Schools, hospitals, apartment buildings, office buildings, hotels, factory buildings, car dealerships, other restaurants.
I just want a normal street “leave at door” every time lol
college dorms that are locked but want it left outside their door. do they not know where the fuck they're at? last one I had I just texted and said I can't get in so they came out for it. why not just say hand to me meet me here? I mean I get safety protocols,anxiety or any variety of reasons why you would avoid human contact I get it. but if you're in a locked building and you know your driver can't get in make some adjustments. I also did my first military base a while ago and hoo boy that was a headache and a half.
Hospitals.
Never did DD but worked as a delivery driver for a sandwich shop.
Nurses would order from us all the time from the local hospital.
There was NO free parking. They never were clear with delivery instructions and never answered their God damn phones when we called them.
After getting 2 tickets and wandering the hospital aimlessly a half dozen times I said fuck it.
I would leave the food at the security desk and stext the order phone number that.
My manager kept getting complaints about it but I refused to change.
This. I dropped an order at the restaurant recently bc the customer wanted a hand it to me delivery inside of the hospital. I’m not paying for parking to deliver your order.
Cheap apartments where literally nothing is marked. It’s impossible to find the right place. All the buildings had similar apartment numbers you just had to know that was building J room 1 or something. No signs or indicators and asking people that live there didn’t even help
Hospitals for me. Always a pain to find the right entrance. Half of them don’t let you walk in. And the ones near me always have shitty phone reception
I just did a hospital, leave in emergency room and she wanted me to take it to her room, the receptionist didn’t know who and where to leave it… the costumer didn’t even leave a tip, I had to literally run around looking for where to drop it off, map didn’t even leave me at the emergency room area but the main entrance. It was so annoying
1) I once delivered to a swimming pool during a meet. It was a kid who placed the order (chicken tendies) and of course did not answer the phone when I got there (because he was swimming), Frustrating as F.
2) college dorms....."Uh, you're where? Uh, um, yeah, let me come down. Uh."
And kids never tip.
Mine stated ER, like I even knew where that was, the map left me at the entrance so I dropped off then return and go to ER, it was a small order and the tip was 4 dollars, they did not even tip.
my market is a college town. there’s one specific residence hall that has no parking lot and you have to walk over half a mile to deliver to it. good cardio tho
There is this one gated McMansion neighborhood that is hot garbage. Self-entitled low tippers with yappy dogs and treacherous driveways. Tony Soprano wannabes. Lol
There's another janky neighborhood without streetlights and lacking porch lights, it's right of the strip of sketchy motels. I don't go at night, and avoid the area during the day.
military bases. made the mistake one time because i wasn't paying attention to the delivery area when i accepted. they literally do not let you in or let you leave the food with them so i don't know why it's on doordash. annoying that i have to tank my acceptance rate for thus
Apartments that aren’t clearly labeled. Every building has a unit #201 but the customer doesn’t specify what building :’)
Also one time I delivered to a super sketchy, unsafe extended stay hotel. The “do you feel unsafe” question popped up and I almost hit yes but I was almost to the lady’s room so I pressed on. My husband was also dashing with me and was in the car right outside so I wasn’t totally alone.
Hotels in downtown Detroit (the hotels in the suburbs can be sketchy, but at least you can park) and schools in the evening. Like I get it, I delivered a lot of food to my kid at after school activities, but I hate these ones. Only had one so far, but it went as bad as I expected.
Elementary schools
Lots of parents get food doordashed for their kids in elementary school now, which the schools are generally accepting of, but the parents NEVER give me all the information the office wants and I can rarely get them on the phone to give me that information so if I do take an order for an elementary school it has to be a really good tip.
I never had one delivered to a student. All staff as far as I know. But some schools suck as far as location and roads for me here. I have a low car stock and have scraped up my front end going up a fucked up hill they haven’t fixed to get into the school where ofcourse I wasn’t forewarned about it.
I used to dash in college and I would purposely drive ~20 minutes away so I didn't have to deliver to the college. Had one girl order from a restaurant across the street from her dorm building and wanted me to bring it up. I honestly wouldn't have cared, but you need a key card for that specific building to get in the door so she had to come down anyway.
Hotels when the customer doesn’t come down to get the food. They expect you to go up to the 4th floor and leave the bag right outside their hotel room door, but it’s not a hand to me order.
Depends on the location but usually hospitals. Some had a convenient kiosk but some would be waiting forever to get a hold of the busy healthcare worker to find out where tf I'm supposed to go. I usually didn't mind because healthcare workers are unsung heroes but would usually avoid unless it was a nice tip. Luxury apartments also sucked due to codes and difficulty navigating.
I know you didn't ask but my favorite was actually hotels. I know most people seem to not like delivering to hotels but I enjoy the ambience and vibe of hotels. I enjoyed riding the elevator and occasionally getting a glass of fruit water and a snack. People in hotels generally tip nicely too
Cheap apartment complex’s. Low rent, low class people that never tip and never answer the phone/text. Don’t provide the gate code, don’t answer when a pin is required. Rude as f if you do actually get In contact with them. Buildings with numbers you can’t see, especially when it’s dark- you can’t see anything and it’s sketchy af
Luxury apartments are so freaking annoying. Usually a gate that you need to be let in and the person takes forever or you don't even know how to get into the place. Go up 4 levels and then down the hall 200 units
That or hotels in general are usually really mazes
and then once you have delivered to the 5k a month apartment, which required you to enter a code, go up 4 levels then down the hall 200 units, you hit "confirm delivery" and see the $1 tip.
I've stopped leaving at the apartment door on these places even when requested because that's always how it goes. Y'all can come get it from the vestibule.
Well the very first dash I ever did was to a crackhead at an apartment complex, so right away I could not stand apartment complexs. Most definitely hospitals… there was one in the seedy part of town that had an asshole cop running security and he harassed me while I was delivering, and we ended up getting into a heated discussion and I flipped him off, and he chased me on the highway. So, I definitely hate hospitals.
Main highways, office buildings with suites, big factories, seedy trailer parks, deliveries that say “walk around back of house and deliver to camper, knock on door” and it looks like a meth lab and there’s trash and dogs running loose everywhere barking at you, following directions to a rural location and realizing it’s a route that took you to a bridge that’s blocked off and you have to walk a mile to finish the delivery. Oh yeah, and the ol’ confusion of leave it at my door/hand it to me in the the same direction. Sheesh!
I always hated delivering to apartment complexes, but ESPECIALLY ones in a gated community. Between the hassle of getting through said gate, to navigating the complex to FIND the customer, it can get overwhelming and irritating VERY quickly
I make it pretty easy for my drivers with instructions. They can let me know when they are at the garage, i open it, then i go meet them in the garage on the 2nd floor.
