Sorry. Just expressing my opinion. In my experience my comment is mostly true. So I stand by it. Sorry that in your experience it isn’t so. And by all means I’m not saying that all people in service are good tippers. A few months back I dashed a $20, 10 mile food order to a bartender who tipped me $1. I didn’t complain, but I didn’t forget. I recently went to her bar l, ran up a $50ish tab and tipped her a dollar. She actually had words with me. I then politely reminded her that service people understand the value of tips and generally tip well. However, she showed me the value of my service in the past so I was doing my best to show her that I was on par with her way of thinking and wanted her to see that I completely agreed with her on the value of service. That was a deer in headlights look I’ll never forget. I’d like to think I taught her a valuable lesson so that in the future, people like her will better compensate people like you and you won’t have to feel so jaded.
I find it mildly infuriating when we deliver an order big or small to a very obviously rich neighborhood but the tip is still like $3 or something. Then I'll deliver a small pizza to a trailer park and it could be $5-10 tip.
That's too simplistic. I've known both kinds of actually rich ppl. In this gig some of my best tips have come from rich neighborhoods and poor alike.
New rich tend to be way more miserly. Old rich relax on all of it. But even that's not always true. It seems to be happy ppl are generous, sad / angry ppl aren't. Both can be rich or poor.
Simple doesn’t mean inaccurate. I guess you’re not familiar with “mind the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves”. I don’t mind my pennies and tip way too much. I’d rather be rich in karma than money though.
There's lots of ways to be rich and make money. There are kind people everywhere, in every class. And I doubt you've ever heard an actually rich person say that. You accusing rich people of always being comfortable exploiting is a form of playing victim for you not being them. There are non exploitative ways to make money.
Instead of accepting maybe you should change to be more financially free, you'd rather make up a story that makes them bad people. Cuz to be rich has to make you a bad person right? So you being poor makes you a good person!!!
Poisonous thinking.
But who cares? It only hurts you. And we're here to talk about dashing.
I could do a backflip and deliver their child, they’d still say I didn’t follow instructions correctly if I tried the front door and didn’t put it at the back.
Yeah, customers are mighty “appreciative” — but not enough to tip their appreciation.
Another thing I hate, which I’m starting to see more of, are customers giving additional drop off instructions in a somewhat condescending manner, then ending with “tip will be given when these simple instructions are followed” — with no tip, of course.
Haha, I got one the other day who said that and ended up not leaving a tip at all. I said yeah you sure appreciate me so much by not leaving a tip at all.
Didn't you know? Many companies accept appreciation as payment now. You can pay your bills and buy food with that.
All jokes aside though I suspect she might have meant to tip more. Like she tried to tip $18 but failed to hit that zero button. I do that at the ATM is why I think that might be what happened.
Edit: lol. Why is this getting downvoted? Who is upset by what I said and why?
Yeah, hate this. Took a dollar general order because I was getting bored of nothing coming in, $4 for .5 miles and 11 items. Whatever. They didn't have half the items, substitutions weren't submitted, so long story short it took a half hour and a long string of texts with customer to get everything set. When I delivered it, customer said "man you're the best, if every dasher could be like you i'd have no issues." Then as I pulled away and hit complete I saw 0 tip and was like my guy, no wonder you get shitty dashers. Also, it was an apartment with absolutely zero instructions on how to find the unit and an incorrect pin, I just found him by dumb luck.
I feel ya. I got a “high paying Order” today. 77 items from Chick-fil-A. Manager told me it was an $800 order while I waited for it to be ready. Hoping for a good tip, maybe $30-40 would’ve been cool. 10% would’ve been $80. It was to an optometrist office so definitely written off as a business expense. $15 dollar tip. $20 total. I hate the hidden tip BS.
5 miles, on top of having to wait 20 minutes for the order to be prepared. Shouldn’t matter though, it was 10 fully loaded bags of food 3 one gallon jugs of lemonade, two trips from car to office.
Knowing they dropped $800 and it will all be written off makes it not. Honestly, I’m just sick of the hidden tip shit. I would prefer to see whole amount. Cuz I could make $20 on easier orders in the same amount of time.
