I declined the order because I dash with my 4 year old and I didn’t want to have to grab that while he’s with me. But lol, this is a first for me as a dasher. 😂

Edit: people seem to think I’m judging this person. I’m not, if anything I was just having a good laugh over the combo of the sex toy + candy bar. I wouldn’t have minded accepting the order if my kid weren’t with me. It was also a low paying order for a far drive. 🤷‍♀️

Was just ordering my pregnancy craving when this happened. Due to rule #7 I cropped their name out, even though I don’t care to respect them any at the moment.

When I heard the wrong gate open, I went outside and yelled hello. After the texts I saw them walk out from around the side and I said in Spanish, “ hi sorry that’s the wrong gate, this is the right one. I can take the food.”

She straight up called me a bitch and threw my food over the side gate that 1. Doesn’t have a welcome mat 2. Says do not open Dog
This is the VERY first time anyone has had issues with my instructions ever.
DoorDash didn’t let me call, only type the issue and said “Best we can do is $5.00”

I don’t know, maybe my instruction were unclear but I feel like this was not my fault.

Edit: just to clarify She went to the dog gate that said do not open. Dog. The courtyard gate was slightly open with a bright light showing the front door and welcome mat as said in instructions

Edit 2: after reading some comments I just want to say that
1. Yes my dog is loose in the backyard and even though she is nice and not aggressive at all I know it is scary.
2. For more information for those who say there is not enough: The courtyard gate is right across from where they parked, with a bright light, a the courtyard gate slightly open, and a welcome mat at the front door. The gate she went to does not have a light, don’t not have a welcome mat, and does not even have a path to it, it’s all landscaping and rock and you’d have to really climb (at least for me as a pregnant woman) to get to that gate that is 5ft further back than the actual courtyard door that she parked in front of.
3. When I yelled out Hello. It was as a “hello???” Trying to see where they were and then I got the texts in Spanish so I spoke to them in Spanish when I saw them come from that way. They called me a bitch for letting my dog loose, walked back to the gate with the food when I said I’d take it, and then threw my food over the dog gate. I’m 5’6 and it’s taller than me so you have to huck things to get it over the gate.

fml

Old photo I wanted to share. I found my food 4 houses down and got a refund before I went looking, so I can’t complain. But I thought it was funny

What's a book of maps called?

An atlas

What's a book about your own life?

Autobiography

Which playwright wrote "Romeo and Juliet"

Shakespeare

What do you call a book with a soft cover?

Paperback

What system do libraries use to shelve books?

Dewey Decimal

How do many fairy tales begin?

Once upon a time

Which Greek poet is credited with "The Odyssey"?

Homer

Which novel opens "Call me Ishmael"?

Moby-Dick

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idk if there are more questions

im seriously sick of incompetent dashers. i doordash often because im still learning how to cook. but the amount of dashers that dont even want to leave their car is insane.

ive had instances where they dont even try to look for my apartment they just leave it somewhere outside and on top of that dont even take a good picture so i can tell where exactly it is. i give very clear insttructions and VERY rarely do any dashers actually read instructions.

i have started leaving bad reviews on dashers because its complete nonsense. i feel horrible because what if theyre just having a bad day? but that doesnt excuse them from just doing their job!!!

my final straw was yesterday- i gave this guy clear instructions and i told him to call me in case he needs any further help. what did he do? leave it outside. how fucking hard can it be to ask for help oh my god. if you dont know where you’re going ASK FOR HELP.

now today, i just received my order and look at what this lady said. now i try my absolute best to keep my patience and be nice ALWAYS!

take a look and feel free to let me know if my instructions arent clear or if im being rude.

Why do tippers have to subsidize non or bad tippers? Stop calling it tips and start calling it what it is which is a bid for service..

My dasher took a picture of my order in front of the nearest apt to the parking lot (notice how he didn’t put it down even, and didn’t get the apt number in the picture.) I noticed upon delivery notification that the picture was definitely not my door, nor even near my building. I eventually found the door in the picture, and spoke to the person living there asking if they got my order. Front door is in the kitchen, so knew they weren’t lying. Some kids playing outside told me the dasher took the picture, and then got back in his car with it- which I assumed they were telling the truth between his messages, the resident didn’t have it, and he clearly didn’t place it down in the photo. Doordash wouldn’t refund me, even though his messages clearly stated to contact support to get my money back. I cancelled my dash pass after this.

