No Dreams

I had no dreams this time around, but I’m refreshed. It was a taxing day, as I literally had to fight for peanuts. There’s no way to express how much difficulty I’ve had. You just had to be there, I guess. Believe me; you wouldn’t wanna be.

The benevolent dude only shows up randomly in my dreams and doesn’t say much, lmao. Well, he answered my question the night before last, at least. He gave no additional details on whether people actually lied on him or accused him. Just said that he, too, would be upset if they did. I woke up before I got a chance to say or ask anything else.

Now I’ll say again what  I said last night with a little more clarity and shorter length. Gig companies control our earnings the same way regular employers do. Maybe it didn’t used to be that way, but it is now. Humans use technology to cap the people they want to cap. That’s not a figment of my imagination. It’s the truth. They manipulate not only the offer amounts, mileage, etc. but how much one can earn in a week’s time.

I learned this the week before last during a “glitchy moment” when some “real paying jobs” came through on my end. Don’t worry. It didn’t last long, but it taught me a very valuable lesson.

The customers aren’t the ones stiffing or low-balling us most of the time. Some of them pay handsomely. But certain people don’t ever see the money because they want those individuals to drive their cars (or bust their asses) into the ground for it. They don’t feel we deserve decent pay for what we do. So they’ve designed an earning system to mimic those of regular employers. “We’re still going to pay you what we think you’re worth, not what you’re actually worth. We’ll give you some worthless ‘rewards’ and faux e-recognition while we’re at it.”

Now I truly believe that some people are making $1,000-$1,500 a week as they claim. I’m just not one of those people.

All these companies are just as scummy as the ones that treat regular workers like cattle. Maybe even worse because we work under guise of “independent contractors” but are actually employees.

I got an email for canceling something yesterday, lol. They can burn in hell after that 120-mile run back and forth from the middle of nowhere.

Have a great day, diary.