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the only two groups they can squeeze that from are customers and drivers.

There’s stuff they charge the restaurants for too. They manage to take from all three parties of a transaction while contributing the least value.

Nobody mentioned being shocked; your “counterpoint” is countering a point nobody made. You don’t have to be shocked to be busy or avoid answering unknown numbers, ( which is the norm now )

It’s expected that a caller with a legitimate professional purpose would leave a message. Has been since the answering machine came around. This isn’t some sort of novel wholistic approach to someone’s personally, it’s a specific, arbitrary filter to find people who don’t follow normal telephone interaction behaviors.

Nothing screams “hires the whole person” like dismissing candidates for arbitrary reasons like being too busy to answer the phone.

He had a pretty reasonable response to the backlash, at least.

He couldn’t figure out how to 19 years ago and has just been pretending it’s some sort of compatibility test ever since.

It depends on whether you’re the vibe coder or the guy that just fired the vibe coder hired by your predecessor.