This is the era of social media and it has helped people in many ways. Recently social media helped a broke, hungry delivery agent land a job.
Priyanshi Chandel, Marketing Manager at tech company Flash, shared an incident about a Swiggy delivery agent who had come to deliver food to her residence. Now, even he has landed a job.
Her post said, “UPDATE: He got a job!!! Thanks to everyone who came forward, y’all are awesome. Turning off the comments to avoid spam. He was late and an out-of-breath delivery person when asked about what happened he informed me that he had no transport and had to walk 3 km to deliver the order. Additionally, he also informed that he was out of money.”
“Was just another night of me ordering some ice cream from Swiggy. The delivery partner took forever to reach my location, and after some odd 30-40 mins wait, my doorbell rang, and I opened the door to see a young man panting for air, sitting on the staircase outside my flat”, the post added.
“With all my alarms triggering within me, I asked him what happened. Please spare a few minutes to check in verbatim: Madam, I did not have a scooter or any transport to travel, I walked 3 km with your order. I am absolutely out of money and it’s because of my flatmate who took the last of my money with which I charge my Yulu and has put me in -235 debt”, the post added.
“I have nothing left to pay my landlord. You might think am just bluffing, but I am a fully educated ECE grad, I used to work at Ninjacart, BYJU’S before I went home to Jammu during covid. Even for this order delivery, I’ll only get 20-25 rupees, and I’ll have to take another delivery before 12, or else they will send me for delivery somewhere far, and I don’t have a bike”, the post added.
“I have not eaten for a week, just drinking water and tea to get by. I am not asking for anything, please if you can find me a job, I used to make 25k before, I am 30 years old, my parents are getting old and I can’t keep asking for money from them” End to end of what the conversation was”, the post said.
“I could not offer much except a glass of water and 500 rupees. Below are his contact details along with photos of his identification proof. If someone has any openings for an office boy, admin work, customer support, etc, please help a fellow out! I’m not sure whether his plea was absolutely genuine or not, but the least we could do is try. Please do like and repost so that it reaches more people in your network”, the post concluded.
