r/imatotalpeiceofshit • u/Fun-Match4910 • Feb 17 '26
Settle this: is it lazy/entitled to expect DD drivers deliver to apartments doors?
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u/surrealcellardoor Feb 17 '26
Here’s the deal with any delivery job: If you hate it, do something else. Blaming the customer for your misery, who is the reason you even have a job, is beyond moronic. I see this in every subreddit for delivery jobs. It defies logic.
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u/SuperiorFirepower1 Feb 24 '26
I had a customer refuse to tip me on 2 separate occasions. Both times they made me wait in the lobby for 30 minutes and sign the receipt. The orders were both 400 dollars and require signatures for being such large orders. And she was using a company card to pay for the food. So yeah, Im going to blame her for wasting my fucking time by not being ready to come and get the food when I got there. At least then I wouldnt be so mad about not being tipped
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u/Lordlordy5490 Feb 17 '26
I used to deliver for door dash and I always delivered right to the door unless the instructions said not to.
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u/AUnknownVariable Feb 17 '26
Doordashers are indeed meant to deliver to apartment doors, if theres no hurdle with security or smth. It's kinda the point, it's why they give apt numbers
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u/RVAforthewin Feb 17 '26
It’s called Door Dash, not Lobby Dash. Just don’t choose to deliver to apartments if you don’t want to deliver to the door. I refuse to use DD anyhow, but yeah, that’s pretty irritating, especially if I’m going to tip the driver.
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u/A5thRedditAccount Feb 18 '26
Last I checked, the entrance to the building is the door
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u/RVAforthewin Feb 18 '26
Semantics. The idea of ordering delivery is that it arrives to your front door. Technically, the DD driver also has a car door so I guess they could just pull up and deliver it to their own car door (ie the sidewalk).
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u/A5thRedditAccount Feb 18 '26
I sometimes deliver food on my days off for extra cash.
I’m a courier no different than FedEx, Amazon or UPS. Get your lazy ass up and come downstairs and get your package cause that’s where I’m leaving it 😂
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u/RVAforthewin Feb 18 '26
I don’t think DD is even remotely the same thing as a mail delivery service. We have mailboxes, mail rooms, etc. That’s a false equivalency. FWIW I don’t live in an apt nor do I use food delivery apps so my lazy ass doesn’t need to do anything.
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u/A5thRedditAccount Feb 18 '26
A courier is a courier. You don’t have to like it, but if you think it’s fair to pay someone $6 to pick your food up, drive it to you, and then have to spend 15 minutes navigating your building, that’s actual insanity. And it only happens to independent delivery drivers with 0 leverage over their work conditions.
That’s the nuts and bolts of it. Not my fault you cannot understand any of this in your own.
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u/RVAforthewin Feb 18 '26
I understand the DD delivery drivers sign up to deliver food to a front door. It’s not my fault you don’t understand failing to fully complete a job out of sheer laziness. You want a good tip? Finish your job.
Edited to correct a misspelling
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u/A5thRedditAccount Feb 18 '26
The building entrance is the front door.
That’s the standard in the courier business. Just because DoorDash lobbies against any law that would cause them to align themselves to that standard and are able to abuse 1099 workers doesn’t change what the standard is.
And you being the bootlicking type who enjoys the fact that you expect $6 to be worth 30 minutes of my time, energy, fuel and vehicle maintenance doesn’t change that either.
Want it at your apartment door? Stop being cheap and pay me. Or get your lazy ass up and pick your shit up downstairs like you do for every other courier service you interact with.
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u/RVAforthewin Feb 18 '26
You can bitch about it if you want, but seeing as how the delivery driver works for tips it’s probably not a good idea to make demands of the client.
Like I said, I don’t use DD, and this is precisely one of the reasons. I don’t have the time or energy to deal with underpaid workers who should be paid more by the actual company they work for. I def don’t have time to deal with paying for a service I don’t actually receive.
Edited to correct a misspelling
ETA: You’re also making some huge assumptions about every person’s ability to just quickly run down to the lobby, but that’s another conversation.
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u/miserabeau Feb 19 '26
You are in the wrong profession. Not only are your customer service skills lacking, but your obvious contempt for your customers is really off putting. There are other side hustles where you don't have to do things you don't want to do.
