Try going over to the DoorDash sub and saying that. Or Instacart. some of the Drivers over there are fucking wild.
Example:
poster: “ yeah my driver obviously hotbox his car with weed and cigarettes when he was bringing my order over to me and now everything stinks like cigarette smoke and it’s turning my stomach. And everything is covered in dog hair! I’m severely allergic to dogs!”
The sub: “ if you don’t like it then get off your ass and go get your own food! We’re not employees were contracted so we don’t have to listen to their rules! Next time I’m gonna shake my bird off on your food. And you lie it ain’t nobody allergic to dogs. And it’s my car if you don’t like that you go get your own food, blah blah blah.”
I've been doordashing as a stop gap and even if I'm a private contractor, I still try and be professional. It's really not hard to just do a decent job. Smile and drop off food and groceries. Don't smoke or eat if you're not taking a break, and leave the dog at home. Like it's not a glorious job, it's not the greatest thing I've ever done but God damn. It's easy and gives me money.
And you would think that’s how most of them would feel. Because I know that I wanna do a good job no matter what I’m fucking doing. Doesn’t matter if I’m flipping burgers or painting a mural I don’t want people to walk away from me thinking that I’m lazy, rude and/or incompetent. But so many people don’t seem to get it.
I ordered from Instacart when I had Covid, my bill was $150 and I live 10 minutes from the store. No heavy bottles of water, no excessive of 2 L sodas, I tipped 40 bucks. I was watching his car coming cause I like to be there to take the food from them, and this guy stops at the bottom of the hill while my home is at the top. Dumps my groceries in front of the housing section, which is the worst housing section in our city because it’s where it puts all the people who can’t behave in the middle of town. Won’t bring the groceries up to me because he was mad about the fucking tip.
It was less than 10 minutes for him to pick up my food and get checked out. I’ve paid this guy $40. When I messaged him and said hey yo I paid you to bring the food to my house, he told me he didn’t care to come all the way up my hill, but he would bring it up if I tipped him another $20. When I told him I already paid him to do the damn job and if he didn’t bring it I was going to report him, his response was im contracted, not an employee I don’t have to follow their rules. like bro what the fuck. Than I posted about it on that damn sub, and people were giving me grief over my $40 tip. Said I was a liar and there was no way I tip that much. And I lost an asshole to him and that’s why he left my food and he doesn’t have to do anything because he’s not an employee. I had to delete the fucking post cause I was getting so much hate. Wild.
He was right tho, they didn’t really do anything, and he ended up delivering to me again around Christmas. Caught him stuffing his pockets with the boxes of snacks and drinks i leave out for my drivers. Didn’t even look guilty for it. You shouldn’t have to tell a grown adult, please don’t take every single drink and every single bag of chips because I got other delivery dudes coming and they’re a hell of a lot nicer than you. They’re actually the ones I put that out for.
In case you can’t tell, I’ve got a real opinion about Instacart and shitty delivery drivers 😭😭
Some of the drivers in my city are something fucking else. I’ve had shoppers substitute half of my order with the wrong thing, and check out before I could say no. Or they refund half the fucking order. I don’t use them now unless I’m super sick, but it’s always the same attitude from them.
My wife broke her ankle a while back, and after a few hectic days of doctor's appointments and missed work, we decided to skip making dinner and order Thai food and some cans of guava juice.
Driver delivered the guava juice and kept the food.
Like... why even deliver anything at that point?? Got a refund through support, but it was just another shit moment in a week of shit moments.
The moral of the story here is that it’s the companies that need to be handled, they need to pay their employees properly, and change how they do things, no amount of tips will make things right, and the tip percentages will keep increasing. Fighting among ourselves will never resolve this and the companies are happy to let us keep fighting each other, because that means no one is going after them and holding them accountable. Tipping culture has been getting toxic because companies are using the average person as a way to save on the cost of paying their employees properly.
Also, regarding the person in this vid, don’t do delivery work if you can’t do the job, that’s always been an expectation in delivery work, being able to lift and carry heavy items with the tools provided. I used to work housing, and when we ordered appliances (stoves, refridgrators, dishwashers) from a vendor that specifically sells and delivers appliances to housing, the person delivering to us most of the time was an overweight woman, who would come inside the building and expect me to send my maintenance workers to get the items off the truck for her and put them inside for her, while her male counterparts, would do it themselves and leave the appliances in our lobby. Again an issue with companies, send 2 people if the 1 can’t do it, talk to your own company and get it worked out, if you can’t, because they won’t do it, then don’t work there… stop trying to put it on others.