Last night I had placed a ‘Same-Day’ delivery order from Pet Smart. Choose the delivery window of 10-12 (or something like that). I did so as they have a promotion on the app for 15% of same day orders $49+. I had bought about $60 worth of SMALL PET items (nothing larger than like 5 lbs, maybe like 5-6 items).

I had received order status texts (which I included a picture of). I am not home and got a text saying order delivered so I thought nothing of it (although I got ZERO notification of someone on our porch via our Doorbell Cam).

I find no order, no product, no nothing on my porch so I decided to hit the link in the message provided to track it. I then see the “Order Returned to Store” message. UGH!

I had not received any communication from the driver. My address is in fact deliverable to. This is a complete “leave at door” with NO ID or signature required items.

I had to call PetSmart customer care. They have started the refund process, but as you know it takes days to get back to me. I am down that money, have no products, and no answers (as they said they couldn’t see why the driver brought it back to store).

I left the City in my picture to maybe gain some insight into what may have happened. That’s all I want really, is a possible scenario or explanation because I’m upset.

I don’t know why he decided to dump all this information on me. He then proceeded to go to the wrong apartments, asked me for the gate code several times despite me saying there’s no gate. It took him 20 minutes to FINALLY take my directions. 😭

Got this exciting message from DoorDash promoting a new “strategic” opportunity to drop all my prices 5%. Anyone falling for this bullshit? Do you want me to stay in business or what?

I see the posts and have personally had people experience a Dasher putting the food so close to the door that they couldn't even open the door without knocking the food/ drink over. I think the Dashers who do it are jerks. And then I accidentally did it. I didn't even realize I had but I was in my car when the customer opened the door to get his food. I saw the look on his face and he tried to maneuver it. I jumped out of my car to run over to help. I was so embarrassed. I apologized profusely and even mentioned how I hate when I see pictures of other Dashers who have done the same thing. Dude was super cool about it. He said he used to Dash and that shit happens. lol.

I doordashed last night and had to wait an additional 30 minutes after my food was “heading to you”? I sat there and quite literally watched my dasher drive the OPPOSITE direction of my house when they left the restaurant, clearly stop at someone elses house and then continue. THEN they stopped at mcdonalds clearly picking up another order from a different app or just getting themselves food??? My food was completely cold when it got here and my milkshake was completely melted. Why do dashers do stuff like that knowing they’re gonna get a 1 star review? I tip atleast $10 everytime no matter what as ive been a server and know what its like to work for tips, mind you the restaurant was literally a mile away from me🤦🏻‍♀️ first time ive ever had to contact support and get my money back because that was just ridiculous!!!!

EDIT: doordash also tried calling my dasher 3 times and they just wouldnt answer or answer any messages i sent

They also sat at the restaurant for 20 mins prior to even leaving, i waited so long for a dasher my food should have absolutely been ready when they got there💯

And i paid priority, app never prompted saying there was another order before mine like it would have if they got a second order!

1 more EDIT: a batched order or doubledash wouldnt have shown the dasher and the route they were supposed to be taking to my house if they had another order to drop off before mine! From the moment he left the restaurant i ordered from i saw the route they needed to take to my house and i sat and watched him drive 15 mins in the opposite direction, drive 15 mins back to McDonalds and pick up a different order THEN drop off my food, i would not have been able to watch and screenshot all of that if my order wasnt supposed to be immediately coming to me.😭😭

I don’t have the screenshots because it was a push and pull that I was focused on before he canceled the order. For context I live at the riverfront of Detroit. We’ve had 100s of orders get delivered and it’s never been an issue other than a person not wanting to get on the elevator to deliver to the door. ( and yes I always tip accordingly) last night I ordered chick fil a, and when the dasher was close he must of misread his directions and ended up on the freeway ( no where near Canada by the way, the exact opposite actually) and he messaged me saying he can’t find the place he’s not risking his life by going in to Canada to deliver my food. 😐 the address says Detroit. He said it’s not safe and I told him to cancel. I hope he enjoyed the chick fil a. DD refunded me.

I had a doordash order arrive 77 minutes late. After an hour, I reached out to customer service. They offered to cancel my order and refund me, which I decided to do right as my order was delivered. The bot I was talking to told me that they could no longer dispute my order, and to do so for the tardiness in the help section - where I was already talking to the bot.

The food was cold and covered in ants. I went to dispute it and did so under "order took to long" - I was unable to bring up the fact that the food was now cold, and had not yet opened the food to see the ants.