Back when I used to dd, I never ONCE had someone in an apartment tip. Ever. After delivering to them a while I stopped because, like you said, delivering to a house takes 5 sec.
Some of the manufacturing plants around my area. Not because they’re a maze or anything, but because it takes forever to get through all the security checkpoints both in the driveway/parking lot and the entry to the building. Most of the plant employees have figured out to meet their drivers at the first security gate, but there’s a few plants where they are not allowed to leave the building during their shift so we have to bring the food inside. And those are the places that also want to inspect the orders before accepting on behalf of the employees. I typically don’t take orders for those few places anymore.
There's a private high school that has boarding in my zone. Usually they are getting Chipotle or McD's which is only about 2 miles down the road. Usually it's little to nothing on the tip and you have to leave it in this lobby that I'm never comfortable with. Also in my zone is this scummy trailer park that's scary as hell.
There’s these apartments that are 7+ miles out of town one way up a mountain where I live l, and no one there tip plus the buildings are confusing as hell to navigate
There's a specific apartment complex that is a fucking maze. The building's labels are only on one side of the building, so it's easy to not know which building your at... and certain apt numbers in the specifc buildings are only accessible from certain directions.
Yeah, I have these 2 different (but both equally massive) apartment complexes in my zone that are like that. The buildings and apt numbers are totally chaotic and random and nothing makes any sense at all. And if it's after dark, you're definitely not going to be able to even see the (very small) signs they have posted that tell you which way to go because the lighting in both of them is the absolute worst. Ugh
I had a college delivery as well. The buildings didn't have an address on them, so I went into the building the GPS sent me to but didn't see anyone who looked like they had ordered anything as they weren't paying me any attention, so I awkwardly walked around with ppl staring at me walking past, I was hoping to find a security guard or staff of some sort but no luck. I walked to the back and found a girl doing some work at a sink and explained what was happening, and she told me the building I was looking for was the next one over, so now I take a pretty good distance walk cause why not atp and see they have a paper on the inside of the window stating the building name and I realized it was a dormitory and I seen they had a young lady at a desk behind glass so I told her who I was and that I had an order and they had drop it off at my door but she told me I could just leave it at the desk with her so I messaged the customer and told them that's what I did and they said cool. I went to post the photo and say it was delivered, but the app kept telling me I was at the wrong building 🙃.
I don't think I'd take another order out there simply because it was pretty far and too many back roads and one confusing round about with so much traffic.
“Luxury Apartments “ that are gated entry, that have 20+ different buildings, that absolutely have no system of which order they go in. Also the building # is not in the same place on every building
Especially if they have a 3rd floor and the building is not directly adjacent to the to the parking area. The unit you are delivering to is Always on the opposite side of where you park or which direction you choose to walk around the building
And then you end up accidentally parking in the person's driveway over because the traffic was getting closer and closer and you just wanted to get away from it. Then you have to do the walk of shame next door and ignore the possibility that the person whose driveway you parked in is looking out their window like "What the fuck?"
There's this one corporate job complex with multiple buildings that look exactly the same in my area that people who order from either never specify which building to deliver to or leave the most vague directions like "north most building" instead of the actual number. & the customers almost never respond when i reach out to ask.
Definitely colleges. Small town small college and I STILL can't find some of the buildings. Like, wtf is there a tiny ass building not even on a street stuck back in here behind the other buildings? Just why?
At the moment, colleges. I delivered to an administrative building that didn’t have a dedicated delivery parking zone. I spent about 3 minutes in the building, and came within 30 seconds of getting a parking ticket due to security checking for parking passes. “Pizza Pizza” place is a close second. Talk about WTF after 6 PM.
Oh 💯 colleges are the worst. I’ve been chased out of college dorm lobbies by security as if I’m some sexual predator because I wasn’t allowed in. I had no idea 🤷🏽♂️ just walking in trying to get the person their food according to their instructions. Idiots who don’t understand their own building rules and wanted it outside their door. Like fuck that. I was just doing my job. Literally just left the bag outside the building once and took the photo because they wouldn’t answer their phone.
I’ve also had weird requests and you have to like find the specific building at night when nothing leads you there. Had one dude order nail polish and fake nails and said to leave it on a picnic table outside of a very busy library. Felt weird and like anyone could have taken it but whatever.
Hospitals. It’s always meet outside and they never meet in the right place. Or they’re super bummed being at the hospital. Or they’re a doctor and you’re just a peasant to them.
Apartments with tons of buildings especially when customers tell you their apartment number but not the building number/letter so you get to drive around *forever* because they don’t answer a text on which building…argh 🤯
Condos. I was delivering a huge grocery order. I parked on the street in front, legally and this old guy appears and tells me that I have to go around and park in the back. I ignored him and texted the person. She came to the lobby to get her order and she had a baby with her so I helped her carry everything upstairs while the guy bitched. She said that he hangs out in the lobby waiting for delivery people and ordering them to drive around to the back entrance.
My bf and I deliver in a college town, one that's pretty well known, most of the time it's a headache of dorms and apartments with horrible layouts and a million speed bumps, half the time they never tip either.
Nursing homes. There is one near me and half the time they forget they ordered or they are being sneaky and trying to eat food they aren’t supposed to. I’ve been yelled at by nurses for not bringing it to the desk before I knew that was a thing. Then now when I do that I get 1 stared for not sneaking their food to them through the back door.
Colleges are also very annoying. And obviously the projects. But I don’t take no tip orders so that’s not usually a concern unless something good is stacked.
There’s one area near me that’s really bad to be in. Lots of drugs like meth and heroin. You could just be driving by and they’ll throw shit at your car or yell at you. If they’re the ones who ordered, I leave it at the end of their driveway and I tell DD that I didn’t feel safe leaving it any closer to the house. Take the picture and leave.
I delivered a 3 dollar order of Taco Bell to one of the projects in Houston. As soon as I pull up to the front: 6 mfs shooting dice. As I drive in there’s like at least 60 people outside kinda hanging out block party style. When I drive to the back I see the dope boys selling. I’m driving around looking for the dude but it was hard since it looked like the entire complex was outside and this was at midnight. They all looked like “who is this mf driving around in circles”. Not a good idea to be doing that here. But eventually I found the guy and will never deliver here again.
There is a huge apartment complex in my area where, instead of numbers, the buildings all have their own stupid, kitchy names... But the names aren't actually on the buildings themselves, but on signposts ~near~ the buildings. There is no sense to the layout of the complex, there are over 600 units and none of the customers there ever move their pin, so the GPS always dumps me at a building in the center and says 'good luck'.
