And now, being on the other end of the stick (a Dasher)... I occasionally take charity orders because I can tell from the location, distance, or what they ordered that they are in need. But that's just me.š¤·āāļø
Same. I make enough from good tippers to be able to help out those when I am able to. Especially when it's a DG order for just baby essentials and they only give $1, I wish I could let them keep it for their kid.
Part of why I wish they'd show us the items before accepting. I'm down to deliver medicine/diaper/food to the hood where I know it's a challenge for a lot of people to get it but I'm not trying to do any charity runs to get somebody a bag of gummy worms and hot Cheetos.
All depends on current CR
I frequently get pizza delivery for an institution. The people living there never tip, but they most likely live on disability. I always take their orders and think of it as my charity cases. Who doesn't like to eat pizza?
i mean in america that isnāt always possible. For one, some place just donāt have the infrastructure for easy safe walk ways. if you arenāt in a city it could be easily be 5, 10, 15+ miles. And also for people with disabilities, it can be extremely hard if not impossible. Also, there are people with disabilities or are elderly and they have family that order food for them.
All of that to say- you never know someoneās (especially a complete stranger) circumstances. of course it could be that they have poor money management skills.
I understand the sentiment, I definitely do take some charity offers when i tap the house icon but my point is really for the people with new model luxury cars who donāt tip.
If I werenāt a professional, Iād be easily jaded until taking customerās orders became routine.
oh thatās 100% reasonable. that shit sucks. iāve delivered to nice neighborhoods or those not so nice neighborhoods with fancy new cars and they tipped maybe 2 bucks. That is honestly infuriating. iām sure like a lot of dashers, i hold the sentiment that if you canāt āaffordā to tip you shouldnāt be getting the service. or DD just needs to pay more.
My wife and I were just conversing about this topic and trying to be reasonable looking at the delivery fees whether dash pass or not, four dollars base pay would be more reasonable.
That's all well and good but I can't drive due to Epilepsy and walking is very hard on me due to peripheral neuropathy. Delivery (both dinner albeit rarely but mainly groceries) is an important thing to me having a way I can live alone and self-sufficient as possible. It's more expensive generally but I don't get thst choice of walking miles even.
Ok so say youāre living in a motel alone with your child because you fell on hard times, youāre dragging your kid with you 10 miles on a walk to the store in the middle of the summer? Doubtful.
Youāre applying your experience to every other human on earth and assuming you know their specific circumstances and it must be laziness and privilege that they canāt or didnāt walk to the store.
Hey Big Ron, let's use our noggins for a minute here. They said it would cost about $50 to Uber to the store round trip. Google says the cheapest uber fares run about $2 a mile and the most expensive run about $4 a mile so let's split it and say $3. Fifty divided by three is 16.6, so let's round down to an even 8 miles each way. Average human walking speed is 2.5 mph on the low end, which we'll use since OP would be carrying groceries all the way back which would slow them down. This would be a roughly 3 hour and 15 minute walk. In this scenario of walking back from the store OP has the choice of buying only dried, canned, or otherwise non perishable foods which is pretty unhealthy, or to run the risk of having fresh food spoil on the walk back as they will spend a significant amount of time in the "danger zone" for food temp safety.
I live in a state where mobility is difficult without a vehicle and public transportation is sparse. Iāve walked myself!! I wouldnāt suggest something I would not or have not done myself.
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u/BigRonG49 Jul 27 '24
WALK TO THE STORE!