6 months ago I quit my corporate job to DoorDash full time. Y’all said it was the honeymoon phase and I’d soon get fucked with low orders from DoorDash and I was just getting the good orders to get me hooked.

Fast forward 6 months and I’m making basically the same as I was at my $55k salary job. But I have so much more control and am much happier. Anyone who says you can’t make money doing this is an idiot too.

Side note “BuT aLL tHe WeAr and tEaR on YoUr CaR”

First of all that’s a tax deduction. Second of all I was commuting 500 miles a week for 5 days in office downtown in exchange for my salary and 50 hours. With no tax benefit.

I’m chillin tbh.

Dasherphobia is the funniest thing to me. I swear if it says leave at the door, you’ll never see a sign of these people. In weird driveways I’ll be doing a 19 point turn in someone’s driveway while their burger is getting cold but you know they’re not gonna open the door till I’m out of sight.

The only thing preventing more drivers from coming on and taking orders was the zone not being busy and having to schedule, now that anyone can dash 24/7, there's no point of scheduling anymore.

Wait times for offers went from 5 to 15 minutes to an hour or more, like yes in a saturated market already starving for orders, what we needed was more drivers to be able to dash anytime.

Yesterday, I delivered an order from Little Caesars pizza to this guy, and he was standing outside his a apartment complex in the parking lot waiting for me when I got there. I handed the pizza to him, and he said, "Thank you." Then, a little girl, maybe six or seven years old, came running out and asked, "Daddy, daddy, is he gone yet? I want to thank them!!" She then said, "Thank you for the pizza, it smells yummy!" After that, another little girl, maybe three years old, came running out and said, "Thank you, I promise I'll eat my pizza all gone!" That just made my day. Best tip ever!

My AR is improving as you can see in my screenshot. I'm rejecting all $10 for 10 miles trips into downtown. And if possible I try to reject anything $3.50 or lower bc I accepted a harmless lookiing $3 50 and it turned out to be a no parking luxury apartment with 3 full bags of chipotle and on the 10th floor with gang members on the elevator.

Got on and not a single offer for 1 hour.... how is that possible?

I go to pick an order up and this Old lady I see every day for the past year or more wont Hand me the order. I tell her I have to scan the reciept. She says she has to see me confirm. I tell her again I have to scan it. so I reach my phone over and scan it while she’s holding it. It auto completes the pick up. I try to take the bag, she’s still holding it and says I need to see you hit pick up. I tell her it’s already picked up. She still refuses to let go. I just had to leave man.

its literally NOT a requirement to show us hitting pick up or anything on our phone. DD support confirmed this and gave me half pay. I’ll keep showing my phone to the idiots to save time, but I’m not arguing with any one of these idiot store workers. if they act retarded I’m just leaving and canceling the order.

i really want to punch people

Ever since I quit my job, and started DoorDashing full-time, my family has been treating me like I’m a complete idiot and I’m lazy, for doing so.

For over a year, I’m not exaggerating, during every single conversation with some of my friends and family, at some point, they step up on a soap-box and start telling me how I’m putting miles on my car and I need to get a job. I work every day. I try to vent about my day to them, and they just ignore my woes, because they think I shouldn’t DD anyway, therefore, any grievances I have are my fault.

It’s frustrating when I think about how, I typically make about $21/hr, doordashing, and I made $28 an hour tonight ($25.2, when I factor out price of gas). I know that the “real job” they would be happy with me taking will likely pay $12-$15, before taxes. I work hard every day, and come home to people who act like I don’t do anything. I don’t know how to fix that… I just needed to vent, somewhere.

So I made the decision to rent a pick up truck for $119 for 24 hours with unlimited mileage. My car is in the shop so I wouldn’t be able to use it. It was either U-Haul or Home Depot and I chose Home Depot due to fact I wouldn’t have to worry about mileage. I live in a GREAT market (Cleveland Area) specifically Westlake to earn money. I plan to pick it up at 2:30pm today and work til midnight. Tomorrow I plan on working from 7am to 2pm before I have to return the vehicle at 230pm. I can definitely earn $400-$500+ in that span so I definitely think it’s worth it. I am also a Platinum Tier dasher so that’s a huge plus with the orders I receive. Obviously if you live in a bad or small market it is not worth it at all. Has anyone ever done this?