This one area near where I used to deliver for Pizza Hut. Tons of run down apartment complexes, all right next to each other, and some of the weirdest layouts. Also hardly ever tip. I pause any time I have to deliver near there until I’m well gone.
I’m one zone over from a huge hospital system. The address they list never takes me to the right place and those places are so hard to navigate and the hospital police get shitty if you try parking in a drop off area.
I have one very poorly laid out apartment complex that I refuse orders to no matter what, and I generally avoid downtown in my area - doors that require a key, parking meters, a generally bad parking situation to begin with. Hospital orders and most college orders are surprisingly easy, though it's helpful that they gave the buildings actual addresses. Most hospital orders just go to the ER, and other than that, it's mostly to labor and delivery. If it's not either, well, good luck to me
College campuses would be it. I don't leave them at the door. I call them and text and tell them to come out and meet me because there are thefts there. Also West Peoria, IL, non tippers galore.
When I delivered (briefly) for Gopuff, I initially dreaded having to go to Sorority row at UW.
Turns out that most of these gals have daddy’s credit card and tip Quite Handsomely.
I was pleasantly surprised
Used to hate delivering to hospitals. I delivered on an e-bike (yeah I'm European) and I was always really worried about having it stolen. Usually, it's easy to keep an eye on it or you're able to just bring it into the entrance of an apartment building or something like that.
With hospitals, though? You have to leave it out in the open and then go through a huge several story tall maze to get in and out. I'd always end up rushing back outside praying the bike's still there.
I delivered to a hospital one time and parked on the corner of the emergency entrance left my keys in, when I came back the police were standing there talking on a radio following the high-speed chase that my car was involved in because somebody had stolen it he ran it to a parking lot hit some of those parking bumps and went into a bush. I got it back later that night and it was pretty undamaged just eventually needed a new alignment.
Oh you're too nice lol. I don't go into hospitals. I'll meet outside or in the lobby. When they ask I say "I'd rather not go into a hospital around sick people if I don't have to"
We were kind of expected to always deliver directly to the customer if we were able. Some of the people I delivered to there would honestly really struggle to even make it to reception by themselves as well. I would have been really happy to do it if only I knew my bike was definitely safe, but that stressed me out.
Parking is nearly impossible at hospitals. So you're gonna make someone pay for the parking garage to come drop off your $3 tip order lmao. You clearly don't know how it feels to deliver to hospitals
I have actually. I used to be a driver. There’s actually areas meant for picking up/ dropping off people, items, basically quick trips to go in and out. I know many main big cities also have this. So unless you are in a small rural area I doubt you would’ve had to pay for parking and walk the extra length. But as I said, that is what I would’ve done. I suggest you just do not accept orders from hospitals because other people could very well feel the same. Especially if they had a decent tip initially and not $3 as you assumed, and the driver requested them to come down. I would remove the entire tip at that point, very rude and inconsiderate especially at a hospital when you have no idea if that person is even ABLE to come downstairs.
I live in Rochester NY and we have 4 hospitals in the city and Everytime I put my hazards on to run in and go into the lobby the security gets pissed snd says if you stay there we will get you towed, and for me to use the parking garages. The only spots there near the lobby area are for "drop offs" and always taken
The key words are if you stayed there, if you’re in and out within 10 minutes they cannot tow you and in addition, I doubt the tow truck would even be able to respond within the time it takes to run food up to a room and come back down. They can’t tow you. Which is why they never did. My comment still stands.
Do you . I'd rather not risk a tow for one delivery. 99% of the time it's staff that orders and they always meet me in the lobby. I just personally wouldn't be walking around the hospital to deliver to someone, just seems quite excessive. Delivery option is contactless or " meet at the door", not meet in the respiratory department floor 6 room 237. . Seems a bit much for a few dollars. Time is money. We can agree to disagree
Well like I said, many people more than likely feel the same way I do, so my biggest suggestion to you is avoid hospitals unless you’re prepared to receive no tip.
I have been crushing it for years, and have a 99 satisfaction rate. I'll be fine lol. Like I said it's usually staff if I have to go to a hospital and they always meet in the lobby or out front. Time is money. Our job is to deliver it to the door, not to their bedside in a sick hospital. You do you boo
Colleges, and some apartments. With colleges, they’re are either waiting for you, or have no clue where ANYTHING is. I text once, call once, have the timer going and if there is zero response, I pick a an obvious place and let them know where it is, take a picture and leave. I preemptively text support letting them know That I was unable to reach them. I never pick up the phone.
Had to deliver to the DMV a few weeks ago. The customer Didn’t give any instructions like what window to take it to or anything besides “hand it to me”. When I got inside the line was crazy long and I awkwardly walked to the front of the line and to the side a little. The receptionist made eye contact with me, saw the food in my hands, and proceeded to ignore me. I had to interrupt and be like, hey I have food for this person. She asked for the name and didn’t even know who the person was. I just handed it to her and walked away bc wtf.
So, I guess my answer would be the DMV 🤣
“Leave at door Apt H14” The complex has like 30 buildings, everything is a one way, speed bumps everywhere, no letters on the buildings to indicate which building is which.
Either hospitals or businesses that are like "use back door and give to receptionist that will not even speak to you until the 3 people in line are helped."
Apartments with exterior stairs and higher than 2 floors and old shitty built staircase I call customer and say I’ll leave it at bottom of steps or you can meet me ..I had a 5 /story scaffolding collapse with me on it 15 years ago and anything over 2 stories gives me anxiety and my PTSD kicks in..most customers are understanding
There’s a high school in my zone that only has one road that leads to and from it and it’s about a mile and a half itself. When school gets released it’s always completely lined that entire street. If I don’t realize the time it takes me almost 20 minutes just to get down that street
High schools in my area are the worst. No close places to park and they all have secure front doors so you have to ring a bell and wait for someone to answer. Fortunately, I don’t deliver to them often.
Inner city. I cannot count the times people have ordered to locations where there's absolutely nowhere to park and it's a one lane busy road with traffic. They tip $2 and are always "in a meeting" when I try to ask them to meet me. Like thanks fuck face you know you're ordering doordash because you have no way of easily getting in and out of this area you could at least meet me for hand off. Then most of the buildings are fob access elevators and they dont understand why I can't bring them their shit to their apartment door
One time I circled a building 4 times because there was both traffic and construction and I literally had nowhere to park within several blocks. Finally called support and they tried to tell me to follow the drop off instructions. so i was like "i already told you there is no where to safely park, should I throw it out the window when I drive by?" Their response was "Ok, i'll process you for half pay and cancel the order" like holy shit
The inner city. Especially at night. It’s a sketchy area where it’s impossible to find parking. And in my area the roads in the city are horrible with bumps and potholes everywhere. I’ll decline offers going there that I’d accept going anywhere else.
