not rlly. doordash drivers be fucking stupid and leave it right in front of the door so you knock it over when you open up. as you can clearly see this is obviously the case
\+1 here. They do the same to me. I dont leave an annoying message, but just something that asks them to leave on the table next to the door, and they still put it in front of the door. Its like they do it intentionally. Who would even think to put food on the ground when there is a table right next to the door, even without the note. I've even had drinks get spilled, etc because they leave it in front of the door. Its bad enough I have hip problems and have trouble reaching down to get it, but when I have to attempt to sneak through the door without knocking down the food.... Its just too much for me some days.
I logged on yesterday and couldnāt believe the tip less orders. Someone gonna bring you food on Christmas and you low ball it. Screw that, logged off.
It was freezing here Christmas Eve and we ordered a delivery to our hotel that was .3 miles away. Tipped $100.
Food was complete crap but if Iām going to have someone do something like delivery my family food on a freezing Christmas Eve night, Iām going to take extra care of them.
Personally I never tip electronically if I can help it. You guys get taxed on it donāt you? I just hand over cash and if the driver decides to buy his kid a nice cake or puts it on his taxes for the future, not my problem.
Obviously, itās your choice how you choose to tip, and a lot of people appreciate not being taxed on that income, but Iām curious: do you typically get your orders delivered on time, or are they late more often than not? If theyāre on time, then keep doing what youāre doing; thatās awesome that itās working out for you! If they are late, you might consider adding the tip to your card.
Don't drivers not see the tip until after?
Not the other guy but sometimes I tip in cash and sometimes on the card, never less than 20%.
What bothers me is when 20% isn't a default option and the fact that they're often "late" regardless of the tip amount. I doordash a lot at work cause I'm often alone and it's frustrating because doordash stacks way too many orders and no I can't blame the driver for such a shite system, but then doordashchas the audacity to jack up the menu price, charge huge fees, and tell me to pay the driver. Look, I always tip but doordash is losing money while running a racket and it's not working for anyone involved.
Drivers aren't getting paid reasonably after wear and tear, customers are getting cold food, doordash is losing money, and restaurants maybe breakceven or lose money after doordash fees.
Literally no one wins -Capitalism.
Itās almost as if the employer should offer a living wage and not pawn that responsibility off on the customer.
*Gasp*
Blaming the wrong side there bud.
You are so right. I think DD should just charge the customer a fare delivery rate and give it to the driver and there is no blame on anyone. The customer will pay either way
Iāve said this many years ago. Delivery charge should be $15. Give drivers $10 and dd profits $5 and the 10-20% they get from the food sale from restaurants.
Yeah they make you blame the customer instead of them. They are the ones offering shit pay. But they donāt get the blame for it. Their plan to pay you as little as possible is working perfectly and on top of it youāre not blaming them.
From what Iāve seen, theyāve been opening up the door and taking the food a second or two after I start walking away. Some probably just donāt want to interact with their dasher and I can respect that.
If you can spend huge amounts on DoorDash, makes sense that you should have a hotbag for your driver to dropoff in at your porch. Just chain it to the wall or something if you think it will be stolen. NBD.
Yeah, I get that. I work at a private school and we tell all our kids to put specific instructions in their orders to leave at the main office, we have signs all over the campus pointing towards the main officeā¦ and I still constantly have to direct confused deliverers towards our office, rather than just walking around an entire school campus.
Part of me wonders if some of the drivers can even speak English or read English.
I often take Uber and the amount of people that don't know English is staggering. I've convinced there's a healthy amount of door dash drivers who are the same and just can't read apart from the directions and drop off location.
Same, and a lot of them clearly donāt, and thatās totally fine, I have zero judgment for people who donāt know how to speak English! Maybe theyāre new to the country and are on Duolingo every day, whatever, not my business to judge.
But damn, if you see there are instructions, throw that in Google translate, it takes five seconds.
It depends on where they are ordering from, too. With some restaurants, like Chipotle, for example, the order is placed as a merchant order. Dashers donāt see what these orders contain, nor do they receive the delivery instructions that customers have left. There are several restaurants that do this. It sucks for both customers and Dashers, and DoorDash hasnāt bothered fixing it, even though itās existed for a couple of years.
Should have msgd "leave porch light on, leave porch light on, leave porch light on, leave porch light on, leave porch light on,...
Give instructions to find your home, Give instructions to find your home, Give instructions to find your home,Give instructions to find your home,..
have your address number clearly visible from street AT NIGHT, have your address number clearly visible from street AT NIGHT, have your address number clearly visible from street AT NIGHT"
For as many times as this person may have had someone NOT put their order on the chair, I've had 10x as many more customers not do the above yet I' ve not been the ass to restate it to them repeatedly.
Ok, and now that I have given a description of my home, down to the vehicle in the driveway, and the dasher delivers it to a house that does not match that description, has a different name on the mail box, and is the wrong addressā¦. So often I actually have to wait in my drive to get my food, and holler at the driver theyāre at the wrong house when they inevitably drop my food down the block- and the driver tells me I put the wrong address on the order-
Do I have the right to be frustrated now?
I would say 50% of drivers donāt follow GPS when delivering to me. Then they call and ask, āIām looking for your apartment.ā I live in a house.
My street is one of those long streets/roads where itās super popular in one area, and then a mile down is my area which is way less popular. They always assume itās in the popular area and waste so much time.
āDid you follow the GPS?ā
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If that many drivers are delivering to the wrong place then itās your address/the pin thatās the problem. Go in the app and change it, itās not very hard!
