The Blinkit agent's story was shared in a post on Reddit's r/Blinkit community titled "Delivery riders should be respected."Blinkit rider shares how a customer's behaviour late at night made his job harder (Representative pic from Getty) A Blinkit delivery partner was made to search for change at midnight after a customer refused to pay online, prompting a Reddit user to call out the lack of respect shown towards delivery workers.The Blinkit agent’s story was shared in a post on Reddit's r/Blinkit community titled "Delivery riders should be respected.”The Reddit user said they had ordered snacks at around 1 am the previous night. When the Blinkit delivery partner arrived, he appeared “frustrated” and explained that his previous customer had scolded him for not carrying change.The delivery partner had asked the customer to make an online payment, but she refused and insisted that he arrange change from somewhere.
He eventually had to look for a shop late at night to get the required amount. "Imagine making someone run around at midnight over something that could be resolved with a simple online payment," the user said, urging people to treat delivery partners with respect.In the comments section of the Reddit post, several users criticised the customer's behaviour and expressed support for delivery workers. One of the users said everyone was working to support their families and did not deserve to be treated poorly.
Another Reddit user pointed to the larger quick-commerce business model, arguing that the promise of ultra-fast deliveries at low prices could make customers undervalue delivery workers."When an app delivers something to your doorstep in 10 minutes for a few rupees, people subconsciously devalue the person behind the service. They start thinking that if someone is working so hard in traffic for so little money, they must be beneath them," the user wrote.The user added that the convenience of quick-commerce platforms often came at the cost of delivery workers' safety and well-being: "People convince themselves that they are creating jobs, but in reality, our cheap convenience is subsidised by someone else's safety and burnout.”- Ends