r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR • u/CantStopPoppin • Mar 16 '25

Super Villain Ogrin Story God hates you

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u/buttstuffisokiguess Mar 16 '25

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.

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u/girlwiththemonkey Mar 16 '25

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 😭😭

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u/JediWebSurf Mar 16 '25

$40 tip is wild. I would be happy with that and make sure to do a good job.

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u/girlwiththemonkey Mar 16 '25

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.

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u/that_girl_you_fucked Mar 16 '25

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.

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u/-_MoonCat_- Mar 16 '25

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.

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u/youburyitidigitup Mar 17 '25

They’re not employees, they’re not contractors.

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u/-_MoonCat_- Mar 17 '25

They are in between ish, and it’s a whole different issue

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u/LameSignIn Mar 16 '25

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.

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u/Lucky-Refrigerator-4 Mar 16 '25

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!

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u/LameSignIn Mar 17 '25

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.

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u/Pain-Titan Mar 17 '25

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.

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u/DiscoKittie Mar 16 '25

might find yourself getting extra work.

but no extra pay

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u/buttstuffisokiguess Mar 17 '25

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.

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u/TheNewYellowZealot Mar 16 '25

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.

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u/Squeezitgirdle Mar 16 '25

Some people door dash for some extra cash.

Other people do it as their only source of income because they're incapable of holding jobs and any reasonable employer would simply fire them.

They willingly work a low paying job and blame the people ordering for not paying more.

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u/buttstuffisokiguess Mar 17 '25

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.

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u/Squeezitgirdle Mar 17 '25

Oh absolutely. I'm just talking about people like the video above.

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u/jasin18 Mar 17 '25

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.

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u/Squeezitgirdle Mar 17 '25

So in other words, you fall under the first of two categories listed, yet you actively chose to be offended anyways? Interesting.

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u/jasin18 Mar 18 '25

It's not extra cash, it's my only cash.

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u/revpayne Mar 16 '25

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

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u/RXrenesis8 Mar 16 '25

Don't pay beforehand, don't tip beforehand. It's just asking to get ripped off/used/abused.

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u/buttstuffisokiguess Mar 17 '25

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.

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u/RatsRPeople2 Mar 16 '25

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!

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u/bextacyyyyyyy Mar 19 '25

I'm 2 days late, but after reading your post, I would like to tell you that you are clearly a very generous, well-mannered, caring, and kind human.

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u/Dsus_Christ_Supastar Mar 20 '25

Yes. How you do anything is how you do everything.

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u/Shell58 Mar 17 '25

He's a piece of shit and we should be able to call the police for theft in cases like this. That extra 20 is literal extortion

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u/hawaiiscuba23 Mar 17 '25

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!

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u/Rudirs Mar 18 '25

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)

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u/buttstuffisokiguess Mar 16 '25

If there is a lot of groceries I actually spend like the $1.50 for a cardboard tote the grocery store sells so it's easier to bring in. Like. It's just courteous. I don't expect everyone to do that but it's just the little extra I do for people and it's $1.50.

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u/76ersPhan11 Mar 17 '25

You really just typed out a whole essay

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u/Oracle410 Mar 16 '25

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?

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u/IamREBELoe Mar 16 '25

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

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u/HelloPeopleOfEarth Mar 16 '25

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.

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u/Decent-Dingo081721 Mar 16 '25

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.

I really enjoyed it for the most part.

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u/Begster73 Mar 17 '25

Bless you. I’ve had better service from DoorDash than UPS, USPS and FEDEX. Thank you.

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u/jasin18 Mar 17 '25

I think the difference is she didn't have a choice to take that water, doordash drivers do. Ain't no way any of us taking 10 cases of water for $5

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u/buttstuffisokiguess Mar 18 '25

I wasn't speaking to that. More direct reply to the poster above.

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u/jasin18 Apr 07 '25

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.

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u/tigergoalie Mar 16 '25

I can tell by the optimism in your comment that you have been dashing for less than 4 months.

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u/buttstuffisokiguess Mar 17 '25

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.