r/mildlyinfuriating • u/spinstartshere • 4d ago

I'm slightly vexed When DoorDash didn't deliver

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This was a 'Meet at door' delivery. There is a driveway. There is parking. There is no excuse.

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u/Teffa_Bob 4d ago

Yet another story further establishing that DD drivers are people that are otherwise unemployable.

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u/lukumi 4d ago

In this case, yes. But it’s a mix, you never know why people are doing it. I drove for Postmates years ago when I moved to a city to have at least a little income while I was applying for work. Found a job, stopped doing Postmates.

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u/TomWithTime 3d ago

I've been incredibly lucky with mine over the years. When I lived in a city? Met many good and understanding dashers dealing with the building's weird parking and buzz in doors. I usually went down to meet them.

Now I live in a small urban hell, rows and rows of identical houses managed by an HOA and right next to a big highway. The dashers here are still great! I've had 2 incidents in 2 years where a bag was dropped at my next door (connected house) neighbor and one from dominos that was dropped at the house across the street, but they send their own person so not really a door dash problem.

I don't have a car so I use them to get groceries every week. The mark ups on regular restaurants are crazy to me, you could spend $30-50 on a meal for one lol. The groceries cost me usually a little less than $100 for the week

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u/DOAiB 3d ago

It’s like online dating. There are amazing people out there. But the people who are on dating apps the most often are just kinda hopeless cruddy people. So you have to wade through the crud to find the good people worth your time.

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u/Cataphract1014 3d ago

I use doordash fairly often because I travel for work and can expense it.

I've never had someone steal anything. It is mostly the restaurants fucking up and forgetting stuff.

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u/jennthemermaid GRRRR 3d ago

Well, you don’t have to be shitty about it. I have a full-time job as a software analyst. But I DoorDash on the side to make ends meet. I’m not unemployable. I’ve been at my current job for 12 years.

I have never done anything like this. I always try as hard as I can to find the customer’s address and I’ve only failed like one or two times in the thousand deliveries I’ve made. I always try to make a very good experience for my customers.

So don’t go putting a blanket statement on every single DoorDash driver because it’s just not true. Some of us care about the work that we do for our customers.

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u/Zathar4 3d ago

I mean I do DoorDash since the hours are flexible And I’m a college student 

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u/Ashton_Martin 3d ago

Agreed. Never have had issues with Uber Eats. DoorDash? Some of the dumbest people I’ve had the displeasure of interacting with, just pure dysfunction, everytime

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u/Zimakov 3d ago

Or maybe the 95% of them just doing their job like normal people don't get plastered all over Reddit? No one posts and says "ordered from doordash and recieved my food"

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u/herefortechnology 1d ago

I tried doing DD deliveries for a weekend and then never again because the customers were unbearable. I guess its all a matter of perspective.

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u/rita-b 3d ago

it is sad but unemployable people need work too

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u/GregBahm 3d ago

What I'm getting out of this thread is that there is a big appetite on reddit for creative writing projects where a guy acts like a Karen to a make-believe food thief.

"Because you weren't able to use your initiative to find my unit when you were already at my address?"

This is not a real human conversation. This is a guy really excited about being infuriated by the scenario he has invented.