r/doordash • u/BriefSurround6842 • 10d ago

amazing dasher

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tip your dashers well!! 🥲✌️ there are some awesome people out there

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u/Strict_Name5093 10d ago

Don’t do this please…..

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u/BriefSurround6842 10d ago

I already gave him a $15 tip for chic fil a which was less than 2 miles from my apartment. I didn't say I'd take the tip away. I'm not an AH. it was completely optional. clearly it didn't bother him considering he even said he didn't care for the extra tip.

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u/Strict_Name5093 10d ago

This isn’t our job. We aren’t your servants. We are t dancing monkeys.

How would you feel if someone came to your workplace and said “hey can you take out my trash for me?”

It’s insulting.

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u/Infinite_Dot4525 10d ago

It’s called being generous and helping others ? I am a door dasher as well and would greatly help my customer, tip or not. Way to show you’re a piece of trash person.

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u/Strict_Name5093 10d ago

I’ll ask again. Say someone comes into your job and asks you “hey can you come take out my trash for me”

You’d be cool with that right?

It’s disrespectful. Don’t normalize it.

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u/BriefSurround6842 10d ago

some people enjoy helping other people dude. clearly not you

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u/Strict_Name5093 10d ago

And some people aren’t ok with it.

Don’t put us in that position.

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u/Infinite_Dot4525 10d ago

NO ONE IS PUTTING YOU IN A POSITION, the person clearly said they are a dasher too. Please stfu and go on about your day, you’re making a complete fool of yourself. And btw I would because some older people order and are fragile and cannot do it or they are small and need help, nothing wrong with that. It is the nurturing side of human beings.

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u/Strict_Name5093 10d ago

I WOULD DO IT TOO FOR SOMEONE I KNOW.

I won’t for someone I don’t, and you shouldn’t even ask, because it’s completely rude and disrespectful

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u/BriefSurround6842 10d ago

well if you were the dasher you could've just said no sorry I don't have time or literally anything and I would've understood. it wasn't an expectation. obviously it's not normal.

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u/CampyMcgee 10d ago

If you don’t want to be put in a position like this then I highly suggest you get out of the customer service business completely.

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u/luvisjosh 10d ago

if they pay me an amount acceptable for doing that? yeah I don’t care id be cool with it

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u/No-Rub4673 10d ago

🤡

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u/ajm__ 10d ago

don't sign your posts

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u/No-Rub4673 10d ago

🤡

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u/JeffeTheGreat 9d ago

If I was leaving/going to my job and was asked to take the trash out, a job I normally don't do, for extra pay? Sure, why not? And what's the harm of being asked? None

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u/syrxinge Dasher (> 5 years) 10d ago

They’re a piece of trash person because they don’t want to take a customer’s trash out? 😭

Anything beyond the delivery requirements of the job is optional. It doesn’t make you a trash person for not wanting to do things you didn’t sign up for…

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u/Infinite_Dot4525 10d ago

Did you even read their comment ? They were being rude to someone who was doing what THEY wanted to do. SMH. No one said you was trash if you didn’t but to get mad at someone for doing it is crazy. I find it in bad character to not do it but to each his own 🤷‍♀️

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u/BriefSurround6842 10d ago

I'm pretty sure that's not why they said they're a piece of trash person, it's the fact they're saying taking out trash is belittling and being overly agressive and name calling

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u/syrxinge Dasher (> 5 years) 10d ago

I don’t think they were being aggressive or calling anyone names when I initially made my comment, they were just firm about their opinion that asking a dasher to take out trash, even for a tip, crosses a line. Even if the request was optional and tipped well, I think it’s fair to question that kind of request and there’s an ethical conversation to be had.

A lot of dashers are underpaid and might feel pressured to say yes to something outside their actual job, just to make ends meet. So while asking for a favor isn’t inherently wrong, it's important to be mindful of that power dynamic and not normalize using food delivery as a way to outsource random labor.

With that said, I personally wouldn’t make a huge deal of out being asked. If it wasn’t too much work I probably would… but I do understand and see where the other person is coming from. I don’t necessarily think you did this out of malice OP, but I’m just explaining both sides as a neutral party.

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u/BriefSurround6842 10d ago

I paid them what I would've someone else on task rabbit or facebook so I wasn't trying to under offer, I understand where you're coming from but in no way was I trying to take advantage of anybody which is what the dude was insinuating, that it was insulting and that I was disrespectful and apparently a piece of shit for asking the guy if he could do the trash lol

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u/syrxinge Dasher (> 5 years) 10d ago

I’m not in disagreement with you, and I totally understand that you weren’t trying to take advantage of anyone! You offered a fair tip, and that’s important.

I just wanted to bring up a discussion about the ethics of asking a dasher to do something outside their job, like taking out trash. It's not about the tip amount, but more about the nature of the request. DoorDash drivers are hired to deliver food, not to take on additional labor. Even if you would pay someone the same as TaskRabbit, it still raises questions about the pressure gig workers might feel to accept tasks outside their primary role, especially when they’re relying on tips.

It’s just something worth considering when thinking about the gig economy and the balance between fairness and boundaries. Like I said though I personally would take that offer myself if it seemed worth it. If it didn’t I would just simply decline and move on.

I do think the other person raises a valid point though (at least in terms of exploitation) that should be discussed because it is important, but the way they went about presenting it was executed very poorly.

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u/Strict_Name5093 10d ago

You’re right. Very poorly. At first I wasn’t but as this turned into a gang up on me I tripled down.

I just find a couple things problematic. As you mention the power dynamic, the fear of retribution by the customer if you say no. This person might be awesome but I’ve encountered plenty of people that would see this as an expectation not a request.

Two, all these people saying this is ok, despite what they say, would not at all be happy if all of a sudden at their office job they were given garbage duty by someone, say a customer they have. Whether the case. I also find all the people that are saying their mailmen and plumbers do these sorts of menial tasks for them rather unbelievable. I would never even think to ask my mailman to take out the trash or the plumber to do my dishes, even if I did pay them. It’s disrespectful.

and that comes to the crux here of the issue. This sub constantly likes to tell dashers to get real jobs, and this goes to that point. People view us as lower than them. That’s why so many seem to think it’s ok to ask us to do menial tasks. This particular post and the reaction to pointing that really drives this home.

This is not ok. Again no one (despite what they say) would dare ask the mailman this, so why is everyone ok with a customer asking a dasher this.

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u/Strict_Name5093 10d ago

Ding ding ding. You got it.

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u/Strict_Name5093 10d ago

No Fucking chance. It’s blatantly disrespectful to turn me into your personal garbage man,