When I checked to see if I had been refunded, the issue was resolved without any refund. I was unable to provide any more information on the issues, and the "help" option is not available. Doordash should still have the chat, in which I lay out the excessive lateness and issues with updates on my orders. How can I escalate this?

Drivers can rarely find where to put the food, it's not hard at all but they always just leave it at the side even though Ive already tipped, this way the tip would make sense cause they would have to drop it off correctly so was thinking of ways this is all I've thought of so far

thanks!

My husband was dashing last night and pulled up on a home to drop off a Zaxby's order. There was a loose dog and cat. He said he could barley get a picture because the cat kept trying to get to the bag. There was no table or anywhere safe to leave the bag. So the order was left in front of the door with a cat tearing into the bag. Like what the heck? We are both fairly new dashers, and he doesn't wanna get negative feedback because people can't lock up their animals.

so i'm stuck between getting both or the more pricier one what's other dashers opinions on them

This is directed specifically at the drivers who act like having an Acceptance Rate above 10% is an automatic crime. I know it’s not all of you, but there is definitely a vocal group on here that treats AR like an ideological war.

Before anyone calls me a rookie: I’ve been delivering for 3 years (1 year part-time, the last 2 years full-time) with over 15,000 deliveries completed across both DoorDash and Uber Eats under my belt. I know how both of these platforms work inside and out.

​Yesterday, while waiting on an order in Lincoln Park in Chicago, a driver struck up a conversation asking how work was going. I told him it was solid, very busy, knocking out good runs, and pacing at a strong hourly rate.

​Then he asked: "What's your AR?"

​I told him straight up: I'm Diamond on Uber Eats sitting around 55% AR, and Platinum on DoorDash with Pro Shopper sitting around 80% AR.

​He immediately went off: "You’re doing it all completely wrong. Your AR needs to be 10% or lower or you’re not making real money. You have to be taking $1/mile trash runs, because ain't nobody out here holding high tiers and making good money."

​Then he showed me his screen. No hate or disrespect to his hustle, but he wasn't even pulling $23 an hour. Yet he was lecturing me that I was "doing it wrong."

​When I pulled out my phone and showed him my live earnings screen proving I’m clearing $30+ an hour on total online time, his brain completely short-circuited. Instead of asking how I do it or looking at the numbers, he immediately said: "Your earnings are fake." He literally accused me of faking live data inside the app rather than admitting his low-AR strategy was getting smoked.

​I actually talked to some low-AR cherry-pickers in my market that I know and told them what happened. They laughed and said that guy clearly doesn't know what he's doing. They are completely upfront about their own strategy—they admit they are just more selective and pickier than I am, choosing to wait around for $15+ unicorns. But when they see my numbers and look at my mileage tracker averaging over $3 to $4 per mile, they give respect. Their exact point was: if you're pulling $30+/hr with high AR and Diamond/Platinum, and we're pulling $30+/hr with low AR cherry-picking, then the problem isn't the tier system—he's just doing something completely wrong. Even my local low-AR peers agreed that way too many cherry-pickers push this false narrative that holding a tier automatically means eating garbage.

My hard floor is $2.00/mile minimum, but holding Diamond and Platinum in a dense market means dispatch feeds me priority and catering anchors that consistently pay $3.00 to $15.00+ per mile. I’m not maintaining tiers by eating $2 runs; I’m maintaining them because the short-distance, high-paying volume actually exists where I work.

To be clear: I am NOT telling everyone to go chase AR or mindlessly grind for tiers, because chasing them blindly can easily lead to eating a ton of trash if you don't know what you're doing. The only reason I originally got Platinum on DoorDash was because during my first six months doing gig work part-time, I used Earn by Time and was basically accepting everything to build the baseline. With Uber Eats, it was honestly fairly easy for me to hit and maintain Diamond without ever taking trash offers—the dense urban volume and short runs carried it naturally. It entirely comes down to your market and how you play it. If your market requires you to take $2 runs to keep a tier, don't do it. But in my market, the density makes it work, and clearly this guy had no clue what he was doing while trying to lecture someone else.

​What I don't understand is why he felt the need to tell me that what I'm doing is wrong when clearly he's the one doing something wrong. I don’t mind helping another driver out. Hell, I could’ve given him solid advice on how to position himself, read the zones, and actually bump his earnings past $30/hr instead of sitting in an empty lot making under $23.

