u/deliverykp

If you've ever seen how expensive toilet paper and paper towels are, be thankful you don't have to buy them, or buy very much of it.

I use bath towels I buy from Target, as my paper towel and everything, because it's a cheap one-time purchase, And it catches everything. It's a lot less messy. Overall, no paper residue in your ride, and if you have a gym membership or your work has bathrooms, You get to use their TP and paper towels. Even if you have to buy either of those, it's dramatically less than if you had a full-blown apartment or house.

So you can tell when people are out and they need extra money, because in my market, I'm seeing lower offers overall.

I don't care what doordash tells you, they do either some sort of dynamic pricing or they do some demand-based adjustments to offers.

So if all the sudden you see your offers being lower, there's probably an influx of part-timers taking offers.

Some of you probably already know this, but to those of you that don't, this is just a regular summer service announcement.

So I had a customer place an order, and he texted me 15 minutes into the order. Order basically wondering if the order was coming now. Based on what the person ordered and how far away it was, I think it was unreasonable for that particular customer to expect an order within 15 minutes from the time they ordered to the time it shows up their place. Where do you all stand on this?

I remember even 10 or 15 years ago, when a 40 or 50-in TV would cost you close to $1000. Now you can go to just about any electronic store or full service grocery store and pick up a 55-in TV for under $500 or even less.

It's so funny, because I was. I was literally in the shower, and I got that familiar ding for a notification, and it was just a weird sound, knowing that I had logged off and everything, so I didn't quite know what it was until I looked at it later.

Down detector was saying that there's no real issue, but I'm starting to see an increase in reports.

I had three orders assigned to me, and then I got assigned another order, And after the fourth order received, it got rid of the other three orders, which I thought was just lost in the system, but I force stopped it, deleted the cache and the storage, restarted the app, restarted the phone, and it still left me with the one offer and got rid of the other three, and now the app is acting all buggy, because I couldn't even load up certain pages on the app.

It's been a real s show. It's kind of sickening.

I feel like a week can't go by without the app. Just doing something funny, and usually the culprit is one of the developers getting cute again. It feels like every time they tried to do some little update, something happens, and it's like a house of cards comes down.

No one cares about the updates unless it's necessary. Don't be cute, try and make something that works without having to go through 18 steps on your own to fix it.

So I have a couple hundred dollars a month that I can dedicate to parking, and there's a bunch of buildings where I'm at that offers some sort of monthly parking, and it would be nice to have a change from where I'm sleeping now. I'd like to know if anybody's tried this, and whether you've had any success and what the drawbacks are.

I used to just dash until I can't dash anymore, but recently I set a money goal for the day, and for the week, and I'll be available for a certain amount of hours, but if I hit my money goal early, then I quit early.

What about all of you?

For those of us that do a lot of shop and deliver orders, this is a first for me. I had a customer request that I grind some whole bean coffee.

So this time I had a grocery store staff member do it, but only this one time, and then I sent the customer a very long note explaining that Doordash drivers are not allowed to grind coffee because this involves opening the bag and is a food safety violation.

So if you happen to ever get this request from a customer, remember that you can't do it because you can't open the bag.

I was on my way to drop off a grocery order and as part of the instructions, you have to punch in a code for the customer to buzz you in, and since the call box wasn't working, but the building was open because it was during office hours, I left the order on the couch in the lobby, and I sent her a message saying exactly that because of the power outage, I could not come up the elevator.

She sent me text messages wanting me to bring it up, but by that point I was gone already.

The person has to be reasonable in how my time is spent. I'm not waiting around. Hoping that the elevator will work in the time that I'm there. It could have taken 5 minutes, 30 minutes, an hour, who knows? I did the most reasonable thing. I asked if the stairs were going to be open, and because they're in a locked part, I couldn't even do that, so the choice was clear, drop it off and go.

I don't know what goes on at doordash HQ, but you have a whole team of engineers and developers and support staff and it seems like, with the billions and millions and millions of dollars, they can't keep an app from screwing up.

Sometimes I think that doordash gets a little cutesy with the app to make it some vibrant, fun app, when drivers and customers are just looking for practicality.

I mean, it was only a few days ago when this app messed up again. Even though it was only about 10 minutes, it's during a lot of people's dinner times, some at the start, some at the finish.

I think you need to get 10 of your best app people inside doordash, lock them in a room, and don't let them out until they get some assemblance of an app that's stable.

I feel like every time they try to update the app, try and add a new feature, or put some color into it, or just change the look of it, something seems to happen. They forget to close some piece of code or something, and on the other end, some feature gets messed up, and then they have to revert to a previous version of the app until they can fix it.

How about this. Quit messing around with it. Find a way that works, and leave it alone.

I don't need new features, I need the features that exist already to work without fail. This costs the company money, this costs drivers money, this costs the companies doordash is doing business with, money.

I don't need the car with the premium exhaust add-on. I want the car that I bought to work.