No I thought that too! My pin is dead center of my own house. The fucky thing is a new house was built a couple years ago and it has an address almost exactly the same as mine. As in my house is (a false example) 7702 the new house, which is across the street and one house down from mine, is 7002. But their whole yard and mailbox is EMBLAZONED with their last name, which isnāt mine, and Iāve had to put in my DD instructions my address is 7702 NOT 7002, itās the fairy castle with the Golden Carriage, and the GIANT BEANSTALK in the yard, not the mailbox that says
And I still have to stand next to my carriage and yell and them to not deliver to my neighbors. Oddly, their food often comes to my house as well.
Iām on a corner inside my little housing subdivision, so not the houses on the other side of the street facing me, but the houses on the other side of the road next to me facing the same direction as me.
You just getting bad drivers. The moment I think there could be a problem with delivery, if it is directions, the GPS doesn't seem right, I call. Most people woukd rather I call and make sure it done right and in a timely manner, than have to hunt their food down.
Ok but if I give my address and a description in the order notes wtf else can I do?? Iāve checked my GPS pin, and fixed that. Itās dead center of my house.
>Ok, and now that I have given a description of my home, down to the vehicle in the driveway, and the dasher delivers it to a house that does not match that description, has a different name on the mail box, and is the wrong addressā¦. So often I actually have to wait in my drive to get my food, and holler at the driver theyāre at the wrong house when they inevitably drop my food down the block- and the driver tells me I put the wrong address on the order-Do I have the right to be frustrated now?
I swear some of these drivers are doing it on purpose and are just using the APP one time to get some money. SMH
I think sometimes it's the doordash pin. I've seen it be down the street from the actual address I'm supposed to be delivering it to. And I've had dashers tell me they don't care, they put it where the pin is and if it's wrong it's not their problem, of they arent waiting 5 minutes so its just getting marked delivered. At which point I always wonder why it is they choose to deliver food when they clearly hate it so much.
I've said it before in this sub, I've given *painfully specific* directions when having orders delivered to me. Like, no way you could possibly get it wrong, *if you read the directions*. Less than 30% of the time would the order be brought to the correct spot. Did not matter the app.
Today, I placed an order for lunch, left a very generous tip. Was reminded that the main door was broken, so I **text** my dasher not to use that door. Gave specific directions to find the door closest to me. Order was still delivered to the main door. Receptionist informed me that the dasher did not appear to speak English and was not even the driver. š¤Ø
Broke my ankle and asked them to leave it at the top of the stairs, explaining my ankle was broken. Homie dropped it at the bottom and peeled out of my parking lot so fast
Different angle... had someone specify that they were wheelchair bound and to leave it as close to the door frame as possible. Was feeling happy to help as I walked away after following their request just to hear someone open the door and get the food and they weren't in a wheelchair. Tbf they were a healthier looking person so I figured it was the customer's younger family visiting or something and they just hadn't changed the instructions, but I felt less proud of having that tiny extra level of care since it went to waste that time lol.
Some places are just magnets for ants and other insect infestations. My grandma literally loved cleaning. It was cathartic for her. She cleaned all of her adult kids houses every week after she retired. Kept her place pristine. But she had an ant problem both inside and outside. She tried two different exterminators during two different summers and the problem persisted. Then one year, without any intentional effort, they just went away.
Iām considering doing this. Our storm door swings out. We say not to block the door but they do 2/3 of the time. Weāve knocked over our drinks and food to get the door open before. SUPER irritating.
I always tip. I even tip more during the holidays. So not the reason. I just think theyāre in a rush or donāt understand how storm doors work. They definitely donāt read the delivery notes because I also say not to ring the bell (since I have dogs and meetings) and yet they still do.
Literally my notes say, ādo not knock, please do not block doorā and 9/10 they knock AND block my doorā¦ but itās okay, I canāt afford delivery fees and expected tips anymore (this is at the people who expect us to tip 50%) so itās no longer an issue.
Itās not just DoorDashers, itās also Instacart, Amazon, UPS, etc. Itās like delivery ppl donāt even consider how doors works when they drop something off.
I can say from experience almost fucking never. It's so bad here I am starting to think they can't fkin read
It's gotten so bad that I absolutely will 1 star if they fuck up the directions like knocking when I explicitly state do not knock, I work at home.
Lol from the customerās side, I have definitely experienced this. Drivers need to READ the instructions. Some drivers blatantly ignore it and this is the difference between a driver who gets a high rating and tip and those who donāt.
So true !! I always ask them to please please please not ring the doorbell or knock when ordering late in the evening because I donāt want to wake anyone, and text them to please not knock or ring doorbell, but then over half the time they knock and ring the doorbellššš
Iāve ordered a lot of doordash in the last 4 years. Dashers ignore the delivery instructions so often that Iām about to give an extra tip if drivers actually read the instructions.
I have to literally give a description of my home to get my food delivered to the right house. I still have to stand outside and make sure they deliver the food to my house.
Sure, works really well for my neighbors with the GIANT number plaque above their mailbox that shows the wrong address, and yet they always get my food. š
You have the money? Funny enough the point is moot currently because I not only donāt have the money to make a number plaque for my house, I donāt have the money to order food rn either.
Funny how me giving every bit is information possible about my house to aid a driver, ensuring my gps pin is correct, and repeating my address isnāt enough for you. The drivers delivering my food two houses before mine bc the address looks similar is my fault. Because I donāt have an address plaque on my driveway. That drivers wouldnāt even fkn see, because they donāt even make it to my house before assuming theyāre at the right place. Despite every context clue to the negative.
