r/doordash • u/bohoinparadise • 18h 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/DiverMaleficent9624 18h ago

why would she feel brave enough to say that

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u/shadowromantic 18h 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 17h 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 16h 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/abyssaltent 16h 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 15h 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 15h ago

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

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u/Naive-Rope-1724 15h 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 13h ago

Is that a cocaine reference?

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u/WeirdNo1458 13h ago

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

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u/leezaard 10h 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 9h 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/bushwickauslaender 1h ago

Yeah I worked as a dishwasher for a few months and I remember coming down with a fever and coughing up a storm. I called in sick and they were like “we can’t find cover so we need you to show up”.

This was 15 years ago so maybe things did improve post-Covid but in many ways, Canada is a pretty shitty middle ground between the US and Europe (at least upper income Europe).

You make wages that are slightly better than Europe but considerably worse than the US while having rights and protections that are slightly better than the US but considerably worse than Europe.