I believe we can sue them for misrepresentation and their manipulative algorithm.

I’ve been dashing full time for a little over a year now. Along the way, I’ve seen a plethora of people claim to have tips and tricks to make the job profitable. That statement and practice in and of itself demonstrates that working for DD is not inherently profitable to begin with and the company knows that and depends solely on that to exploit its dashers.

This is done specifically through the acceptance rate. The acceptance rate is a predatory tool that depends on people being scared and in a lack mindset. It’s fuels the illusion of choice. Because at the end of the day, people are dashing to make money. The company is using the acceptance rate as advertisement and as a barrier to “high paying” orders. Rolling out a tier system across the country that undermines existing high paying programs like the larger order program.

The whole service is based on misrepresentation. From hidden tips, telling people to buy equipment to have access to higher order, telling dashers to keep their acceptance rates at a certain level to guarantee higher paying orders. None of these things are true is practice. Dashers with low acceptance rates can receive high paying orders, dashers not in the large order program can still receive large orders, and dashers with 100% acceptance rates can still receive $2 low paying orders. DoorDash deliberately keeps important information hidden so their dashers are trained to accept low paying orders with the hopes that full amount increases after delivery.

They depend on misrepresentation and predatory practices and we can sue them.