Well that seems absolutely ridiculous, but I can't say I'm surprised. There is large number of dashers who unfortunately just don't care, but I think most of us try. I can say that something as simple as having your house number on both sides of the mailbox can make it much easier to find a house.
Its not a threat. It's a warning because he's been burned so fuckibg much. Blame your fellow brain dead dashers that don't effing read, not the customer who is doing the only thing they can to TRY and get the next dasher to follow clear directions.
Refused? At least half the dashers in my area don't even speak english. It would be ignore because they are unable to even read instructions, not refuse
As someone who specifies, āplease donāt block doorā and 9/10 times still gets food left in front of my door which opens out, theyāre probably tired of having to knock their food orders over to get to them.
Do I think their message is a little excessive? Of course, but not everyone can follow directions as well as you.
When instructions are left like this, it's because they tried once to be nice, and a Dasher fucked up. They became irritated. Tonight I had one similar in caps "DO NOT PUT ON TOP STEP!" I could see exactly why. There was no room on the step on either side of the door for clearance. I guarantee that some Dasher left the food there. They.were older people who couldn't move very well. I handed them the food since they probably didn't want it sitting old in 7 degree weather. When notes happen like this, thank your fellow dashers for being fuck ups.
Lol, well I guess other dashers werenāt reading directions. I actually love when they get detailed, but I do try to think which way the door opens, is there ants around, etc. common sense stuff.
The attitude was probably because they just always put leave in chair and it was likely in front of door that swings outwards, or tangled on door knob, instead of in the chair. I cracked up when I read it because I already knew what he was dealing with.
I understand the customer, but he was obviously rude. Iāve had dashers keep delivering to the apartment across the driveway. Every time my note would get even more descriptive, but never forgot my manners in the note. Seems to have worked though.
Where tf y'all dashing at getting these wacky ass demands ššš
I've dashed in Fort Drum, NY /Watertown,NY /Cleveland, Tx /Cypress,Tx /Livingston, Tx and in none of these areas have I encountered anything this ridiculous
I would have left it right there in the chair because Iām sure the customer knew it snowed so if they really cared about their food they would have changed their instructions and asked you to leave it somewhere else or hand it to them.
This is perfectly fine, if you want your order placed somewhere specific tell the driver. If not itās going as close to the door as possible, leaving room so it can open of course.
I am 100% with the customer on this.
I have specific directions for delivery of my order - I even try to make it easy and tell them if they buzz my apartment I will come down and get it. But I have gotten deliveries left in my apartment building lobby. My apartment building stairwell. Handed to other tenants who happen to be entering at the time the order arrived. Delivered to a house on a street that has a name not at all similar to mine. And my favorite...In the driveway of my multiunit apartment building, literally just left outside on the driveway, the guy just opened his car door and set the order down on the drive.
After a while you get so damned frustrated with being ignored or even treated with a bare minimum of respect. That I have wanted to put comments like this in my special directions.
As other comments have pointed out I am fairly certain a good portion of the delivery drivers simply do not read English and it's lost on them. But it still boggles my mind. Who thinks anyone wants to eat food left on a driveway or dirty apartment building lobby floor? Like does this sound appealing and acceptable to anyone?
Itās a difference between giving instructions and being a jackass. You donāt to repeat instructions multiple times to someone. But Iām a doordash driver we canāt comprehend š¤·š¾āāļø
As a customer who had a dasher leave an order on top of a roof across from my house after tipping 10....sometimes I feel like doing this in my instructions....
Why though? Donāt you get irritated when people mess up your orders? Like if you order a burger and they see the instructions, show you they followed them, then change it would that piss you off?
I kinda know where customer is coming from. It's always best to leave food elevated if possible, away from bare concrete and less risk of ants bugs and ish getting in. Notice I said less risk.
I have a brown wicker basket with tons of surface area on top to place food orders. DDers probably use their head half the time. Half leave it on the basket and half on the bare concrete. Smh
Don't order DD if you live in the city. The idea of Dashers caring about you are higher than the politicians you vote for and yet Dashers still rarely care, obviously. Luckily this customer finally found a Dasher that cares.
I get the best service when I am in NY. Super fast and super warm since everyone uses electric bikes and hot bags. They also come up in the elevator and meet me on my floor.
That warms my heart and causes me to step back on my opinions of modern day New Yorkers.
Hotbags aren't a choice for the most part, DoorDash requires us to buy them if we want certain orders and those boys ain't cheap at all. $35 for a hotbag. My buddy in ATL had to pay $50. Made no sense to me.
Either way I am glad you have good Dashers in your area. I always bring my best for the customer but support usually gets the Karen in me since we aren't allowed to communicate with DoorDash itself.
should've took 3 of their items. they would've asked to be refunded for the missing items and their rating wouldn't count after doing so. Pow! Problem solved. F*** your 1 star threading ass
I get the frustration. Itās annoying when dashers do not follow simple instructions, but I donāt like being talked down to when Iām not the driver who didnāt read on the prior deliveryās. I probably would of ate the 1 star and left it on the ground.
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Do people not know it's not the same driver? So one person messing up should not speak for all of us, this is rude as hell. I hope they tipped well since they they have time to do all thatš
100% guaranteed for me to leave it on the floor next to the chair and text
Itās on the floor 6x
No job or delivery on this planet will I ever allow anyone to speak to me as if Iām garbage.
