Today we'll talk about Cadu´s routine, he is 22 years old, he was born and lives in Capão Redondo, suburbs of São Paulo. Shot by a stray bullet when he was a baby, he works at a fast-food franchise during the day and at night he works with delivery on a bike.
Using delivery is a habit of paulistanos, and with pandemics this routine intensified, along with the apps that facilitate a lot the life of those who use them, but not the life of the delivery workers. With the crescent wave of unemployment a lot of people have been looking for jobs in delivery as a way to survive, increasing the competition and decreasing the earnings of the couriers, but obviously increasing the earnings of the app.
Cadu works every day of the week, more than 10 hours per day, between the snack bar and the delivery with a bike, when he doesn´t work, he is at the church or playing Free-Fire.
To delivery, Cadu leaves his neighborhood on the suburbs and cycles to the rich neighborhoods of São Paulo. Many couriers commute exhausting distances by bike to make delivery, there are cases of couriers who prefer sleeping on the streets to gain more time to work in the next day because the distance between the suburbs and the regions with more quantity of requests.
Carlos Eduardo, also know as Cadu, was the victim of a stray bullet when he was 1 year and 7 months old, while he played with other children in front of your house. On the street, they are a lot of masonry houses very close to each other, forming one of the many alleys that sew in zig-zag, inside the community, Morro do Piolho, in Capão Redondo. Cadu´s mother says that the shot was one of 70 that “made of sieve” the body of a man linked to drug dealing, who was sitting talking next to the children when he was ambushed and executed.
The projectile hit baby Cadu just below the left eye, parking behind the eyeball. In the rush caused by the shooting, his mother and grandmother initially thought he had just fallen and cut his face. But the amount of blood made them run with him to Campo Limpo Hospital, 2 miles and a half away. After a few hours of waiting, the doctor brought the news: the baby had a bullet lodged in his head.
Cadu didn´t die. The mother says that the doctors judged that the risk of a removal surgery was too high. So, the boy spent his childhood returning year after year for appointments at Clínicas Hospital in São Paulo. At one point they considered retiring him due to disability, but in the end, it was found that the projectile behind the eye had not left any significant sequelae.
Cadu is in fact not an invalid, and being retired early is not something that anyone wants, but it is interesting to think that a child is shot in one of the most violent regions of the city of São Paulo, and therefore one of the regions with the least attention from the public power, and does not have any compensation or any rights, he now works in two jobs, it was not mentioned in the report that we used as a source, but apparently Cadu was not entitled to a college because all his time is spent on survival.
In his steady job, which he has had for 6 years, he earns R$850, working 5 days a week, 6 hours a day, most of the money was used to pay the rent and the rest paid the bills, and that's why he started making deliveries, tip given by a friend.
He rides a bike 4 days a week, earning around R$800, which he is saving to buy a motorcycle, a form of transport desired by many young people from the suburbs, and also a means of receiving more from the apps.
Just like Cadu, there are many other workers on bicycles and motorcycles in Brazil, exposing themselves to the risk of traffic, and the need for haste and speed, since it is necessary to make the largest number of deliveries possible, which ends up forcing delivery people to do risky maneuvers, go beyond the speed limits, break traffic laws and other details, to maintain themselves, to provide for their families.
The apps do not treat and do not see delivery people as employees, so in the accidents that are common, if the motorcycle has its functioning compromised, preventing work, the delivery people do not have any help or any type of insurance to assist them in this period without work, and the same occurs if they are injured, which is even more serious, since depending on the severity the worker needs assistance.
There are cases of death of the motorcyclist, where the application company goes to the place, just to pick up the debit/credit machine, there are cases that the motorcycle breaks, the order cannot be placed, and the application ends the participation of the delivery man, that is, he can no longer make deliveries through the application, which in practice is making its survival unfeasible, since there is a monopoly in this market.
This is an English exercise based on some sources and my experience in São Paulo as a resident of the suburbs, a visitor to the downtown, and an app user, thank you for watching this far, and I hope that in addition to helping my learning process, you´ve got a little closer to the reality of the delivery world, and it is about precariousness, of your world. See you soon!
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