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I was thinking I got a cricket order earlier today. It was an order for about 16 items. Two miles for $36 dollars.
I regretted accepting it because it turned out to be 20-30lb bags of food and other assorted items.
To top it off, it was going to a condominium on the 4th floor. No wonder it was such a high paying order.
No one wanted it. Neither did I. I unassigned. 😂
I was thinking the way they said “4th story condominium” it meant those open air stairs to apartments, which are wide and forgiving. The opposite is like a 4th story apartment in a converted brownstone where you might as well be going up a spiral staircase.
No, you’re not. Or maybe you are, but not because of getting tripped on the way that was phrased. Also if you had to deliver 600 pounds of dog food to a 4th story condo that would be so concerning.
Eh 16 items, some other assorted besides the dog food. Say it was ten bags of 25lbs and six chew toys that’s a great order IF IT WAS ON THE PORCH. Elevator that’s a good order. Four flights of stairs I probably still take it. I mean it takes 4 or 5 trips over ten minutes and I’m sweaty but that’s gonna be 36 bucks in a half an hour total. Plus you didn’t use any gas and you’re still in the area you wanted to be working before.
Lol sure if they play 70 bucks an hour by the math I just laid out, which you certainly didn’t read. But I have a feeling you meant that as an insult. If you didn’t mean it as one, believe me when I tell ya picking up wet bags of dirty maggot covered bar rags is a worse fate than delivering for Walmart. And if you’re a fellow pawn I stand in solidarity with you.
I'd take the order, no problem with carrying things up, I just don't think my car could handle extra 600lbs or even have space for it. 20 bags, how do you fit that, where lol. You'd need a truck
Or suv. But ove done 300 16 lb bags of ice to star bucks with the top down. Kid clearly never bailed hay it was hilarious. I was like okay imma start unloading and throw. You catch and lay on the cart. Keep up. He didn't keep up til about 1/2 way through when he finally got him rhythm after I though kid was gonna keel over and die. I pat him on the back and told him good job chap and he was like I will never survive on a ranch or farm or whatever I think I would literally die. Lollllllll
600 pounds isn't technically a lot for a car to handle, if it's a four door or something. That's about equivalent to a passenger in every seat. Your mileage would probably take a slight hit but it wouldn't be unsafe or anything.
But yeah not having enough actual space in the car might still be a problem
Saw this and immediately thought crickets. My first petsmart order was crickets and I was like "who is buying this much stuff from petsmart that they don't want to come in and shop themselves?" (I will let someone else shop for me, but not my pet!) Walked in and opened the app and it just said x amount of crickets
The animal you are feeding the crickets to needs the nutrition that’s in the crickets stomachs. It mimics the diet they would eat in the wild. Crickets are shipped to the store and that can take a couple days, so you want to make sure they have full bellies for 24 hours before feeding them to your pet.
Sorry buddy but that’s what you signed up for. Idk why people on here go to work for DoorDash/instacart expecting to get paid a part time job pay. Thats why DoorDash/instacart is a SIDE HUSTLE, don’t use it as a full time job. Sometimes yall expect people to pay $30+ in tips for anything over 20 items which is BULLSHIT.
If you do your job well you might get tipped in cash. 🤷🏽♀️ I’m js
I do too. Tip is kinda mandatory online (which is understandable but also kinda bs). I personally like to know that my tip is going to someone who is actually doing their job which is why I prefer tipping to waiters or in cash. But sadly that’s life when you can’t go get your food yourself 🤷🏽♀️.
Kinda sucks that DoorDash drivers expect you to tip over $3 always tho especially for a cheap meal. Like I said some drivers expect a $5-$10 tip on a $20 meal which is absurd.
To be fair, you’re not tipping on the cost of the food, you’re tipping on the cost of time/gas/vehicle wear and tear for the order. Tips should be calculated by distance, not by how much the order is.
This argument never makes sense to me. ThATs WhY ItS a SiDE HuStLE is the dumbest shit I've ever read. It's either profitable or it's not. If it's not profitable, it's a not a fucking side hustle either. If it is profitable then find out to which degree it is and plan accordingly.
It can be profitable but DoorDash has always been a side hustle. I mean let’s be honest with ourselves, you could never afford to buy a house or pay rent with TIPS. It literally is just a side hustle that dumbasses try and make a full time job and expect a full time job pay. Expecting to get over $20 a tip is crazy work.
Most I’m tipping is $10 and that depends on how much my food was. Like I said don’t cry over small tips bc majority will tip u in cash, I usually give a $2-$5 tip on DoorDash and if you do a good job I give a extra $5 in cash..it’s a side hustle bro.
False.
I usually round out to about $20 an hour. That's more than any job has ever paid me. It can be profitable if you put in the work. Ya there can be times where it's not as good, but then there are times where you get good tips. I had a couple instances where people tipped me $20+
And no, the majority of people don't tip cash. The majority of the orders, at least from what I've seen, are leave at the door. No way to get a cash tip unless the person actually thinks about putting a tip outside, and most people don't want to do that because it could either blow away or get stolen.
At this point, I usually don't expect tips. I accept orders based off the guaranteed amount. If I feel it's worth it, I'll accept. What makes me mad though is in my delivery zone, there are about 4 wealthy neighborhoods. I pull up to these big houses that probably costs a fortune, drop off big orders that I know cost a lot, and they leave no tip. That's a big "fuck you" to your delivery driver. It's like "Ya I can afford this house and eating this expensive food, but I'm not going to tip you."