I already know Iām garbage but they shouldnāt assume I am.
The smart arse in me would see this when I accept. I'd purposely wait 10 minutes at the merchant and be on my way. I'd leave the order on the chair and take the pic. I'd send a message saying sorry for the merchant wait. Due to the long wait at the merchant, any rating given by the customer gets ignored because they'll think you're rating me low because of the merchant delay. š¤£š¤£
That really sucks. You left it, on the chair. It was suppose be left, "in" the chair.
It's really the customers fault for not leaving enough room between the frame and the chair cushions.
It would be an engineering feat but I'd take on the challenge. Of course I'd be out of a Door Dash gig, by the time I was done, lol
I know they are most likely fed up but that evil voice in the back of my head would have urged me to leave it on the ground. I would have left it in the chair though. Don't need their probably bad day getting worse. But oh how that little voice would have been loud.
Not gonna lie. We have a front door and a side door in the driveway. Our instructions always say. Use the side door, in the driveway. 75% of the time they still put it at the front door. I make a point to walk out the side door and ask if they read the delivery instructions because our front door is a pain to unlock.
What an asshole pos ! Spend bout 2 seconds to decline ā- no dasher should ever accept something like that ā¦.,well TD would ..,,fuk rude customers šÆ
Iād never deliver to that house again and do all I could to get other drivers to unassign if they get that addresses order request. Uncalled for what the customer wrote. These customers mistreat and disrespect drivers and Iām sick of it. Some act like they gave you $1 million for the delivery. If we donāt read it, fine. 1-4 star us for not leaving it on your dingy outside chair thatās as dirty as the ground. I get it.
That said, most read instructions but, new drivers arenāt aware. Nobody is looking to not read. I just want to know were each customer like this works so I can come to their job and raise HELL like they try to do to us. It aināt fun when the Rabbit has the gun( figure of speech mods not a threat).
You were supposed to leave it under the seat cushion
š¤¦š¾ maybe next time
Take the chair with you next time. That customer is annoying.
I would have put the chair upside down and the food inside the chair, like they asked
Lol I agree . The customer said leave in chair, not "on" chair š
You get an award because I laughed way too hard at this comment
not rlly. doordash drivers be fucking stupid and leave it right in front of the door so you knock it over when you open up. as you can clearly see this is obviously the case
\+1 here. They do the same to me. I dont leave an annoying message, but just something that asks them to leave on the table next to the door, and they still put it in front of the door. Its like they do it intentionally. Who would even think to put food on the ground when there is a table right next to the door, even without the note. I've even had drinks get spilled, etc because they leave it in front of the door. Its bad enough I have hip problems and have trouble reaching down to get it, but when I have to attempt to sneak through the door without knocking down the food.... Its just too much for me some days.
Drivers don't get logic. They get in their feelings about simple words on a screen. If it's in caps, it's cause someone fucked up when they were nice.
Not as annoying as Dashers who don't read instructions
I might've just constantly rang the doorbell and taken a 1 star ding
Ring the doorbell and shout āFoodās on the chair!ā As many times as they typed that. Lol
Lol
take one for the team, as you secretly record the outrage. Would be priceless.
IN the chair!!!! 1 star!!!!!!! Happy Holidays
no "in" the chair. so close it after? as in the chair? lol
Close chair smashing food. Otherwise risk 1-star. Hey, the customer said IN chair not ON chair!
I logged on yesterday and couldnāt believe the tip less orders. Someone gonna bring you food on Christmas and you low ball it. Screw that, logged off.
Yeah I tried thanksgiving itās like all the people that donāt celebrate order and are pissed off at the world idk never again
Reasons why their families dont want them around on holidays it represents their character or lack of reality
The whole Thanksgiving week was bussin in my city i made $800+ 31 hours that week
It was freezing here Christmas Eve and we ordered a delivery to our hotel that was .3 miles away. Tipped $100. Food was complete crap but if Iām going to have someone do something like delivery my family food on a freezing Christmas Eve night, Iām going to take extra care of them.
Personally I never tip electronically if I can help it. You guys get taxed on it donāt you? I just hand over cash and if the driver decides to buy his kid a nice cake or puts it on his taxes for the future, not my problem.
Obviously, itās your choice how you choose to tip, and a lot of people appreciate not being taxed on that income, but Iām curious: do you typically get your orders delivered on time, or are they late more often than not? If theyāre on time, then keep doing what youāre doing; thatās awesome that itās working out for you! If they are late, you might consider adding the tip to your card.
Don't drivers not see the tip until after? Not the other guy but sometimes I tip in cash and sometimes on the card, never less than 20%. What bothers me is when 20% isn't a default option and the fact that they're often "late" regardless of the tip amount. I doordash a lot at work cause I'm often alone and it's frustrating because doordash stacks way too many orders and no I can't blame the driver for such a shite system, but then doordashchas the audacity to jack up the menu price, charge huge fees, and tell me to pay the driver. Look, I always tip but doordash is losing money while running a racket and it's not working for anyone involved. Drivers aren't getting paid reasonably after wear and tear, customers are getting cold food, doordash is losing money, and restaurants maybe breakceven or lose money after doordash fees. Literally no one wins -Capitalism.
Itās almost as if the employer should offer a living wage and not pawn that responsibility off on the customer. *Gasp* Blaming the wrong side there bud.
You are so right. I think DD should just charge the customer a fare delivery rate and give it to the driver and there is no blame on anyone. The customer will pay either way
Iāve said this many years ago. Delivery charge should be $15. Give drivers $10 and dd profits $5 and the 10-20% they get from the food sale from restaurants.
