Salman Sale, whose LinkedIn Bio defines him as a creative head in the Vibes network, turned the delivery agent on the day and claimed that “he completely changed the way he looks at work, value and dignity”. Saleem shares a powerful description of what it is like to be a man on a scooter that provides your urgent order with food in 10 minutes or less on social media. His story reveals the unpleasant truth: “The inviolability is not limited to the caste.”
“When I collected my order and races to deliver it, I dared warm and chaotic traffic, I realized that this work was not just about speeds. It’s about being invisible. The point is to look down.” While the application can call them “delivery partners”, the company often sees them as anything else. The experience that this former flicker worker was supposed to reflect what many in the concert economy face – indifference, hostility and exclusion.
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In luxury housing complexes – a species where residents publish the stories of Instagram about “equality” and the threads of social justice – delivery staff is commonly excluded from using the main elevator. “I was asked to advance up the stairs – sometimes up to the fourth floor – or used a service elevator. Not once. Not twice. Almost every time.”
The irony will pierce. The same people fighting against digital battles against casteism and racism are those who physically segregate delivery staff who draw invisible boundaries between the “US” and “is”.
Respect is not luxury
From transport cops who have waved delivery boys such as “second -class travelers” to SUV owners who do not bring thumb on the road, the message is loud and clear: your work makes you less.
“He thinks we are desperate, poor or uneducated. But many of us are students, artists or people trying to achieve goals, they encounter dignity. Is that such a crime?”
The problem is not just about a single application or company. It is a culture that has not touched humanity people who maintain its economy in operation.
Time to change
Companies such as Blinkit, Zindo and Swiggy play a role outside logistics and delivery. It is time to invest in campaigns to raise awareness, which deal with the daily discrimination that their workers face – from the structures from buildings to the denial of the basic respect in public areas.
The post evoked a number of likes and comments, with several comments in the comment section.
The user wrote: “This is a sense – the people who are most loud about how we should treat everyone as the same, are mostly those who hold the judgmental attitudes. Why?
Another shared a similar incident: “Something like that I met – I recently had a moment that really got stuck. He questioned it twice and said it didn’t want to use another elevator.
The third user said, “It’s so daunting to read. Discrimination has never disappeared from our society, has only different forms – and that’s the saddest part of life in the world like ours.”
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