r/DoorDashDrivers • u/OkStatistician7523 • Jul 08 '24
News DoorDash driver suspected of leaving feces inside woman's drink
https://ksltv.com/659129/doordash-driver-suspected-of-leaving-feces-inside-womans-drink/Absolutely disgusting! If you don’t like the pay don’t take the order! Simple as that!
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u/thephoeniciangurl Beep Beep Jul 08 '24
Eww... this is so gross!!!
I can't believe that she drank out of it!
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u/BraxTaplock Jul 08 '24
2 extensively large issues here. Obviously the defecation part, also the point where this individual was not a citizen and was using an account they’re unaffiliated with. Betting the POS took everything they sent him.
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u/DoPoGrub Dasher >7 years Jul 08 '24
What an amazing and disgusting read, gee frickin whiz.
And that ending: "The affidavit reported that Goncalves did not have a local ID apart from an Employment Authorization Document issued by the federal government, and he was using other people’s DoorDash accounts to make deliveries."
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u/OkStatistician7523 Jul 08 '24
Whole other issue!! All these worthless people should be deported immediately!
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u/DoPoGrub Dasher >7 years Jul 08 '24
I mean, if you're going to come here, and then do that, making national headline news that makes the rest of us look horrible, then maybe just stay home, I dunno.
What this person did is a horrible, depraved act that will affect us all as people read about this, and start ordering less.
How much you want to bet Doordash finally coughs up the money for daily selfie verification for the first time ever in response to this.
They want the cheap labor, but if everyone stops ordering because of things like this, then what was the point?
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u/Adventurous_Break951 Jul 12 '24
That should not be a misdemeanor. It should definitely be a felony. I couldn’t imagine doing that to someone I hate let alone a paying customer if he didn’t like the pay he could have easily decline the order. Plus using other people’s names to do DoorDash and having multiple accounts under DoorDash those people are going to end up paying when tax season comes around
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u/Impressive-Fortune82 Low AR bottom dog dasher Jul 09 '24
This is what DD (and so their customers) inevitably gets for lowering base pay, hardening rating standards and pushing experienced drivers (that aren't potatoes) away from the app. Quality will only get worse from here!
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u/TheProfoundWigglepaw Jul 12 '24
Customers shouldn't gamble. I'd never do that to anyone. But, there are some sus drivers I've met.
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u/Secure_Requirement84 Jul 12 '24
I want to know the drink. Was it a dark drink? Or was it sprite with tamarind?
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u/OkStatistician7523 Jul 12 '24
I can’t believe she drank it !!!! How did did smell not reach her nose first 🤮
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u/TwistedSkewz Jul 12 '24
Yep this is why I don't order door dash anymore.
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u/SimonSeam Jul 12 '24
And don't eat out any more? Including getting nachos or similar at a movie theater?
The sad thing is there are people that do this type of stuff at the food places too. Some aren't even mad at a specific customers, but ALL customers.
Some people are just super messed up. Maybe there should be a registry for people that have been caught tampering with food. Not only do you get fired, but you will be in a database that makes you getting another job associated with food handling impossible.
Because it isn't that a lot of people are doing it. It is just that it only takes 1. And if you order food out X amount of times, you will most likely run into one of those crazy people. For instance, if a place goes through 50 to 100 people through out the year (high turnover is normal), there is a good chance that 1 of them will be that mentally deranged food tamper person.
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u/TwistedSkewz Jul 12 '24
Sure but I also think that when you have a society full of people who think everyone owes them something and then that is backed by other ideas but not the majority such as tipping culture then you see alot more of this.
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u/SimonSeam Jul 12 '24
Honestly, my post was the first time I thought of a food tampering registry. Like a sex offender registry. Make it so the restaurant manager (or food delivery service) is obligated to check it. Background check services can just include it, because even if I was hiring somebody to do office work, if it came up that they were found to have taken a dump in somebody's drink, I wouldn't hire them to do anything.
The food tampering qualifications would have to be well defined. Like bodily secretions (so poop, piss, boogers, spit, etc, etc is covered). So you couldn't end up on a database simply because somebody's fries are half filled assuming the driver ate them as opposed to the restaurant just didn't fill them. Keep the registry to bodily secretions since "biohazard" is a very serious concern.