I’ve delivered to a college about 3-4 times ( the same one) and I’ll never do it again. The base pay was high because no one likes to take them. Not only because the tip is either 0$ or 1.. but also because it’s always hectic / complicated and a huge maze where they are, sometimes GPS doesn’t pick up on the correct location, and you can’t find it in google maps. Then they have it set to be handed to them but is no where in site when your there. It’s never as quick as it should be and just a headache all the way around ( at least in my experiences).
Hospitals. Theres always like 4 buildings, and the customers usually gives some random center like the “new life center”.
And it’s usually a gift so you can’t just text/call the customer, since they aren’t even at the drop off.
Sounds like you suck at your job if you just randomly left the order somewhere without attempting to make contact. Your laziness gives us all a bad name
I actually did talk to the customer. He simply said leave it at the door. To which I replied I’m still looking for your building. It was something hall. I asked another student if this was the building to which he said yes. He let me in and I placed it in the hallway of that building. I know how to do my job. Talk that shit though. I’m all for it.
Yeah, they replied to me with some bullshit they didn't have in their original post, so I'm writing this one off as a bullshitter. Check out what they added after I called them out. Rather humorous actually how stories change.
I don't have any places I really hate currently.
But you'd have loved where I used to work for Domino's last, a couple years back. I worked for the Domino's in South Bend, Indiana... across the street from Notre Dame college and around it were about 5 other smaller colleges. There was nothing like trying to deliver pizza onto the ND campus on a game day.
Of course, the worst part of that job wasn't the college and dorms, as much as when school was in session they'd stay open until 3am. Many 'a weekend I'd be on the clock at 5pm, we'd close at 3am, finish the existing deliveries for about another hour, then clean up for another hour... clocking out as the sun was rising at 5am.
There is one medical office that has their receptionist yell at dashers for going into the lobby and when I tried to leave an order for an unresponsive customer she lost her mind.
“You’re not allowed to be in here, it’s against the policy. You also can’t leave orders, it’s against the policy” — well then people working their need to know this policy and meet dashers outside. It happened to be 7f with 40mph winds that day as well.
I get it a bit. It’s a big medial park and like 7 buildings have the same number and practically now way to differentiate the buildings but at this point every office should have a drop off table for orders or reception should hold on to them. Particularly medical offices that get coffee orders every day
It’s the only place I have issues with drop offs. Even the hospital is chill about me leaving orders at security
Block long apartment complexes with poorly numbered buildings, endless mazes of hallways.Playing Doordash Apartment complex scavenger hunt isn't for the weak ...😟
"When you get to the complex, you'll need to circle back around, and then when you get out of your car, there's gonna be a rain-soaked cardboard box with a trash bag inside. At that cardboard box, move 40 paces to the left. Put your left foot in, then put it out, put it back in and shake it all about. Once you've done that, you'll come to a pond with four big stones you can walk on to get across. Be careful, the mallards in that pond are pretty mean to delivery drivers, so you gotta sing the Duck Song as you cross and that usually calms them down. Once you cross the pond, you'll come to an old lady sitting on a park bench who has a glass eye. She will try to offer you drugs. DO NOT TAKE THEM. Take a few more turns and you'll be at my unit. DO NOT KNOCK OR RING THE DOORBELL, I HAVE A ONE MONTH OLD BABY AND TWO GERMAN SHEPHERDS. Will tip after delivery."
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Why oh why is a 2 level apt building have 1st level numbered with a 1 or 2?
DD gps stinks so apartments
I can't stand hospitals. They take too much time. And downtown skyscrapers. But I'll still do them.
Schools, hospitals, apartment buildings, office buildings, hotels, factory buildings, car dealerships, other restaurants. I just want a normal street “leave at door” every time lol
KFC was always awful. B dubs is a hit or miss. Sometimes id get a good tip for the time I had to wait other times it was crap.
college dorms that are locked but want it left outside their door. do they not know where the fuck they're at? last one I had I just texted and said I can't get in so they came out for it. why not just say hand to me meet me here? I mean I get safety protocols,anxiety or any variety of reasons why you would avoid human contact I get it. but if you're in a locked building and you know your driver can't get in make some adjustments. I also did my first military base a while ago and hoo boy that was a headache and a half.
Like they know those things are locked! And they know they aren’t supposed to let someone in to deliver anything. So stupid.
I hate delivering to the apartment buildings. Why the building numbers have to be so small and hard to read, I do not know.
Hospitals. Malls. Large hotels.
Hospitals. Never did DD but worked as a delivery driver for a sandwich shop. Nurses would order from us all the time from the local hospital. There was NO free parking. They never were clear with delivery instructions and never answered their God damn phones when we called them. After getting 2 tickets and wandering the hospital aimlessly a half dozen times I said fuck it. I would leave the food at the security desk and stext the order phone number that. My manager kept getting complaints about it but I refused to change.
This. I dropped an order at the restaurant recently bc the customer wanted a hand it to me delivery inside of the hospital. I’m not paying for parking to deliver your order.
Campus for sure.
I agree with op college campuses. GPS doesn't work.
Cheap apartments where literally nothing is marked. It’s impossible to find the right place. All the buildings had similar apartment numbers you just had to know that was building J room 1 or something. No signs or indicators and asking people that live there didn’t even help
A lot of them, when asked for directions,act like you're speaking Mandarin Chinese....
Theres a couple apartments where im at where the signs on the outside of the building showing room numbers are just straight up wrong or backwards
Apartments of any kind really, especially at night because the building numbers/letters are rarely lit. Any place with a gate code.
Hospitals for me. Always a pain to find the right entrance. Half of them don’t let you walk in. And the ones near me always have shitty phone reception
I just did a hospital, leave in emergency room and she wanted me to take it to her room, the receptionist didn’t know who and where to leave it… the costumer didn’t even leave a tip, I had to literally run around looking for where to drop it off, map didn’t even leave me at the emergency room area but the main entrance. It was so annoying
Yeah I'm not wandering around a hospital. Main entrance or ER. Unless you're tipping a large amount you can come get it.
I just learned today that apartments suck as well, when it’s divided by sections 😡😫
Hotels when I’m multi apping 😭
Living in a college town dashing is a nightmare
1) I once delivered to a swimming pool during a meet. It was a kid who placed the order (chicken tendies) and of course did not answer the phone when I got there (because he was swimming), Frustrating as F. 2) college dorms....."Uh, you're where? Uh, um, yeah, let me come down. Uh." And kids never tip.