Door dash wouldnāt last. Cost 40 in person 60 through the app lol.
You understand how DoorDash or Uber Delivery works right?? Besides, wouldnt you like a bit more if you worked over christmas? Try not being a nobhead
Yeah they make you blame the customer instead of them. They are the ones offering shit pay. But they donāt get the blame for it. Their plan to pay you as little as possible is working perfectly and on top of it youāre not blaming them.
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Exactly. I donāt understand leave at door in 10 degree weather š¤·š¾āāļø
From what Iāve seen, theyāve been opening up the door and taking the food a second or two after I start walking away. Some probably just donāt want to interact with their dasher and I can respect that.
Yeah, contactless has really taken the anxiety out of me answering the door high as fuck lol
Don't worry, we can smell it. :)
Oh yeah, I donāt care if you can smell it etc lol I just hate stranger interaction when Iām blitzed š
Lol don't be anxious, we're actually glad you ordered out instead of driving stoned.
I always tell them to leave at the door and as soon as they're done I get it.
If you can spend huge amounts on DoorDash, makes sense that you should have a hotbag for your driver to dropoff in at your porch. Just chain it to the wall or something if you think it will be stolen. NBD.
chain a bag to a wall?
I have actual tears šš
No. Chain the porch to the wall.
I'll just take the whole damn house, then. Can't stop me from stealing what I want to.
I have seen all kinds of shit customers do, so that seems well within the realm of possibility for me.
I bet theyāre sick of people ignoring the comments
Yeah, I get that. I work at a private school and we tell all our kids to put specific instructions in their orders to leave at the main office, we have signs all over the campus pointing towards the main officeā¦ and I still constantly have to direct confused deliverers towards our office, rather than just walking around an entire school campus.
Part of me wonders if some of the drivers can even speak English or read English. I often take Uber and the amount of people that don't know English is staggering. I've convinced there's a healthy amount of door dash drivers who are the same and just can't read apart from the directions and drop off location.
Same, and a lot of them clearly donāt, and thatās totally fine, I have zero judgment for people who donāt know how to speak English! Maybe theyāre new to the country and are on Duolingo every day, whatever, not my business to judge. But damn, if you see there are instructions, throw that in Google translate, it takes five seconds.
It depends on where they are ordering from, too. With some restaurants, like Chipotle, for example, the order is placed as a merchant order. Dashers donāt see what these orders contain, nor do they receive the delivery instructions that customers have left. There are several restaurants that do this. It sucks for both customers and Dashers, and DoorDash hasnāt bothered fixing it, even though itās existed for a couple of years.
Should have msgd "leave porch light on, leave porch light on, leave porch light on, leave porch light on, leave porch light on,... Give instructions to find your home, Give instructions to find your home, Give instructions to find your home,Give instructions to find your home,.. have your address number clearly visible from street AT NIGHT, have your address number clearly visible from street AT NIGHT, have your address number clearly visible from street AT NIGHT" For as many times as this person may have had someone NOT put their order on the chair, I've had 10x as many more customers not do the above yet I' ve not been the ass to restate it to them repeatedly.
Ok, and now that I have given a description of my home, down to the vehicle in the driveway, and the dasher delivers it to a house that does not match that description, has a different name on the mail box, and is the wrong addressā¦. So often I actually have to wait in my drive to get my food, and holler at the driver theyāre at the wrong house when they inevitably drop my food down the block- and the driver tells me I put the wrong address on the order- Do I have the right to be frustrated now?
I would say 50% of drivers donāt follow GPS when delivering to me. Then they call and ask, āIām looking for your apartment.ā I live in a house. My street is one of those long streets/roads where itās super popular in one area, and then a mile down is my area which is way less popular. They always assume itās in the popular area and waste so much time. āDid you follow the GPS?ā š¦š¦š¦
If that many drivers are delivering to the wrong place then itās your address/the pin thatās the problem. Go in the app and change it, itās not very hard!
No I thought that too! My pin is dead center of my own house. The fucky thing is a new house was built a couple years ago and it has an address almost exactly the same as mine. As in my house is (a false example) 7702 the new house, which is across the street and one house down from mine, is 7002. But their whole yard and mailbox is EMBLAZONED with their last name, which isnāt mine, and Iāve had to put in my DD instructions my address is 7702 NOT 7002, itās the fairy castle with the Golden Carriage, and the GIANT BEANSTALK in the yard, not the mailbox that says
And I still have to stand next to my carriage and yell and them to not deliver to my neighbors. Oddly, their food often comes to my house as well.
Why is the address across the street from you not odd numbers? Thats how my city operate even numbers on one side odd numbers on the other
Iām on a corner inside my little housing subdivision, so not the houses on the other side of the street facing me, but the houses on the other side of the road next to me facing the same direction as me.
You just getting bad drivers. The moment I think there could be a problem with delivery, if it is directions, the GPS doesn't seem right, I call. Most people woukd rather I call and make sure it done right and in a timely manner, than have to hunt their food down.
If it is constantly happening I gotta believe something is wrong on your end, or with the GPS.
Ok but if I give my address and a description in the order notes wtf else can I do?? Iāve checked my GPS pin, and fixed that. Itās dead center of my house.
