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
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.
Good. This is the experience people using these garbage apps deserve, tbh.
Alternative delivery logistics
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.
I never understood how they are so popular. You are paying double the amount and it's poor service and food tastes worse
The fact that you have a stranger go and pick up your food is what makes it unthinkable to me. (Although if disabled or injured then I understand)
I'm not one to defend DD here, I stopped using them years ago. But strangers are preparing your food too. The driver is just one additional set of hands in the supply chain that brought food to your home.
DD still sucks, for the record.
This is true but those people are at least on camera and surrounded by other people holding them accountable.
Don't get me wrong I've seen some wild wild shit before at restaurants so of course they can still do messed up stuff to the food but having some guy pick it up and ride off with no accountability is super sketchy to me
That's what makes DD special, though. They absolutely could hold drivers accountable and all that. Other delivery services in the past used to be much more reliable and provided better experiences. Uber Eats is, to a minor extent, a moderately better platform to work with. I still don't trust them with my business though.
So it's not delivery services per se.
DD though, is absolutely trash by their own accord.
Because I’m already high and forgot I don’t have any food in the house.
Go hungry? Phone a friend? Ask the neighbor?
Not give a tech bro $50 to deliver a depression by exploiting your community.
What the fuck do you think we've done for checks notes the last 100,000 years.
"No! I want to complain AND be lazy!"
Well for most of that history people lived in walkable settlements and cities. Pompeii had fast food stalls. And more recently (relatively) food ordering direct through a restaurant was the norm. Pizza delivery dates back to the 19th century, which is checks notes more than 100 years ago. So yeah, access to food has changed a lot and it is nor unreasonable to expect your delivery driver not to toss your food into the street.
I share your perspective and reading these comments made me realize we have different paths of lease resistance.
For some who have gotten used to them, it’s easier to put up with the enshitification than not using them, for others, the path of least resistance is to not use them in the first place.
This is the correct answer. Those companies that don’t fix their shit will perish.
we have no options
Standing in my kitchen while saying this
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 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.
Call the bank
cancel the transaction
delete your account
Food all over the road is certainly a custom delivery experience...
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.
Guess they also encourage their customers to Kennedy Jr their food off the road, too.
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!!
Never used them, never will.
If you want take out, then get off your fat ass and go get take out.
I’ve got a disability, fuck every part of you. You’re the worst kind of person.
I wish we could get reimbursed having to pay extra just for stuff like this.
While I agree it's better to generally do it yourself, especially since these delivery services are really expensive compared to doing so, would you have the same opinion if someone was absolutely shit faced and just wanted to eat takeout? I wouldn't want them on the road.
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"
Ah, the Paperboy delivery experience.
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