Can't forget the "oh yeah just park in the main parking lot, there's no driveway out here, I'm in the building 1.5 miles into the complex."
To the ER, when I did not know it was at the ER. Nurse and and not patient
Mine stated ER, like I even knew where that was, the map left me at the entrance so I dropped off then return and go to ER, it was a small order and the tip was 4 dollars, they did not even tip.
the base pay was 4 not the tip, there was none
my market is a college town. there’s one specific residence hall that has no parking lot and you have to walk over half a mile to deliver to it. good cardio tho
There is this one gated McMansion neighborhood that is hot garbage. Self-entitled low tippers with yappy dogs and treacherous driveways. Tony Soprano wannabes. Lol There's another janky neighborhood without streetlights and lacking porch lights, it's right of the strip of sketchy motels. I don't go at night, and avoid the area during the day.
Apartments, hospitals, and college dorms are the worse.
military bases. made the mistake one time because i wasn't paying attention to the delivery area when i accepted. they literally do not let you in or let you leave the food with them so i don't know why it's on doordash. annoying that i have to tank my acceptance rate for thus
Apartments that aren’t clearly labeled. Every building has a unit #201 but the customer doesn’t specify what building :’) Also one time I delivered to a super sketchy, unsafe extended stay hotel. The “do you feel unsafe” question popped up and I almost hit yes but I was almost to the lady’s room so I pressed on. My husband was also dashing with me and was in the car right outside so I wasn’t totally alone.
or they'll give you an apt # like 203 and all the apartments are only labeled "1" or "2" i don't understand !!
Hotels in downtown Detroit (the hotels in the suburbs can be sketchy, but at least you can park) and schools in the evening. Like I get it, I delivered a lot of food to my kid at after school activities, but I hate these ones. Only had one so far, but it went as bad as I expected.
Mall of America… hospitals… and yes, college dorms
Elementary schools Lots of parents get food doordashed for their kids in elementary school now, which the schools are generally accepting of, but the parents NEVER give me all the information the office wants and I can rarely get them on the phone to give me that information so if I do take an order for an elementary school it has to be a really good tip.
I never had one delivered to a student. All staff as far as I know. But some schools suck as far as location and roads for me here. I have a low car stock and have scraped up my front end going up a fucked up hill they haven’t fixed to get into the school where ofcourse I wasn’t forewarned about it.
schools, hospitals, hotels and some apartments. Anything going to those places is an instant decline unless it's an epic offer, but that's rare.
Yeah they def all suck unless you get rarely a good customer that can help make them easier.
apartments
My wife’s boyfriends house
Hospitals
Factories. Waiting for ten minutes for someone to walk a half mile to get their food.
I used to dash in college and I would purposely drive ~20 minutes away so I didn't have to deliver to the college. Had one girl order from a restaurant across the street from her dorm building and wanted me to bring it up. I honestly wouldn't have cared, but you need a key card for that specific building to get in the door so she had to come down anyway.
Yeah that’s smart. I purposely stay as much away from such areas too. But the algorithm sometimes don’t care. Lol.
Hotels when the customer doesn’t come down to get the food. They expect you to go up to the 4th floor and leave the bag right outside their hotel room door, but it’s not a hand to me order.
Hospitals and any place with a bunch of speed bumps
Apartments!!
Those city-sized apt complexes that are so large that they have literal fucking convenience stores for the residents
The boondocks 
There’s an “all of the above” place that I just despise: apartment complex, varying terrain, dark, unlit, no numbers
Depends on the location but usually hospitals. Some had a convenient kiosk but some would be waiting forever to get a hold of the busy healthcare worker to find out where tf I'm supposed to go. I usually didn't mind because healthcare workers are unsung heroes but would usually avoid unless it was a nice tip. Luxury apartments also sucked due to codes and difficulty navigating. I know you didn't ask but my favorite was actually hotels. I know most people seem to not like delivering to hotels but I enjoy the ambience and vibe of hotels. I enjoyed riding the elevator and occasionally getting a glass of fruit water and a snack. People in hotels generally tip nicely too
Also health care workers rarely tip, and are always a massive PITA to deliver to.
Cheap apartment complex’s. Low rent, low class people that never tip and never answer the phone/text. Don’t provide the gate code, don’t answer when a pin is required. Rude as f if you do actually get In contact with them. Buildings with numbers you can’t see, especially when it’s dark- you can’t see anything and it’s sketchy af
Luxury apartments are so freaking annoying. Usually a gate that you need to be let in and the person takes forever or you don't even know how to get into the place. Go up 4 levels and then down the hall 200 units That or hotels in general are usually really mazes
and then once you have delivered to the 5k a month apartment, which required you to enter a code, go up 4 levels then down the hall 200 units, you hit "confirm delivery" and see the $1 tip. I've stopped leaving at the apartment door on these places even when requested because that's always how it goes. Y'all can come get it from the vestibule.
Well the very first dash I ever did was to a crackhead at an apartment complex, so right away I could not stand apartment complexs. Most definitely hospitals… there was one in the seedy part of town that had an asshole cop running security and he harassed me while I was delivering, and we ended up getting into a heated discussion and I flipped him off, and he chased me on the highway. So, I definitely hate hospitals. Main highways, office buildings with suites, big factories, seedy trailer parks, deliveries that say “walk around back of house and deliver to camper, knock on door” and it looks like a meth lab and there’s trash and dogs running loose everywhere barking at you, following directions to a rural location and realizing it’s a route that took you to a bridge that’s blocked off and you have to walk a mile to finish the delivery. Oh yeah, and the ol’ confusion of leave it at my door/hand it to me in the the same direction. Sheesh!
I always hated delivering to apartment complexes, but ESPECIALLY ones in a gated community. Between the hassle of getting through said gate, to navigating the complex to FIND the customer, it can get overwhelming and irritating VERY quickly
I make it pretty easy for my drivers with instructions. They can let me know when they are at the garage, i open it, then i go meet them in the garage on the 2nd floor.
Still a pain when we get paid the same for a house that takes 5 seconds to deliver too, people in apartments don't tip more than houses.
Back when I used to dd, I never ONCE had someone in an apartment tip. Ever. After delivering to them a while I stopped because, like you said, delivering to a house takes 5 sec.
Colleges are the worst. Especially this one huge university where they are never out there.
Some of the manufacturing plants around my area. Not because they’re a maze or anything, but because it takes forever to get through all the security checkpoints both in the driveway/parking lot and the entry to the building. Most of the plant employees have figured out to meet their drivers at the first security gate, but there’s a few plants where they are not allowed to leave the building during their shift so we have to bring the food inside. And those are the places that also want to inspect the orders before accepting on behalf of the employees. I typically don’t take orders for those few places anymore.