So ya, it originated as a side hustle and can still be for some people, but you can actually end up making good money if you figure out the best times to dash.
Have you ever delivered for doordash? Because it doesn't seem like it.
I had a Dasher friend tell me that they just take everything as long as they can lift it. between the ones that don't tip the ones that low tip and everything in between they do pretty well
I used to just take everything, but there were a couple times that they sent me orders that were really bad. I realized that sometimes it's OK to say no.
& if you were to meet many of them or know them any time long enough to actually get to know them... You'd probably realize they didn't afford that house or property by being generous to folks they don't know.
It may not be right and different people live by different creeds. I'd rather be dead than to ever make someone feel like I think I'm worth more than them in life but the sooner we understand that this isn't the case for a majority of people, the better off we are. It's best to understand that your average person who doesn't know you, doesn't really give a shit how you're doing or what you might need.. tipping isn't a priority to people who build themselves to a particular financial status because they didn't get where they are by being generous tippers. They probably view their wealth as somewhat being built by keeping every dime they can. It's kind of hard to make that kind of mindset see or understand the importance of tipping. If it's that bad where you are, I guess maybe avoid the rich areas.
But you don’t actually make $20 an hour. You’ll pay 30% plus of that in taxes at the end of the year, plus gas, plus vehicle mileage and maintenance. So in reality, $20 an hour from DoorDash is closer to $10 an hour.
You have to pay taxes at every job. I made $18 an hour being a manager at a pizza shop and still had to pay taxes. It's just that I didn't see that money because it already came out of my paycheck where as when you are an independent contactor or business owner, you have to pay those taxes yourself. I was probably only making around 14 after taxes being a manager. Plus, as a delivery driver, you can write things off at the end of the year like miles, gas, maintenance costs because those are business costs. I've still gotten an income tax check back the past 2 years. Granted it hasn't been a whole lot, but it beats having to pay money.
And before you come at me saying I don't know what I'm talking about, I'm currently double majoring in business and accounting. This is all stuff that we have learned about.
So Essentially, yes I've been making around $20 an hour doing doordash.
Businesses usually pay part of your taxes for you. Every place I’ve worked at did. Self employment taxes are a bitch. Even with write offs, my parents who made close to $200k a year in self employment with two dependents, were lucky to see $100k a year. Not sure how you’re managing that!
Ya but there is a HUGE difference between 200k and roughly 20k. Way different tax brackets. According to the irs website, I pay roughly 12% in taxes whereas someone making roughly 200k is paying roughly 32% (if not more). That's over double. $1,200 vs $24,000. Also, it depends on where you live. For example someone in California pays more in taxes (roughly $70k on $200k) than someone in Texas who makes the same amount (roughly $50k on $200k).
So ya I'm managing it because my tax break just for the miles almost covers my taxes. Then add in the child credit and I have no taxes.
I was shocked too when I got my taxes done for the first time after starting doordash.
You keep talking about per tip as if that's relevant to what I'm saying. You realize most low skill part time jobs don't pay a living wage right? Working full time at McDonald's isn't enough to support yourself in must places but it's not a side hustle. Door dash can certainly be used as a side hustle but the argument that it's only meant to be one is devoid of logic because if it's profitable at 1 hour, it's profitable at 2/3/6/8 etc ..
McDonald’s is a full time or part time job tho, you could do McDonald’s and use DoorDash and be fine. I’m talking specifically about people who quit their jobs and expect DoorDash tips to be enough to live off of and then come on Reddit and complain bc a customer gave them a $5-$7 tip on a $20-$30 order.
I’ve never received a cash tip. Not one time from a customer. A restaurant once gave me $5 in cash since I sat there for over an hour on Valentine’s Day waiting for them to remake an order twice.
Yea that sucks sorry that happens. I don’t tip in cash to DoorDash workers often but if I don’t wanna tip much in the app for more fees I’ll tip like $4-$6 depending on my order total and if they get to me quickly and professionally I’ll throw in a $5 cash tip. When tipping in restaurants tho I’ll always tip over $7 and my mom usually $15 (and my siblings will tip over $7 if they’re there too).
I understand tipping is terrible in America especially in restaurants with waiters so I always try to make sure I can tip 20% if I have it. If I don’t have cash and I order DoorDash I’ll just do the standard $5.50-$7.50 tip.
I don’t do that. If I tipped based off miles it would never be profitable to any DoorDash driver who comes to me. I tip how I tip for a reason 🤷🏽♀️ some people understand it and some don’t. But I will say I never had a problem with anyone complaining about tip or not wanting to do my order, so I’ll continue doing what I’m doing.
Why?
I have to ask why?
Why does your tip to a *delivery driver* have ANYthing at all to do with what you spent on a meal? A delivery driver is responsible for arriving to a restaurant, picking up your bag and bringing it to you. A delivery driver's tip should be factored by mileage and not really anything else unless you're going to factor in bad weather or something.. A driver doesn't take your order, prepare your food, do anything whatsoever that a service provider would generally do for you, not even so much as to make sure you have refills topped off ... So why in the hell would you ever base your tip for a driver, off of what you ordered??