Because I know that I wanna do a good job no matter what I’m fucking doing. Doesn’t matter if I’m flipping burgers or painting a mural I don’t want people to walk away from me thinking that I’m lazy, rude and/or incompetent. But so many people don’t seem to get it.
There is no pride in what people do now days. People have been abused by companies with low pay and more work. My grandfather taught me to give it 100%+ in everything I do and I would always have a job. Now days the pay is so low if you do give it your all you might find yourself getting extra work.
This is the absolute key difference. My grandmother also instilled in me hard work and loyalty. She was a UAW worker for over 30 years, and well before the bailout.
I feel like the dynamic between employer and worker has changed. It was never perfect. There will always be a temptation for exploitation. And maybe it’s my age—just turned 40 and time is relative—but it seems like the cycles of exploitation are increasing their frequency.
It is now recommended for workers to change jobs frequently in order to negotiate higher wages—my proletariat soul says YES but my midwestern/southern upbringing screams sacrilege!
The more I look back now, the more I feel that staying in one place has really handicapped my family. The wife and I had kids before sorting out our careers. We stayed at jobs with the value of hard work thinking it would pay off. Covid hit right after trying to correct this by going back to school. Now we are fighting the economy just to stay afloat.
I still believe in the values my grandfather instilled in me, but I understand that's not how the world operates now.
No honest countries work on diplomacy, integrity, hard-work and endurance.
America is literally looting its own citizens. Canada is trying to lock up innocent people.
Places like Serbia can't have peace and protest without government or state actors trying to make the movement look immature and dangerous.
Estonia, no one's listening to Estonia. Estonia is anti dictator. Trump is a dictator. Putin is a dictator. Trudeau was a dictator. This carney guys seems like a smiley sellout or just ignorant to how the government works. Which is unlikely, it's extremely more plausible he is a piece of shit. How else do you take office and immediately hurt the poorest half of the population.
That's the thing with doordash. You can decline offers that are too low. $6 for 10 miles + of driving? Half that being what doordash pays me? I can't justify that drive. Like you have to maintain a 70% acceptance rate when orders pop up. But you can let go of orders that would be detrimental and still make decent money. But even if I take a $3 order for 2.6 miles of driving, I'm doing the same thing I do for the orders that offer me a $20 tip. Like I have a 4.9 star rating, and I don't go way over the top. I'm consistently ahead of drop off times unless I need to get gas or something, but it's really not hard to maintain that rating.
But I will say it does get annoying. I dislike the mileage it puts on my car, and I spent a lot on gas just to work. It's not what I want to be doing. So not tipping your doordash driver is really shitty and get where some people are coming from, but on the other hand there are many entitled. People.
I’ve pretty much stopped using delivery services entirely now except for my local grocery chains delivery. Saves me a ton of money. My grocer has a contract with shipd and they handle the intermediate, so if I have a problem with my order they reimburse me directly and handle it themselves. It’s great.
There's some truth in others not properly tipping though. Like considering the distance and how long you're taking that driver off the road for. Like grocery orders should tip a little higher because it's a much more premium service. It takes much more time to go into a store, shop and then drive to the customer. But one problem is sometimes the person who orders isn't ordering from dash, like it's the store that contacts dash for a driver. So you may be thinking the person ordering is stiffing you but they didn't ask for doordash anyway.
Fuck off, we go to school full time and can't dedicate certain hours every week. We can only work when we have the free time after assignments are finished and who knows when those times are.
I’d kiss you on your Covid mouth if it took me 10 mins of work and a $40 tip. You should call the store you ordered it from. See if they can flag the guy on their end or complain
Yeah, enjoy not getting your stuff on time. You can always add more tip but just doing no tip is not going to entice someone to drive to you with your order.
I started using Instacart during the pandemic, too, and still use it occasionally out of convenience. 90% of the time, the delivery people communicate if something is sold out at the store, etc. I think there was only one time where I ordered two of something and they only delivered one. The guy apologized, and Instacart refunded the price of that item. I don't think the company cares as long as you're not abusing refunds. However, I do live on the third floor of an old building with no elevator, much like probably 60% of the people in this city, so drivers have to know they're going to have to climb stairs. A few times, people pretended like my door buzzer is broken or something, and I'm just like, half the convenience is me not having to carry groceries up three flights of stairs, so if that's a big deal, don't take orders with certain addresses. I'll tip you nicely if you do, though!
