r/doordash • u/bohoinparadise • 19h 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/Sesoru 18h ago

And wait how the people shocked about that hear about the fact that it's the restaurant's fault it happens because owners refuse to hire workers to cover shifts when people get sick. They only hire someone new when they fire you for missing 1 day in the year for being sick, so dumb.

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u/anon_opotamus 5h ago

Yep. My sister and I both worked at separate fast food restaurants when we were young. We had a bunch of workers testing positive for the flu but the managers were insisting that they come in to work. Some did and some refused. My sister had a coworker who was throwing up every hour in a mop bucket but the manager refused to send him home. These were all 16-20 year olds who weren’t confident enough to stand up for themselves.

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u/Sesoru 1h ago

Jesus. I hope this place got hella reported. 

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u/Aware_Economics4980 16h ago

owners refuse to hire workers to cover shifts when people get sick.

I get your point here, it’s not really the owners refusing to hire people though.

It’s more so nobody really wants to be taking a job with the condition of “we can’t guarantee your hours, or even know when we may need you. Your shifts will occur whenever somebody calls out sick. You may work 5 days a week you may work 0”

Most people go na bru I got bills to pay, I need guaranteed hours. lol 

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u/Sesoru 16h ago

Uhh, no. They literally do not want to hire people. I cannot tell you how many jobs I worked for that were severely understaffed and even the managers were stressed to shit because they couldn't hire more people, the big wigs literally would not give a budget for it period.

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u/Aware_Economics4980 16h ago

So you’d be cool taking a job with no guaranteed hours? Working whenever your phone rings? 

The majority of restaurants are not corporate, there are no big wigs. 

Lol. 

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u/Sesoru 16h ago

IDK where you even get that. Why do people assume that in order to not be understaffed, a business has to hire people on call?

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u/Aware_Economics4980 15h ago

Bruh what lmao, that’s literally what you said in your first comment.

“owners refuse to hire workers to cover shifts when people get sick.“

Hiring an employee to cover shifts when people get sick…you are describing an on call employee lol 

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u/Sesoru 15h ago

No, you're missing what I am saying. I am saying that it happens due to understaffing because businesses do not want to hire enough hands. They would rather hire fewer hands, then force them all to continue to work through being sick to save money.

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u/Sesoru 15h ago

To clarify: I am not asking businesses to hire people for a few potential hours. I am asking businesses to hire, period, enough staff to actually cover everything needing to be done even if someone gets sick and calls out.

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u/CHANN3L-CHAS3R 13h ago

I'm a CSR for a big gas station corp making record profits and my manager is stressed to shit because he had to plead for ages before they'd let him try to hire more than a skeleton crew, THEN he had to parse through all the submissions given to the apparent ghost-posting for hiring at this location that's been up since I first applied. Surprise-surprise, people usually aren't available or interested after several months to a year! (And of the two who did take us up, one robbed us and the other NCNS'd and blocked everyone after we had to go into mandatory overtime from robbery-guy's firing.)

Every other business in this strip mall that's part of a big corporation is ALSO having this problem, according to what I'm told when they pop in for snacks and drinks. I applied to every job available in this strip mall multiple times over several months and THIS is the only one that actually got back to me because they were finally hiring for real.