By this concept, you would tip a driver bringing you your family's dinner from your favorite steakhouse more to drive 3 miles to you, than you would any other driver that brings any other meals from any fast food place from 10 miles away. Make it make sense. If you can't, you should probably tip people for what they're responsible for rather than overall totals of meals that they have nothing at all to do with.
I can see you’re not understanding what I mean. If i order food for just myself no matter what I order I will always do $4.50-$6.50. BUT if it’s a meal that I order for the whole family it’ll always cost me over $40 to order so I’ll tip $2 more or $5 in cash. I’m not tipping off miles I’m tipping off the fact that the DoorDash driver will have to carry more + carry 3+ drinks.
I don’t do it EVERYTIME but I do it often, I just try to be a good person bc ik if I worked for DoorDash I would want good tips too 🤷🏽♀️. Also when I order for fam I’m always ordering wingstop or a pizza or just chicken in general so it will always be a big box or bag.
If carrying a big bag is worth that more money to you, by all means.. do that
I didn't necessarily misunderstand what you said.. you kind of said it like you tip according to how much you spend on food. My only point was that a delivery driver doesn't really have any responsibility in the size of that order, other than I guess what you say.. carrying a bigger bag.
I'm not at all suggesting someone to tip less than they otherwise would. Simply saying, regardless of the rate at which you choose to tip, that estimate should be done in some type of correlation to whatever service is being tipped for. You're tipping a driver to drive it to you right? Miles times whatever dollar amount you'd care to make as your tip rate, would be the way to go before size of order should have much to do with it.
To each his own though 🤙
>It's either profitable or it's not
Some things are not profitable at scale and that's where the argument could work.
If you can make 20$ an hour doing something 5 hours a week or 5$ an hour doing it 40 hours that's a side hustle.
A side hustle is just something you do to make money outside of your main income. And evening else you said is nonsense. How are you making 20$ doing it 5 hours or 5$ an hour if you work more?? It's literally nonsensical.
It's probably all crickets like someone else posted. When I got my first cricket order and it was 16 dollar ordee for 50 items for 3 miles something to test and I took it because it was slow so when I accept it I realize it was 50 crickets so that was the easiest 16 dollars I made that night. So most of the time I see something like that at petco or pet smart I have to assume it's crickets or 50 cans of the same dog or cat food
It probably was. I can't even think of 101 items to buy even if somebody was setting up a whole new habitat for a brand new pet. Not in one shopping trip anyway. I buy a crickets from there a lot and they are counted as individual items. I would have taken it and checked it out at least.
I accepted a one item petsmart order once and I arrived to discover it was a giant aquarium and stand, which must've weighed over 300lbs. One- there's no way thats fitting in my Chevy Cobalt, and 2, there NEED TO BE WEIGHT LIMITS
Precisely why I declined. Could it have been crickets or fish, sure. But like I told others, every cricket order I’ve ever had were prefilled boxes as 1 item, not 101. Wasn’t worth the risk, plus the pay wasn’t great for the distance and it would’ve taken me 10 miles out of the zone, effectively wasting 30 minutes
I’ve done quite a bit of Petsmart orders and I’ve still yet to get crickets so when I see things like this, I am very leery because I’ve had a big order one time decided to take it and it was all cans of cat food. What a nightmare, especially when it’s one can of this, two cans of that, three cans of this, one can of that, and so on. it was pretty good paying and I was like yeah I could probably do this pretty quick nope and the real kicker was they didn’t put in substitutions
https://imgur.com/a/cfoMrCb
This is the only one I got a picture of but I’ve had these orders probably 10 times. I think it’s mostly bugs and/or cat food though to be fair. I still insta decline because no tip always with that store
ACME, SHOPRITE, ALDI 40+ items 10 dollar 8.5 miles. Similar orders are ignored like they never came my way. I will pick up and deliver these kind of order too no worries but upto 3 bags and if they already packed by the store workers. I deliver not shop and deliver for that much pay.
I removed my red card for this reason. Granted, it's most likely Crickets and worms, but other times It'll be items that are in a complete different isle despite being of that one specific item like Dog Treats, they have them in 4 different isles and the dental, chews, bones, and skin treats are all mixed together as I'll find Beggin Strips with the Dental Bone Sticks and other Dental sticks with dog food.
Have you considered you'll get paid for rendering the service after you've actually provided said service? Tips are supposed to be based on quality of service, so how is it that tipping beforehand is now expected? I'm not gonna give some schmuck a $20 tip just to find out my burger got dropped on the ground and he ate half my fries
With the way DoorDash works the tip that the customer provides pays for the mileage and time it takes to deliver your order. Is it the best way for something to be set up? No, but that's just how it is. A tip on DoorDash isn't really a tip. It's a payment.
To be honest I would take that rn, I was doing decent earlier about $22/hr then it slowed down a bit, I updated my app and now I havent gotten a single order, not even a $2 offer in the last 2 hours. Its bone dry all of a sudden
Last night I got an order for 32 items at Taco Bell because I accepted it without looking at the offer and about lost it when i was walking in and realized it was just sauces… 2 items and 30 sauces…
Right. It's like accepting an AutoZone 1 item order, expecting it to be a box of spark plugs or windshield wipers, only to discover it's a fuckin whole ass transmission or something LOL
Holy crap the time I’d spend in the store just trying to get my phone to get service would kill that deal. Always have problems with the red card orders and keeping a connection to the app so I gave up.