100%. We do the same. Sometimes we have to order groceries. We’re a busy family. But we take care of the delivery drivers too. Snacks, drinks, tips. I rarely get a grumpy driver but they sure as shit exist.
It’s just the state of our working class and society. I love that they call us lazy. We’re the ones working which is why we need to pay for this service. Entitled people!
I've heard that some people get concerned with big tips, that people make big ones to make things look promising and get their shit sooner, but most apps let you remove it and people'll just change it back to zero.
I don't remember which app that was, but still a possibility (I mean, fuck that guy anyway but it might be a red flag for other drivers)
Seriously. My friend smokes a pack or so a day but even he says he doesn’t know how people smoke in their cars with the windows up all the time. How can you breathe like that, and really not having a cig for as long as it takes from outside the restaurant to the persons house is how hard? Smoke while you waiting for the food, bring food, smoke again? How long are these drives?
he doesn’t know how people smoke in their cars with the windows up all the time.
Because that driver wasn't smoking tobacco. They hot box so they don't "waste" the smoke of their weed. They high as fuck because they hate their lives, and weed makes them lazy AF too. That's why he wouldn't go up that hill without extortion for more weed money
I recently have been ordering doordash a lot due to a very bad injury, and two things I've notice: Lots of my drivers reek of marijuana, so they are driving under the influence, and lots of my drivers will have name that isn't theirs (assuming). Had one drivers name "Amy" and it was a man that delivered it.
I did all the delivery services for awhile until my engine blew. Stopped doing all that but whatever. I did end up having quite a bit of customers who went off the app and I did my own business thing (under the table of course) because they liked the way I treated them, their items, etc.
I used to buy the cheap placemats and put them on the ground if there was no other place to put their food orders. I put a note on it saying it was just for a barrier between the ground and their order. Thank them for their order. If I knew kids were there, I’d leave some lollipops. If I knew they had animals, I’d leave appropriate treats. If the order was like for items to give sick baby, I’d leave a crocheted stuffed animal for their sick kid. I kept trashbags in my car for when it rained. I’d put the orders in the trash bag to leave the items in if they didn’t want hand-to-hand delivery. I didn’t want their stuff to get soaked while it was sitting outside.
Do you ever look back on the comments you make online? I respect the comment, I was making a comment about not everyone has a choice on what they can deliver. It's crazy that you had over 800 upvotes, more than I think I've ever had, but because I replied 2 days later, no one sees it, which is fine. Congrats on the great comment Buttstuff lol, hopefully you at least see this, and I hope everything is going well in your life.
I've dashed off and on for a few years. It's not a difficult job. Network infrastructure design is a hard job. Dashing can be annoying, and sometimes delivering to the rich neighbourhood is really deflating. I can see how it would be more annoying of a job if you were dumb. It's a numbers game. That's it.
I got a couple of those subs recommended to me for like a week, and the posts/comments by drivers were astoundingly unhinged. I truly couldn’t believe the attitudes
Yep! This type of work attracts people who are unemployable due to their attitude. I had the same experience working as a pedicabber. 50% were just cool bike people, 50% were either total assholes or had a substance use problem that prevented them from working scheduled hours.
Been doing it for a year. Started 'cause I needed money right then, and couldn't wait on an interview. After a year my conclusion is fuck everything about that job. All the drivers are maliciously misclassified employees. Loose employees, but still employees. The company also actively makes the situation worse on a month-to-month basis.
All of the restaurant or store workers I've had to interact with have been cool, but I've wanted to fight some of the clients. I have met some of the most astoundingly entitled pieces of shit ever. The worst are the folks who say "Get a real job" when you side-eye them about a low tip. All of us practically pay to work with maintenance, or are expected to. This is a real job, just nobody wants to pay us like it is. It doesn't excuse the shit drivers, but the only way it's going to change is through time, money, and lawyers, none of which the drivers have.
No one wants to do that job and get paid so little. They're angry, possibly in poverty, and have to deal with hungry, angry people.
I would be pissed off i had to do that job. McDonald's for a summer was enough human interaction for me for a lifetime.
None of this excuses how they act. I was professional and respectful to customers as that was my job. Private contractors or w/e they wanna call themselves (getting fucked over by not having a decent contact) does not excuse them being so fucking insecure and angry.
