I accepted a delivery and noticed the delivery instructions said "Do not mess it up this time." Needless to say, RARELY IF EVER do we ever deliver to the same person twice. And I had never been to this person before so whoever he was talking to WASN'T ME. But my point is that some of these customers are becoming verbally ABUSIVE which obviously takes some of the fun and joy out of doing a successful delivery when they treat you like a stupid slave. And they don't understand the process for the doordash delivery person. They also assume they are superior individuals. How gross is that ⁉️
3/23
Tonight it was rain and the media was reporting blizzard (at high elevations), storms, rainfall,high winds,etc . So around 6 pm I accept a delivery which turns out to be a double delivery. When you accept a delivery you AREN'T told if it's a single or double. You realize it's a double AFTER accepting. If you don't accept you lose priority status. So I accept EVERYTHING.
But a double delivery takes more time and is more difficult to communicate with the customer due to all the bells & whistles on the app & the danger of lag or crash etc if you click too much. By "double delivery" I mean they have you pickup 2 nearby orders and then they provide the recipient addresses, one after the other, usually close to one another.
It was pouring rain 🌧️, and in this area I know in advance there's no where to park near the restaurant to pick up the order so I walk (actually run) to restaurant #1, & pick up the order where they have no plastic bags even for rainy days ( fortunately i brought a blanket with me to the the order,as well as an umbrella ☔) ,& then run to restaurant #2.
At restaurant #2 I lose my data connection but fortunately they have WiFi so after I figure out the password I'm able to tell them whose order I'm picking up.I literally run back back to the car in the rain with 2 orders under my blanket in one hand, and holding the umbrella in my other hand, trying not to trip & fall. The whole trek is about 3/4 mile on foot, total.
I drive to recipient #1 in the pouring rain.
Along the way I get a text from recipient #2 impatiently asking "What time will I arrive?" This means she's not happy, wondering why its taking so long. I can't respond to her immediately because I'm afraid of losing the directions to recipient #1 address.
The dasher app can be clunky sometimes so that if you switch screens too much it sometimes lags, or even crashes at times. IF it crashes it can be a 10 or 15 minute delay for it to reboot. So I wait until completing delivery #1 to text recipient #2 saying I'm "on the way".
And a few minutes later I'm dropping off the order on #2's steps, leaving a text message saying it's "On your doorstep. Thanks" per instructions. At this point I notice they decided to leave tip "after delivery", depending whether they approve of me or not. I move onward.
Later, I make one more delivery and also notice a homeless person at a 7-11 who didn't look too good. I interacted with him, but he wasn't very responsive. I left him a few dollar bills in his hand but wondered if a random fellow nearby would steal it from him once I drive away. I also call the police and asked them to do a "welfare check". Prayers for him on this cold & wet evening. And that's it for the evening.
I check the app one more time and notice that recipient #2 decided to leave "NO TIP". Do they have any idea what I did to try to get their delivery to them as fast as possible in the pouring rain doing a double delivery ⁉️
Oh, by the way, I am a highly educated person with 2 bachelor degrees & a masters & professional working experience. I do door dash periodically as I am working on another degree. Some people assume all delivery people are desperate high school dropouts or something. Not true. We like to be respected too.
3/1/24 👇☝️
I'm a door dash delivery person. This is where I will leave my thoughts & comments, anonymously.