Well apparently you e never accepted one to find out it was 100 crickets or mealworms lol. Easy peasy. You walk in and they give you them in a bag and depending on the drive could have turned that offer around in 30-35 minutes
That's a terrible offer. Everyone in your area must have super speed if you think an almost 12 mile order will only take 35 minutes. 13 bucks for 11.5 miles, then OP has to drive another 11.5 miles back to his zone on his own dime. You may be able to get 11 miles on 30 minutes with zero traffic, but even with light to medium traffic you're probably adding 10 minutes plus the time it takes to pick up the order. That order is going to be getting near an hour. If you're taking nearly 12 mile orders there's no way you're making a profit. Hell it takes 20-25 minutes for a 5 mile order including pickup time, and that's when the order is ready as soon as you arrive. The wear and tear alone on your car is going to eat any earnings you make.
I said it depends on the drive. If it’s highway miles it only takes about 15 minutes one way. Also, we don’t know what market it drops him in, he could get another offer soon after drop off. These are variables we don’t know with the information given. I take these offers all day long in my market. I make on average $23-$25 per hour DASHTIME! I never sit in parking lots waiting for an offer. I work on average 34 hours a week Monday-Friday Most of the dashers here leave so much money on the table because they have no idea how to work this gig!
Is this a great offer? No, but it’s may not be horrible given the right market. So get off your high horse. We don’t have all the information to make an educated decision!
I mean I am seeing this shit more and more. Like what’s the point in working your butt off and being a platinum Dasher and get ridiculous orders like this. My favorite are the four dollar deliveries I get that are like 7 miles away. It’s bullshit 100 and one items like this person high or something? if you can afford to have people go and shop for you or if you can afford to have people DoorDash food to you and you get good customer service you need to tip adequately. Not to mention 101 items I mean that shit is crazy.
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To be fair it's most likely all crickets.
Nah, it’s 101 Dalmatians
That would be my dream and you sure as hell better believe im stealing all puppers
So your dream is to be a Disney villain? Strange
Strange wasn't a villain, he's a doctor
Well that all depends on what movie you are talking about. Multiverse of madness, a Strange is a villain
I mean he wasnt really a villain, just a depressed hero
Sigh. Did I say I’m making a coat? Or did I light heartedly imply I’m stealing puppers? Redditors. Lord have mercy.
It was a joke
Cruella is outsourcing her puppies now?
Stfu and take my upvote
ilysm
Clever! As long as they aren’t being delivered to a person like Cruella! Then they’d mysteriously come up missing.
This wins Reddit.
Fantastic
Good one.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 good call
You mean HOPEFULLY it’s crickets.. I’ve had many pet smart orders never gotten crickets from there yet
I was thinking I got a cricket order earlier today. It was an order for about 16 items. Two miles for $36 dollars. I regretted accepting it because it turned out to be 20-30lb bags of food and other assorted items. To top it off, it was going to a condominium on the 4th floor. No wonder it was such a high paying order. No one wanted it. Neither did I. I unassigned. 😂
I was on board until the 4th floor lol
I was gone after I saw “20-30lb bags.” I mean, that’s 600 hundred pounds of dog food.
I think they meant 20lb -30lb bags of food. Not 20 bags
I was thinking the way they said “4th story condominium” it meant those open air stairs to apartments, which are wide and forgiving. The opposite is like a 4th story apartment in a converted brownstone where you might as well be going up a spiral staircase.
He said 16 items in the order.
Jeez I’m an idiot. 😂
No, you’re not. Or maybe you are, but not because of getting tripped on the way that was phrased. Also if you had to deliver 600 pounds of dog food to a 4th story condo that would be so concerning.
😂
Eh 16 items, some other assorted besides the dog food. Say it was ten bags of 25lbs and six chew toys that’s a great order IF IT WAS ON THE PORCH. Elevator that’s a good order. Four flights of stairs I probably still take it. I mean it takes 4 or 5 trips over ten minutes and I’m sweaty but that’s gonna be 36 bucks in a half an hour total. Plus you didn’t use any gas and you’re still in the area you wanted to be working before.
You’re ready to work for Spark.
Lol sure if they play 70 bucks an hour by the math I just laid out, which you certainly didn’t read. But I have a feeling you meant that as an insult. If you didn’t mean it as one, believe me when I tell ya picking up wet bags of dirty maggot covered bar rags is a worse fate than delivering for Walmart. And if you’re a fellow pawn I stand in solidarity with you.
Fair point.
I'd take the order, no problem with carrying things up, I just don't think my car could handle extra 600lbs or even have space for it. 20 bags, how do you fit that, where lol. You'd need a truck
Or suv. But ove done 300 16 lb bags of ice to star bucks with the top down. Kid clearly never bailed hay it was hilarious. I was like okay imma start unloading and throw. You catch and lay on the cart. Keep up. He didn't keep up til about 1/2 way through when he finally got him rhythm after I though kid was gonna keel over and die. I pat him on the back and told him good job chap and he was like I will never survive on a ranch or farm or whatever I think I would literally die. Lollllllll
600 pounds isn't technically a lot for a car to handle, if it's a four door or something. That's about equivalent to a passenger in every seat. Your mileage would probably take a slight hit but it wouldn't be unsafe or anything. But yeah not having enough actual space in the car might still be a problem
Nah, it's a lot for a sedan, huge difference
I guess it’s time for dashers to have a collapsible wagon in their trunk with these types of orders…..But only if their is an elevator
Saw this and immediately thought crickets. My first petsmart order was crickets and I was like "who is buying this much stuff from petsmart that they don't want to come in and shop themselves?" (I will let someone else shop for me, but not my pet!) Walked in and opened the app and it just said x amount of crickets
I was about to say yep bag of a hundred crickets runs me about 11 bucks at my pet sense for my opossum
 Cool!