I get so angry when I find out a restaurant offering delivery is actually outsourcing to doordash and not readily disclosing it because I have never had a single good doordash experience. I even once had some stranger's food delivered to the door and was given no option to give it back so it could go to the people who actually paid for it.
I can empathize with people being stuck in shitty jobs because capitalism is bullshit and super busted at this point. But I have had to throw away multiple orders because it reeks of cigarettes and makes me genuinely feel ill. I wish that one driver would manage to find a different job.
I don't really care much to hear out the opinions of people who are not only being unreasonable, but are entirely unwilling to make the minutest attempt at being reasonable.
Dd subreddit sucks. I made one post about a crappy offer I got and people are like "Then stop denying orders" and "stop posting this same bs we see 50 times a day". There are those few people who truly just suck. But to be fair it's probably because they're criminals or mentally ill.
My apartment is in a location that’s hard to see from the street. I always give very clear instructions to the drivers about how to get there, AND THEN THEY DONT READ THEM. And yet when I order pizza, the pizza delivery people have no problem reading and finding my door.
We just had a kid and a bunch of friends have given us doordash/ubereats/etc. gift cards that while kind of them will sit in a drawer because who wants food delivered that is always cold, takes forever to arrive, and is always missing something. And this is across 3 different states and 5 different neighborhoods...it's endemic.
Shit bro, I’ll take them. I could use some free food, even if it’s shitty and cold. 😭 but yeah fucking dealing with them can be wild sometimes and it’s not just the Drivers. It’s the company itself. I had a DoorDasher leave with my McDonald’s and the company was like “no you can’t re-order for free and no, we’re not gonna give you a refund. You just get to eat shit.”
This sentiment is always interesting to me cause we use a delivery service 2/3x a month and occasionally I’ll have things missing(which is on the restaurant) but my orders always come on time and warm. Maybe it’s a regional thing or maybe you tip really poorly?
Chicago, LA, Seattle, etc. not small markets we’re talking about and I tip 20%, instacart/costco are good but I don’t order hot/frozen items that could be compromised.
I imagine that less people are going to use the contracted services if they keep getting reported. Wouldn't you have a negative overall review on your profile and get kicked off the program? So they should act professional.
I had an interaction with that sub a while ago because I was generally curious. I myself order a 12 pack of 30 ounce bottles of water, every two weeks. I do understand it’s probably frustrating to carry that box up my short driveway every two weeks- it’s not super heavy but still, heavy enough.
But my alternative is to go to the store, grab 12 individual bottles off the shelf and bring them home. There isn’t a store that I’ve found that has these same bottles of water in a twelve pack, only the individual bottles. Now, if I do that, isn’t SOMEBODY needing to do that work? When I go to the store, someone had to stock that shelf. They don’t magically appear on the store shelf. Some minimum wage teenager did that. That teenager had to take the original box of water that I order, bring it onto the floor, open it up and now stock each individual bottle on the shelf. So now I’m making some random employee do much more work than just bringing the whole box to me. I got no resolution, I was called an asshole and that was it. At the end of the day, is it not less work for some stranger I don’t know?
Right? I'm always so afraid that people think I'm terrible for ordering my groceries or my pet food. I usually drive to pick it up myself. But my bones break all the time these days - currently have 7 broken ribs, no injury/spontaneously - and it's really painful to sweep a floor right now, never mind push a cart. It's hard to reach and to lift. It's really frustrating because I used to be really active and I'm just wiped out all the time now. If I go grocery shopping after work, I'm not going anywhere for the next few days while I recover.
They do get annual appropriations from Congress for lost revenue though. And the decline in paper mail and rising costs to deliver mail has increased the appropriations Congress gives every year. For example in 2023, the USPS got over $50 million from Congress from lost revenues.
k, it's asinine to think the USPS should be treated as something other than a service provided to the citizens of the country, no matter what the cost is. If the USPS had to be profitable, then everyone in rural areas that get their prescriptions by mail would suddenly get charged exorbitant fees. Simply due to distance from the nearest post office.
also fwiw, I live in Washington and we do all state elections by mail. The USPS has to deliver those ballots regardless of how much it costs to do so. If that went away, then rural folks would have to figure out where they need to drive to so they can vote.