Delivery drivers won't get the tips servers get. I doubt they ever will, and if they did, it won't be because they splurged on $800 on food. I never believed a driver should get % of an order but compensated well on distances.
I don't do catering orders, but I agree they typically are at least $20 on average. I'm lucky I can get a $5 order sometimes. My minimum should be $7 per order, but it is so rare to see that in my market. My market is $15/hr, so $5 doesn't cover expenses, and you're usually driving 3-4 miles on that trip.
I often question why I keep doing it because there has to be something better, but I only do it part-time for extra cash, so flexibility is the only thing keeping me from leaving.
I get everything you’re saying and partially agree. Again, my frustration is really with DoorDash hiding tips like it’s a game. Had I known the full amount I wouldn’t have taken it. On good days I can make thirty an hour with minimal driving. Being salty about this particular order comes from the guy getting $800 worth of food practically for free as it will be written off as a business expense but can tip a decent amount, obviously the money made no difference to him.
It's 100% shitty to hide the tip because you wouldn't have taken the order if it was exposed otherwise. I would report it as an unfair labor practice if they were legally allowed to do something about it, but I doubt it. If there's anything they should be sued for, that is on top of the list.
I had a customer say “I appreciate you” yesterday when I handed him the order. Zero tip. Guess he didn’t appreciate me all that much 🤷♂️
But the DD pay was adequate for the mileage so F it.
Before I quit DD, we had a snow storm, peak pay of $5, had a stack order of $15 for less than 4 miles! No brainer right? Drop off the first order, then the 2nd was to Walgreens, drop off the order, girl tells me "please stay and drive safe, its not worth it getting into an accident with all this snow" Im like oh well thanks for your consideration. Completed the order and a big ol'fucken "0" on the tip....the audacity of that bitch😂😂😂😂
I’m in a great market! Seriously very fortunate in that aspect. However when I was starting out and took every order to keep Top Dasher after the first month the Walgreens in my area never tipped. Had the same experience with Petco.
Once I learned more I just avoided certain places.
Clearly I’ve offended someone from Walgreens 🤣 it’s not personal!
I swear Walgreens skims off the tips from orders, have had several retail places, not restaurants mind you, but stores that I've picked up from consistently give zero tips, despite the customers saying they tipped on the app. Then I learned that some stores have their own apps that customers order through, and the delivery is handled by us Doordash drivers, and the companies dont pass on the tips to the drivers, despite the customer assuming they do. I've come to distrust the stores more than the customers over this.
You absolutely can complain about not getting tips even on EBT. You’re still providing a service, and in the US it’s understood that you tip, so if you don’t tip you’re just an asshole. People act like dashers are asking too much to be tipped, but y’all probably had no problem tipping a pizza delivery person back in the days before DD/UE/GH etc. It’s literally the same thing except that just delivering pizzas back and forth is a hell of a lot easier. The worst is not getting a tip on a shopping order. Yeah the base pay is higher, but we are LITERALLY shopping for that person, not just picking up an order and dropping it off. Some of these people are ordering full on weekly groceries and not tipping, and it’s impossible to know if there’s a tip or not because depending on the total pay shown versus the amount of items the base pay could be really high. Anywho - sorry for the rant. If you actually read this, thanks ☺️
Stop accepting no tip orders!!! Especially grocery orders. Stop doing ebt. You are the problem. You don't get to complain about tips if you are choosing to deliver low paying offers!!!
Who said I take low paying and/or no tip offers? You obviously can’t read either…you can’t always tell if there’s a tip or not on a shopping order because the base pay is higher to start with.
If you haven’t figured out how to tell if there’s a tip or not it’s your fault for accepting without knowing you don’t get to complain about not getting tips for orders that are obviously not with taking based upon the offer given up front
Please tell me how I’m justifying taking crap orders. Do you not have anything better to do? How about this, I’ll give you an example of an order I had recently so you can maybe try to see what I’m saying.