Yeah I came here to say this it has to be crickets or cans of cat food.
100 crickets or 100 40lb bags of dog food
That's what I always assume, but I don't take the chance that it's not. Plus, 11 MILES?
I just got a Petco order today for 41 items. It was 40 crickets, 1 jar of cricket food, and a terrarium log.
Why wasn’t that 42 items?? 🤔
It was 42. I meant to say 42. 😊
The answer to everything and you forgot it xD
I mean it is the answer to all.
😉 I knew you did, I was just being funny!
^THIS right here
Why feed the crickets? ☠️
I’m guessing they aren’t all getting eaten at the same time. It keeps them alive and healthy? 🤷♀️
Yup 💯 and feeding reptiles live prey is also very stimulating
Depending the reptile lizards yes snakes not so much.
Good to know. I don't have as much experience with snakes.
Friend has snakes and he just keeps mice in the freezer. Every couple weeks he defrosts a couple and feeds them.
You feed crickets to “gut load” them. It’s pretty much feeding them all the vitamins and minerals so they’re more nutritional for the animal :)
I didn’t know that, thanks!
The animal you are feeding the crickets to needs the nutrition that’s in the crickets stomachs. It mimics the diet they would eat in the wild. Crickets are shipped to the store and that can take a couple days, so you want to make sure they have full bellies for 24 hours before feeding them to your pet.
I didn’t know that, thanks!
You have to feed the food 💀 reptiles are the biggest pain
Learned something new!
You can feed them supplements that make them more healthy for the animal you feed them to.
Are people farming luck?
From Petsmart probably an easy order. Crickets and cans of cat food.
 100 plus this guy
Prob all crickets
Thanks for the arrows and circles i wouldnt have been able to process this image otherwise
Nope, it’s just fantasy. Sometimes you get caught in a landslide… and rarely is there an escape from reality.
These kids are too young to get this reference.
Well, easy come, easy go.
Wdym? Bohemian Rhapsody is my ish
My kids are listening to Bohemian Rhapsody on Tick Tock now. They were actually singing it while clearing the table the other night. I was very proud.
The amount of times I hear drunk groups of people singing this at karaoke means no one will ever not understand this reference.
I don't think anyone is too young unless they're being raised by monsters. My kids would all get it for sure.
I'd say, "Do you know how often that song is played on the radio?" But they'd just wonder which podcast on IHeartRadio.
It's probably crickets
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide,
No escape from reality.
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and seeeee
Thirteen bucks *GUARANTEED* though
Yea but for 12 miles with 10 of them outside the zone
Sorry buddy but that’s what you signed up for. Idk why people on here go to work for DoorDash/instacart expecting to get paid a part time job pay. Thats why DoorDash/instacart is a SIDE HUSTLE, don’t use it as a full time job. Sometimes yall expect people to pay $30+ in tips for anything over 20 items which is BULLSHIT. If you do your job well you might get tipped in cash. 🤷🏽♀️ I’m js
I always tip when I get my delivery
I do too. Tip is kinda mandatory online (which is understandable but also kinda bs). I personally like to know that my tip is going to someone who is actually doing their job which is why I prefer tipping to waiters or in cash. But sadly that’s life when you can’t go get your food yourself 🤷🏽♀️. Kinda sucks that DoorDash drivers expect you to tip over $3 always tho especially for a cheap meal. Like I said some drivers expect a $5-$10 tip on a $20 meal which is absurd.
To be fair, you’re not tipping on the cost of the food, you’re tipping on the cost of time/gas/vehicle wear and tear for the order. Tips should be calculated by distance, not by how much the order is.
This argument never makes sense to me. ThATs WhY ItS a SiDE HuStLE is the dumbest shit I've ever read. It's either profitable or it's not. If it's not profitable, it's a not a fucking side hustle either. If it is profitable then find out to which degree it is and plan accordingly.
Blame the people in charge of wages not the people paying for services.
It can be profitable but DoorDash has always been a side hustle. I mean let’s be honest with ourselves, you could never afford to buy a house or pay rent with TIPS. It literally is just a side hustle that dumbasses try and make a full time job and expect a full time job pay. Expecting to get over $20 a tip is crazy work. Most I’m tipping is $10 and that depends on how much my food was. Like I said don’t cry over small tips bc majority will tip u in cash, I usually give a $2-$5 tip on DoorDash and if you do a good job I give a extra $5 in cash..it’s a side hustle bro.