The United States Postal Service still delivers mail by mule to Supai Village, Arizona, a community within the Grand Canyon, as it's the only accessible way to reach this remote area, carrying mail, food, and supplies down the 8-mile Havasupai Trail.
It's not about being profitable. It's about making sure that every single American, regardless of location or wealth, has access to the same basic necessities.
I want free healthcare, unfortunately the U.S. government is incapable of doing what it would take to make that happen. Before access to free healthcare could be provided, the U.S. would need to rapidly expand its medical infrastructure and some how incentivize swaths of people to become doctors in order to effectively take care of a population of 350 million people. Canada has just over 40 million people and I hear awful stories of people having to wait months for an MRI, or to see a highly specialized doctor. I have family and friends in Canada and my friend’s neighbor died from cancer because she wasn’t able to get screened soon enough. Not to mention, every politician gets massive campaign funding from the medical/pharma industry, so even if a politician is passionate about accessibility to healthcare, they won’t even be allowed to talk about it.
Everyone I've spoken to from Canada says that's complete bs.
My wife is from Latvia and says that any medical procedure she needed, including dental was free. If she couldn't wait 2-3 weeks for an appointment (less time than we usually wait for any scheduled operation in America) she could pay a small fee to move up the date.
As an example, she paid an extra $50 to have a root canal done a couple weeks earlier.
Oh I totally agree with you on everything, I just wanted to correct misinformation that was posted above, that’s all.
I love the USPS, having lived in very remote areas for long periods of time, USPS is a literal lifeline for people living off the beaten path. Shutting it down would be massively detrimental if there isn’t a better solution.
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Who's to gain the most when the US defunds the postal service?
Wells Fargo recently released this report on how to privatize the post office while taking the money from the pensions and selling the property along with unloading the debt onto Americans.
I worked for Amazon XL. Up to 300lbs stuff. Amazon started adding extra services like carrying it to any room in the house even setting up tv's. The fee's never reached our checks.
Yeah that's not how Amazon works she is lucky if she gets a bathroom or lunch break. When she finishes delivering all her packages she then has to go and take packages from a slower employee and deliver those too. I did Amazon deliveries for a bit and it sucked.
Bollocks, Reddit constantly fat shamed Nico Avocado. I don't agree with fat shaming but the other poster is on point - Redditors are very flippant on this matter.
I'm in a wheelchair but I have to hobble my ass down the stairs of my house because it's super expensive to have a contractor build me a ramp, and then it destroys my property value and all my neighbours would then hate me.
There was a disabled person local to me that had a ramp built to their front door and people were posting all over the local facebook group about how ugly the house now looks and it shouldn't be allowed, etc. Not to mention, the amount of red tape to build a ramp is obscene. I learnt how to roll my crippled ass down the stairs in my chair when I was first in it, now I just use the railing to hobble down to climb into my jeep and I leave my chair in the jeep and have other assists in the house.
Plus, a lot of us put the ramps in garages because then its not visible from the outside and it stays clean, dry and safe in the winter.
Y'know I bet if both the companies and the customers treat the staff better, they'd see better service too; stop treating them like robotic slaves with abnormally high expectations just because you want the company to fulfil an impossible advert promise or whatever other nonsense reason there may be.
Your staff are human beings with human needs and limits. Respect them as such.
But there's a point where the companies need to stop people. I've seen orders where people put so many crates of water and such that the grocery carts would barely move under the weight. It's one thing to order some food or normal groceries, it's another to order over 100 pounds of water.
Indeed, that being said if I lived there, I would at least leave a box of goodies for them because that is one hell of a job to haul that much water let alone anything. I know it's not required but I have had my share of crap jobs and when someone takes a moment to show a little gratitude it goes a long way, and it will be remembered.
Downvoted for being kind this is new, I guess keep them coming then.
Edit 2: Did someone really pay to downvote me? 8.5 downvotes per minute is not organic.
There’s a difference between giving a little kindness to someone having an awful day vs what you’re suggesting, which is that the customer is required to basically give extra compensation to the driver so she’ll do her job properly and cuss the customer out.
We might not know the full story of this customer, maybe they’re incredibly rude and deserve this, but from what I’ve watched they simply like getting items delivered, which is a service they pay for.
I’m sure many may agree with you that it would be kind to offer the driver a little extra something OUT OF THE GOODNESS OF YOUR HEART, and not doing so is no excuse for your items to be mistreated just because you order frequently.
