Tonight, after having to inform @instaCart that no one had gotten back to me about a new appeal, I finally received a response.
Upon opening the email I was gutted.
Gutted.
The response I received tonight is the exact same form letter I received originally.
Word 4 word.
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They did not address or consider any of my evidence, nor seek any further information regarding the many systemic flaws the q! evidence uncovers. Nor did they offer any explanation on why or how my identity keeps getting crossed w/ other users or the implications.
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I have no words for how disappointed I am in #TrustandSafety@Instacart / @instashoppers. I was sure that after a clear look at the facts that they would immediately reverse their decision, but no, it's more likely they never even opened the email with the new information.
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I currently have a negative balance in my checking account and most of my bills are due in the next three or four days.
The absence of work compounds the dangers and depth of my situation daily.
And @Instacart's Trust and Safety seems content to push me to the brink.
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I've had a terrible week that continues to worsen. My oldest sister Christine died 4 days ago and I have not even addressed the, fact emotionally let alone it's larger life implications.
AND I was officially asked to leave the only home option I have available to me today.
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Please.
If anyone here knows of anyone within @Instacart's / @instashoppers corporate infrastructure please reach out to me.
There has to be a quick and efficient solution to this problem.
I don't understand the cynicism nor the lack of empathy from this organization.
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Please help me get this to @Instacart's attention by retweeting both this and my original thread (see link in first tweet in this thread).
I am so broken by @instacart that it's almost hard to describe. After two years with this platform, and after over 1000 shops I was summarily deactivated three days ago. It is my ONLY source of income.
My initial devastation has been replaced by pure shock at the treatment I have received since.
I was informed of my deactivation through a form letter email that did not outline a specific problem, but asked me to defend against it anyway in the single appeal I was allowed.
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I begged them repeatedly to explain why I was deactivated and what specific charge I was defending against, but I received only a single response that said my appeal was denied and their decision was final. It was in that letter that they finally told me what I had done wrong.
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My mom used to tell people that I was the easiest pregnancy she ever had, but the I paid her back by being her most difficult birth.
I weighed nearly 11 lbs at birth and my mom said she struggled with managing my weight for my first eighteen months. By one I was 45 lbs..
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This might amuse some who know me given I have struggled with keeping weight on for most of my life, but I got a strange flu when I was almost two and lost the weight.
It never came back.
My mom insisted that I "struggled to be born, and then struggled everyday after."
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In the last years of her life, when we spent all of our waking hours together, my mom shared a lot of things she never thought she would share with me or any of her children.
"I always knew you were gay. A mother just knows. And I hate knowing that."
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Donald Trump never had the support of the majority of the people in this country. Not ever.
Maybe where you live he did. But, and this probably cuts to the heart of the issue, a world exists outside of your personal wants, beliefs, and demographics.
Sorry.
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Once you wrap your mind around that fact then you just might see that no poll, not even Fox News own polling, ever indicated that he enjoyed support outside of his base, namely you, though, granted, that base proved to be disturbingly large and loyal beyond reason.
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But Donald Trump tweets that the polls are all wrong and you believe him without question?
He tells X is Y and suddenly you all believe X is Y even when you're looking at an X.
Think about that, then look up the definitions of "cult," "cult leader," and "groupthink."
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What I know for sure: Every person who has decided to vote for Trump knows EXACTLY who he is and what they are voting for, period.
At best they're voting for a hypocritical and opportunistic liar and charlatan who has triggered a foul and dangerous kind of partisanship.
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But we know that the best case scenario is not really what's going on here.
Because the only thing truly different with Trump from most of the GOP is his very public embrace of some of the worst elements of the alt-right (white supremacy) and his refusal to disavow it, ever.
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Whether consciously or not the evidence is pretty strong that despite the fact that Trump's actions, words, and policies do great harm to large sections of his base, they continue to be enamored out of what appears a sense of gratitude.