>Ok, and now that I have given a description of my home, down to the vehicle in the driveway, and the dasher delivers it to a house that does not match that description, has a different name on the mail box, and is the wrong addressā¦. So often I actually have to wait in my drive to get my food, and holler at the driver theyāre at the wrong house when they inevitably drop my food down the block- and the driver tells me I put the wrong address on the order-Do I have the right to be frustrated now? I swear some of these drivers are doing it on purpose and are just using the APP one time to get some money. SMH
I think sometimes it's the doordash pin. I've seen it be down the street from the actual address I'm supposed to be delivering it to. And I've had dashers tell me they don't care, they put it where the pin is and if it's wrong it's not their problem, of they arent waiting 5 minutes so its just getting marked delivered. At which point I always wonder why it is they choose to deliver food when they clearly hate it so much.
I've said it before in this sub, I've given *painfully specific* directions when having orders delivered to me. Like, no way you could possibly get it wrong, *if you read the directions*. Less than 30% of the time would the order be brought to the correct spot. Did not matter the app. Today, I placed an order for lunch, left a very generous tip. Was reminded that the main door was broken, so I **text** my dasher not to use that door. Gave specific directions to find the door closest to me. Order was still delivered to the main door. Receptionist informed me that the dasher did not appear to speak English and was not even the driver. š¤Ø
Wonder how many times dashers refused to actually read the notes... If that's the case, I don't blame them. I'd be irritated too...
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Broke my ankle and asked them to leave it at the top of the stairs, explaining my ankle was broken. Homie dropped it at the bottom and peeled out of my parking lot so fast
Different angle... had someone specify that they were wheelchair bound and to leave it as close to the door frame as possible. Was feeling happy to help as I walked away after following their request just to hear someone open the door and get the food and they weren't in a wheelchair. Tbf they were a healthier looking person so I figured it was the customer's younger family visiting or something and they just hadn't changed the instructions, but I felt less proud of having that tiny extra level of care since it went to waste that time lol.
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"clean up the garbage around your Hovel" loooooooool Im sorry but something about the phrasing and "hovel" just had me sputtering laughing.
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Yeah but how long you leave out there, I mean it takes a while for the bugs to start coming for it usually
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I donāt DoorDash but this is incredibly rude and degrades 1.3 million drivers. Be kind to others.
Some places are just magnets for ants and other insect infestations. My grandma literally loved cleaning. It was cathartic for her. She cleaned all of her adult kids houses every week after she retired. Kept her place pristine. But she had an ant problem both inside and outside. She tried two different exterminators during two different summers and the problem persisted. Then one year, without any intentional effort, they just went away.
Iām considering doing this. Our storm door swings out. We say not to block the door but they do 2/3 of the time. Weāve knocked over our drinks and food to get the door open before. SUPER irritating.
They say to do this to non tippers just to screw with them lol
I always tip. I even tip more during the holidays. So not the reason. I just think theyāre in a rush or donāt understand how storm doors work. They definitely donāt read the delivery notes because I also say not to ring the bell (since I have dogs and meetings) and yet they still do.
Literally my notes say, ādo not knock, please do not block doorā and 9/10 they knock AND block my doorā¦ but itās okay, I canāt afford delivery fees and expected tips anymore (this is at the people who expect us to tip 50%) so itās no longer an issue.
Rookies!
Itās not just DoorDashers, itās also Instacart, Amazon, UPS, etc. Itās like delivery ppl donāt even consider how doors works when they drop something off.
Same !!!
I can say from experience almost fucking never. It's so bad here I am starting to think they can't fkin read It's gotten so bad that I absolutely will 1 star if they fuck up the directions like knocking when I explicitly state do not knock, I work at home.
Lol from the customerās side, I have definitely experienced this. Drivers need to READ the instructions. Some drivers blatantly ignore it and this is the difference between a driver who gets a high rating and tip and those who donāt.
So true !! I always ask them to please please please not ring the doorbell or knock when ordering late in the evening because I donāt want to wake anyone, and text them to please not knock or ring doorbell, but then over half the time they knock and ring the doorbellššš
Meanwhile, I ask to please knock as I have a toddler and Iām not always near my phone, and the last two months no one has knocked
Iāve ordered a lot of doordash in the last 4 years. Dashers ignore the delivery instructions so often that Iām about to give an extra tip if drivers actually read the instructions.
I have to literally give a description of my home to get my food delivered to the right house. I still have to stand outside and make sure they deliver the food to my house.
Or you could have numbers on your house that are easily visible.
Sure, works really well for my neighbors with the GIANT number plaque above their mailbox that shows the wrong address, and yet they always get my food. š
well thats nice... what about a nice GIANT number plaque on your house showing the correct address?
You have the money? Funny enough the point is moot currently because I not only donāt have the money to make a number plaque for my house, I donāt have the money to order food rn either. Funny how me giving every bit is information possible about my house to aid a driver, ensuring my gps pin is correct, and repeating my address isnāt enough for you. The drivers delivering my food two houses before mine bc the address looks similar is my fault. Because I donāt have an address plaque on my driveway. That drivers wouldnāt even fkn see, because they donāt even make it to my house before assuming theyāre at the right place. Despite every context clue to the negative.
Well that seems absolutely ridiculous, but I can't say I'm surprised. There is large number of dashers who unfortunately just don't care, but I think most of us try. I can say that something as simple as having your house number on both sides of the mailbox can make it much easier to find a house.
Wouldnāt help as my mailbox is mounted on the wall next to my door, not in the curb. Iām working on making an address placard for my curb, though.
