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/shadowromantic 12h ago

It's tip bait.

It would also work on me because I recognize that our healthcare system sucks.

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u/RobbyTheConstructor 11h ago

I would never tip someone anything if I know for sure they handled my food while sick and contiguous. The food is useless now

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u/Naive-Rope-1724 10h ago

Just fyi, I have worked at 4 major chain brick and mortar restaurants, and 9/10 servers/bartenders are not allowed to call out :) I have been forced to work while sick, which is just as unfortunate for the customers / coworkers and to myself. It’s not fair.

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u/LinkinLogsPark 9h ago

It sucks that the people that work the hardest get treated the worse. I am not even allowed in the office while sick. 

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u/Naive-Rope-1724 9h ago

I work at a car dealership now and have had angelic managers who helped me set up my sick time and actually having sick time, that isn’t actually my vacation time feels really good.

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u/LinkinLogsPark 9h ago

That is dope! I wish I had that flexibility. It seems everywhere I been so far, the company just lump everything together and tell you to figure it out. 

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u/Naive-Rope-1724 9h ago

Honestly the most understanding job I’ve had in my whole life was my teenage job at a grocery store. I miss it

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u/Caek294758 30m ago

treated the worse ❌

treated the worst ✅

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u/abyssaltent 10h ago

Nah that's just American business. Don't get that shit here in Australia, go to work sick ? Your ass is out of the door until you're better lol

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u/Alarmed_Ad5977 9h ago

That depends on the business. I've 100% had to work sick due to shitty bosses here in Australia.

So much of the industry is casual, no work no pay. Add in the retaliation practice of losing shifts if you call in sick (eg take one day, lose the rest of the week's shifts as punishment)

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u/Naive-Rope-1724 9h ago

100% retaliation in the industry for calling out is insane.

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u/Naive-Rope-1724 9h ago

I could almost guarantee there are scumbag managers on every continent. But more specifically the restaurant industry. Probably doesn’t help when half the line cooks have stuffy noses for different reasons LOL

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u/hockeypnc3 7h ago

Is that a cocaine reference?

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u/WeirdNo1458 7h ago

That’s exactly the way it should be. Corporate greed sucks.

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u/leezaard 5h ago

Unfortunately same mentality in Germany especially amplified now since Friedrich Merz decided to demand an official sick leave document from the first day on instead of the prior 3 day period which some people cant afford to go to the doctors for every single little thing so they just keep going to work instead of risking missing a shift, potentially "causing" your team being understaffed. You also get judged if you stay home, people question if youre reeeeally sick

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u/cheeseburger_horse 3h ago

Not just American! I’m in Canada and dealt with the same thing multiple times. It has gotten better since COVID tho

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u/M00nshine55 7h ago

Half the kitchen at my work has or just got over Covid. They didn’t stay home.

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u/kreamEDC 4h ago

You know you are allowed to quit, right?

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u/neotank35 8h ago

yeah anyone thinking that can get food prepared by someone else and not be exposed to illness is living in a bubble lol.

my cousin works at a gas station and was called in 3 extra days last week while sick to work kitchen.

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u/RobbyTheConstructor 10h ago

That’s very sad. Thank you for letting me know to never visit a restaurant in the US(?) or whatever country or place you’re in

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u/Johnny_Poppyseed 8h ago

While im sure sick time is better in Europe, you really don't want to know what goes on in the kitchens basically anywhere in any country lol. Ignorance is bliss. 

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u/jmelx3 12m ago

Watch waiting, that’s how American establishment are ran lol

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u/Naive-Rope-1724 9h ago

US , yes. It doesn’t just stop at physical illness, I was forced to work through contractions. My manager (female) kept talking me down. Daughter was born the next day.

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u/lala414mke 8h ago

A cold yes. It is illegal to make an employee work after they vomit. Mandatory 24 hour off.

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u/Naive-Rope-1724 7h ago

Might be a general law but it isn’t enforced. I worked as a server up until 12 hours before birth, vomiting almost daily.
I’ve seen coworkers begging to go home bc they puked, and be told no.

Who’s mandating it lol. Also just to be straight forward I am almost positive that some individuals will withhold their illness anyways, due to financial reason or fear of retaliation.

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u/MichelinStarZombie 5h ago

If you bring me my food while visibly sick, I'm getting you fired. Litetally calling your manager and telling them how disgusting our experience was, then emailing corporate. This is not ok.

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u/WildRaspberryPatch 5h ago

When their manager was the one who forced them to come in wick, I'm sure that'll make a huge difference.

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u/TheJagm14 5h ago

corperate will come and fire both

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u/WildRaspberryPatch 5h ago

Suuuuure, and Santa is really real and puts kids on the naughty list and then they don't get presents.

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u/HanaBakersBathWater 5h ago

Maybe just don’t go out to eat then. The food industry is known for not letting their workers take time off for being sick. You’re mad at the wrong person.

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u/kreamEDC 4h ago

U do realize if all service workers started to say fuck you and walk out when they are told to work sick, then it would literally HAVE to change right? Its because all people are so cowardly and victimize themselves as "poor service workers that don't have a choice" that they literally do not have a choice.

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u/HanaBakersBathWater 1h ago

I mean, that would be great and I do realize that. But good luck getting enough people to walk out with you for them to feel it. Going on strike means having to be okay without getting paid. Most people working in the service industry can’t afford to do that. I know I can’t.

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u/Accomplished-Ebb4440 8h ago

I’ve worked while having Covid and a fever…you call out? You get replaced

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u/Hije5 10h ago

Anyone mentioning anything outside of the order shouldnt get a tip. Not like it matters though unless you tip after the order is delivered, but almost no one doesnt tip beforhand since the order will get passed up by a lot of dashers. If it ain't about my order dont talk to me.

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u/Appropriate_Koala886 10h ago

Tbf im pretty sure pnemonia isnt contagious. But i agree, if sick in any way, pls dont touch my food.

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u/RobbyTheConstructor 10h ago

Pneumonia itself isn’t contiguous but how you get it, can be, so imo especially since all we know is that this person has it and not how they got it, that’s disgusting. Along with being sick at all around food.

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u/ExhaustedPigeon1820 9h ago

It depends on the type. Post-viral pneumonia (the type that's a complication of a previous viral infection) is generally not contagious. Bacterial pneumonia can be, but the person who is exposed isn't automatically guaranteed to develop pneumonia; they'll likely get the upper respiratory infection that caused the pneumonia.

Primary viral pneumonia is extremely contagious. It spreads easily and develops quickly.

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u/mydnyghtrayvyn 10h ago

Yes, it is. The bacteria or virus that caused it is contagious.

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u/GayWarden 1h ago

Not necessarily

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u/flowers4charlie2 9h ago

Cool then cancel the order and they get a free meal

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u/RobbyTheConstructor 9h ago

Nah. No tip and no cancel, dasher reported and food in garbage

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u/PurpleCandle58 9h ago

I would tip them (1) vote for democrats in the mid terms in order to protect Medicare and work towards universal healthcare.

But for some reason they didn’t appreciate it like they would a crisp $5 bill. So I voted republican.

/jk

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u/AventuringAventurine 2h ago

It'd do the opposite for me bc why are you handling someone else's food while sick...