Recently Doordash has implemented a country-wide change to the app, where they separate which drivers get the good orders and which don't. To get the good orders, we have to accept 50% of the orders that Doordash handpicks to give us. Which we have the choice to accept or decline to do.
There's tons of reasons why anyone would decline an order. Maybe a particular restaurant is terrible and we don't want to go there. Maybe the pay for the order is at a rate of 5 dollars an hour before taxes and expenses. Maybe we just don't feel like going grocery shopping atm. Maybe we don't want to drive a 30 mile round trip to deliver something outside of the zone where we can still get orders. Tons of reasons.
We get NO say in what orders Doordash handpicks to send us, while at the same time they punish us for declining orders by cherry-picking the good orders and sending them to the people who accept the undesirable orders that pay 5 dollars an hour or less. And they have the audacity to classify us as “independent contractors” while they do stuff like this. Fuck them.