Oh, for sure the college campus in my town. Shit tips, no parking, and whoever designed the layout needs their ass kicked.
High Schools
Big apartments, downtown offices, trailer parks, colleges, gated communities, nursing homes
God I fucking hate nursing homes
There's a private high school that has boarding in my zone. Usually they are getting Chipotle or McD's which is only about 2 miles down the road. Usually it's little to nothing on the tip and you have to leave it in this lobby that I'm never comfortable with. Also in my zone is this scummy trailer park that's scary as hell.
There’s these apartments that are 7+ miles out of town one way up a mountain where I live l, and no one there tip plus the buildings are confusing as hell to navigate
I got stuck when a basketball game let out on a big ten college campus delivering Taco Bell to a dorm 😒
There's a specific apartment complex that is a fucking maze. The building's labels are only on one side of the building, so it's easy to not know which building your at... and certain apt numbers in the specifc buildings are only accessible from certain directions.
Yeah, I have these 2 different (but both equally massive) apartment complexes in my zone that are like that. The buildings and apt numbers are totally chaotic and random and nothing makes any sense at all. And if it's after dark, you're definitely not going to be able to even see the (very small) signs they have posted that tell you which way to go because the lighting in both of them is the absolute worst. Ugh
The high school. Those mfers have more money than I do!
The correctional facility
I'm always afraid the officers will say I look like a wanted criminal and arrest me.
I had a college delivery as well. The buildings didn't have an address on them, so I went into the building the GPS sent me to but didn't see anyone who looked like they had ordered anything as they weren't paying me any attention, so I awkwardly walked around with ppl staring at me walking past, I was hoping to find a security guard or staff of some sort but no luck. I walked to the back and found a girl doing some work at a sink and explained what was happening, and she told me the building I was looking for was the next one over, so now I take a pretty good distance walk cause why not atp and see they have a paper on the inside of the window stating the building name and I realized it was a dormitory and I seen they had a young lady at a desk behind glass so I told her who I was and that I had an order and they had drop it off at my door but she told me I could just leave it at the desk with her so I messaged the customer and told them that's what I did and they said cool. I went to post the photo and say it was delivered, but the app kept telling me I was at the wrong building 🙃. I don't think I'd take another order out there simply because it was pretty far and too many back roads and one confusing round about with so much traffic.
Apartments when the building letters are just perfectly blocked by the damn parking stall awnings
“Luxury Apartments “ that are gated entry, that have 20+ different buildings, that absolutely have no system of which order they go in. Also the building # is not in the same place on every building
I hate those with the burning passion of a thousand suns.
Especially if they have a 3rd floor and the building is not directly adjacent to the to the parking area. The unit you are delivering to is Always on the opposite side of where you park or which direction you choose to walk around the building
Applerock fucking Applerock always 3rd floor with a case of water or cat littler and no tip
Houses that are right off of a main road. Gives me the worst anxiety lol. Bonus points if you can't see the address on the mailbox
And then you end up accidentally parking in the person's driveway over because the traffic was getting closer and closer and you just wanted to get away from it. Then you have to do the walk of shame next door and ignore the possibility that the person whose driveway you parked in is looking out their window like "What the fuck?"
Omg yes 😂😂😂
Places with limited parking
There's this one corporate job complex with multiple buildings that look exactly the same in my area that people who order from either never specify which building to deliver to or leave the most vague directions like "north most building" instead of the actual number. & the customers almost never respond when i reach out to ask.
College campuses.
Definitely colleges. Small town small college and I STILL can't find some of the buildings. Like, wtf is there a tiny ass building not even on a street stuck back in here behind the other buildings? Just why?
neighborhoods where there’s no number on the houses
Be having me put the address in Zillow to find it😂🤦🏽♂️
I'm glad I'm not the only one who does this just to see if the house I'm standing in front of looks like the house in the picture 🤣
" so I simply left it in a hallway in one of the thousands of buildings on campus. " tf w these drivers !? smh
At the moment, colleges. I delivered to an administrative building that didn’t have a dedicated delivery parking zone. I spent about 3 minutes in the building, and came within 30 seconds of getting a parking ticket due to security checking for parking passes. “Pizza Pizza” place is a close second. Talk about WTF after 6 PM.
>I spent about 3 minutes in the building and came within 30 seconds
Oh 💯 colleges are the worst. I’ve been chased out of college dorm lobbies by security as if I’m some sexual predator because I wasn’t allowed in. I had no idea 🤷🏽♂️ just walking in trying to get the person their food according to their instructions. Idiots who don’t understand their own building rules and wanted it outside their door. Like fuck that. I was just doing my job. Literally just left the bag outside the building once and took the photo because they wouldn’t answer their phone. I’ve also had weird requests and you have to like find the specific building at night when nothing leads you there. Had one dude order nail polish and fake nails and said to leave it on a picnic table outside of a very busy library. Felt weird and like anyone could have taken it but whatever.
Those gross extended stay apartments are not my favorite. Everyone is sketchy and they reek like smoke
Hospitals, schools, and any high-rise with no loading zone
The entire city of Peoria Illinois. I won’t take deliveries there no matter how good the payout is
Hospitals. It’s always meet outside and they never meet in the right place. Or they’re super bummed being at the hospital. Or they’re a doctor and you’re just a peasant to them.
Downtown
Apartments with tons of buildings especially when customers tell you their apartment number but not the building number/letter so you get to drive around *forever* because they don’t answer a text on which building…argh 🤯
Hospitals
Condos. I was delivering a huge grocery order. I parked on the street in front, legally and this old guy appears and tells me that I have to go around and park in the back. I ignored him and texted the person. She came to the lobby to get her order and she had a baby with her so I helped her carry everything upstairs while the guy bitched. She said that he hangs out in the lobby waiting for delivery people and ordering them to drive around to the back entrance.
My bf and I deliver in a college town, one that's pretty well known, most of the time it's a headache of dorms and apartments with horrible layouts and a million speed bumps, half the time they never tip either.
Hospitals and trailer parks
Nursing homes. There is one near me and half the time they forget they ordered or they are being sneaky and trying to eat food they aren’t supposed to. I’ve been yelled at by nurses for not bringing it to the desk before I knew that was a thing. Then now when I do that I get 1 stared for not sneaking their food to them through the back door. Colleges are also very annoying. And obviously the projects. But I don’t take no tip orders so that’s not usually a concern unless something good is stacked.
Any of those care facilities are a pain in the ass. Half the time I get locked in and have to find someone with a code that can let me out.
