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[–] [email protected] 62 points 6 months ago (1 children)

DoorDashing coffee is insane

[+] [email protected] 51 points 6 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The main door opens inwards the little glass/screen door opens outwards. In this pic there is no way for him to open the door without hitting the drinks.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I have a similar setup. I’m fortunate enough to have a garage though. So I can easily go around if I need to.

You could also try propping your screen door open when waiting for a food delivery. I would do this with mine but then it blocks the doorbell. I got a little mini folding wooden table I can leave out, and put a sign indicating to leave the food there. (I also don’t like my food bags touching the ground because I’m a germaphobe. Though I’m sure their filthy DoorDash cars are dirtier than my door mat.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why isn't your food order handed to you personally? Ring the doorbell, wait for someone to open up, give the food. Just like the pizza delivery guy in porn movies. Why would you leave food near the door... I don't get it. Or a package, same story. Hand it to someone or bring it to a neighbor. I've never heard of porch poachers over here because packages are never left unattended at people their houses.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Some delivery people are lazy. Especially with packages, some won’t even ring the bell!

For DoorDash, I try to make sure I track them on the app and am at my door to meet them when they get here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Over here they're not allowed to leave it unattended, unless the house owner specified on the website it's allowed to leave it a certain point outside the house. Otherwise it's just free loot for anyone to take. It's only covered by insurance if it gets stolen from within your house. But only if your house is locked, otherwise the insurance company isn't scared to do some victim blaming. So it's crazy to just leave stuff out in the open.

But to be fair, delivery people are often treated like shit. So I kinda get it why they would prefer to avoid contact. A friend of mine does grocery deliveries, the stories I hear from her of how people treat her. Fucking insane. Maybe if we start to treat others with respect like we would like to be treated ourselves... But goes both ways. When you leave drinks just outside an outside opening door, I kinda get it why people get mad at you.

Its the same with my cats. Constantly complaining I'm nog giving them enough food. When I'm giving them food, they complain it's not fast enough. When they're done eating, it's complaining they didn't get enough again so they start to throw my stuff from tables and desks. They treat me like shit but expect perfect service (they are in their puberty, they are driving me insane but I love them very much).

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[–] 5714 6 points 6 months ago

They had that in Sweden, so Idk.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you have an extra screen/storm door, how the hell do you make them both open inwards?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Why would you need 2 doors?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sure, you've entered through the first door, but what about second door?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Only an extra key you could loose. How do you "enter" the first door when there's a second but closed door right behind it? My house also has 2 outside doors: 1 in the front and 1 in the back.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It insulates better than your normal single door, the screen door is self closing so it helps to keep bugs out if you're doing anything around the house where you're going in and out a bunch, and when the weather is nice it's quite enjoyable to leave the main door open so all the light and a breeze and sounds get through the screen door. It's like a window that goes all the way to the floor and never has curtains in the way. In the US most front doors are sort of in the main living room. It's an open floor plan where the entry way and living room aren't divided by walls.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It insulates better than your normal single door

You don't have insulated upvc doors?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah, but now imagine it being double walled.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I think almost every house I've ever seen has externally opening doors. Where it's not a thing is in apartment buildings where an externally opening door would be a hazard to other residents.

I know of one small town in my country that has internally opening doors because the local council demands it for aesthetic and historical reasons.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It’s like they have no understanding of what their job actually is. If they thought about it at all, they would realize they fucked up… or it’s intentional?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Or most people who do this job can't afford to get deliveries themselves so they never encounter the problem themselves, and they're not paid enough to actually care about it. Their energy is spent thinking about getting to the next delivery, not doing each one perfectly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why didn't he ring the bell and handed the order to someone? Whenever I order something, whether it's food or a package, the delivery guy always waits for me to open the door to hand it to me. When I'm not at home they deliver it to my neighbors and leave a note in my mailbox.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You dont uber eats then, because at no point do they do any of that.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

One of the parcel delivery drivers in my area does that. Usually I can get whatever parcel is on the doorstep to shift enough (without damaging it) to squeeze out the front door, but I'm expecting at some point to have to go out the back door because the parcel blocking the front door will be too heavy!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I don't understand why anyone would have this sort of thing delivered.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

More money than sense.

Shit like this is way more common than you realize. Here where I am near Boston there are countless people who come into all manner of fast food places to just pick up food to deliver to people. Oftentimes there are more delivery drivers picking things up than in person orders. It's wild. They usually double park with their hazards on or slide into a handicap spot to boot, and they'll absolutely bypass the line and ask the workers even though there's a long queue ahead of them.

Meanwhile everyone says they can't afford to save up for housing and that they don't make enough money to do anything.... and then they'll go grab their delivery with a 30% upcharge and a tip on top from outside where a driver dropped it off.

The pandemic escalated this trend from an uncommon oddity with a decent price (because pre-pandemic it was largely VC subsidized) but around 2021 the fees were cranked up to 11 and payments to drivers went through the floor.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I definitely see clusters of tablets at some restaurants so they can manage it all.

It's definitely quite common. And I hate it. I have a hard time not judging folks' use of these things, at least in the USA where the people doing the actual work don't get their fair share of the money, let alone health insurance or paid time off or sick leave.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

I did this twice:

I was very drunk and had Dairy Queen delivered. I was immediately ashamed when I saw the bill and hid all the evidence from my wife in shame. Would not recommend. It was over twice the cost.
I was in a rush for a trip, the car had issues so I needed to get a rental the morning of, and I didn't have time for breakfast or to stop at a fast food restaurant. So I made the horrible choice of getting junk food delivered while I got ready. Overall not a horrible choice, but I wouldn't recommend it.

The economics of delivering fast food are awful.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Don't put food directly in front of the door!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

RIP those drinks

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

I got a door dash drop off pic where my dog is running in the background. It's one of my fave pics of her lmao

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

one of the situations in which it should be "for lil bro and me"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

It's a cat so both

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

"Play with me! PLEASE!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Khajit has many wares for sale.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Man, I sure do love to DoorDash™ some Dunkin'™!

Part of me hopes the original post was intentional marketing, because I'm still not ready to accept that people speak in brands now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Genericizing trademarks takes value away from brands. It's good.

Please place the used facial tissue in the steel waste receptacle....nobody has ever talked like this. You say Kleenex in Dumpster. You Hoover up a spill. You Bing your search. You shamwow literally anything.

But that's not even what's happening, they literally had actual Dunkin delivered by actual door dash.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

"I ordered some donuts"

"Put the tissue in the bin/trash"

"Clean up a spill"

"You ~~bing your~~ search"

What on earth is "to shamwow"? I had to Google™ (read: look up) what that meant!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah everything else tracked. But they bung the last bullet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's an extremely well-known "as seen on tv" product in the united States. Check out some of the commercials on YouTube they are hilarious. No clue why it came to mind, tho.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Out of French Crullers again!!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

The image looks like some shitpost, I wonder if I can turn it into a meme template.