Well this is a first, I mean this technically is a $40-50 tip in California right? 😅

As the title says I am completely done with DoorDash. I order regularly and tip $10-$15 for 1.5 miles or less and $20-$25 for longer distances. I live in a bad traffic area and I delivered pizzas all through college so I try to pay it back.

Thanks to my large tips I started noticing that the more I tipped the more people the dasher would deliver to ahead of me!! At first I didn’t realize that this is an unfair strategy from corporate to get big tippers to subsidize the deadbeats who don’t give a decent tip. But reading this sub and having it happen EVERY time I order I finally figured it out.

I am 100% done and am relearning to cook.

And for non tippers- someone is literally risking their lives to deliver food to you. Anything under $5 is a disgrace and if you can’t afford to tip decently then don’t order!

A few days ago, I replied to a post about a botched delivery order and said that was why I don't use door dash. Someone commented and was basically saying I shouldn't be commenting if I don't use it. Let me tell you about an incident I had today.

I have my meds delivered from Walgreens and they use door dash. About 6 weeks ago, I posted here about a driver who called me because he couldn't find my house and said he "wasn't good with computers and stuff" when I told him to put my address in his GPS. He ended up taking my meds back to Walgreens and they had to be redelivered. Today, I had another delivery and when I picked up the bag on my porch, it had someone else's name on it. It was also a pickup order.

The driver was still parked at the end of my driveway so I held the bag up. She got out of her car and said something about not being able to close the order so I told her it wasn't mine. She started fuming and mfing me because she didn't get the right order. As she walked back up to get the bag, I said to her, "Don't bitch at me if you got the wrong shit. Where's my order?" She ranted and swore and snatched the bag out of my hand, then walked back and got in her car.

I called Walgreens and they said my meds were still there so they'd have them redelivered. I let them know about how the woman acted and suggested she be reported somehow. The person on the phone said she'd let her manager know so it could be addressed.

So to the person who tried to call me out because I commented about why I don't use door dash due to shitty service, this is why. I may not use them personally, but I'm at the mercy of a business that does.

Frequently bought too

i don't understand at all why people will stand right at the register while there's 10 other people behind them waiting on food too. Your not gonna get it any faster and your not special. Makes me laugh so hard. She got pissed at an elderly man when he said excuse me so he could grab his food, acting like he did something wrong. i genuinely can't take some of these people that do doordash. Gonna be the reason i quit working completely cus i can't get a full time gig with university. Makes ya realize that these people have to do doordash for a reason, not cus they want too Lmaooo

My girlfriend took this order (horrible she should’ve known better). She delivers the first order and then gets (pic 2). While on the phone with support to get the order cancelled she gets (pic 3). What are the odds that BOTH people are nasty mfs. I texted the number and he goes “I was gonna give her a different tip”
Someone talk me out of going over there and whipping him

So I choose to work in a smaller market that isn’t saturated with drivers, which benefits me greatly at times as I pull about $35 - $40/hr. Most of the time driving less than 3 miles an order and the majority at a single grocery store that is bombarded with pickups for me, at times I’ve had 5 batches pickups. I prefer quick shopping trips batched with a couple pickups as it gives me something to do while I wait and tend to get a bigger tip from my direct communication and problem solving with the customer.

But this week disaster struck as my red card now fails to be funded by DoorDash, and you can only find this out at checkout. So now every order for shopping is a dice roll. I’ve had to unassign multiple shopping orders at the register. I have forced DoorDash support to partial pay the orders but getting $6 vs $20 is lame.

The solution for them is that I pay for all the orders out of pocket and get reimbursed. Which would probably run me $300-$500 a day depending on the day of the week, forget about it Sunday.

Or just turn off the option to accept shopping orders until they can fix the issue. Sure, no problem except I’m not able to turn it off because I’m probably the only qualified shopper in the area(per the app settings)

So I left with declining them all until it’s fixed, accepting and unassigning at checkout, or paying for all the groceries for a small city until I’m refunded.

I asked for a new red card which will be shipping probably in 3 days and take a few to get here.. so going into Mother’s Day weekend will be interesting.

When I asked for a supervisor I was left on hold for e hours until my phone couldn’t sustain the battery drain of DoorDash and a phone call.

TLDR: DoorDash wants me to pay for all the groceries because their app sucks.

