Your grandfather arrested! What happened? He received a call from his grandfather telling him to go pick him up at the police station. Called an Uber. This started to take a while and the app quickly offered a more expensive travel option. He obeyed the law “if you are in a hurry, pay more” and within 5 minutes he rushed into the car. After the “is everything okay?”
Dario has been dealing with traffic in São Paulo for five years. He said he worked twelve hours a day, but he did the math, reworked the strategies and now works in two shifts, from 5 a.m. to 10 a.m. and from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. “I earn 300 reais a day and I have a little life. It’s not worth working 12 hours for 100 reais more.”
They entered the taboo subject of drivers. To be or not to be CLT, that is the question. Unlike most drivers, who would rather have coffee with the devil than have an official license, he made some suggestions. For him, it is undeniable that there is a working relationship with the company. Additionally, he saw overexploitation, since all costs are borne by the workers. “How much does it cost to maintain the application? Will we have to charge 30%, 40% for each trip?”, he joked.
He remembers a fellow driver who suffered from back problems and was bedridden for almost two months. He had already scheduled surgery to eliminate chronic pain, but during this period of inactivity he fell behind on his health plan payments. Result: the operation was canceled and he continued to drive in this agony. “There should be sick pay, with Uber paying an average amount for the guy to recover.” And he continued: “How about a share of the profits, after all we are the ones financing the company. There should be perks, I don’t know what they are, but the drivers should have a bonus, not just a burden on the anus.”
He stopped in front of the police station and the grandson of the arrested grandfather got out. The place was full of elderly people, the atmosphere was really festive. He found his grandfather laughing with a friend. “What happened?” he asked, “The police destroyed our bingo, that’s absurd. If betting can make billions online, what’s the problem with a bunch of old people getting together to remember the good old days? Okay, there were slot machines too, but I was just at bingo.”
The grandson had a flashback. As a child, he occasionally accompanied the old man to a bingo near his home. They were afternoons full of acts, treats and soft drinks. I felt like this was good luck for the old man. He couldn’t remember why bingo had been banned, and he wondered why the same wasn’t done with gambling and the tigers of life. The social and mental health problems these games have caused are obvious. Nobody really knows who is benefiting from this affair and, although there have been no complaints, it smacks of money laundering and organized crime. He remembered that the center went hand in hand with the game.
The grandson was a lawyer. Once the bureaucracy was resolved, he requested another Uber. His grandfather just told him: “Shut up, you won’t tell your grandmother or your father. »
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