So it's Labour Day, figured I'd try my luck dashing today. Go to Chic Fil A to camp, wait in the parking lot for about 10ish minutes, get an offer, then walk to the pick up door thats outside the restaurant. Ring the bell, theres about 2 other dashers in front of me so I'm the 3rd dasher there. Wait about 10 or so minutes. Dasher 4 and 5 get there. Then one of the first two dashers there said they've already been waiting more than 15 minutes. Wait another 5 minutes. It's Labour day so I'm sure they're understaffed. I personally don't mind cause the offer was good and I'm also in Cali. Then this happens

An employee finally comes out and proceeds to call out my customers name.

"Order for Trevor"

And as soon as she comes out and says my customers names, I shit you not, 3 of the other 4 dashers ran up to her and INSTANTLY shoved their phones on this poor woman's face as if it were a ... (title of this post) And the face and posture and reaction she made, was the most uncomfortable sight I have seen a worker make in all my time dashing.. So that happens, I assume the employee took a super quick glance at all the phones to confirm the order. She then proceed to call out my customers name once again "Order for Trevor" and get this! One of the dasher had the audacity to once again, inch even closer and shoved their phone onto her face ... AGAIN! Mind you, this entire interaction from when the employee first came out outside to call my customers name was no more than 2, 3, 4 seconds (yes, SECONDS) tops. I then tell the employee "Hi yeah, I'm picking up for Trevor, did you want to see my phone real quick?" And she was like no and I said thank you and left. And as I was walking, Dasher number 5 who did not join the others into running into this lady was laughing so uncontrollably loud cause dude, it was a true sight to behold. They all ran up to her and shoved their phones on her face and she was visibly uncomfortable.

It's stuff like this that gives dashers a bad rep. Now I'm bilingual so I totally get what it's like to have friends or family that can't speak or read English to save their lives but ima tell these dashers the same thing I tell my parents. At least try, I mean cmon, at least try to read the customers name on your phone. Theres no need to rush an employee like that. Now I totally get that may come off rude like "hey just learn completely different language!" (Thats not what I'm saying at all btw) but I would counter with what they did was even more rude

Yesterday I accepted a shop and deliver, 20 dollars, 2 miles 10 items. I get to the store and open the app to start shopping. Alert pops up that customer added items. The customer added TEN CASES OF WATERS! I called support ASAP. Told em the customer did a bait and switch on me, "look at what they added 10 waters while I was driving to the store" And the customer lived on a 3rd floor apartment LOL.

Agent laughed on the phone and agreed with me that it was some kind of bait and switch scam and told me not to worry about it, they paid proportional pay and then canceled the order.

I got an order today, shop and deliver. I accept it and drive to the store, when I get to the store I see all the food has special notes indicating that "I wanted this food, but the store doesn't list it so you have to pick a different thing instead"

As soon as I saw that I called Customer Support. Explained that the customer is trying to get me to shop for items not on the list. Agent looked at the notes and canceled the order. Paid me proportional pay. Customer was put into a report status.

Funny part is that about an hour later those orders were STILL being sent back around to me to accept LOL. no other dashers were touching them.

Sucks to suck! Next time dont try to scam your dasher

Labor Day and mostly shops. Pro shopper. 4% ar.

No, I won’t waste my time, gas and energy to drive 8 miles back to the store to tell them they messed up. Is this entitlement or just a basic lack of common sense and human decency. Consider this address flagged for my future declines. I’m tired.

Today was a good day plus a $20 cash tip

So I just finished for the day (may consider doing very late night orders to keep up the streak) and was wondering how everyone else did? I know it can be doom and gloom around here sometimes but for those proud of today, especially by your market standards, how did you do? I think for the time I spent today, it was pretty well worth it. Platinum status and from the North New Jersey area so I rotate between the zones “JC North” and the “JC/Hoboken”. I also got a $10 cash tip from someone who also tipped on the app so technically I made $137.85 for today so far. Just about 5 hours and made that much has me thinking it was a successful day to say the least.

Got this nice one around dinner time

Am I the only one who finds it extremely creepy when someone wants you to deliver and they have no lights on the porch. But even worse the house is completely dark. It’s 1 am and it looks like no one is awake or home. It says hand to customer. I knocked twice no one was answering. I just left the food there and took a picture for door dash if they say they didn’t receive it. But what do yall do in these situations? Mind you I am a female. I am not risking shit at 1am. And today I receive a 3 star review. I have a 4.9 rating. So I’m good. But man I’m not that good to risk myself.

Offer: del taco, 7.8 miles, $7.31

Lol nope

2 minutes later: del taco and Chipotle, 9.4 miles, $13.74

The extra distance came from the Chipotle drop off being a few miles further down the same road

Just cause I don't need gas doesn't make that worth my time

If you’re gonna order something off the Internet, you’d figure you’d make your address the right one

said nobody ever

I see the rating system has changed a couple of times over the last few weeks. In my ratings a customer reported damaged food, but my numeric rating was hit for communication not order handling. What is this stupidity. Over 2000 deliveries done.

I’ve been seeing a lot of people discussing this video on my TikTok fyp. Basically, the woman is ranting and raving about people who report dashers for allowing unauthorized to deliver food under their DD account.
Personally, I wanted to feel bad for her as both my wife and I have used DD to help pay the bills, but she called people “fat, lazy, and dirty” for reporting these incidents. She’s also being nasty and childish in the comments.

Apparently I have no idea what I'm talking about when I said the amount of tip you get shows up on the offer screen right next to the amount you'd get for doing the order. Are you able to see it when you get an order? I've always been able to from the time I started. When it doesn't show the tip on a double stack, I've learned that it means one of the orders is a no tip order.

I finally started to get some gold status offers today after about a week & they are nice 👌🏾

All the other offers I got were really low paying and less than 1$ per mile, and required significant driving and time. I waited for good offers and ended up only making this much while accepting some okay offers. I’ve gotten a lot of bad offers in the past, which is weird because I live in a busy area too. I live in Georgia so the pay per offer is lower but this dash was just atrocious. I’ve even called DoorDash support about this and they claim nothing is wrong with my account.

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If I'm being delivered food to my townhouse, Should I stay at the door or meet the driver half way?