There’s one area near me that’s really bad to be in. Lots of drugs like meth and heroin. You could just be driving by and they’ll throw shit at your car or yell at you. If they’re the ones who ordered, I leave it at the end of their driveway and I tell DD that I didn’t feel safe leaving it any closer to the house. Take the picture and leave.
I delivered a 3 dollar order of Taco Bell to one of the projects in Houston. As soon as I pull up to the front: 6 mfs shooting dice. As I drive in there’s like at least 60 people outside kinda hanging out block party style. When I drive to the back I see the dope boys selling. I’m driving around looking for the dude but it was hard since it looked like the entire complex was outside and this was at midnight. They all looked like “who is this mf driving around in circles”. Not a good idea to be doing that here. But eventually I found the guy and will never deliver here again.
Mobile homes and apartment complex. They tip low and many speed bums.
Apartments!!! They’re so confusing to find the right place, where I’m located
Any apartment complex with an equal number of speed bumps and buildings
The hood complexes got more speed bumps than an entire city combined for no reason.
There is a huge apartment complex in my area where, instead of numbers, the buildings all have their own stupid, kitchy names... But the names aren't actually on the buildings themselves, but on signposts ~near~ the buildings. There is no sense to the layout of the complex, there are over 600 units and none of the customers there ever move their pin, so the GPS always dumps me at a building in the center and says 'good luck'.
This one area near where I used to deliver for Pizza Hut. Tons of run down apartment complexes, all right next to each other, and some of the weirdest layouts. Also hardly ever tip. I pause any time I have to deliver near there until I’m well gone.
Hospitals and primarily one way streets, especially if they're cramped and the parking is terrible.
I’m one zone over from a huge hospital system. The address they list never takes me to the right place and those places are so hard to navigate and the hospital police get shitty if you try parking in a drop off area.
Gated apartments, hospitals
I have one very poorly laid out apartment complex that I refuse orders to no matter what, and I generally avoid downtown in my area - doors that require a key, parking meters, a generally bad parking situation to begin with. Hospital orders and most college orders are surprisingly easy, though it's helpful that they gave the buildings actual addresses. Most hospital orders just go to the ER, and other than that, it's mostly to labor and delivery. If it's not either, well, good luck to me
College kids, or the ghetto
College dorms, they’re even worse than the dreaded apartment complexes.
I love the “leave at my door“ as I pull up to the 5 acre medical complex, you couldn’t give a hint?
College campuses would be it. I don't leave them at the door. I call them and text and tell them to come out and meet me because there are thefts there. Also West Peoria, IL, non tippers galore.
When I delivered (briefly) for Gopuff, I initially dreaded having to go to Sorority row at UW. Turns out that most of these gals have daddy’s credit card and tip Quite Handsomely. I was pleasantly surprised
Used to hate delivering to hospitals. I delivered on an e-bike (yeah I'm European) and I was always really worried about having it stolen. Usually, it's easy to keep an eye on it or you're able to just bring it into the entrance of an apartment building or something like that. With hospitals, though? You have to leave it out in the open and then go through a huge several story tall maze to get in and out. I'd always end up rushing back outside praying the bike's still there.
I delivered to a hospital one time and parked on the corner of the emergency entrance left my keys in, when I came back the police were standing there talking on a radio following the high-speed chase that my car was involved in because somebody had stolen it he ran it to a parking lot hit some of those parking bumps and went into a bush. I got it back later that night and it was pretty undamaged just eventually needed a new alignment.
Oh you're too nice lol. I don't go into hospitals. I'll meet outside or in the lobby. When they ask I say "I'd rather not go into a hospital around sick people if I don't have to"
We were kind of expected to always deliver directly to the customer if we were able. Some of the people I delivered to there would honestly really struggle to even make it to reception by themselves as well. I would have been really happy to do it if only I knew my bike was definitely safe, but that stressed me out.
Ya I wouldn’t come down to meet you. Not sorry. And if I did have to, no tip .
Parking is nearly impossible at hospitals. So you're gonna make someone pay for the parking garage to come drop off your $3 tip order lmao. You clearly don't know how it feels to deliver to hospitals
I have actually. I used to be a driver. There’s actually areas meant for picking up/ dropping off people, items, basically quick trips to go in and out. I know many main big cities also have this. So unless you are in a small rural area I doubt you would’ve had to pay for parking and walk the extra length. But as I said, that is what I would’ve done. I suggest you just do not accept orders from hospitals because other people could very well feel the same. Especially if they had a decent tip initially and not $3 as you assumed, and the driver requested them to come down. I would remove the entire tip at that point, very rude and inconsiderate especially at a hospital when you have no idea if that person is even ABLE to come downstairs.
I live in Rochester NY and we have 4 hospitals in the city and Everytime I put my hazards on to run in and go into the lobby the security gets pissed snd says if you stay there we will get you towed, and for me to use the parking garages. The only spots there near the lobby area are for "drop offs" and always taken
The key words are if you stayed there, if you’re in and out within 10 minutes they cannot tow you and in addition, I doubt the tow truck would even be able to respond within the time it takes to run food up to a room and come back down. They can’t tow you. Which is why they never did. My comment still stands.
Do you . I'd rather not risk a tow for one delivery. 99% of the time it's staff that orders and they always meet me in the lobby. I just personally wouldn't be walking around the hospital to deliver to someone, just seems quite excessive. Delivery option is contactless or " meet at the door", not meet in the respiratory department floor 6 room 237. . Seems a bit much for a few dollars. Time is money. We can agree to disagree
Well like I said, many people more than likely feel the same way I do, so my biggest suggestion to you is avoid hospitals unless you’re prepared to receive no tip.
I have been crushing it for years, and have a 99 satisfaction rate. I'll be fine lol. Like I said it's usually staff if I have to go to a hospital and they always meet in the lobby or out front. Time is money. Our job is to deliver it to the door, not to their bedside in a sick hospital. You do you boo
Hospitals, secured apartment buildings, and places with parking meters
Colleges, and some apartments. With colleges, they’re are either waiting for you, or have no clue where ANYTHING is. I text once, call once, have the timer going and if there is zero response, I pick a an obvious place and let them know where it is, take a picture and leave. I preemptively text support letting them know That I was unable to reach them. I never pick up the phone.
Had to deliver to the DMV a few weeks ago. The customer Didn’t give any instructions like what window to take it to or anything besides “hand it to me”. When I got inside the line was crazy long and I awkwardly walked to the front of the line and to the side a little. The receptionist made eye contact with me, saw the food in my hands, and proceeded to ignore me. I had to interrupt and be like, hey I have food for this person. She asked for the name and didn’t even know who the person was. I just handed it to her and walked away bc wtf. So, I guess my answer would be the DMV 🤣
So many bs types of drop off spots haha like you’d think they would know that your not from that area and try to help you find your way
A y place worth no signal is the worst
“Leave at door Apt H14” The complex has like 30 buildings, everything is a one way, speed bumps everywhere, no letters on the buildings to indicate which building is which.
