Submitted by FatJesus13908 t3_yq57em in tifu
I've been doordashing as a bit of a hobby and to get some extra bucks in my pocket. Tonight was like any other night, dark, kinda cold, and boring. Tips were bad, what I get for being too poor to move out of a rural area.
Get an order for a pizza from the Hut. Get there, it's already done, everything is going smooth. All I gotta do is drop it off at the customer's door, and accept the gracious $2 that I get paid for driving 8 miles.
I pull into the apartment complex, reach over into the passenger seat for the pizza, just to realize it's not there. I'd forgotten it on top of my car when I was unlocking it.
I rush back to the Hut, hoping and hoping that it'll be laying there in the parking lot, untouched, even if its upside down. I get just a block away from it, when I see it. This poor defenseless 14" pizza had been pummeled, squashed, murderized all over the main road by hungry metal hippos.
I pull back into the parking lot of the Hut, and messaged the customer. I apologized and explained the situation to her, telling her to call customer support and hopefully they'll refund her.
She says they won't, which I said was "dumb af". Then I realized there was no way to cancel the order, that I must go back to her complex and complete the delivery. For a second time, I pass by the crime scene, cheese and sauce coating the pavement. I sheepishly pull into the parking lot of this poor lady's complex, and take a picture of her building. When dropping off at someone's doorstep they require you to take a picture for completion of the order, alas, I had no order to drop off though.
She then messaged me saying she'd reported me and that she knows I stole her precious bed of dough and sauce. I replied that while I definitely understand reporting me, I'm no liar. So I gave her directions to where she can scrape up her pizza baby, and went on to my next dash. It's going to be a fun situation to deal with.
Tldr; Forgot pizza on top of my car, other cars squished it, customer accused me of being a liar and a thief. IFU.
Edit: To answer a few common questions.
The reason I didn't call Doordash support is honestly because I had no clue they existed until people commented about it. There isn't exactly any training for this, I probably skimmed over it though.
The reason I accepted a $2 order is because again, I live in a rural area. Sometimes I'm waiting around for four hours just to make $8 for two orders. If I don't accept it, maybe someone else will. And having something to put into my bank account is better than nothing. As far as I can tell, it doesn't show where you'll be dropping off the orders until after you accept it. My acceptance rate is 98% cause I've accepted every order except for one that glitched out the other night due to the app fucking up.
Pizza Hut doesn't have delivery drivers here, we are a rural place so everyone is spread out, and most people don't want to get paid $8.75/hour to deal with being an employee there. Hell, there was only one person working in the entire building tonight.
Don't worry yall, I'm not afraid of losing this job. I don't do it often, and I'm not so desperate as to need it to pay bills.
For those trynna make me out to be bad at this, I've got a 5 star rating. Definitely won't have it now, but still. Again, this is just a hobby. I like to drive around, so this way I get to drive around and get paid to do so.
Bardlebee, Everyone. Bardlebee.