(1) The classic Jedi response to subservience can be seen in the contrast between Luke’s first meeting with C-3PO – “I see, Sir”; “You can call me Luke”; “I see, Sir Luke,”; “No, just Luke” – and Qui-Gon Jinn meeting Jar Jar Binks: “Mesa your humble servant”; “That won’t be necessary”.
(2) Forest Whitaker has a warning for Jinn Forest Whitaker Photograph: YouTube He’s not playing Darth Vader, despite the rumours.
(3) Jinn reportedly secured a $7.5m (£6m) investment last year, partly to expand its service to cities outside London.
(4) I didn’t actually come here to free slaves,” says Liam Neeson as Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn in The Phantom Menace , like a person to whom a huge number of vexing tasks has been subcontracted.
(5) It is better than going on the dole, which I have never been on in my life.” Asked about the complaints of low pay, Jinn’s co-founder and chief operating officer, Leon Herrera, said couriers were free to take or refuse work and were not exclusively contracted to Jinn.
(6) But they have complained after Jinn, which is based in east London, scrapped a minimum hourly rate of £8 an hour in January.
(7) Dhiab attributes his condition to Jinns, or “nefarious spirits”.
(8) He had expected to earn £759.60 for two weeks’ work in Leeds, but when Jinn removed the minimum hourly payment he was paid just £264.
(9) Couriers on our platform are 100% free to log in at their own schedule, accept or reject proposed drops, and do all of this on a completely non-exclusive basis.” He said Jinn shared with couriers “spaciotemporal data” about when and where there was demand “so that they can make informed decisions regarding log-in days, times and locations.” Jinn is one of several “gig economy” companies to have been criticised by workers for low pay.
(10) A courier in Leeds self-employed through Jinn, an app that allows customers to have meals and groceries delivered to their homes from outlets such as McDonalds, KFC and Sainsbury’s, provided evidence to the Guardian that he had been paid just £125 for 72 hours’ work.
(11) Jinn promises its customers: “We can get you anything you desire, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week … as long as it’s legal.” Couriers wait on bicycles or mopeds for orders that come through on their phones and can range from collecting a full meal for 10 from a branch of Nando’s to picking up a couple of chocolate bars from Sainsbury’s for a customer who would rather not leave their sofa.
(12) Stephen Xenakis, a retired army brigadier general and psychiatrist who also recently examined Dhiab, declined to offer a diagnosis, saying Guantánamo has insufficiently examined him neurologically, and considered Dhiab’s “Jinns” explanation metaphorical.
(13) Their rabbi-healers, however, are predisposed towards molding these events into a covert-demonic pattern, the core of which involves a human injuring a jinn and the latter's retaliation.
(14) One Jinn courier Riz Ali, 33, said he had fallen into debt as a result of the fall in earnings.
(15) How to contact the Guardian securely Read more Last month angry Jinn couriers in London surrounded Herrera outside the company’s head office.
(16) Qui-Gon Jinn is impatient, imperious and patronising, while Luke is, above all, humble.
(17) Jinn is a delivery marketplace that aggregates demand and supply for collection and delivery services,” he said.
Jinnee
Definition:
(n.) A genius or demon; one of the fabled genii, good and evil spirits, supposed to be the children of fire, and to have the power of assuming various forms.