemmy.ca
    8·
    6 months ago

    We have an emoji for a hand making a heart sign, yet we have a heart emoji. Marvelous.

  • WookieMonster@midwest.social
    114·
    6 months ago

    To me this is creepy as hell. It says that dude likes to see people pretend to be happy when they’re really very sad. I would wonder why the hell someone would send that to me if I wasn’t crying and trying to be polite and smile when accepting my delivery, which doesn’t make it any less creepy.

    • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      166·
      6 months ago

      Telling a woman to “smile more” is indeed sexist. They are people and others rarely tell men that. Also people don’t need to put on a smile to please others.

      The Dasher is just suggesting it might be a good idea as a service worker and doesn’t know anything about the customer.

      • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
        49·
        6 months ago

        So if they knew the customer was a woman they shouldn’t have said this?

        The dasher sees the first name of the client, if it was Veronica this is a sexist statement?

        I think that type of thinking just ends with most nice people not saying anything at all.

        • Funkytom467@lemmy.world
          4·
          6 months ago

          I think the difference is why we “usually” say that to women and men.

          For women the sexist reason would be forcing women to smile just to look beautiful regardless of their emotional needs.

          For men it’s masking pain and being tough. Which, if you ask me can also disregard their needs and be toxic, depending on the context…