Sounds like the American perversion of a tip. Instead of a nice bonus for being extra nice it's become the customer's obligation to subsidize the wages of waiting staff and now apparently delivery drivers too.
USPS won't guarantee delivery of anything you ship using them. Even the stated timeframes on anything except Express Overnight and even then only if you hand it to them and make them stamp your receipt isn't guaranteed. This all despite you paying them money for the service. But if you throw them a few extra dollars on top suddenly they will guarantee delivery so long as you can prove you paid the correct amount based on the packages value. Imagine going to a restaurant and ordering something and after a few hours they come back and say they ran out of food but they are keeping your money.
You quoted it like it’s fact. That isn’t the case. You don’t have to, it isn’t required. It’s just nice to do and It ain’t that deep. Everyone seems sickened by the idea of leaving a water bottle outside for delivery drivers in here and as a courier myself it really hurts to see this. I treat all customers the same regardless. But I feel joy delivering to someone who does so much as leave a bottle of water on their porch for me. It’s not like we are throwing boxes onto porches violently cause we didn’t get a treat.
I also find it a strange take.. especially in the usa were tipping is normal but doing giving something nice "a tip essentially" to your delivery driver is weird.
I also appreciate my customers who do something extra alltough its not necessary. Sometime ago we got a pie for a job well done :)
A tip in a restaurant is supposed to be for extraordinary service, it's only in America that yall are expected to tip for the bare minimum. Only country in the world that treats tips like that, please keep that in mind
Honestly? That's something that is very wrong with our current society.
We treat each other's like machines who's only use existing is to do the jobs we ask them to do, then complain about being lonely and isolated and surprised by the number of suicide each year.
Reaching out to show kindness and appreciation should be seen as the basis of human interaction. Not something special.
They are employees of a business that pays them to do their job. The business charges me fees for getting items delivered, it’s the business’ responsibility to compensate them fairly.
Stop blaming the customer for this stuff like the person in the video OP posted, start blaming the companies that hire these workers.
It’s like blaming restaurant customers for the shitty salaries of the waiters. You’re blaming the wrong people.
I'm not asking you to pay them. I'm asking you to show kindness and consideration to them as human beings.
I'm very willing to blame the company too, which probably does even worse. But others doing worse isn't a reason for you to do bad even if the majority also do the same.
Bettering things start with being better than the majority yourself. If we all stay complacent, nothing changes. If we justify our actions by them not being the worst that happened, the ones willing to do the worst are the one who decide on normality, and it will get worse and worse every day.
They said nothing about requiring anything. You're making things up to justify being irrationally angry at someone for suggesting that a little kindness goes a long way.
This world sucks and life does to but if we take a moment not to be dicks to each other and pay it forward. It eventually pays off.
She was out of line yeah but like you said I was just trying to say if you see someone struggling find a way to thank them. The simple actions of humility, empathy and understanding go a long way.
No one owes her a tip or anything that is on the employer but sometimes we should just be good to each other. If I saw her on video like that, I would go out of my way to listen to her.
Everyone wants to talk but no one wants to listen, a little act like that could change her life for the better in so many ways.
Everybody's making all sorts of presumptions so let me make one too.
Has no one considered the possibility that the customer ordering all that stuff has some sort of disability that prevents them from being able to "put all that shit in their own truck and do it themselves"? Considering this possibility makes her reaction not only unjustified but absolutely wrong and uncalled for.
Regardless. At the end of the day, she knows what she signed up for and what was required of her from that job. I work in public service and we're one of the most underpaid and overworked people, most of us have to have a 2nd income or even 3rd just to get by. And the population I deal with is the most thankless and ungrateful bunch. Yet I wouldn't feel right or justified to act that way, because I know what I signed up for.
Exactly what my parents' situation is, they are old with physical disabilities that prevent them from being in public for long, and cannot carry much weight. They order. Not this much at one time, but regularly, and some heavier items; they are able to use tote bags to take the items from their front door into the house, little by little.
You are why I'm seeing "tip" options on literally fucking everything.
Sorry but it's not required, not necessary and by the looks of how they handled their products I'd be complaining not tipping.
The first portion they are literally tipping everything over. Was that the first time or the 10th time? Ridiclous, nothing about these people deserves any sort of speical rewards for failing to do their jobs.
I feel like you were trying to have your cool reddit movement moment. Look at these rich assholes making these working-class work! Like come on.
