Amazon delivery vans were parked in bike lanes all over Cambridge today.
Amazon delivery vans were parked in bike lanes all over Cambridge today.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/33126960
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As a person who does this job I have to say I have zero sympathy for the entitlement expressed in this thread and find no fault in any parking job these people use to save themselves the extra 50 steps x 200 places a day they have to deliver to. If you don't feel safe going around then you can fucking wait the literal minute it takes for them to walk back and forth.
You feel entitled to them literally wearing their bodies down to dust for your convenience because you think of them as lesser human beings to yourself and you need to do self crit immediately.
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Maybe you guys should unionise so you don't have such shit working conditions.
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Maybe you should shut the fuck up if you're not willing to proletarianize yourself and salt the workplace yourself.
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Sound like you have enough salt for the both of us. I don't know who shit in your cornflakes, but you're really obnoxious.
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You're a genuinely disgusting person and that fact is only deepened with the inclusion of this snide passive aggression. Oh wow no shit you're not willing to put your own body, comfort, and time on the line to "just unionize Amazon lol" but you'll use it as a backhanded excuse for why my needs are less important than your wants. Champagne liberal status: scratched.
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I work hard within my own union, that I've been a proud member of for 25 years. The passive aggressive snide comment was because you aren't worth engaging with in good faith. Amazon hurts you and you are taking it out on everyone else rather than blaming the real problem.
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Wow no shit you haven't been engaging in good faith. As I said, and you have now explicitly confirmed, you're a piece of shit.
Real fucking labor solidarity hours with you blaming me for my working conditions because I haven't personally unionized the largest company in the world. Malicious fucking moron.
And since you insist on dragging this hostility out, fucking scab labor aristocrat, how the fuck is being unionized supposed to improve my working conditions when they're determined by the neighborhoods I'm working in and not the company? You're just fucking stupid. You're selfish and indifferent to other people's problems and you want your fucking treats and you don't want a single fucking consequence that comes from it. You want it to fall on me.
And you know you'd get your ass beat if you acted this way in person.
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Jajaja. Man you are a whiny little turd. You want to talk about entitled. You think you are entitled to put other peoples lives at risk to save a few steroids for yourself. Bicyclists are making a real attempt to better themselves and the world, and you think putting them at real risk of death is justified in order to dance yourself a little time. You are the real piece of shit here. You're starting tone was a clue but you doubling down is the clincher. Real labour solidarity involves looking out for others even when it would be an inconvenience. You have shown you have no intention of doing that and only care about yourself. Who's the scab now.
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Real labor solidarity is making workers jobs more dangerous and damaging to themselves so that rich people can do recreation without a minor inconvenience.
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My first response to this was expletive-laden, but I think I might get through to you if I reign it in, so I'm trying to be polite here. Just understand that I am seething with rage while I type this.
Hey there friend. You need to learn to park or stop driving. Seriously, you're endangering lives for your convenience. You get the whole damned road while everyone else is allocated the slightest fraction to safeguard ourselves from drunks, assholes, and morons pushing two tonnes of steel and glass at 60mph while they stare at their phones and you think it's ok to push kids on bikes into that channel of death because you can't be bothered to look for a legit parking spot? I get that your employer is pressuring you for better times, but you're literally breaking the law and that law exists for a reason.
Every one of the 4 of the drivers I saw that day were parking on the cycle lane when they had multiple more reasonable options available to them:
- The driveways of those receiving the packages
- Around the corner in a safer area where parking spaces are allocated by the city for just this situation
- Blocking the road. I understand that this seems crazy to someone who spends so much time on the road, but blocking a car lane is an inconvenience. Blocking a cycle lane gets people killed.
What you're doing is lazy, selfish, and dangerous. Those cycle lanes are barely safe as they are without constantly being blocked by selfish people who think that they double as a parking space. You already have nearly the entirety of the city for your vehicle. Leave these alone.
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This is OK
This is ridiculous
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The only problem in either of these is the guy jumped up on the curb
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The second picture has the bike lane separate from the road and the bus blocks all visibility to pass it.
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I peek around the side of one of these things into traffic at least 100 times a day. Fuck off.
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This is OK
This is not OK.
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A car lane is dedicated to the through traffic of cars. Similarly a bike lane is dedicated to the through traffic of bikes. If it is truly such a nothing burger to wait one minute, surely you would have no problem stopping on the car lane either and telling drivers to wait. And yet I have never seen a delivery driver attempt this - probably because it is considered socially acceptable for drivers to honk at shout at anyone blocking their way. Not so for cyclists, even though they are the more vulnerable road users.
Perhaps you could also stop at a bus stop and tell the bus driver to wait a minute. Or you could stop in a stranger's driveway while they are attempting to leave. Or hey, stop on a train track. Let me know how that goes for you. It's only a minute, right?
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When they put the bike lane in the middle of the street and the car lanes on the sides, I'll do that
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BTW I know the people in here are white because they want to play dress up cop
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