There are reports that 400,000 jobs are likely to be created shortly in South India. That news should come as a great relief for the unemployed.
But wait, there is a rider to this (no pun intended), these are actually temporary jobs of riders and delivery persons. These jobs will appear just ahead of the festive season and then disappear later on.
These jobs come with no job security, no provident fund, no insurance, no nothing. These are gig jobs, the gig gets over, the jobs get over. Tata Bye-Bye. Go home friends.
If during these gig jobs, when you are under pressure to deliver as quickly as possible and do as many deliveries as possible to earn the incentive decided by your MBA educated management, if you happen to meet an accident and then happen to meet your god, then tough luck.
Our e-commerce world has made us all dependent on a good deal that is available online.
Is that online deal really a better deal, a good deal?
Many people have realized that online platforms are only aggregators, they don’t produce anything, they only sell stuff that has been produced by someone else. In reality, if you are able to find the right vendor, you can save up to 30% of cost. Many people who order food and many restaurants that deliver through food aggregators have already realized that. They are ordering direct or restaurants are offering handsome discount on self-pickup.
We require deliveries and lower prices but you have to separate the wheat from the chaff.
As for the euphoria that was created on reading the headline, sorry to have got you to click and read this reality, these are not jobs, these are just a gigs. So before you start celebrating the emergence of so many new jobs, pause a while and go out and find a real store that gives you stuff at the right price.