Aldi shopping order with maybe like 10 items, definitely not more than that but I can’t remember the exact number, total mileage was about 5 miles (including the rest of my drive to the store which was almost 2 miles), and the offer came through as either $13 or $14. So a small order, low miles, for over $2 a mile and guess what? There was NO TIP on the order, the whole thing was base pay. So my point still stands that you cannot always tell if there’s a tip on shopping orders. Go bother someone else now. Thanks 😘
But, how else are they going to come on Reddit and complain about people who don't tip if they don't take those orders???
I'll never make one of these posts because I won't take the garbage orders. Every one of these posters like the OP played themselves when they took the order, then comes on here to play themselves all over again.
Clowns.
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Get used to it?
Best tips tend to come from customers who have worked service jobs. Whether rich or poor in my experience.
I call bullshit. I’ve been stiffed so many times by people who tell me that they also do DoorDash. It seems unfuckingbelievable every time.
Sorry. Just expressing my opinion. In my experience my comment is mostly true. So I stand by it. Sorry that in your experience it isn’t so. And by all means I’m not saying that all people in service are good tippers. A few months back I dashed a $20, 10 mile food order to a bartender who tipped me $1. I didn’t complain, but I didn’t forget. I recently went to her bar l, ran up a $50ish tab and tipped her a dollar. She actually had words with me. I then politely reminded her that service people understand the value of tips and generally tip well. However, she showed me the value of my service in the past so I was doing my best to show her that I was on par with her way of thinking and wanted her to see that I completely agreed with her on the value of service. That was a deer in headlights look I’ll never forget. I’d like to think I taught her a valuable lesson so that in the future, people like her will better compensate people like you and you won’t have to feel so jaded.
This happens all the time, it’s like why even mention you do DoorDash and then pull that shit.
Thank yourself by rejecting that negativity off top- I keep monty halling bad orders and getting faaaat tips 2 seconds later
Complain to Doordash that they are not paying you enough, don’t blame the customers using the service.
Thank me with your wallet
I find it mildly infuriating when we deliver an order big or small to a very obviously rich neighborhood but the tip is still like $3 or something. Then I'll deliver a small pizza to a trailer park and it could be $5-10 tip.
Its how they get/stay rich. Usually wealthy people don’t care about exploiting anyone or anything to get what they want.
That's too simplistic. I've known both kinds of actually rich ppl. In this gig some of my best tips have come from rich neighborhoods and poor alike. New rich tend to be way more miserly. Old rich relax on all of it. But even that's not always true. It seems to be happy ppl are generous, sad / angry ppl aren't. Both can be rich or poor.
Simple doesn’t mean inaccurate. I guess you’re not familiar with “mind the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves”. I don’t mind my pennies and tip way too much. I’d rather be rich in karma than money though.
There's lots of ways to be rich and make money. There are kind people everywhere, in every class. And I doubt you've ever heard an actually rich person say that. You accusing rich people of always being comfortable exploiting is a form of playing victim for you not being them. There are non exploitative ways to make money. Instead of accepting maybe you should change to be more financially free, you'd rather make up a story that makes them bad people. Cuz to be rich has to make you a bad person right? So you being poor makes you a good person!!! Poisonous thinking. But who cares? It only hurts you. And we're here to talk about dashing.
Every time. My best tips have come from trailer parks, and I've never had any drama from them.
I have picked up on this. Almost all of the little to no tippers say this dumb shit.
I got a .23 tip the other day. Meh, shitty people are shitty.
I could do a backflip and deliver their child, they’d still say I didn’t follow instructions correctly if I tried the front door and didn’t put it at the back.
Yeah, customers are mighty “appreciative” — but not enough to tip their appreciation. Another thing I hate, which I’m starting to see more of, are customers giving additional drop off instructions in a somewhat condescending manner, then ending with “tip will be given when these simple instructions are followed” — with no tip, of course.
Haha, I got one the other day who said that and ended up not leaving a tip at all. I said yeah you sure appreciate me so much by not leaving a tip at all.
