Should I quit DoorDash or keep delivering despite low pay and rating risks?

[bingbongbangbung]

Did DoorDash for past 3 months a few days per week (some weeks just once), and I'm almost out of my annual data of 20GB as well as rating system revamped to screw anyone who isn't a Top Dasher over. I can either top-up a few GB for 30 days at a time; however sadly, the data is capped to LTE so no 5G anymore or I can pay for another annual plan, but my current doesn't expire until next January. Sick and tired of delivering and I'll probably get banned eventually like I was on UberEats for low ratings due to just a few bad customers downvoting me, and at Silver tier the support agents refuse to remove low ratings.

They used to willingly remove max 2 a week when I was still Gold, but with new rating system even removing my single 1 star rating won't make me jump back like before. The retarded on-time rate is never consistent with whether I'm marked as on time or late, and there's too many factors that don't always let me deliver early. Even with tips and minimum wage top-up here, I still only make probably a few hundred bucks max a month from this shit; even if I did full time probably at most a grand as I deliver by bike, so algorithms favour cars and motorcycles over me. I also do TaskRabbit but colder weather means less clients to hire me.

Deliver Less

Stop Entirely

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[Anonymous]

I think you need to get a better phone plan with unlimited data. I've started doing DD recently and i've had no problem being on time. The few that i wasn't they've all excused. Honestly the only problem i've had is with them assigning duplicate drivers to the same order. Yougo to a place to pick up your oder and they say a dasher has ready pucked it up. Understandably they don't want to make it again. And some of the non fast food restaraunts won't. So it leaves me in the position of having to unassign it which hurts MY rating.

You must deliver in an urban area? I couldn't imagine trying to do it by bike here. I'm only really doing it for the subsidized healthcare. Like you, i don't know if it's worth it. But not for the money. For the commitment. I need to DD about 8 hrs. A day to make enough to qualify for subsidies. I retired to NOT work 8hr. Days.😆 but i swear i think DD deliberately pulls back on the reigns when you making too much and stops giving you dashes. I think this is their way of keeping more dashers dashing. If you knockout your goal in few hrs. You'll sign off and then they have less dasher options. Theycan't have that.😆

[Ironic_Method]

I guess it depends on how much you need the money.