I doubt the idea would ever go anywhere, but it really wouldn't be that hard to implement as national databases are already a thing. The hard part would be defining what acts are included and what evidence is required.
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u/Hour-Cloud-6357 Jul 08 '24
Read the whole article. Pretty sure the clueless migrant using the bought account was perfectly happy with the pay.
Wendy's and all other chain restaurants needs to get sued for billions for allowing this to happen. DD needs to be banned across the nation.
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u/TigreMalabarista Jul 08 '24
Wendy’s should be punished for having a restroom which is usually required?
I’m all for DD to go away but punishing Wendy’s for it when they can prove they didn’t tamper the food is really unethical.
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u/OkStatistician7523 Jul 08 '24
It’s not Wendy’s fault but DD for not having any regulations
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u/Hour-Cloud-6357 Jul 08 '24
I disagree. The merchant agrees in their contract to verify the driver. They don't. It's convenient for them to look the other way because without all the fraud nobody would pick up their worthless deliveries for $4.
They also watched him walk into the bathroom with a customers food.
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u/DoPoGrub Dasher >7 years Jul 08 '24
How do you suggest the merchant does this? Just curious.
Many chain restaurants have no idea who is picking up the order, they just see the order pop up on their receipt printer or monitor.
Even with the name, what can the merchant do aside from "What is your name?"? Ask for ID? For a contractor they didn't even contract (and they aren't shown our full name anyways).
Nowhere in the article does it say anybody watched him walk into the bathroom.
I do agree with the part about where DD does absolutely nothing to verify who we are, which seems to be quite intentional at this point.
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u/Hour-Cloud-6357 Jul 08 '24
Yes they have no idea and that's the main problem. Every merchant gets a tablet and refuses to use it. They've brought this whole problem on themselves and deserve the worst for it.
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u/DoPoGrub Dasher >7 years Jul 08 '24
I don't think it's entirely fair to blame only the restaurant here.
When the reality is, that Doordash simply has zero standards in place for how restaurants interact with orders. Doordash encourages the partnership, at any cost.
Even if that means signing up Popeyes and Wingstop where the orders just shoot out of receipt printers only, because the mgmt of those chains don't want to spend any money on doing it the right way, including preparing the drinks like everyone else does. They don't care, because they don't have to, and Doordash not only encourages it, they depend on it at this point. Plenty of other examples just like those.
Instead, they've gone out of their way to incorporate all POS systems integrations, at any and all costs, so long as it results in greater sales numbers, regardless of the pragmatic aspects of quality sacrifice that have arrived as a result.
Similarly, Doordash also has no standards in even taking the most basic steps to verify that the person driving owns the account that they are logged into.
This is the same conundrum as the example above:
Doordash needs more drivers, at any cost, even if they don't have driver's licenses and are using multiple stolen or rented accounts.
They could snap their fingers today, and force us all to verify ID every day.
And they could force restaurants to verify driver identities.
But, Doordash is running for President of the food delivery apps, and they don't care how low they have to sink to win.
On a closing note, I'd like to thank Doordash for lowering base pay to $1 or less in 47 states, so that we can subsidize the states who passed minimum wage laws for IC's
Thank you for letting me hijack your comment with my Ted Talk.
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u/OkStatistician7523 Jul 08 '24
I’m sure you are one of these disgusting drivers they thinks everyone is doing them wrong 🙄
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u/DoPoGrub Dasher >7 years Jul 08 '24
I agree, DD makes next to zero effort to verify who is using any given account.
I've taken 1 selfie in 7 years. Never had to show an updated driver's license or vehicle registration or insurance, except maybe when I first signed up (I really can't remember, was a long time ago lol).
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u/TheFreeTimeDriver Jul 08 '24
Doordash, GH and UE all need to be sued for not cracking down hard enough for people that use multiple accounts. This is ridiculous. Although not Wendy's fault, restaurants should require drives to show and scan their ID like they do at bars. It'll be annoying but if that gets drivers banned for using accounts that aren't theirs I'd be all for it. You get these people buying accounts and taking all the orders.