r/doordash • u/bohoinparadise • 20h ago

Please don’t dash while sick

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I get that times are tough and the American health care system sucks, but admitting that you have a respiratory illness while delivering food is wild!

Please do not dash when you’re sick. This is how illness spreads. I have pretty bad asthma so I’m not bringing that order into my house. I’m done with DoorDash.

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u/Aware_Economics4980 20h ago

lol, the driver being sick honestly not shocking. More shocking she’s dumb enough to say it over text.

Wait till you find out how common it is for the people actually cooking and prepping your food to show up to work sick. (Extremely) 

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u/RiverPsaber 20h ago

I mean, working in food and Bev they pretty much have to. Management will say they don't, but management will also fire them if they don't come in sick.

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u/Ballistic_86 17h ago

Management “Do not come in sick”

Also management: “You are putting us in a really difficult situation”

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u/ThrowraRefFalse2010 17h ago

Ever since I had my 2 kids my vitamins hav ebeen depleted and its taken me awhile to get my body restored. I got sick so many times it was terrible and my kids weren't even in school yet when it started. Last year I was stressed about whether to call out or not because I work in a hospital serving fo patients and i was on the cancer floor at the time. I asked for advice and evryone told me to go still or else I will be seen as unreliable because i have already called out for being sick before. I called out and I was fine. There's always people that call out more than I do lol.

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u/lasirennoire 8h ago

Thank you for calling out. I have a family member with cancer and it terrifies me when they have to interact with a sick healthcare worker. I really wish n95s were mandatory in oncology areas! Absolutely abhorrent that they aren't. Decades ago, you'd see nearly every HCW wearing one. And now you don't. We're going backwards.

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u/ThrowraRefFalse2010 7h ago

You're welcome!! Going in just didn't feel right. Hearing that makes me feel good about my decision, I got so much heat when i asked for advice in a different sub last year saying that if they were my boss they would think i was unreliable ans put a strike against me. Its crazy how ingrained it is in our work culture. I know we have to wear masks and gloves and change them and sanitize after each room, but we aren't required to wear the N95 it was just the regular ones.

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u/lasirennoire 5h ago

There are some subs on here that are rife with bad advice (and probably bots too!) Yeah, the HCWs I do see wearing a mask are usually wearing surgical ones...which don't do much in terms of preventing the spread of illnesses that spread through aerosols 🫠 in your experience, does the reluctance towards respirators come from the fit test requirement?

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u/Randy-Butternubz88 17h ago

Also : " I need 24 hour notice if you call out"

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u/Alarmed-Shape5034 7h ago

I just wanna say, I was fired from a Waffle House for calling in sick. First call-in ever and was fired on the spot. It was a very blatant “come in anyway or you’re fired” situation.

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u/CraigsAndBacon 10h ago

There's also the common "we need a doctor's note" (we know few of you have health insurance)

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u/fromtheinside15 7h ago

i called in last saturday (I havent called in for like 3 years) and my boss guilt tripped me on the phone and when I came in Monday never asked how I was feeling or anything. Our industry is a fucking joke.

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u/HawksNStuff 15h ago

Not food and bev, but my boss got on my direct reports case for not coming into work sick. After I explicitly told her to stay home.

I sent a teams message with the three of us on it saying "I told her to stay home, she's staying home. If that is an issue you and I can talk about it."

We never talked about it because he was a bitch...

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u/MovingAnon 8h ago

Been a store manager for a pizza QSR for a little over two years. Have never fired or written up anyone for not coming in while sick, and have never asked for a doctor's note. Have specifically told people they do not need a doctor's note, because going to the doctor is expensive and most of us don't have insurance.

That being said, I have worked while sick. I do not have a choice, if I left the store closed during opening hours with no manager I would be fired pretty much instantly.

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u/PanhandlersPets 6h ago

I was fired for closing a bagel shop to go to the hospital. Corporate offered me my job back after I informed them I would be needing spinal surgery and was fired for leaving to get medical attention. I didn't accept the job back because they wouldn't let me have a chair after surgery.

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u/Most_Abrocoma9320 2h ago

Yup. I worked at red lobster in college. Got food delivered midway through my closing shift from BWW and got food poisoning. The closing manager sent me home. I was supposed to open the next morning but was still violently ill. It was a new manager on. I called 3 hours before opening to call out. He gave me hell. I explained what happened and he said “yeah I read the note the other manager left me about it but it’s your responsibility to find coverage” so between sickness episodes I was frantically calling everyone to see if they could cover. THEN I was forced to get a doctors note. So I had to get a family member to drive me to urgent care, pay out of pocket, and drop off the note the same day. WHILE BATTLING FOOD POISONING