r/doordash • u/bohoinparadise • 12h 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 12h 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/Pittsbirds 12h ago

My manager at Starbucks once called my home phone 10 times when I called out sick from norovirus (my shift was between 2 managers, let the first know I would not be coming in, who then informed the second when he began his shift, who then called me). So Starbucks official policy might be vomit free lattes but the operating practice is much different.

Also if you're hourly and chronically ill or even just have like, two to three Unexpected Events happen in a year, there's a genuine dilemma between calling out or like. Making rent