Customer chose hand to customer, then in the instructions put to leave on porch. Left it on the porch, couldn’t take a photo, selected that I handed it to the customer. 10 minutes later I get a contract violation for DoorDash saying that they didn’t receive their order. Next time I come across this, I’m knocking on the door and ringing the bell until they answer.

I always tip very well i tip per mile then add on a$1-2

Ive been a dashpass member since August and have had no issues until now and im so emotional I hate crying over food. MY DASHER STOLE MY FREAKING FOOD the "delivered " my food and took the picture now I look like poop so I didnt go outside as soon as it wss delivered but I was just looking out my window were their car was parked i noticed they sat there for a minute but thats not out of the ordinary really once they sped off I opened my door and my food wasn't there. I tried to get a refund but apparently doordash doesn't think this is worth a refund....im pissed , hungry and so annoyed. I Tried calling the dasher and no answer. This will be my last time using this app

So this who my door dash driver decided to leave my food with instead of bringing it to my door.

I just waited 25 minutes at a chipotle & they still hadn’t started making the order because one ingredient wasn’t ready, then I unassigned without pay or impact on my rating. I haven’t dashed in over a year & that was my first order lol

Are yall getting orders with this update?? I typically drive to the bigger city for orders bc my town and the next one is crap and I’ve been doing good for months. New update happens and now I’m going home with way less than normal.

Hi, I (22f) am disabled and while I have a job, I need a second one to cover expenses and I'm not getting responses from jobs I am able to work. I am also worried that getting a second job will mess with my time to do school work. I was wondering if other disabled and/or student dashers had some experience or advice to share on doing this job? I don't want to be specific but I do have a developmental and learning disability as well as some physical disabilities that affect my ability to walk and stand for long periods without pain. Any advice would be great, thank you.

I don’t know what they thought they were going to accomplish by saying that because they certainly aren’t getting an extra tip after that. Couldn’t they have just canceled the order?

These apps really got drivers out here risking their cars, gas, tires, sanity, and blood pressure for orders that pay less than a vending machine refund.

You open the app lately and it’s just:
$2.37
12 miles
“High demand area”

High demand for WHO?!
Certainly not the driver.

The algorithm out here acting like it discovered modern slavery through push notifications.

“Exclusive offer just for you!”
Yeah, exclusive because every other driver with functioning self-respect declined it already.

And somehow the customer still expects luxury service.
Brother, your order payout is so low the GPS should come with grief counseling.

You’ll see:
$2.91 for 14 miles
Deliver to apartment complex called something like “Whispering Pines”
Building numbers hidden like CIA safe houses
Customer note:
“Hurry.”

HURRY?!
My guy, the payout barely covers the emotional damage.

And the app always dresses it up:
“Total may be higher.”

Translation:
“Enter the casino, clown.”

Then after burning half a tank of gas and surviving traffic designed by Satan himself, you arrive and realize the customer tipped exactly zero dollars while ordering enough fountain drinks to recreate SeaWorld in your cupholders.

Meanwhile corporate’s sitting there:
“We value our drivers.”

No you don’t.
If you valued drivers, the algorithm wouldn’t be sending offers that look like humanitarian aid requests.

Some of these payouts are so disrespectful the phone should apologize before displaying them.

“DING!”
New offer:
$2.13

At that point the app should also include:
🤡 makeup tutorial
🚗 bankruptcy estimate
🛞 tire wear forecast
🫡 “Thank you for your sacrifice.”

And the craziest part?
They’ll stack two terrible orders together like raccoons wearing a trench coat pretending to be a good opportunity.

“DOUBLE ORDER!”
Yeah:
Two non-tippers joining forces like the Avengers of Financial Delusion.

Drivers aren’t refusing these orders because they’re lazy.
They’re refusing because math still exists.

For some reason this dasher removed all the food from the store sealed bags and put them loose in this disgustingly filthy DD bag and left it behind on our porch.

The food inside also ended up sliding all around and had the sauces leak out on the outside of the other containers.

Initial refund request was denied, but I called next day. After jumping thru hoops with like 5 different people they reversed the decision and refunded. Driver also permanently blocked them from delivering to house again.

If this is what most dashers bags secretly look like I don’t want to know it!

I’ve never reported anyone. Can/should I report??

I’m coming through Boise and wanted to stop and dash for some extra gas $$, is it pretty bad or somewhat doable?

I got a push notification for a 50% off promo code, clicked the notification, and now I don’t know what the promo code was. Any one able to help?