Customers: If you're going to have your order set to "hand it to me," that's fine, but please be ready to answer your door in a reasonable timeframe if you know you ordered something and a person is going to be knocking/ringing at the door. We aren't paid by the hour most of the time, The only way to make decent money doing DD is to be very efficient and have several orders an hour. Having us wait 5+ minutes at your door while you finish up a conversation on your phone or watch a YouTube video is taking money out of our pockets. Time is money. The exception would be for disabled people. I completely understand it might take you a few minutes to get to the door, and that's okay. I get it. For everyone else, please be as quick as possible, anticipate someone is coming to your door, and respect their time as much as possible. If you don't want to do this, have your order marked as "leave at door." This is much better for everyone involved! To the customers who meet us outside, who answer doors promptly, and so on kudos to you and thanks! To everyone else, please be more considerate.

Add the following four lines to your cell phone's clipboard. Use after every delivery as negative feedback.

$2 per pickup.
$1.50 per mile.
$2 per mile after 5 miles.
$7 minimum.

This should be the baseline, not an average. It is the responsibility of the service provider (Doordash) to ensure these rates when the customer's tip isn't sufficient. It doesn't matter if you're delivering an $8 coffee or $200 worth of Chinese Food. You're not here to do deliveries for free.

Anyone else’s app saying you’re not at the drop off location when trying to complete orders? It happened to me 3 times last night. It’s a huge inconvenience as I’ve had to contact support about it which takes forever to resolve. Also, it’s make me even more worried that someone will try to lie and say they didn’t receive their purchase. I also don’t like the way the setup is now with double orders.

Offer was $15 for 5 miles which was enticing but as soon as I saw this and the message saying I may need all the room in my car I immediately unassigned. If I could at least know what they were I would’ve considered going through with it, but I’m not risking taking 15 bags of soil or smthn up 3 flights up stairs

Just as the title header says, this guy wanted me to buy leaf wraps, but I'm pretty sure you need to go through the proper channels for that there bucko.

I was wondering when my day would come. I wish I could see what they said or how DD believed them. But nah now everything getting documented as hell.

I think I know which order it is too. Its usually an area I avoid but it was stacked with another order and it was slow and good money.

I am never going in that area again.

If you DD long enough you know there are certain areas where people will do this. I just never thought it’d happen to me (yet).

It was a $16.xx order (7 miles) stacked and whats funny is, the base pay was 14.xx, the tip was $2 from them and the other person was $0.

But with that high base pay it was a large order, they prob tried to get a refund or something smh

I found out that some drivers in my area order food just to give a 4-star rating to the delivery driver and bring their rating down.

I delivered an order recently only for the customer to tell me there was no option to leave a tip after. I went to my cash app hoping they wouldn't mind sending me the tip directly. But there's 0 way for you to get back into a past chat. I contacted DD support and they were absolutely 0 help at all. I get garbage 2 and 3 dollar orders ALL DAY. And then when someone is kind enough to leave a tip. They can't? Garbage company. I genuinely need that money 😭😭

They offered me a "BONUS" (first ever in my market that ive seen btw) and its for 60 DELIVERIES IN 3 DAYS LOL. And only for $60 honestly im a 5 star platinum dasher in my small rural town market and this is and absolute joke of a challenge bonus. What do you think?

I am back to DD after being off since May. I don't understand the points system and what it takes to level up.

BTW my lat deliveries are such bull. I have none since I started back.

It’s horribly loud now and is way more annoying. Especially during the dinner rush, it’s excruciating on the ears.

Maybe it’s just me…

I know some days are slow, but I never go a half hour without getting an order. Let me know if anyone else is seeing this.

Man Thursdays are usually solid but on both Uber and DD I'm not even being sent offers. Anyone else or f*** Michigan in particular? lol

I was just about to end my night too. And got a good order 3 mi 11$ still in my neighborhood to head home right after. But I should of ended it right before that offer like I planned at least I could of had a chance to cash out. This is why I cash out daily on every app you never know when they will pull something like this. Stopping you from getting paid. And seriously at this time. After dealing with the hurricane in the gulf coast. Hopefully its just about all the items that are not available for purchase due to the hurricane. But other than that idk what they are finding me doing unusual or suspicious activity.

Well i guess im ubering for the rest of the night.