Feel Bad Inc. feat Yasha and Fernando
We chatted to two riders with the German grocery delivery app Gorillas all about their unionisation drive, and their boss’s strange obsession with fire magic. Also, Maureen Dowd is a tech writer now and she’s been buffaloed by Silicon Valley’s resident “dad CEO” Dara Khosrowshahi.
Follow the Gorillas here:
https://twitter.com/GorillasWorkers
https://www.instagram.com/gorillasriderlife2
If you're in Germany, check out the strike fund here:
Name: fairsichern community e.V
IBAN: DE48430609677918887700
BIC: GENODEM1GLS
Verwendungszweck: SPENDEKX6HV9
Donations will be used for: strike pay for workers, covering legal costs, supporting sister struggles and building our community.
Comments (18)
Late to this one, but I'm gonna point out that Loonatics Unleashed was a mid-aughts thing. The 90s rebrand of the Looney Tunes involved a lot of bootleg t-shirts of them wearing hip-hop fashion.
"one case the 18th floor without an elevator" wow after biking there? Labour power for these folks is stored ENTIRELY in the thighs apparently
omg where can I find the Gorillas CEO letter in full
https://mobile.twitter.com/GorillasWorkers/status/1415039702873296901/photo/1
love when riley tries fighting off the distractions for a whole minute then gives in and goes with the bit. quality
Also if it says it's the free one, but it's a premium episode and I share it to non hogs are the TF lawyers going to come and repo my collection of heavily used beanie babies.
Is it the free one or not tho. The important questions being asked here. Also I feel like the TF crew would actually like Beeples artwork. Think they are @beeplecrap on twitter and Instagram.
the nft wave was the moment i witnessed some of the worst digital art of my entire life. beeple wasnt the worst but he's like videogame art director shitposting his afterhour doodles level
This makes me wanna see the gang investigate Hello Fresh, because fuck me, they try waay too hard to dupe me with their aggressive piling on of YT ads. Like no, I don't care what fucking recipe you tried, Karen 🙄 It wouldn't surprise me if it was a similar dark store situation. Also, 🎶The flame is the soul's breath, The breath is the soul's release Those words are in arte, Return to the great flame of fire, Latome 🎶 😆
Join me, in the free one!
Not enough Gorillaz jokes for my taste 2/10
Not sure whay Riley was trying to do at the start saying it was the free one, I was busy figuring how to beat the meat. There I ruined the magic :(
Oh, you mean beat the meat?
Can you guys post a source to that Beeple story I can’t find anything online about it
I know it's tech skepticism but did you try Google. https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/11/22325054/beeple-christies-nft-sale-cost-everydays-69-million haha
Also please do an episode about Premium Rush
The historical stuff is really interesting but I think the workers’ council thing is a weird artifact of Germany still having a floor with labor rights compared to the US. Uber won’t even pay medical bills for people injured on the clock As somebody who worked as a bike messenger on apps for years I a.) have a small book to write about this and b.) this company sounds extra-incompetent/sketchy. Like none of these companies give a shit about their couriers but not giving you a vpn connection to the customer is really weird. Also, I too love cycling!
I don't know if you guys looked into it but according to a German news article Gorillas is now desperate to get more investors on board cause they're bleeding money. They ostensibly went ahead and lost 245 million € between March and now. The worst news for them is that SoftBank have already declined them. The new plan that the CEO came up with is apparently to blow up his business artificially, burning so much money and employing so many people that the company becomes "too big to fail" in an effort to get German federal rescue funds.