Welcome back to this week in Rideshare News, my name is Ceceli, and here are the latest headlines for a rideshare gig economy and food delivery apps news this week. Uber and Lyft are aggressively ramping up efforts to promote Proposition 22. Yes they are. They are doing this with the help of right wing news outlets, social media mobs, and public relations firms according to this report that I've shared below. There's also a growing online network of Facebook groups, pages, websites, Twitter, and Instagram accounts. Oh, and YouTube channels trained on condemning AB5 per this report. One expert told this outlet, these PR firms are resorting to what seems to be targeted harassment. As a service to get the job done, many of these companies actually list social media as part of their skillset, so you hire these people to harass folks. But it's really effective everywhere that you look right now. There are ads, there's commercials, there's social media posts, and that they appear to have the driver's best interests at heart. Even goes far as to say that 70% of drivers support this initiative. And I've noticed it as I look for articles and things like that to share with you, that people are getting attacked when they respond favorably to AB5 or any known 22 stuff. Now, these companies, Postmates UberLift, they've all jumped 100 mail into this proposition, so I'm sure that money's going to go a long way. So if you're attacked online, it's probably a part of this effort. Postmates is hiring regional organizers. These are folks that are going to execute the grassroots advocacy campaigns to support local and national legislative initiatives, basically to fight employee disputes in California, Washington, parts of the Southwest, New York, and NDC. Lift was set to hire similar employees a few weeks ago in San Francisco. These people would be dedicating their time and energy to educating people about the benefits of Prop 22. So yeah, if you start seeing people in front of your local grocery store talking about it, that's what this is. But the part that gets me, the hiring employees to address employee classification disputes. New York City restaurants are having issues with caviar orders following the DoorDash caviar integration. The food delivery giant has been dropping orders, mistakenly delisting restaurants from the app and showing incorrect menus to diners. All of this costing the restaurants thousands of dollars loss in sales. Now according to several restaurants on the platform, they say this was not a good time. They started to migrate the systems earlier this month and this past week, I even received an email that said everything had been switched over completely. Well, these restaurants said this is the worst time to even approach a project like this and that is costing them thousands of dollars. My thoughts are that this might be causing problems not only in New York City, but all over the country. Anyone that's on either platform, let me know if this is an issue for you as a delivery driver. A lift driver pulls a woman out his car by her sweatshirt on the highway. Watch this video and tell me what would you do. So I just got in from out of town. A lift driver comes to pick me up at the airport. He gets out of his car and he gives me two skirts at hand sanitizer to put on my hands and he gets my bags. He puts him in the trunk. He's like, I'm sorry to be so strict about this, but my dad died two weeks ago from COVID and it's not a game. I was like, I understand. I get the back of his car. We're riding. He has all the windows down on the streets, right? So we approach the four of five. He gets on the four of five. And I have on a hoodie. So imagine being in the back of a car somebody who wants 75 on the highway and you have on a hoodie. So I politely roll my window up and I was like, sir, it's hot. Do you mind rolling the windows up and can we just do air conditioning because I have on a hoodie and we have like a 30-minute drive? He's like, no, I need air to be circulating because my dad had COVID. So he rolls my window back down and then mind you all the rest of the windows are down. So we're going a little bit further on the four of five and I just politely roll my personal window up and he was like, oh, oh, you think I'm playing with you? So he's mind you. He's all the way to the left in the carpool lane. He's words in front of two cars and all the way to the, what is it called? Like the lane that like if you get into a wreck you pull over, I think it's called like the feeder lane. He's words into the feeder lane. He stops the car. He gets out and he's like, get the fuck out of my car. I was like, no, he was like, get the fuck out of my car. I was like, no, like he just at least take me to an exit. He was like, no, I told you my dad died of COVID and you think it's a game. So he goes to his trunk. He takes both my bags. He throws them on the feeder road. My job on the four of five on a highway. And he's like, get out of my car. I'm going to call the police. I was like, public police because I'm not getting out of the car on the highway. He picks me up by my hoodie and drags me out of his car. He throws me on the side of the highway where my bags are and he drives off. Luckily enough, I was able to get his license plate number, right? And so then I'm literally on the side of the road like waving at cars trying to hitchhike a ride. This nice family picks me up on the side of the road. Super nice people. Thank God. I just had to go with my good on that one. I got in the car. Mind you, there's strangers. Don't know I'm on the side of the four of five. The lady was like, you know, our husband, my husband saw you waving and then we just couldn't leave you there. So we just made the U-turn and came back to pick you up. They dropped me off safely at my house. Okay, so there's two sides to every story. I just don't know what would possess someone to pull someone out of their car on the freeway, especially if he was concerned about death and that his father passed. I'm thinking at least, fear to the right shoulder, let the girl out so she can walk to the nearest exit. The four of five is no joke. Even if this was doing the day and she was in the diamond lane, there's tons of people that speed like cyclists like it's just a very dangerous situation. So I don't know what would make me so mad to put somebody out there like that. But let me know in the comments. Anyway, thank you so much for watching. If you would like to send me a tip, you can on my Facebook, which is Drive Girl Drive or on YouTube, which is also Drive Girl Drive. 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