1./ LGBTQ+ Grifting Rule Number 1. When a corporation does weirdly performative LGBTQ+ virtue signalling ...check what it's covering up. So what's @Deliveroo trying to distract our attention from with their ludicrous LGBTQ+ alphabet soup? Plenty it would seem. 
2./ Deliveroo has every reason desperately to try to spray "progressive" whitewash over its tarnished brand after its own public offering earlier this year just happened to be THE worst ever IPO in the history of the London Stock Exchange? ft.com/content/bdf6ac…
3./ One reason investors were leery is Deliveroo's terrible reputation for exploiting low-paid staff. Even in the gig economy, it seems, Deliveroo is considered an embarrassment. But hey at least the founders made $618M from the launch. Kerching. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
4./ Perhaps another reason investors were skeptical was that even during a national lockdown when no one was able to go to restaurants and the streets were filled with its drivers...Deliveroo still couldn't make a profit. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
5./ It's claimed @Deliveroo loses money on every meal it delivers. It's a perfect example of a high-debt, fast-money fuelled worker-exploiter that grew quick until the owners sold. No surprise the founder @willshuroo worked for Morgan Stanley. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
6./ Key to its growth are the poor conditions suffered by thousands of its workers whom @Deliveroo contracts as self-employed, so they have no sick pay or other benefits. When workers tried to unionise new contracts were issued to sidestep such an outcome. theverge.com/2021/6/24/2254…
7./ The staff's status as self-employed was upheld in the Court of Appeal but the ruling made clear “it is reasonable to infer that Deliveroo’s reason for making the change was to strengthen its position in the context of ..the claim for recognition" unleashgroup.io/2021/06/24/del…
8./ Maybe that's why strikes continue to beset the company. Just three months before Deliveroo unveiled its silly alphabet soup its workers went on strike yet again. Some workers make less than £2 an hour. Enjoy your delicious soup...virtue suckers. newsshopper.co.uk/news/19216833.…
9./ How did Deliveroo get round giving staff a minimum wage? Its contract allows riders to substitute someone else to do a delivery. But hardly any can afford to do that. Take the letters R, U, S and E from your alphabet soup. What do they spell? theguardian.com/business/2021/…
10./ Defenders say 'disrupters' like Deliveroo create jobs. But maybe they're really job destroyers. A growing number of restaurants complain the fees it charges undermines their profits. At least 35% of the cost of your meal goes to this union-buster. cnbc.com/2020/05/01/res…
11./ And some of your meals may not come from where you imagined. The @DailyMailUK reported Deliveroo has set up dozens of windowless sheds or 'dark kitchens' in industrial parks where they churn out meals from a range of brands. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8…
12./ The journalist described conditions at one shabby site with packed sheds in which "two dozen cooks turn out meals for eight different companies." Maybe it's not a surprise that the world's greatest tax-evader Amazon has invested heavily in Deliveroo. cnbc.com/2021/02/03/ama…
13./ The Royal Society for Public Health described such "kitchens" in shipping containers and sheds as “small boxes where food is produced in dark, cramped and low paid environments which are frequently either too hot or too cold.” eastlondonlines.co.uk/2020/04/behind…
14./ In its report @R_S_P_H also said there were associated problems in some which "include an absence of licensing, poor food safety and often a lack of allergen controls”. They argue such kitchens threaten the vitality of our High streets. rsph.org.uk/our-work/campa…
15./ When @BBCPanorama investigated Dark Kitchens they found a complex and opaque web of licensing and management arrangements which they feared might endanger food safety and working conditions as it became unclear who exactly was responsible for what.
16./ Just as Amazon's workers are treated as cogs in a faceless machine with none of the workplace culture that makes work life-enhancing @Deliveroo undermines the High St with its dank container-ships behind barbed wire in shabby car parks. theguardian.com/technology/202…
17./ Yes, @deliveroo's soup is the perfect emblem for our time but not the way they suggest. A predatory company that divests itself of the responsibilties tax-paying small businesses and employers exercise has found a way to suggest it's familiar with the moral high ground.
18./ As for the venture itself, was anything ever less convincing? Each can will be stamped with the number for LGBT Switchboard for people too shy to find the number on google. But not too shy to buy a soup called LGBTQQIAAP. 🙄fundraising.co.uk/2021/07/01/del…
19./ So @deliveroo can stick it's pathetic soup gesture. Instead, it should do something that's actually ethical. It should follow other gig economy companies like @JustEatUK and start giving workers rights they deserve. Or is that too much to swallow?unleashgroup.io/2021/04/21/gig…
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