There is a place near me where there's a lot of restaurants within a small town-esque center where there's a lot of restaurants, stores , etc and there are a bunch of parking spots specifically for pickup and drop-off deliveries, and almost 100% of them are taken up by people who are just parking there to go to the restaurants. And there was only one spot available, the one I got, and I was watching them write tickets to every single person in the line that I parked in, and as I was leaving, I thanked them.

They said some people stay there for hours or even all day. The main parking area for customers is sometimes about a half a mile away from some restaurants and yeah...can't be bothered to walk.

This wasn't even the weekend. During the weekend,there is live music and it's nearly impossible to pick up orders from the area. Really glad to see this happen with my own two eyes!

It's probably been 2-3 months now, when on a random Monday, there was a sudden change in what the algorithm started to send me..

Im a long-time gig worker and contractor for multiple companies, at least 5, so I understand seasons, economic conditions, saturation, and the like.

This, however, flipped like a light switch, and it hit HARD and never went back to normal. My offers and compensation tanked 2 fold.

They absolutely made a back-end change..

Fast forward to today, and after speaking to many dozens of agents, one said it in PLAIN English..." Either you will accept the unprofitable OR you will take nothing. "

This is not how this model is supposed to work.

They have essentially found a way to use technology to force contractors to do things at a loss to us while shifting all of the liability of the vehicle (payments, insurance, wear & tear, maintenance, tax) to the driver

If I said what im feeling right now, this post would be taken down, so I'll just politely ask, how do we respond to these devastating evil tactics?! What does it mean for workers as a whole that W2 postions are following in the same footsteps?!

These companies have always played games, but one by one, they're kicking it all the way to 100, and by the logic im seeing this play they're making is a winner because there are millions of us and we all need to sell labor TO LIVE!

WE NEED RESPOND. THERE HAS TO BE BLOW BACK

PS: In NC Piedmont Triad area for those who are interested in coordinated AG complaint filings

We DoorDash around Alexandria Louisiana, got a 6.75+ add on for little ceasers, add to route, get there, and double take at the 30 items, assuming it’s sauce, it’s not, all pizzas. Call the customer to double check, and they said “yeah 30 pizzas, that’s correct. To Saint something school” so I get to the drop off (best western) call the customer cause there are no busses, and it’s not a school, she’s in the middle of describing the place and stops mid sentence. “Wait are yall in Alexandria?” I said “yeah?” And she says “well sh*t, I’m in Baton Rouge (124 miles away) I gotta get some pizzas” and hangs up. So I call support, restaurant wouldn’t take them back so now we have 20~ pizzas after giving a few out haha (still got paid $16~)

I am doing this on a bike in nyc btw.

So, I'm in the desert, its over 100°f here and I keep an ice filled Styrofoam cooler in the car for orders just like this, but restaurants commonly keep orders sitting out to melt before I pick up. What exactly is it that the customer would like me to do?

15 bags of mulch. I took it in an instant but curious what you guys would do.

It gets old, fast.

Anyone else ever seen this before?

Boy do I hate this promo right now. Not one order worth taking.

So customer decides to order an 80 lb AC unit from Best buy, and I call the customer because I wanted to arrange how to get in because it was a secured apartment building. Call the customer twice, text him twice, no response, then I called a third time and he answered, and said he wasn't going to be home for at least another 10 minutes. I didn't respond very kindly, other than to say that's just great, and hung up.

So, I made it clear to him that his air conditioning unit was going to be outside the building And I couldn't waste the amount of time that he wasn't going to be home for, and he understood, and then I added a text in there about if you're going to order an item, make sure that somebody's available.

He countered with the fact that I beat the ETA by 20 minutes, and that was his complaint, that I was early. I countered right back and said, if you're going to order something of this size, you shouldn't order it until somebody's available to receive it., He said...okay, I'll keep that in mind.

I just had an order to an apartment complex and when I arrived, there was no unit number. I called the customer and they did not answer. Then I got a call with a "DoorDash" caller ID, they told me the order (and the next order grouped with it) was generated by doordash to verify my identity because of a complaint of a drunk female delivering on my behalf and that the order does not need to be delivered. They asked for my phone number and crimson card balance which I thought was weird, so I asked if I could call dasher support to verify who they are. They gave me some story and said I needed to go to some location so I said, if they really are dasher support, clear both orders from my account and I will continue. They hung up, I called dasher support and then you knew nothing about it.

Posting for others' awareness because parts of it were convincing and psychologically I felt myself wanting to defend the complaint.

Not even a house, just some sort of trucker parking lot and even worse, it said I had to hand it to the customer. I really don’t think an Amanda lives here lol. Could not find anybody and the customer didn’t reply so I ended up cancelling through support.

Three no tip orders in a row wtf doordash??

all in the last few days bruh

Had an order that was $27 for 17 miles. It was a single 6 count box of sample sized Krispy Kreme donuts from a DashMart. And it was to an affluent condo with a 7-11 in its parking lot, so the craving must have been real. I was thinking though after DD markup and other fees, this person paid probably over $40 for this box of tiny donuts.

Back to back orders for a sex shop… people in Santa Monica really embracing “hump day”

I can only speak to my neck of the woods, but for years, I got lots of offers NOT being in a hotspot.

Now? Forget it. If I’m not parked in bright red, I can look forward to 3 offers that would equal me earning 15.75 for 89 miles of driving.