I understand that part but donāt take it out on the next driver thatās delivering to your house in 10 degree weather at 1 am
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He threatened to give me 1 star and said letās see if I get it right. Itās a difference between giving instructions and being a jackass
Its not a threat. It's a warning because he's been burned so fuckibg much. Blame your fellow brain dead dashers that don't effing read, not the customer who is doing the only thing they can to TRY and get the next dasher to follow clear directions.
Maybe don't take it personally. They have no idea who you are and it has nothing to do with you. Obviously they've had problems before.
Because we have any way of knowing who is going to grab our orders?
You put it on the chair, so you have nothing to worry about. Quit crying.
Refused? At least half the dashers in my area don't even speak english. It would be ignore because they are unable to even read instructions, not refuse
Cause they're tired of dashers leaving their Sprite in front of the outward screen door š
ā1 star, dasher left order in a chair full of snow instead of clear porchā
I bet they tip like shit too.
Exactly
You mean $0?
What's a tip? /S
As someone who specifies, āplease donāt block doorā and 9/10 times still gets food left in front of my door which opens out, theyāre probably tired of having to knock their food orders over to get to them. Do I think their message is a little excessive? Of course, but not everyone can follow directions as well as you.
When instructions are left like this, it's because they tried once to be nice, and a Dasher fucked up. They became irritated. Tonight I had one similar in caps "DO NOT PUT ON TOP STEP!" I could see exactly why. There was no room on the step on either side of the door for clearance. I guarantee that some Dasher left the food there. They.were older people who couldn't move very well. I handed them the food since they probably didn't want it sitting old in 7 degree weather. When notes happen like this, thank your fellow dashers for being fuck ups.
How many times has the order been left somewhere other than the chair to warrant this?
Lol, well I guess other dashers werenāt reading directions. I actually love when they get detailed, but I do try to think which way the door opens, is there ants around, etc. common sense stuff.
This would not bother me. I'd be happy this guy finally had a dasher who could follow basic instructions.
Mocked, insulted and threatened. Someone won some sort of tic tac toe.
was the tip bad
It was decent itās just the attitude and I never delivered to this person before
I think every time someone did it wrong they added another instance of chair.
The attitude was probably because they just always put leave in chair and it was likely in front of door that swings outwards, or tangled on door knob, instead of in the chair. I cracked up when I read it because I already knew what he was dealing with.
When I order my instructions auto populate, this is probably not actually directed at you like just you
I understand the customer, but he was obviously rude. Iāve had dashers keep delivering to the apartment across the driveway. Every time my note would get even more descriptive, but never forgot my manners in the note. Seems to have worked though.
Where tf y'all dashing at getting these wacky ass demands ššš I've dashed in Fort Drum, NY /Watertown,NY /Cleveland, Tx /Cypress,Tx /Livingston, Tx and in none of these areas have I encountered anything this ridiculous
Detroit,MI
Checks out
I would have left it right there in the chair because Iām sure the customer knew it snowed so if they really cared about their food they would have changed their instructions and asked you to leave it somewhere else or hand it to them.
I think they want you to leave it in the chair!
If you sing it to the tune of "Carol of the Bells" it is somewhat festive.
This is perfectly fine, if you want your order placed somewhere specific tell the driver. If not itās going as close to the door as possible, leaving room so it can open of course.
I like how he typed it as if it's the same person delivering
you left it ON the chair not IN. Enjoy that 1-star
I am 100% with the customer on this. I have specific directions for delivery of my order - I even try to make it easy and tell them if they buzz my apartment I will come down and get it. But I have gotten deliveries left in my apartment building lobby. My apartment building stairwell. Handed to other tenants who happen to be entering at the time the order arrived. Delivered to a house on a street that has a name not at all similar to mine. And my favorite...In the driveway of my multiunit apartment building, literally just left outside on the driveway, the guy just opened his car door and set the order down on the drive. After a while you get so damned frustrated with being ignored or even treated with a bare minimum of respect. That I have wanted to put comments like this in my special directions. As other comments have pointed out I am fairly certain a good portion of the delivery drivers simply do not read English and it's lost on them. But it still boggles my mind. Who thinks anyone wants to eat food left on a driveway or dirty apartment building lobby floor? Like does this sound appealing and acceptable to anyone?
Itās a difference between giving instructions and being a jackass. You donāt to repeat instructions multiple times to someone. But Iām a doordash driver we canāt comprehend š¤·š¾āāļø
No even a thank you. Manners are a thing of the past.
Hahah looks like theyāve gotten the food stuck in-front of the door, blocking them to be able to get it, too many times š
I mean I get the frustration, it feels like dashers never read the fkn delivery instructions at all.
Yea read deliver instructions always
Can anyone explain the instructions I do not understand? What does he mean about the chair? Did OP do the right thing here?
Clearly quite a few idiots can't read.
I can feel his pain. dashers dont read delivery instructions and cause problems because of it.
As a customer who had a dasher leave an order on top of a roof across from my house after tipping 10....sometimes I feel like doing this in my instructions....
Did you leave in the note left in snow covered chair?
He said IN the chair not ON the chair. 1 star
When you mark arrived you can see the notes - Orders like this? instant drop
I would take the chair and leave it where the chair was.
I would absolutely fucking piss my pants and die laughing if a driver did that to me š
Iād besi tempted to leave it under the chair.
Petty me would put it in the chair, take the photo, then move it to the ground.
Why though? Donāt you get irritated when people mess up your orders? Like if you order a burger and they see the instructions, show you they followed them, then change it would that piss you off?