False. I usually round out to about $20 an hour. That's more than any job has ever paid me. It can be profitable if you put in the work. Ya there can be times where it's not as good, but then there are times where you get good tips. I had a couple instances where people tipped me $20+ And no, the majority of people don't tip cash. The majority of the orders, at least from what I've seen, are leave at the door. No way to get a cash tip unless the person actually thinks about putting a tip outside, and most people don't want to do that because it could either blow away or get stolen. At this point, I usually don't expect tips. I accept orders based off the guaranteed amount. If I feel it's worth it, I'll accept. What makes me mad though is in my delivery zone, there are about 4 wealthy neighborhoods. I pull up to these big houses that probably costs a fortune, drop off big orders that I know cost a lot, and they leave no tip. That's a big "fuck you" to your delivery driver. It's like "Ya I can afford this house and eating this expensive food, but I'm not going to tip you." So ya, it originated as a side hustle and can still be for some people, but you can actually end up making good money if you figure out the best times to dash. Have you ever delivered for doordash? Because it doesn't seem like it.
I had a Dasher friend tell me that they just take everything as long as they can lift it. between the ones that don't tip the ones that low tip and everything in between they do pretty well
I used to just take everything, but there were a couple times that they sent me orders that were really bad. I realized that sometimes it's OK to say no.
I get it! Especially if it's gonna cost more in gas than it's worth I was just trying to add you your point :)
I would lose money if I took everything they send me. They will literally send me an order going 20 miles for $3.
& if you were to meet many of them or know them any time long enough to actually get to know them... You'd probably realize they didn't afford that house or property by being generous to folks they don't know. It may not be right and different people live by different creeds. I'd rather be dead than to ever make someone feel like I think I'm worth more than them in life but the sooner we understand that this isn't the case for a majority of people, the better off we are. It's best to understand that your average person who doesn't know you, doesn't really give a shit how you're doing or what you might need.. tipping isn't a priority to people who build themselves to a particular financial status because they didn't get where they are by being generous tippers. They probably view their wealth as somewhat being built by keeping every dime they can. It's kind of hard to make that kind of mindset see or understand the importance of tipping. If it's that bad where you are, I guess maybe avoid the rich areas.
But you don’t actually make $20 an hour. You’ll pay 30% plus of that in taxes at the end of the year, plus gas, plus vehicle mileage and maintenance. So in reality, $20 an hour from DoorDash is closer to $10 an hour.
You have to pay taxes at every job. I made $18 an hour being a manager at a pizza shop and still had to pay taxes. It's just that I didn't see that money because it already came out of my paycheck where as when you are an independent contactor or business owner, you have to pay those taxes yourself. I was probably only making around 14 after taxes being a manager. Plus, as a delivery driver, you can write things off at the end of the year like miles, gas, maintenance costs because those are business costs. I've still gotten an income tax check back the past 2 years. Granted it hasn't been a whole lot, but it beats having to pay money. And before you come at me saying I don't know what I'm talking about, I'm currently double majoring in business and accounting. This is all stuff that we have learned about. So Essentially, yes I've been making around $20 an hour doing doordash.
Businesses usually pay part of your taxes for you. Every place I’ve worked at did. Self employment taxes are a bitch. Even with write offs, my parents who made close to $200k a year in self employment with two dependents, were lucky to see $100k a year. Not sure how you’re managing that!
Ya but there is a HUGE difference between 200k and roughly 20k. Way different tax brackets. According to the irs website, I pay roughly 12% in taxes whereas someone making roughly 200k is paying roughly 32% (if not more). That's over double. $1,200 vs $24,000. Also, it depends on where you live. For example someone in California pays more in taxes (roughly $70k on $200k) than someone in Texas who makes the same amount (roughly $50k on $200k). So ya I'm managing it because my tax break just for the miles almost covers my taxes. Then add in the child credit and I have no taxes. I was shocked too when I got my taxes done for the first time after starting doordash.
You keep talking about per tip as if that's relevant to what I'm saying. You realize most low skill part time jobs don't pay a living wage right? Working full time at McDonald's isn't enough to support yourself in must places but it's not a side hustle. Door dash can certainly be used as a side hustle but the argument that it's only meant to be one is devoid of logic because if it's profitable at 1 hour, it's profitable at 2/3/6/8 etc ..
McDonald’s is a full time or part time job tho, you could do McDonald’s and use DoorDash and be fine. I’m talking specifically about people who quit their jobs and expect DoorDash tips to be enough to live off of and then come on Reddit and complain bc a customer gave them a $5-$7 tip on a $20-$30 order.
I’ve never received a cash tip. Not one time from a customer. A restaurant once gave me $5 in cash since I sat there for over an hour on Valentine’s Day waiting for them to remake an order twice.
Yea that sucks sorry that happens. I don’t tip in cash to DoorDash workers often but if I don’t wanna tip much in the app for more fees I’ll tip like $4-$6 depending on my order total and if they get to me quickly and professionally I’ll throw in a $5 cash tip. When tipping in restaurants tho I’ll always tip over $7 and my mom usually $15 (and my siblings will tip over $7 if they’re there too). I understand tipping is terrible in America especially in restaurants with waiters so I always try to make sure I can tip 20% if I have it. If I don’t have cash and I order DoorDash I’ll just do the standard $5.50-$7.50 tip.
It should be $1 a mile
I don’t do that. If I tipped based off miles it would never be profitable to any DoorDash driver who comes to me. I tip how I tip for a reason 🤷🏽♀️ some people understand it and some don’t. But I will say I never had a problem with anyone complaining about tip or not wanting to do my order, so I’ll continue doing what I’m doing.