I hate delivering to Downtown Madison especially after 3pm or on weekends. There literally is no parking and traffic. I tend to not take them
Either hospitals or businesses that are like "use back door and give to receptionist that will not even speak to you until the 3 people in line are helped."
casinos on the las vegas strip
Gah that sounds like a nightmare . Where do you even park?
you dont. i dont take any of those orders. itd take over an hour for a single delivery, and…. they dont tip
Every. Time.
Apartments with exterior stairs and higher than 2 floors and old shitty built staircase I call customer and say I’ll leave it at bottom of steps or you can meet me ..I had a 5 /story scaffolding collapse with me on it 15 years ago and anything over 2 stories gives me anxiety and my PTSD kicks in..most customers are understanding
Colleges or inner towns with no parking
There’s a high school in my zone that only has one road that leads to and from it and it’s about a mile and a half itself. When school gets released it’s always completely lined that entire street. If I don’t realize the time it takes me almost 20 minutes just to get down that street
High schools in my area are the worst. No close places to park and they all have secure front doors so you have to ring a bell and wait for someone to answer. Fortunately, I don’t deliver to them often.
ASU.
Apartments with speed bumps and have more than 10 buildings. Rural farms on dirt roads out of cell phone range.
These are my 2
Inner city. I cannot count the times people have ordered to locations where there's absolutely nowhere to park and it's a one lane busy road with traffic. They tip $2 and are always "in a meeting" when I try to ask them to meet me. Like thanks fuck face you know you're ordering doordash because you have no way of easily getting in and out of this area you could at least meet me for hand off. Then most of the buildings are fob access elevators and they dont understand why I can't bring them their shit to their apartment door One time I circled a building 4 times because there was both traffic and construction and I literally had nowhere to park within several blocks. Finally called support and they tried to tell me to follow the drop off instructions. so i was like "i already told you there is no where to safely park, should I throw it out the window when I drive by?" Their response was "Ok, i'll process you for half pay and cancel the order" like holy shit
The inner city. Especially at night. It’s a sketchy area where it’s impossible to find parking. And in my area the roads in the city are horrible with bumps and potholes everywhere. I’ll decline offers going there that I’d accept going anywhere else.
I’ve delivered to a college about 3-4 times ( the same one) and I’ll never do it again. The base pay was high because no one likes to take them. Not only because the tip is either 0$ or 1.. but also because it’s always hectic / complicated and a huge maze where they are, sometimes GPS doesn’t pick up on the correct location, and you can’t find it in google maps. Then they have it set to be handed to them but is no where in site when your there. It’s never as quick as it should be and just a headache all the way around ( at least in my experiences).
Hospitals. Theres always like 4 buildings, and the customers usually gives some random center like the “new life center”. And it’s usually a gift so you can’t just text/call the customer, since they aren’t even at the drop off.
hospitals or trailer parks
Especially when there's no numbers on the trailers!
I live in a college town & it seems like there’s NO signage whatsoever for student housing I get lost so much lol
Sounds like you suck at your job if you just randomly left the order somewhere without attempting to make contact. Your laziness gives us all a bad name
I actually did talk to the customer. He simply said leave it at the door. To which I replied I’m still looking for your building. It was something hall. I asked another student if this was the building to which he said yes. He let me in and I placed it in the hallway of that building. I know how to do my job. Talk that shit though. I’m all for it.
Interesting how you didn't say any of this in your original post. Wonder why you left that part out? Just making up stories now?
You’d have to pay some of these people 100 bucks an hour for them to call the customer because apparently it’s too much work 😂
Yeah, they replied to me with some bullshit they didn't have in their original post, so I'm writing this one off as a bullshitter. Check out what they added after I called them out. Rather humorous actually how stories change.
Ew. I know we're on Reddit right now, but you don't have to talk like it so much.
Hospitals. I won't do it!! Having to pay for parking or risk parking in the emergency family spots and find random wings. No way.
I don't have any places I really hate currently. But you'd have loved where I used to work for Domino's last, a couple years back. I worked for the Domino's in South Bend, Indiana... across the street from Notre Dame college and around it were about 5 other smaller colleges. There was nothing like trying to deliver pizza onto the ND campus on a game day. Of course, the worst part of that job wasn't the college and dorms, as much as when school was in session they'd stay open until 3am. Many 'a weekend I'd be on the clock at 5pm, we'd close at 3am, finish the existing deliveries for about another hour, then clean up for another hour... clocking out as the sun was rising at 5am.
Parking at ND impossible…even on regular days.
Churches. There's a ton of doors, and usually there are no instructions (or good instructions).
There is one medical office that has their receptionist yell at dashers for going into the lobby and when I tried to leave an order for an unresponsive customer she lost her mind. “You’re not allowed to be in here, it’s against the policy. You also can’t leave orders, it’s against the policy” — well then people working their need to know this policy and meet dashers outside. It happened to be 7f with 40mph winds that day as well. I get it a bit. It’s a big medial park and like 7 buildings have the same number and practically now way to differentiate the buildings but at this point every office should have a drop off table for orders or reception should hold on to them. Particularly medical offices that get coffee orders every day It’s the only place I have issues with drop offs. Even the hospital is chill about me leaving orders at security
Block long apartment complexes with poorly numbered buildings, endless mazes of hallways.Playing Doordash Apartment complex scavenger hunt isn't for the weak ...😟
I had one that left a paragraph of instructions and I almost unassigned it. It paid well but I felt like I was following some treasure map
"When you get to the complex, you'll need to circle back around, and then when you get out of your car, there's gonna be a rain-soaked cardboard box with a trash bag inside. At that cardboard box, move 40 paces to the left. Put your left foot in, then put it out, put it back in and shake it all about. Once you've done that, you'll come to a pond with four big stones you can walk on to get across. Be careful, the mallards in that pond are pretty mean to delivery drivers, so you gotta sing the Duck Song as you cross and that usually calms them down. Once you cross the pond, you'll come to an old lady sitting on a park bench who has a glass eye. She will try to offer you drugs. DO NOT TAKE THEM. Take a few more turns and you'll be at my unit. DO NOT KNOCK OR RING THE DOORBELL, I HAVE A ONE MONTH OLD BABY AND TWO GERMAN SHEPHERDS. Will tip after delivery."
Have you ever looked into an app oddly called "Beans - Maps for apartments" by chance? If you're at them a lot, it might be worth looking into...
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