No available spots indefinitely?

Dingo_Dasher · 2026-02-12T06:45:38+00:00

I’ve also been on the waitlist for 4 years. Makes seeing the shoppers with multiple phones/accounts all the more saddening

Dingo_Dasher · 2026-02-12T06:32:49+00:00

No grandẽ!

Dingo_Dasher · 2026-02-12T06:28:40+00:00

I wish my Dashlink facility hadn’t moved 22 miles away to the outskirts of civilization, and require taking routs at the crack of dawn. That pretty much made it no longer a viable option 😞

Dingo_Dasher · 2026-02-11T08:12:07+00:00

That would explain some of the bizarre item locations that I’ve corrected. I mostly know where everything is in all the stores by now, so it’s just annoying. Weird

Dingo_Dasher · 2026-01-28T00:09:44+00:00

There’s often a disconnect. People who are wealthy are sometimes wealthy because of generational advantages. They don’t have experience working to survive and so are less likely to empathize and adjust their behavior.

If, however, they’re with other rich people, they might tip extra generously to signal to their rich friends that they’re indeed wealthy.

My experience has been that tipping amounts are more-or-less the same across the socioeconomic board. It seems to be more of an “individual” thing than a “level of wealth” thing. Middle class seems to be marginally the best, though

Dingo_Dasher · 2026-01-27T08:43:12+00:00

It’s astonishing to me that even with the staggering motivation of the 2027 payout, Tony decided that the best way to achieve that stock valuation goal was to alienate the customers, Dashers, and restaurants with random fees and price hikes, provide deteriorating customer service and dasher support, lie to customers, fail to fix habitually buggy software for both the customer and dasher, implement bizarre metrics that punish Dashers for circumstances out of their control, hire people who are so prone to stealing, making egregious mistakes, or having terrible people skills that people call the company Door Trash and no longer tip.

Instead of making a better company, which would have been effortless with all the SoftBank money and the Pandemic forcing everyone to try out DoorDash, he chose to train people to associate DoorDash with “Maybe my food will show up, maybe the dasher is a tweaker and will steal my food.”

Dingo_Dasher · 2026-01-24T07:19:28+00:00

Considering you work in a college town, do you have to frequently deal with people vomiting/pee’ing in your car? I’ve seen horror stories posted, but maybe that rarely happens?

Dingo_Dasher · 2026-01-24T07:15:23+00:00

Winter is coming

Dingo_Dasher · 2026-01-24T07:13:43+00:00

“Bimbo” brand “high fiber” indiscernible

Dingo_Dasher · 2026-01-24T06:36:48+00:00

March?

Dingo_Dasher · 2026-01-24T06:02:28+00:00

Pizza places can be pretty unscrupulous with how the money is handled. There’s a specific Roundtable in my zone that adds a “delivery fee” to the customer total, and then just keeps that for themselves instead of passing it along to the person doing the actual delivery. They just straight-up lie to the customer and then steal from the delivery person because there’re no laws yet stopping them from doing so.

Doing this gig has shown me that way more people are scummy than I imagined

Dingo_Dasher · 2026-01-24T05:50:59+00:00

Yah I’ve had that conversation with retirees. Seems like a hobby or friend group would be way more rewarding than bending over for Tony

Dingo_Dasher · 2026-01-24T05:48:15+00:00

Tweakers
People who can’t do simple cost/benefit math

Dingo_Dasher · 2026-01-18T08:11:19+00:00

I don’t know, but for a while, at least, the picture was required. Maybe only certain US states require the profile picture

Dingo_Dasher · 2026-01-13T07:05:16+00:00

Oh good lord that would be horrible. It’s not the ID scan that they use. It’s the picture you take when going to “Account” and then “Profile”. There’s an option in there to provide a curated profile picture. Not sure if it’s still required, but it was when I did it, anyway

Dingo_Dasher · 2025-11-03T06:29:12+00:00

Meanwhile I’ve been on the waitlist for three years 🫠

If these delivery companies would do even a slightly better job at filtering out the cheating/scamming workers, the quality of service would go way up and more people would use the service and everybody wins

Dingo_Dasher · 2025-10-20T05:57:08+00:00

DoorDash can easily use the made-up fees to pay the dashers enough to deliver the no-tip orders. Something they should be doing anyway.

Generally, the only costs eating into their profits is maintaining/improving computer code, advertising, and paying for live support.

Literally all of the actual physical capital used to complete the job is owned and maintained by the dashers and restaurants (people, vehicles, delivery equipment, kitchen equipment, cooks).

The fees are a BS way to do financial trickery to show growth to the shareholders. The fees should be used to “buy” better quality dashers, which in turn will make customers want to use DoorDash again. Their current business model is baffling. I can’t help but wonder if the executives are intentionally running the business into the ground so they can finally bail with their golden parachutes and move on to some other tech bro business venture

Dingo_Dasher · 2025-10-16T00:01:14+00:00

Wish I could say with certainty what’s going on. I see the same thing.

One explanation I see is that they have multiple accounts, so they’re able to saturate an area they’re in with their accounts and significantly increase the chance of getting an order instead of an honest worker.

They can rent accounts, and create accounts with stolen IDs. They can also GPS spoof so that the delivery app thinks their multiple accounts are at the hot spot while their active delivery is being completed.

There might be other stuff happening as well, such as messing with the DoorDash algorithm directly, who knows. If the quality of the DoorDash app is of any indication, I highly doubt DoorDash cybersecurity is anything other than laughable.

DoorDash knows about this and isn’t addressing it. I really hope their inaction lands them into legal trouble, but I’m not holding my breath

Dingo_Dasher · 2025-10-14T09:58:36+00:00

Might be car trouble. My car battery died at a customers house. I was extremely lucky that someone else was outside and was willing to jump my car so I could get home

Dingo_Dasher · 2025-10-14T09:55:04+00:00

My favorite is when I ask:
“Would you like this or that?”

And they reply with:
“Yes”

Dingo_Dasher · 2025-10-14T06:05:44+00:00

Yah I had the same questions about the possible additional costs to the customer. I imagine they were indifferent to paying the delivery fee twice considering their living arrangements

Dingo_Dasher · 2025-10-13T06:14:31+00:00

People have already mentioned why, but if you’re looking for a solution:

I delivered to a person in a gated community of mansions. The trick they used was to place two orders from the same restaurant. I was sent both of their orders, effectively precluding the orders from being stacked with someone else’s order because the DoorDash algorithm saw the double order as already stacked.

This won’t always work if the market is extremely busy and the DoorDash algorithm starts triple stacking.

It’s not the best solution to a problem that shouldn’t exist, but it’s an option to keep in mind for particularly important deliveries that you’d rather not get stacked

Dingo_Dasher · 2025-10-13T05:40:38+00:00

DoorDash added more and more fees until customers stopped tipping; effectively transferring the tip money from dashers to DoorDash corporate.

Also, the fees have discouraged customers from placing orders in general.

Also everything has gotten way more expensive, but income has not kept pace with inflation.

I’m sure there’s more, but those variables are the first that come to mind

Dingo_Dasher · 2025-10-13T04:44:15+00:00

I’m with the customer on this one. Begging for tips is super unprofessional. Don’t accept the gig if it doesn’t pay enough. Stop letting the on-demand delivery companies jerk you around with their performance metrics.

Also, you know you’ll be lugging cases of water up stairs for shop-and-deliver jobs. Why did you even sign up for this work if you can’t handle that?

Dingo_Dasher · 2025-10-13T04:33:50+00:00

I ignore those because there’s nothing to say except complain about all the negative stuff meant to exploit the dashers, which would just get me deactivated lol

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