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I once interviewed to be a delivery driver for Domino's and my Dad was adamant it was a bad idea and I should find different work and then insisted that I ask them about insurance if I was going to do it.
It felt super awkward because I was pretty young and people just don't ask those kinds of questions for minimum wage. He wanted me to ask them if they provided insurance to their drivers when they're driving cars for them on the clock and explained to me that if there's an accident while using the car for work then my insurance wouldn't cover it which I checked and indeed they wouldn't.
The interviewer said they didn't provide insurance but asked if I was insured and if I was, wouldn't I be fine anyway? I said the insurance was not going to cover me while using the car for the job and the guy had this answer in a different tone like a kind of I've got this super clever scam that no one's ever thought of but I'll let you in on it vibe and leant forward and said "oh yeh, we know what to do here in that situation, what you do is you just say you weren't working at the time". I was incredulous but still a nervous teen and kind of meekly protested "but like what about the several pizzas in a bag and the uniform?" And he's like "oh you just tell them you were on your way home from work and that's your dinner". That, along with many other fucked up things that occurred in the brief space of time this interview occupied convinced me to nope out of there.
Yeh dude, I'm going to try and commit insurance fraud... very poorly... for Dominos... who can't simply provide the necessary protection to allow people to do the job they're asking them to do. If I have to get my own insurance, if it has to be a special kind of more expensive insurance that's going to cover me driving for work, then I'm a contractor, not an employee and I'm going to set my own rates and they're going to be a lot higher then what they were offering considering I also have to maintain my own vehicle and pay for fuel and insurance, to a certain extent I even arguably have to use the skill of knowing how and also being licensed to drive in the first place which makes it not exactly "unskilled" labour in this first place.