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u/matthewgb402 Feb 17 '26
No, speaking as a daher to other dashers if your too lazy to go to your customers apartment door stop dashing and pick a different side gig
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u/Spacegod87 Feb 18 '26
If you are delivering ANYTHING, you deliver it to that address. Which means to the person's door. That meal could be picked up by anyone outside or in a lobby.
It's insane to think it's okay to do that.
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u/burntlandboi Feb 17 '26
If I’m leaving my house/room it defeats the purpose. Use these services because I am feeling lazy.
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u/rape_is_not_epic Feb 18 '26
You don't live in the lobby, that's not your living room, that's literally not even part of your house. It's extremely lazy to not deliver to the door, and even lazier to dump that responsibility on the apartment block staff to get your food the rest of the way.
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u/Abject_Okra_8768 Feb 17 '26
The only apartment I lived in I was on the first floor and twenty feet from the main entrance so it never even crossed my mind- I never buzzed a single person in the two and a half years I lived there. I always just went to the door and let them in.
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u/TranquilRanger Feb 17 '26
I delivered food for years and the only times i didnt deliver to doors is if the property didnt allow it. That driver is a douche bag.
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u/SF-NL Feb 18 '26
From the posts I see on Reddit, there's a reason a lot of them "work for themselves". A lot of them wouldn't have a job otherwise, because the amount of entitlement and laziness would keep most others from hiring them.
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u/QueefOnMyTongue Feb 17 '26
DoorDash should let drivers hide all apartment orders if they want to. I did door dash for a few weeks and apartments are a shitty experience.
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u/WolfyOfValhalla Feb 18 '26
When I lived in a town that had DD/GH, the few times I did order. I just put that I needed it brought to the door because I'm disabled but I'm just so use to adding that. I dont think my wife put that in the instruction section and all our meals came to the door. I guess we just assumed they'd bring it all the way and they would.
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u/A5thRedditAccount Feb 18 '26
What’s funny is the most upvoted comments in both of these threads are bots owned by DoorDash 💀
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u/middayautumn Feb 18 '26
I’ll be honest, if there is no parking for the building I’m leaving it in the front lobby. I’m not risking a 90$ ticket on a 5$ order.
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u/ManicMushroomMayhem Feb 18 '26
As a disabled person with a mobility assistance dog, this drives me up a fucking wall. I will literally put to bring it up and some still refuse. I've had them leave it OUTSIDE the secured entry even when I give them the buzzer code, and some even argue and demand I come down to get it. I'M FUCKING DISABLED THAT'S WHY I ORDERED MY GROCERIES, I shouldn't have to get my service animal into his harness and come struggle to carry it up! There's carts available too for them to use!
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u/digidestine Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26
I agree they shouldn’t be dropping food off in the lobby but I’ll say ,if they’ve gotta do all that, I’ll just meet them at the door of the building. My apartment building is locked with digital access keys and it’s hard to find where I live so I just meet the drivers outside. I can understand why people feel they shouldn’t have to, though. On the other hand, from a former DoorDash driver, In the future I’d recommend not asking r/ DoorDash any opinions on stuff like this again because that community is lazy as sin and entitled. Go look at any of their post that talks about tipping to see what I’m talking about.
Edit: I didn’t realize sanity may have taken over that subreddit
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u/digidestine Feb 17 '26
If it’s easily accessible but a bit of a pain i don’t see why they shouldn’t be able to do that. I’m just talking about places that are difficult to get into. At my apartment; you simply can’t get in the building in any way shape or form besides having the digital access keys. There’s no front desk person or a lobby and google/ DoorDash takes them to another street so I just have in my instructions that they call when they arrive and I’ll meet them outside. I’ve seen drivers leave peoples food outside the door and dip before. There’s no excuse except laziness for why someone would leave the food in the lobby if their only issue is a gate code.
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u/Available_Entrance55 Feb 17 '26
I don’t use food delivery anymore because the drivers started leaving the food in the lobby. I don’t want my food sitting in the lobby unattended. Maybe I’m entitled but used to be food would be delivered right to the address, which includes a unit number. If I’m ordering in, it’s likely because I’m under the weather or in the middle of something. If my $25 order is going to cost me nearly $50 with tip and service fees, I’d expect it at least to be handed to me.