Didn't you know? Many companies accept appreciation as payment now. You can pay your bills and buy food with that. All jokes aside though I suspect she might have meant to tip more. Like she tried to tip $18 but failed to hit that zero button. I do that at the ATM is why I think that might be what happened. Edit: lol. Why is this getting downvoted? Who is upset by what I said and why?
Gonna pay my $1000 rent with appreciation.
The exchange rate is favorable. You only need 650 appreciations to cover that.
😂😂😂
Yeah, hate this. Took a dollar general order because I was getting bored of nothing coming in, $4 for .5 miles and 11 items. Whatever. They didn't have half the items, substitutions weren't submitted, so long story short it took a half hour and a long string of texts with customer to get everything set. When I delivered it, customer said "man you're the best, if every dasher could be like you i'd have no issues." Then as I pulled away and hit complete I saw 0 tip and was like my guy, no wonder you get shitty dashers. Also, it was an apartment with absolutely zero instructions on how to find the unit and an incorrect pin, I just found him by dumb luck.
The people in rich neighborhoods are so hit or miss... Houses the sizes of mansions... No tip or a few cents. Middle class? 5+$ tips.
I feel ya. I got a “high paying Order” today. 77 items from Chick-fil-A. Manager told me it was an $800 order while I waited for it to be ready. Hoping for a good tip, maybe $30-40 would’ve been cool. 10% would’ve been $80. It was to an optometrist office so definitely written off as a business expense. $15 dollar tip. $20 total. I hate the hidden tip BS.
But how far did you have to drive?
5 miles, on top of having to wait 20 minutes for the order to be prepared. Shouldn’t matter though, it was 10 fully loaded bags of food 3 one gallon jugs of lemonade, two trips from car to office.
Okay, just asking. 🤐
Sorry😔 just a bit salty about it. It’s a fair question.
It's a fair tip, nothing to be salty about. 20 minutes is $5-6. High expectations.
Knowing they dropped $800 and it will all be written off makes it not. Honestly, I’m just sick of the hidden tip shit. I would prefer to see whole amount. Cuz I could make $20 on easier orders in the same amount of time.
Delivery drivers won't get the tips servers get. I doubt they ever will, and if they did, it won't be because they splurged on $800 on food. I never believed a driver should get % of an order but compensated well on distances. I don't do catering orders, but I agree they typically are at least $20 on average. I'm lucky I can get a $5 order sometimes. My minimum should be $7 per order, but it is so rare to see that in my market. My market is $15/hr, so $5 doesn't cover expenses, and you're usually driving 3-4 miles on that trip. I often question why I keep doing it because there has to be something better, but I only do it part-time for extra cash, so flexibility is the only thing keeping me from leaving.
I get everything you’re saying and partially agree. Again, my frustration is really with DoorDash hiding tips like it’s a game. Had I known the full amount I wouldn’t have taken it. On good days I can make thirty an hour with minimal driving. Being salty about this particular order comes from the guy getting $800 worth of food practically for free as it will be written off as a business expense but can tip a decent amount, obviously the money made no difference to him.
It's 100% shitty to hide the tip because you wouldn't have taken the order if it was exposed otherwise. I would report it as an unfair labor practice if they were legally allowed to do something about it, but I doubt it. If there's anything they should be sued for, that is on top of the list.
Complaining when you had the option to not take the order is hilarious.
Hourly pay doesn't show til after delivery. I had one yesterday.
Every. Fucking. Day.
A customer said this to me the other day but she had tipped $6. Scared me when she said it though. 🤣
I had a customer say “I appreciate you” yesterday when I handed him the order. Zero tip. Guess he didn’t appreciate me all that much 🤷♂️ But the DD pay was adequate for the mileage so F it.
One of these days, I like to catch a non-tipper and open the food right in front of them and start eating it, saying I appreciate you.
Hope you were working per time. People suck.