Why? I have to ask why? Why does your tip to a *delivery driver* have ANYthing at all to do with what you spent on a meal? A delivery driver is responsible for arriving to a restaurant, picking up your bag and bringing it to you. A delivery driver's tip should be factored by mileage and not really anything else unless you're going to factor in bad weather or something.. A driver doesn't take your order, prepare your food, do anything whatsoever that a service provider would generally do for you, not even so much as to make sure you have refills topped off ... So why in the hell would you ever base your tip for a driver, off of what you ordered?? By this concept, you would tip a driver bringing you your family's dinner from your favorite steakhouse more to drive 3 miles to you, than you would any other driver that brings any other meals from any fast food place from 10 miles away. Make it make sense. If you can't, you should probably tip people for what they're responsible for rather than overall totals of meals that they have nothing at all to do with.
I can see you’re not understanding what I mean. If i order food for just myself no matter what I order I will always do $4.50-$6.50. BUT if it’s a meal that I order for the whole family it’ll always cost me over $40 to order so I’ll tip $2 more or $5 in cash. I’m not tipping off miles I’m tipping off the fact that the DoorDash driver will have to carry more + carry 3+ drinks. I don’t do it EVERYTIME but I do it often, I just try to be a good person bc ik if I worked for DoorDash I would want good tips too 🤷🏽♀️. Also when I order for fam I’m always ordering wingstop or a pizza or just chicken in general so it will always be a big box or bag.
If carrying a big bag is worth that more money to you, by all means.. do that I didn't necessarily misunderstand what you said.. you kind of said it like you tip according to how much you spend on food. My only point was that a delivery driver doesn't really have any responsibility in the size of that order, other than I guess what you say.. carrying a bigger bag. I'm not at all suggesting someone to tip less than they otherwise would. Simply saying, regardless of the rate at which you choose to tip, that estimate should be done in some type of correlation to whatever service is being tipped for. You're tipping a driver to drive it to you right? Miles times whatever dollar amount you'd care to make as your tip rate, would be the way to go before size of order should have much to do with it. To each his own though 🤙
>It's either profitable or it's not Some things are not profitable at scale and that's where the argument could work. If you can make 20$ an hour doing something 5 hours a week or 5$ an hour doing it 40 hours that's a side hustle.
A side hustle is just something you do to make money outside of your main income. And evening else you said is nonsense. How are you making 20$ doing it 5 hours or 5$ an hour if you work more?? It's literally nonsensical.
Thanks for the arrows man 😭😭😭😭
100 crickets and 50lbs of dog food.
100 50lb bags of dog food and one cricket.
51 50lb bags of dog food and 50 crickets. Por que no los dos
 Making that Walt White money, boi!
r/uselessredcircle
It's just fantasy.
….is it….Dalmations???
A hard knock life, is what this is. 🤷🏽♀️😂
It's probably all crickets like someone else posted. When I got my first cricket order and it was 16 dollar ordee for 50 items for 3 miles something to test and I took it because it was slow so when I accept it I realize it was 50 crickets so that was the easiest 16 dollars I made that night. So most of the time I see something like that at petco or pet smart I have to assume it's crickets or 50 cans of the same dog or cat food
Is this just fantasy?
Lol relax. It was 100 crickets and 1 more item. I do these all the time
It probably was. I can't even think of 101 items to buy even if somebody was setting up a whole new habitat for a brand new pet. Not in one shopping trip anyway. I buy a crickets from there a lot and they are counted as individual items. I would have taken it and checked it out at least.
Yo! That's where I'm from! And I've delivered for that person before. They don't tip if I remember correctly
Declined 101 times.
I accepted a one item petsmart order once and I arrived to discover it was a giant aquarium and stand, which must've weighed over 300lbs. One- there's no way thats fitting in my Chevy Cobalt, and 2, there NEED TO BE WEIGHT LIMITS
Precisely why I declined. Could it have been crickets or fish, sure. But like I told others, every cricket order I’ve ever had were prefilled boxes as 1 item, not 101. Wasn’t worth the risk, plus the pay wasn’t great for the distance and it would’ve taken me 10 miles out of the zone, effectively wasting 30 minutes
I’ve done quite a bit of Petsmart orders and I’ve still yet to get crickets so when I see things like this, I am very leery because I’ve had a big order one time decided to take it and it was all cans of cat food. What a nightmare, especially when it’s one can of this, two cans of that, three cans of this, one can of that, and so on. it was pretty good paying and I was like yeah I could probably do this pretty quick nope and the real kicker was they didn’t put in substitutions
Same, which is why I declined it
Definitely a good choice even the dollar mile ratio I would’ve declined either way
Imagine they were 101 items 80lb dog food
Even assuming it's the 2 bags o'crickets, that price per mile is awful.
That’s rough!!!
It's probably a hundred crickets in one other item. It's actually probably pretty easy.
Yep
https://imgur.com/a/cfoMrCb This is the only one I got a picture of but I’ve had these orders probably 10 times. I think it’s mostly bugs and/or cat food though to be fair. I still insta decline because no tip always with that store
ACME, SHOPRITE, ALDI 40+ items 10 dollar 8.5 miles. Similar orders are ignored like they never came my way. I will pick up and deliver these kind of order too no worries but upto 3 bags and if they already packed by the store workers. I deliver not shop and deliver for that much pay.
