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Reading this story made me so damn tired: as part of their effort to replace human employees with delivery robots, DoorDash has come up with a cunning plan: they're gonna use the human employees they want to replace to load delivery robots

Some workers in areas where DoorDash is using its Dot delivery robot are receiving offers through the DoorDash app to load them up.

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