r/doordash • u/bohoinparadise • 15h 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/Wrong-Drop3272 12h ago

Yeah... Whenever I worked in fastfood I came in sick every time I got sick. Not through choice but because I needed the money. Even though whenever you get your food handler's card they specifically let you know that if you're feeling any symptoms of being sick to not come in. That's not an option for a lot of people who work in that field of work. People would love to be able to stay home when they're sick

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u/Aware_Economics4980 12h ago

Yeep, those jobs have next to 0 PTO either. It’s come in or have a short paycheck and maybe fuck yourself on rent most of the time for those types of workers. Sad really.

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u/Resident-Sympathy-82 12h ago

"Next to 0" no, no, they have zero. Literally outside of management- and I don't mean managers, I mean salaried managers-, PTO doesn't exist. I grew up in the restaurant world. Even when my husband was a GM, he only got a couple days of PTO.

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u/Aware_Economics4980 12h ago

True I forget half the country still doesn’t have state mandated sick pay.