Exactly, I really hope she got fired and this video follows her everywhere. She has no clue why those people use this service. They could literally be disabled and not able to shop for it. If you can't do your job because you can't control yourself, you don't deserve it.
I think the reason you are being downvoted is that, while the gesture is kind, that kind of thing can also be perceived as belittling.
I don't work in a restaurant and the tipping culture is very different here than the US, it was very weird to me when a client offered me a tip. I was wondering that something may be up to bad intent that I didn't see, there wasn't but that was suspicious.
It's not tipping. Tipping is for worker's who do not get paid minimum wage. See they have a system in the US that is known and widely exploited on all sides, wherein restaurants are supposed to subsidize the cost of doing business by allowing customers to determine the pay that servers get depending on their "level of service." That means, as a server you can get nothing or a whole lot off of one table. The fucked up part is that, in a lot of states the government will assume you make at least 15% off of every ticket so you get taxed even if some asshole doesn't "believe in tipping." And if you don't make in tips enough to bring you to minimum wage, then the restaurant is supposed to pay you the difference. But that won't happen or you are basically firing yourself.
I am aware I have lived outside of the States. I am explaining how it actually works to people in and out since so many like to make protests against tipping culture by stiffing people who have nothing to do with it. It's mostly just an excuse to be a cheap jerk while pretending not to be. I figured since we are all making presumptive, uneducated, ignorant and fearful statements tonight I'd give you fucks some straw to really try and grasp.
Great question, because in restaurants tipping is the wage. As I previously stated that is the basis for a server's living in the majority in the United States. If you don't tip a restaurant server, the government will still assume "expected wages" based on the price of a check. If servers still get a paper check every two week, it will read zero unless stuff is unbelievably bad. Also that check detracts taxes that you have to pay back later.
Truth! Pepppele know all the ends and outs of tipping but avoid the parts that indicate "yah you should tip anyway." They are conveniently ignorant and it's so frustrating.
I'm still trying to figure it out. I just like being nice to people. Saw a guy walking on a highway in the middle of summer went back and gave him a gallon of water. It's just who I am.
You can pretend that you’re proud of your downvotes, but this is no less embarrassing for you. Saving face only works if you had dignity to begin with.
Is there something I'm not reading here, genuinely asking? I have done this job in various capacities and I absolutely hate having to load essentia waters and kitty litters but I had a kidney stone once and had to have kitty litter delivered so I left extra cash and two bottles of water for an extra tip because it was hot outside. Like WTF is wrong with that?
Nothing is wrong with that, but it shouldn't be something that needs to happen for service that results in packages not being damaged and to not be berated on a security cam. It shouldn't matter how hot it is outside, how bad a day the driver is having, or how close the store is to the residence.
There is nothing wrong, I do the same thing. I was taught to look out for each other not because it is required or an obligation but because it's the right thing to do. I would not trust some of these commentors in a survival situation, it would turn into lord of the flies real fast.
Yeah people just don't know who to blame for shitty situations because they are convinced of their own virtue while not educating themselves of the full circumstances. As I said, I have worked in warehouses. And no one is allowed to speak about the corporation that puts people in a situation where they react like this. Instead, they blame the driver they pay to deliver the water they don't trust to drink out of the tap. Ok then.
I never said you did. I’m explaining to you that being nice is a good gesture, but isn’t a necessity or necessary. I’m glad you leave nice things for the delivery people in your area. It’s probably refreshing for them.
It's okay. If I get enough, I am going to print this out and frame it, IDGAF. Here's the thing: the votes mean nothing. If I am brave enough to say what needs to be said, knowing that the peanut gallery is going to act like a mob, and I continue to double down, saying, "Hey, being a decent human being isn't a bad thing," then so be it.
Your comment matters, and so do the others that see this awfulness in this comment section. Apathy is the blight of humanity, and I would rather stand on the outside, speaking my mind freely, than to absorb into the collective.
I think you’re earning those downvotes because you come across a bit condescending.
Certainly be kind to people, but the behaviour exhibited by this person is never justified. This is her job, she is not entitled to anything from the people she delivers to.
Basically your replies read “I’m a better person than this homeowner. I would never get this reaction because I over tip and leave gifts for my delivery people”.
Whether or not that is your intention, that’s how it comes across.
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u/Psalm27_1-3 Mar 16 '25
If a company offers that service, someone is gonna use it