Work and loneliness
Delivery work looks like constant human contact — you go to door after door, you pass people on streets and in stairwells. But the contact is transactional and brief: a package handed over, a door closed. No one asks how you are. No one knows your name. The cumulative effect of hundreds of these exchanges over a shift is not social fulfilment but a particular kind of hollow — you have been near people all day and spoken to none of them.
The structure of delivery work is designed to eliminate everything except the transaction. Speed targets, route optimisation, tracked performance — it is a system that makes real conversation impossible and unnecessary. You become a function rather than a person. The people whose doors you arrive at do not think of you after the door closes, and the people at the depot are colleagues only in the loosest sense. There is no social infrastructure attached to the work, and when the shift ends, you are alone with the day you just had.
Gig delivery work — food, parcels, groceries — adds additional isolation: you may never see the same workers twice, there is no shared break room, no team. The flexibility that is supposed to be a benefit comes with a social cost that no one mentions at sign-up. You are not employed; you are a unit of movement. The loneliness that follows from this is structural, not personal — but it lands personally.
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