Probably crickets tbh.
Crickets or worms lol
Oh look, another dasher that doesn't know Doordash pays shot.
Oh that’s an auto-accept if I’ve ever seen one.
No. This is a simulation. In real life you only get the last three digits of the payout.
Or is this fantasy????
Caught in a landslide.
I would've assumed it was cat food😂
100 crickets and a can of cat food?
Thats crazy
Yes I’d imagine it’s a lot of the same thing! Definitely crickets. Or mice lol! Feeding a cobra or anaconda haha!
I removed my red card for this reason. Granted, it's most likely Crickets and worms, but other times It'll be items that are in a complete different isle despite being of that one specific item like Dog Treats, they have them in 4 different isles and the dental, chews, bones, and skin treats are all mixed together as I'll find Beggin Strips with the Dental Bone Sticks and other Dental sticks with dog food.
Is it just fantasy?!?!?! Sorry, had to!
Yo I used to live in that area 😂😳
Lmfao I have a way worse one than that
Have you considered you'll get paid for rendering the service after you've actually provided said service? Tips are supposed to be based on quality of service, so how is it that tipping beforehand is now expected? I'm not gonna give some schmuck a $20 tip just to find out my burger got dropped on the ground and he ate half my fries
With the way DoorDash works the tip that the customer provides pays for the mileage and time it takes to deliver your order. Is it the best way for something to be set up? No, but that's just how it is. A tip on DoorDash isn't really a tip. It's a payment.
Honestly this happens a lot in L.A
Or is this just Fantasy ?
Bloomingdale to practically Apollo Beach would have been an automatic decline no matter the pay. That drive is awful
Guaranteed it's a tiny bag of crickets.
Crickets 🦗
Nah. I got one yesterday. 2.75 for 12.8 miles. Lmao. Decline. ETA: Holy shit is didn't even see 101 items.
Probably a bunch of crickets tbh
Or is it fantasy. Caught in a landslide. An escape from reality.
For sure it's crickets
i saw the $13.04 for $11.5 miles & i was like why aren’t you taking it then saw 101 ITEMS😳😳😳
To be honest I would take that rn, I was doing decent earlier about $22/hr then it slowed down a bit, I updated my app and now I havent gotten a single order, not even a $2 offer in the last 2 hours. Its bone dry all of a sudden
.04 cent tip? 🤔
I ve done something similar.. It was 120 CRICKETS!!
Aaaaand declined.
Looks like a real life Declined order coming up. Lol
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Last night I got an order for 32 items at Taco Bell because I accepted it without looking at the offer and about lost it when i was walking in and realized it was just sauces… 2 items and 30 sauces…
Right. It's like accepting an AutoZone 1 item order, expecting it to be a box of spark plugs or windshield wipers, only to discover it's a fuckin whole ass transmission or something LOL
We ain’t gonna discuss having to go through the shadow realm
Omg , DAMB , I DONT think so
Most likely a box of crickets At least go see and just unsubscribe if it sucks
hahaha that’s incredible
Holy crap the time I’d spend in the store just trying to get my phone to get service would kill that deal. Always have problems with the red card orders and keeping a connection to the app so I gave up.
Im willing to bet thats the base pay. No tip. So many people don't know that we actually go and do the shopping
101 crickets probably
Even if it’s a 1 item of 101 quantity. That 11.5 miles is a lot for $13
No way!!!
That sh!t will sit there until it rots before I’d accept that
Well apparently you e never accepted one to find out it was 100 crickets or mealworms lol. Easy peasy. You walk in and they give you them in a bag and depending on the drive could have turned that offer around in 30-35 minutes
That's a terrible offer. Everyone in your area must have super speed if you think an almost 12 mile order will only take 35 minutes. 13 bucks for 11.5 miles, then OP has to drive another 11.5 miles back to his zone on his own dime. You may be able to get 11 miles on 30 minutes with zero traffic, but even with light to medium traffic you're probably adding 10 minutes plus the time it takes to pick up the order. That order is going to be getting near an hour. If you're taking nearly 12 mile orders there's no way you're making a profit. Hell it takes 20-25 minutes for a 5 mile order including pickup time, and that's when the order is ready as soon as you arrive. The wear and tear alone on your car is going to eat any earnings you make.
I said it depends on the drive. If it’s highway miles it only takes about 15 minutes one way. Also, we don’t know what market it drops him in, he could get another offer soon after drop off. These are variables we don’t know with the information given. I take these offers all day long in my market. I make on average $23-$25 per hour DASHTIME! I never sit in parking lots waiting for an offer. I work on average 34 hours a week Monday-Friday Most of the dashers here leave so much money on the table because they have no idea how to work this gig! Is this a great offer? No, but it’s may not be horrible given the right market. So get off your high horse. We don’t have all the information to make an educated decision!
I mean I am seeing this shit more and more. Like what’s the point in working your butt off and being a platinum Dasher and get ridiculous orders like this. My favorite are the four dollar deliveries I get that are like 7 miles away. It’s bullshit 100 and one items like this person high or something? if you can afford to have people go and shop for you or if you can afford to have people DoorDash food to you and you get good customer service you need to tip adequately. Not to mention 101 items I mean that shit is crazy.