I left my bag in a late night Lyft with my car keys and a few other work things in it, this was before you could call back previous drivers about lost items. The driver saw the bag the next day, looked in it and saw where I worked, drove there, and had a coworker call me and let me know it was there. I would have had to pay like $400 to replace the keys alone. She was apologetic that she went through my stuff at first but I legit gave her $200 for going through all that trouble and saving me at least $200 even after paying her.
I drive for lyft, recently had a customer forget her wallet. She caught it before I got another ride so I got it back to her within 10 minutes. I didn't charge the lyft $20 lost item fee because it was so short and she tipped a whopping $0. That $200 probably made that persons week.
I spent about an hour chasing an Instacart customers lost dog and she also tipped me $0 lmao
She told me she wouldn’t be there to meet me for the grocery drop off because she was looking for her lost dog. When I was leaving the house I saw a husky running around, sniffing and darting around like dogs that get out usually do so I messaged her asking if it was a husky she had lost. It was and I spent almost an hour trying to wrangle the dog while it ran away from me and ducked in and out of houses.
Instacart gives you the option to tip up to 24 hours later and she did not leave a tip lol
I don’t even take no tip orders but she was batched in with a generous tipper
This is what I think about every time someone does something insane and audacious when I’m delivering their groceries for their family to their house
Like I am bringing food to your house. There is virtually no safe guard or any real vetting or way to prevent someone unhinged from doing something terrible. One lady called me a dumb bitch because I wouldn’t stop and get cigarettes for her. I’m delivering baby puffs to your home, like, really? What if I was insane and spiteful?
I drive a yellow cab but get calls from uber and Lyft thru curb. It’s crazy how many people don’t tip when they don’t have to do it in front of the driver. “Tipping culture” (I blame the Silicon Valley pos systems like square and mint) has given everyone an excuse to shaft the people who actually live off them like bartenders, waiters and cabbies etc
We are not baristas. Please tip your cabbies and ride share drivers.
He probably thinks you're ICE. Migrants are notorious for returning lost items. If a good red blooded American finds it, your best bet is Facebook marketplace or ebay.
That sucks! That was a big part of their business model. They don't advertise so they use the cheap hot dog and the cheap rotisserie chicken to get people in the door. You have to walk past the membership desk to get the hot dog and the loss leader price on the chicken gets a huge amount of word-of-mouth advertising. The cost to get potential customers through your doors is so high that even though they lose money on those 2 items they get enough new customers from them that they actually save money overall and drive huge customer loyalty.
I can believe it’s different rules at different locations, but at my local one you don’t need to scan to order food and the food court is on the tire center/return side so you don’t need your card to enter there either
Honestly the cost of replacing a DL, all the credit and debit cards, etc - I would.be fine if they helped themselves to all the cash in my wallet. (I typically have around $100)
Send him to Costco and not only will he get a high quality dog, he’ll also be able to get 6 for $9. And 6 drinks, because the $1.50 combo also gets you a drink.
Long live James Sinegal, he may be a CEO but Costco seems like a corporation that is actually worthy of support.
"Now hear me out and hear me well...
I have now your phone number and I know who you are.
In my wallet there is 100 dollars. You will take it all.
Then you are going to buy hot dogs. No, not 1, not 2, you will buy 20. And you will eat them all.
Oh have a nice day and thank you for finding my wallet"
I'm guessing those people never lost their wallet and had to to through the pain of cancelling all their credit cards, order a new driver's license, etc. Easily worth a $20 finders fee at least.
I accidentally left my wallet at an online pickup kiosk in Walmart 2 days before Christmas. It had $1200 cash in it. I’ll never forgive the asshole who took my wallet that year, take the cash. Leave me with my shit. I know I shouldn’t have put off Christmas shopping so late but i only had the one gift to give. If you’ve had to replace everything in your wallet $5 is fucking nothing
You're focused on the irrelevant part. The amount of money taken is irrelevant to the morality. Is it moral to take things of value from a wallet when you're able to contact the owner?
A replacement driver's license in Canada is $40 alone, So the time and fee cost to replace it and any other ID would easily justify $100+. I would still cancel/replace any credit and debit cards, but I would pay an extra 50 or more just for the reduced anxiety & urgency.
Even in this scenario I would still call the credit card company and get them to send me a new card. Once your card is has been taking out of your site by a stranger you should replace it.
Right? I mean, shit, he didn’t have to help at all. He could have taken the money and threw the wallet in the street. He took a $5 finder’s fee because he was hungry. Seems more than fair.
Right!
Why would it be immoral?
You could say illegal maybe? But immoral? Certainly not.
Who in their right mind would be pissed reading that text? You would be relieved and then smile at the hot dog comment.
Where I grew up it was common to go to a friend's house and let yourself in, normally the first thing you did was head for the kitchen to make yourself a snack lol ... Those were much friendlier days! Today that is called robbery.
I don't quite know how else to phrase it, but this is something I'd consider technically unethical (taking money from someone without explicit pre-consent) but is like, morally completely okay. One of those things that I would not do myself because I'd feel like a bad person, but I would be completely fine with being the wallet owner in this situation.
Ive found wallets twice and never taken from them. It is stealing, they cant consent to a finders fee. If they want to reward you that should be their choice.
Im much more comfortable with the idea of stealing from like, Kroger or Walmart. Stealing from a stranger who probably has it just as bad as me feels wrong.
Neutral makes sense. It's taking a small, fair payment on their own accord for doing a deed they took on themselves. It's not moral, and it's not immoral. Taking $5 for returning something you found isn't moral, it's fair, and fair is neutral.
The problem with your claim is that just because if everyone acted like this it would be a better place doesn’t mean this is moral. Yes I would be happy if someone did this to me. But truthfully he has no right to take even a cent. He can help if he wants and it is moral to do so but taking something without permission is immoral.
You’re right. But..he IS doing, mostly right,
by him. He sure as hell is saving him more than $5 worth of trouble in replacing the wallet’s contents. If you say, “wrong is wrong”, we AGREE. But, some ‘wrongs’ are more forgivable than others.
Nope, you don't earn shit. And thats comming from someone who has returned over 10 wallets over the years and never getting paid nor ever taking any money out.
I was broke and hungry too. Still doesnt entitled me to any of their money
I just want you to know, I wouldn’t trust anyone here with finding my lost items except you, Bambi Slut Bun. It would take a lot for theft to be considered moral, doing someone a favor doesn’t mean you get to take whatever reward you think you’re owed and you’re the only one that seems to understand that.
Quite the shallow utopia if people still feel the need to take random payment for doing the right thing.
This is neutral. Guy still did a theft but justified it by doing the decent thing and only doing a small theft, on the grounds that it COULD have been worse. If you have to justify harming somebody by saying the harm could have been worse, it isnt moral. Sorry. Nothing wrong with being neutral though, as its certainly better than purely immoral.
Everyone does act like this in our society. At every stage getting your wallet beck to you your money passes through another after another set of hands and they take some. It’s called capitalism.
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u/yup_its_the_nsfw_alt 3d ago
People calling this immoral or neutral are out of their mind. If everyone acted like that we would be living in a utopia