It has been over a week since @Instacart / @instashoppers deactivated my shopper a٪ccount and took away my only source of income.

Despite having @instacart respond and forward my case to Trust and Safety seeking to reconsider the case, they did little more than mock me.

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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).

Thank you! All!

Please pray for me.

@frodofied

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5 Mar
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.

@instashoppers #instacart

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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.
2/
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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26 Feb
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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16 Jan
"He's not just unprepared -- he's temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and immense responsibility."

- @HillaryClinton, 2016

Four years ago this country failed itself, bigly.

We got everything wrong.

All of it.

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We are where we are today because of the mistakes we made then. Period.

It could have and would have- gone so very differently.

This is true whether you believe Trump actually won fairly, or, that he and Russia stole the election in 2016.

We fucked up either way.

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"We cannot put the safety of our children and grandchildren in Donald Trump's hands. We cannot let him roll the dice with America."

- @HillaryClinton, 2016.

She sounds like a prophet now. She told us out loud every single day of that campaign who Donald Trump was.

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15 Jan
What I know for sure: We expend too much time and effort putting things off, setting things aside, and storing things away.

Really.

Waiting for a special occasion to drink a bottle of wine means it might not ever be drank.

Life, it turns out, is is own special occasion.

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If Trump and the Coronavirusbhave taught us anything it's that we should take nothing for granted, and assume nothing.

There are so many things that we cast aside for tomorrow: trips, learning something new, making a needed change, but what does waiting get us?

2/
How many people never traveled to another country? Or wrote that book? Or didn't tell that periodontal they loved them?

The fact of the matter is the world might not ever be back to normal. This might be the new, permanent normal.

Don't sacrifice another moment.

3/
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7 Nov 20
Dear MAGA,

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.

1/
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.

2/
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."

3/
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30 Oct 20
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.

2/
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.

But for what? And why?

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