And they were a proper fleet who has delivered in the same areas for years, making them extremely experienced in navigating those streets.
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Pavidus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Something that seems immediately apparent to me is that these folks are not fresh high school students. Adults used to work these jobs.
bountygiver@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Pavidus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This also led to better customer service. You had a relationship with your driver.
other_cat@piefed.zip 2 months ago
There’s a local restaurant that still does their own delivery, and we order lunch from them each week on the same day pretty regularly. We recently moved (still in area) and he was like “Hey wait you moved!” and we had a nice lil convo, it was pleasant. I miss that.
Fmstrat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sort of. I did this at 16-18.
Also, one person didn’t do all that, still doesn’t. Phones, oven, and delivery are all separate jobs, with phones and oven overlapping during slow shifts.
SGforce@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I can’t even remember what jobs teenagers were supposed to have. Newspaper delivery? Ice cream bike guy? That’s all I got.
lime@feddit.nu 2 months ago
teenagers as a group designation used to not be a thing. you were a child until you could do adult jobs and then you were an adult.
children would have menial jobs like coal miner, day labourer, the guy who sticks their hand into the mechanical loom when it gets stuck…
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
True, but not in the late 20th century when pizza by delivery was common but there was no gps
lime@feddit.nu 2 months ago
we didn’t have delivery where i lived at that point, only take-away. quirks of living in a place with less than 10 people per km^2^ on average.
LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Bagging groceries. That job doesn’t even exist anymore
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Work that grocers have passed onto their customers that they used to do themselves:
godsammitdam@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Good ol shadow work.
Ikea is the greatest.
All of those used to be paid work, some even being part of the “white glove” service. Instead, we pay with our time, a finite resource.
gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 2 months ago
i mean i wouldn’t want another employee touching every single food item. this is also a hygiene issue.
dingus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It still does in my area. Not every grocery store, but the big grocery chain around here definitely does. Sometimes they even offer to take my groceries to the car for me which has surprised me.
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 2 months ago
Market Basket, Stop and Shop, and so many others still have people for this.
Broadfern@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hello New Englander.
Yeah even having moved from there to the US South most grocery stores still have traditional checkout lanes/humans bagging your items if you so choose.
xav@programming.dev 2 months ago
How about none ? You’re a teen, you just need to learn, socialize and have fun. Don’t work before your an adult.
somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ah, privilege. Parents had ok jobs. As soon as I needed sports equipment or wanted to go out to eat/pay for friends etc etc it was lawn mowing, paper route, construction from 6th grade.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, I dunno, I wanted to work, because I know it would give me money to go do things I wanted to do. Got my first job at 15, which was the youngest you could work in NJ, and have had consistent employment ever since. Money is, unfortunately, important.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
If it’s possible to earn something voluntarily is great.
Tyvm.
I delivered advertisement for a marketing agency of various local businesses.
Was the pay shit? Yes
Did I make enough money to not be a bum and make my mother pay for a gaming pc? Yes.
somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If you didn’t mow lawns, you were never a tween/teen.
redwattlebird@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
Lemonade stands