I started delivering groceries for Instacart to make extra money. They have a 5 star rating system for their pseudo-employees like Uber and Lyft – customers can rate how well their personal shopper performed
i feel like i'm in that black mirror episode
This is my first time working on an app where you get ratings and shit. I think it's insane how 5 stars is the expected result every time. How can you reasonably expect everyone to be perfect all the time? Saying/implying that 5 stars is the only acceptable rating is skewing how ratings should work!
I'm at 4.85 I think — and I think that's on the low end of acceptable! it's so fucked. also — why in the name of god do I have to know what strangers think about me?? Why does my worth as a human being get to be measured in grocery delivery stats? I don't want the opinions of rubes about my ostensible worth festering in my brain.
i just feel gross every time i see my little star rating. i'm trying to disconnect and not give a shit but fuck — there's my whole self, distilled into a 3 digit precision numeral. fuck.