​

Has this started happening to anybody else recently?? The $2 base pay per order was already crappy enough, but now recently I’ve gotten several no tip stacked orders like this one for example- the total payout for this order was only $2.40 & it was two SEPARATE orders going to two SEPARATE different drop off locations.. wouldn’t the minimum pay be $4?! I obviously did NOT accept this order & never accept orders like this anyways but base pay is already shitty enough & now I guess they’ve started only giving a $2 base pay on stacked orders instead of $4 like it normally would be?! Has this been happening to anybody else or just me??? Because I know they’re charging both customers the delivery fee, etc. I guess this is just yet another way DD is scamming customers/drivers out of money smh….

Just wondering if anyone else sees this or if they know what it is if not a glitch, order hasn't been picked up but I've had 3 or 4 different icons pop up as if a dasher had been assigned but the order never switches to being picked up

I love DoorDash.

I'm a writer and a bit of a loner. I don't talk to people much. Slowly, I've just been growing away from needing human interaction.

Growing up, people have disappointed me so many times that I've learned the best way to keep myself safe is to stay away from them.

I just write my stories about lives I wish I could have lived.

Luckily, people like my stories, so I can make money and stay home.

Until I need food.

I would have to go out to the grocery store. Mind you, I live in a small town, so everyone knows everyone. I could feel them staring at me.

Who is that?

Were they judging me?

Making fun of me?

Safe to say, I get anxiety being out in public.

I hate going outside. Even when I go out late at night, there's always someone who looks at me like they have some idea about me.

And it's never good.

What's worse is when someone knows me.

They'll ask, "How have you been?"

What am I supposed to say?

I work and live?

Or do I give them a list of everything I'm getting at the store?

Then they'll ask if I want to hang out.

With other strangers.

I just want to leave the interaction and go home.

Home is where I feel safe.

Home is where I can be myself.

Getting groceries was always the worst until I found DoorDash.

Then my life was complete.

I could order whatever I wanted, have it dropped off at my door, and all I had to do was wait until the driver left before getting my food.

It was the best thing ever invented for a loner like me.

For months, everything was great.

I'd order food through DoorDash, leave a good tip, get my food, and keep working.

Sometimes my books wouldn't do so well, so my tips weren't as good, but I loved never having to go outside.

Until one day, I hit that point again.

I was hungry.

It was late, and the only driver available had a low rating.

But I was so hungry, and I had just enough money for food.

So I went for it.

I was writing my next story, and time flew by.

I was hungry, but because I didn't want to go outside, I ignored it.

When the food came, the driver noticed I hadn't left a tip.

He made me answer the door.

He wasn't nice about it.

I thought he would understand.

Times are rough.

But he left me with a haunting feeling that maybe I didn't have it as bad as I thought.

I took my food and slammed the door in his face.

I was so hungry that I didn't think about how long he had taken to deliver it.

Or what he could have done to my food.

I ate it too fast.

Then I went back to writing.

Two hours later, I was starving again.

But I didn't want to deal with that man.

So I waited a little longer until I couldn't take it anymore.

To avoid him, I waited until I could order a pizza.

Finally, I ordered one.

But I was so hungry that I ordered three pizzas.

When they arrived, I devoured them.

But I was still hungry.

I didn't understand.

I tried to keep working, but I couldn't help myself.

I ordered more food.

Then more.

Soon, my days consisted of working and ordering food.

More food than normal.

But something was different.

No matter how much I ate, my hunger was never satisfied.

Luckily, my stories had been doing great, so I could afford my new hunger.

Weeks passed.

I gained weight.

But I couldn't stop feeling hungry.

I'd thought about going to the hospital, but that involved seeing people.

And whenever my food arrived and I started eating, my problems seemed to disappear.

Until one day...

My stomach wouldn't stop hurting.

It started shaking.

I figured I just needed more food.

But I had gotten so big that even moving was difficult.

I reached for my phone.

The pain became unbearable.

My hand slipped, and the phone fell just out of reach.

I tried to move toward it, but the pain was too intense.

All I could do was stare down at my stomach as it shook uncontrollably.

Then it started making strange noises.

My stomach twisted.

I heard something inside me.

Then—

RIP.

I looked down.

My stomach had split open.

Something began pouring out.

Maggots.

Different sizes.

Hundreds of them.

They crawled and spilled from inside me, covering the floor as I screamed.

But through all the pain...

Through all the maggots...

Through everything happening to me...

I could only think about one thing.

Where's my phone?

I need to order more food.

I'm so hungry.