This is one of the most depressing aspects of life. All of these services we pay no longer care at all about us - we have no options. They give us AI support only, poorly functioning apps where you can’t even find how to complain or make a ticket.
I don’t know how it gets fixed. Soon we will all work for them.
I don’t know how it gets fixed.
Stop using them.
This is the correct answer. Those companies that don’t fix their shit will perish.
After they empty your pockets. All part of the grift.
After they empty whose pockets?
Door dash is a shit service, all it takes is one person to put them on blast with the truth.
Doordash. Ive never used it and will never, but I’ve seen the bills. It’s crazy expensive, don’t need to be a mathematician to see that nonsense.
If that were true they would’ve shut down long ago. Do you really think no one has tried to “put them on blast”?
He’s trying to imply dash wins either way that they keep the money
I have never ordered a god damn thing from Uber or Dash after heading how shit it was from others.
But hey, you know what they say about a fool and his money
He’s trying to imply dash wins either way that they keep the money
Correct. They win while riping us off.
for real! don’t like something, don’t use it.
isn’t that the main reason we are all here talking on the fediverse, anyway?
It gets fixed by no longer using them. Money is all a corporation understands.
If they make more $ cutting support costs and pissing off some customers than to have support staff and higher costs and more customers, then they will do it.
Infinite growth, my friend. All that matters to most if them.
we have no options.
There is no alternative to whatever this Dash is?
There is, don’t order food to be delivered to your house. Going from every pizza shop, and local fast food joint, having people who would drive the food to anywhere within a few miles, with just the idea you would likely tip them if you got your food on time, to having to pay anywhere from 1/4-2x the cost of your order to have it delivered, by a third party, that is a huge faceless corporation, with poor service, is really disheartening.
We got by before these shitty companies existed. I’m sure we can survive not using them.
I do use them on occasion but prefer to order something local and pick it up myself. No markup and some places even give a discount on pick up orders.
At least where I live, there are alternative delivery platforms, and there are also plenty of restaurants doing their own delivery. The competition means that customers generally get decent service in my experience, although support usually goes through the restaurants. I feel like the ones getting fucked over by these delivery platforms are the delivery drivers and restaurants, not the customers.
we have no options
Standing in my kitchen while saying this
Call the bank
cancel the transaction
delete your account
Lawyer up and hit the gym
Lose weight and eat vegetables.
Play Eye of the Tiger on the radio.
Food all over the road is certainly a custom delivery experience…
Fabulous spread!
Surprise picnic! So romantic 💖
The vast majority of their customers are using it for convenience, not out of need.
Paying $45 to have $20 worth of shitty McDonald’s “food” delivered seems stupid to me, but some people have money to burn, I guess.
I work at a nursing home and all the residents order from DD. The food there is bland as hell.
Does McDonalds not deliver themselves in the US?
Edit: Nvm just googled it and found out the McDonalds branded cars here are just run by local delivery services
We don’t even have branded cars.
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It’s so weird. I had my work card skimmed somehow and they only used it to buy $80 worth of McDonalds in two orders and all I could think was what a waste of an opportunity. You could have got anything and you instead bought shitty food that was no doubt delivered cold.
Wait, they ordered Delivery on a stolen credit card?!
Yep, not smart haha
Most of the time the first charges are test charges. The card numbers that aren’t canceled after the test charges are often aggregated and sold.
Are you disabled? Because I know a lot of people who can’t drive who order delivery because of disability.
But some people are just insensitive dick heads, I guess.
“The vast majority”
Relevant: https://youtu.be/ud71f0m_tfw
It’s funny in the first place to argue from what “they allow”. The customer doesn’t have to care about your internal policies, fucko. Fulfill your end of the bargain.
In the middle of Covid, this happened
Which when I went to the door, I found this on the mat exactly as it looks here, except I moved it to the sink because it was making a mess.
I never found out which of my neighbours missed their order, because it wasn’t any service I’d ever use, even if ordering a completely non-essential item like this was a waste of resources.
But fuck that guy who ‘delivered’ it by obviously dropping it before in his car and then throwing it on my doorstep!!
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It’s like fucking Amazon. Oh your package was stolen because they didn’t deliver it to the mail room like you specified and left it on your porch? Well have you tried waiting 24 hours to see if it shows up? Am I supposed to hope the thief gonna open it and realize it’s worthless to them and drop it back off? Fucking ship me a replacement already.
Always great seeing LLMs being overly judicious
The number of comments in this thread thinking this is a real convo that was had is troubling.
It reads to me as an AI-driven follow-up chat
Strikes me as bog standard AI support misreading the situation to an absolutely hilarious degree, because god forbid we actually be able to talk to people.
You don’t remember, at some point we decided to go from “nothing in the internet is real” as the starting point to “everything on the Internet is real” as the starting point.
Now if you see something and it feels right that means it must be because you started off from it being real. /S <- I shouldn’t need this
Triggering the lizard brain of the angry entitled treat getter will shut down all those higher cognitive functions
Ah, the Paperboy delivery experience.
Why is everything a shit post now? If this is real and an AI response it should go in a community whose concept isn’t essentially “this is probably fake”
Guess they also encourage their customers to Kennedy Jr their food off the road, too.
we encourage Dashers to wait a few minutes
How much do you pay them for waiting to compensate for the money they’d get delivering other items? (Your customers also have the app where they confirm delivery and tip so it’s not like Dashers will slack off for 3 minutes after handing the food over)
In a small company, one could call this wishful thinking. In a large data-driven corporation, it’s a calculated lie.
I find it incredible that every time I see a bad food delivery story, its always from doordash.
Never ubereats, or grubhub, or any of the others.
Does Doordash do nothing but hire the people the other companies fire/blackball?
It’s very regional. Where I live, Doordash and Grubhub rarely lets me down.
Ubereats has repeatedly sent their drivers to completely the wrong neighborhood. The first time we used them the food was delivered across the street and three houses down. We didn’t even know where it went until hours later when a neighbor showed up with it.
One day you see a milk carton in the store with a picture of your food on it…
I’ve only used door dash like 3 times, and it was uneventful.
I used ubereats a lot, especially early covid, before the price gouging and explotation set in, and I only had like…two issues.
One was the driver, whom i was watching on the map, took a right turn when they should have gone straight, and disappeared off the map. Straight up stole my food, and the restaurant had to remake it and reorder it… and i think the driver that delivered that order had some knowledge of the first, thieving driver, cause the second he got out of the car he was nothing but excuses for the other driver.
the other one was we got just a shit awful meal from a restaurant, completely inedible. Some parts overcooked to charcoal, other parts still fuckin raw… Uber eats denied any refund or anything despite pictures showing the very obvious issues, because apparently I had ordered from the same place like 18 months previously and got a refund because a side order wasnt delievered… Which uber used to low key accuse me without outright accusing me of trying to scam them and the restaurant and denying my refund.
Which not gonna lie, really pissed me off and pretty much lead to me not using ubereats outside of exceptionally rare circumstances after that issue
If they could throw just a little harder and reach my mouth while I lie on the couch, this would be fine.
