Create Better Karma
DoorDashing (as well as all the other app delivery services) is all the rage for the unemployed or underemployed these days. Worldwide pandemic or not, people still need food. And thank goodness for delivery drivers!
For dashers, It’s easy to get started. The app is brilliant, the money is usually “okay” and sometimes even good, and dashers can make their own schedule. Delivery drivers of all types (Postmates, Instacart, Grubhub, UberEats) vary widely in age, need and motivation.
Not to disparage the growing work ethic of today’s teenagers, but the majority of DoorDashers I’ve seen on my own doorstep as well as at food pickup sites when I’m on shift, look to be 30s-40s in age. Middle-aged homeowners or renters, hustling due to a sudden need to put food on our own tables.
Great customers are rare
As anyone who has ever worked food service or retail as a teenager knows, the public can sometimes be a harsh workplace. Service providers, cashiers, customer service representatives and yes, delivery drivers, can end up taking quite a bit of abuse.
The way people work, is unfortunately, to absorb the bad moments more deeply than the good. For every 20 average public interactions, it only takes 1 bad one to ruin a service person’s…