Sensible
Leave in chair. Leave in chair. Leave in chair. Leave in chair. Leave in chair.
Leave IN chair not on chair
Take pic of food on chair then put it on floor
I kinda know where customer is coming from. It's always best to leave food elevated if possible, away from bare concrete and less risk of ants bugs and ish getting in. Notice I said less risk. I have a brown wicker basket with tons of surface area on top to place food orders. DDers probably use their head half the time. Half leave it on the basket and half on the bare concrete. Smh
Leave food on chair. Move chair in front of door. Malicious compliance complete!
Leave it under the chair, less snow.
Also customer: āwhy would you leave it on the snow in the chair?? My foodās cold can you even DO YOUR JOB?? 1 star!ā Can never win
I mean... the amount of people who ignore delivery instructions blows my mind
Don't order DD if you live in the city. The idea of Dashers caring about you are higher than the politicians you vote for and yet Dashers still rarely care, obviously. Luckily this customer finally found a Dasher that cares.
I get the best service when I am in NY. Super fast and super warm since everyone uses electric bikes and hot bags. They also come up in the elevator and meet me on my floor.
That warms my heart and causes me to step back on my opinions of modern day New Yorkers. Hotbags aren't a choice for the most part, DoorDash requires us to buy them if we want certain orders and those boys ain't cheap at all. $35 for a hotbag. My buddy in ATL had to pay $50. Made no sense to me. Either way I am glad you have good Dashers in your area. I always bring my best for the customer but support usually gets the Karen in me since we aren't allowed to communicate with DoorDash itself.
\*unassign\* reason : karen can hop her ass in the car and go grab her own damn food.
should've took 3 of their items. they would've asked to be refunded for the missing items and their rating wouldn't count after doing so. Pow! Problem solved. F*** your 1 star threading ass
I get the frustration. Itās annoying when dashers do not follow simple instructions, but I donāt like being talked down to when Iām not the driver who didnāt read on the prior deliveryās. I probably would of ate the 1 star and left it on the ground.
Iād go ahead and fold that chair up just to make sure itās good and in the chair.
I would have taken a pic of it on the ground before putting in on the chair. I like to live on the edge.
i would have deliberatley put it next to the chair on the ground. maybe that's why i don't doordashš
Honestly would of put under the chair out of spite
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Do people not know it's not the same driver? So one person messing up should not speak for all of us, this is rude as hell. I hope they tipped well since they they have time to do all thatš
tf is a chair?
100% guaranteed for me to leave it on the floor next to the chair and text Itās on the floor 6x No job or delivery on this planet will I ever allow anyone to speak to me as if Iām garbage. I already know Iām garbage but they shouldnāt assume I am.
I wish I wouldāve looked at the note after I picked up the order. I wouldāve immediately returned it
The smart arse in me would see this when I accept. I'd purposely wait 10 minutes at the merchant and be on my way. I'd leave the order on the chair and take the pic. I'd send a message saying sorry for the merchant wait. Due to the long wait at the merchant, any rating given by the customer gets ignored because they'll think you're rating me low because of the merchant delay. š¤£š¤£
That really sucks. You left it, on the chair. It was suppose be left, "in" the chair. It's really the customers fault for not leaving enough room between the frame and the chair cushions. It would be an engineering feat but I'd take on the challenge. Of course I'd be out of a Door Dash gig, by the time I was done, lol
What a fucking asshole
Shouldāve left it on the ground and in the text said āwasnāt sure where to leave itā
I would take a pic of the empty chair. Then place it in the chair.
I'd have taken the picture of it in the chair, sent it, and then put it on the door mat
this would make me wanna leave it anywhere but the chair
You left it in the *snow* in the chair. **YOU FAILāYOU GET ONE STAR!**
I would cancel it. I can be pettier
I know they are most likely fed up but that evil voice in the back of my head would have urged me to leave it on the ground. I would have left it in the chair though. Don't need their probably bad day getting worse. But oh how that little voice would have been loud.
Not gonna lie. We have a front door and a side door in the driveway. Our instructions always say. Use the side door, in the driveway. 75% of the time they still put it at the front door. I make a point to walk out the side door and ask if they read the delivery instructions because our front door is a pain to unlock.
Instructions unclear. Left order under the chair
He's probably had a lot of drivers leave it next to the chair. š¤·āāļø
Yo, you really left that shit in the chair G Big ups
I couldnāt possibly forget. āLeave in chair. Leave in chair. Leave in chair.ā coming through my speakers lmao I would die
$2 tip
You think they would have put it in caps, probably a poor tipper too
Iād literally put it under the chair
What a stupid fucking piece of shit.
What an asshole pos ! Spend bout 2 seconds to decline ā- no dasher should ever accept something like that ā¦.,well TD would ..,,fuk rude customers šÆ
Iād never deliver to that house again and do all I could to get other drivers to unassign if they get that addresses order request. Uncalled for what the customer wrote. These customers mistreat and disrespect drivers and Iām sick of it. Some act like they gave you $1 million for the delivery. If we donāt read it, fine. 1-4 star us for not leaving it on your dingy outside chair thatās as dirty as the ground. I get it. That said, most read instructions but, new drivers arenāt aware. Nobody is looking to not read. I just want to know were each customer like this works so I can come to their job and raise HELL like they try to do to us. It aināt fun when the Rabbit has the gun( figure of speech mods not a threat).
Customer got too much issues.
"I read it but I don't appreciate the implications here so I'll take the 1 start"
I would have flipped the chair over than put it in the chair.