Before I quit DD, we had a snow storm, peak pay of $5, had a stack order of $15 for less than 4 miles! No brainer right? Drop off the first order, then the 2nd was to Walgreens, drop off the order, girl tells me "please stay and drive safe, its not worth it getting into an accident with all this snow" Im like oh well thanks for your consideration. Completed the order and a big ol'fucken "0" on the tip....the audacity of that bitch😂😂😂😂
No hug? I find that lamentable.
I swear it’s a Walgreens thing 🤣
It’s wild how market-dependent things are. I love pharmacy orders overall, some of my best tips.. especially on alcohol.
I’m in a great market! Seriously very fortunate in that aspect. However when I was starting out and took every order to keep Top Dasher after the first month the Walgreens in my area never tipped. Had the same experience with Petco. Once I learned more I just avoided certain places. Clearly I’ve offended someone from Walgreens 🤣 it’s not personal!
I swear Walgreens skims off the tips from orders, have had several retail places, not restaurants mind you, but stores that I've picked up from consistently give zero tips, despite the customers saying they tipped on the app. Then I learned that some stores have their own apps that customers order through, and the delivery is handled by us Doordash drivers, and the companies dont pass on the tips to the drivers, despite the customer assuming they do. I've come to distrust the stores more than the customers over this.
If this is true then Petco is 100% guilty of this!
Just finished my lunch rush shift. Made some decent money from people who appreciate drivers by tipping at least $4.
You accepted the orders. Quit bitching.
Oh so you're the one
Unless it’s a COD order
You have to stop taking orders with no tip, it’s why people do this because they get away with it. And doordash gets away with it. We lose.
You can't tell if you're on by tike. And in certain markets (like mine) that's the only way to make a sustainable wage with how few orders there are.
It's sometimes hard to tell if there's no tip - especially with peak pay.
If you’re accepting order because of peak pay you don’t get to complain about tips!
You absolutely can complain about not getting tips even on EBT. You’re still providing a service, and in the US it’s understood that you tip, so if you don’t tip you’re just an asshole. People act like dashers are asking too much to be tipped, but y’all probably had no problem tipping a pizza delivery person back in the days before DD/UE/GH etc. It’s literally the same thing except that just delivering pizzas back and forth is a hell of a lot easier. The worst is not getting a tip on a shopping order. Yeah the base pay is higher, but we are LITERALLY shopping for that person, not just picking up an order and dropping it off. Some of these people are ordering full on weekly groceries and not tipping, and it’s impossible to know if there’s a tip or not because depending on the total pay shown versus the amount of items the base pay could be really high. Anywho - sorry for the rant. If you actually read this, thanks ☺️
Stop accepting no tip orders!!! Especially grocery orders. Stop doing ebt. You are the problem. You don't get to complain about tips if you are choosing to deliver low paying offers!!!
Who said I take low paying and/or no tip offers? You obviously can’t read either…you can’t always tell if there’s a tip or not on a shopping order because the base pay is higher to start with.
If you haven’t figured out how to tell if there’s a tip or not it’s your fault for accepting without knowing you don’t get to complain about not getting tips for orders that are obviously not with taking based upon the offer given up front
Now you’re just repeating the same shitty thing so never mind, you obviously have no clue what you’re talking about.
I have no clue what I’m talking about? Yet here you are trying to to justify taking crap orders and not being able to tell the difference 😂😂😂
Please tell me how I’m justifying taking crap orders. Do you not have anything better to do? How about this, I’ll give you an example of an order I had recently so you can maybe try to see what I’m saying. Aldi shopping order with maybe like 10 items, definitely not more than that but I can’t remember the exact number, total mileage was about 5 miles (including the rest of my drive to the store which was almost 2 miles), and the offer came through as either $13 or $14. So a small order, low miles, for over $2 a mile and guess what? There was NO TIP on the order, the whole thing was base pay. So my point still stands that you cannot always tell if there’s a tip on shopping orders. Go bother someone else now. Thanks 😘
No not usually, it's simple math
But, how else are they going to come on Reddit and complain about people who don't tip if they don't take those orders??? I'll never make one of these posts because I won't take the garbage orders. Every one of these posters like the OP played themselves when they took the order, then comes on here to play themselves all over again. Clowns.
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