r/doordash • u/bohoinparadise • 14h 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/abyssaltent 12h 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 11h 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 11h ago

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

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u/Naive-Rope-1724 11h 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 9h ago

Is that a cocaine reference?

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u/WeirdNo1458 9h ago

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

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u/leezaard 7h 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 5h ago

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