DasherDiary

Not all deliveries are created equal. Some try to give you stress from the beginning.

Who is responsible for the drink order on a delivery?

Deliveries can be memorable in Amarillo.

When you are out delivering food in Amarillo you never know what is going to happen on each delivery. It can be a quick and easy drop-off. You can end up with a long wait time at a restaurant. You could have problems finding the address of your delivery.

Most of the time delivering food in Amarillo is a fun and relatively easy job. I mean if you can deal with the traffic and the weather it can be easy. I know a struggle is figuring out which streets are under construction and we should just know that it is easier to just list the ones that are not.

As a Dasher in Amarillo, you have the ability to decline orders. There are different reasons you may not want to do a delivery. It may be that the restaurant always takes a long time. Maybe you don't want to waste forty minutes on a long drive when you know the tip was not worth it.

When you make the decision to be a delivery driver in Amarillo you picture how it will go. You think this is going to be easy. You accept an order. You drive to pick it up and then you drive to drop it off. So easy. Right? Until you throw in other factors.

When I first signed up to DoorDash in Amarillo it was a waiting game. I got a notification that there were too many Dashers in my area and I had to wait. So wait I did. I mean I wasn't even sure that this was something I wanted to try. So no big deal.

When you sign up to be a Dasher here in Amarillo you know that you are an independent contractor. Which means you are your own boss and you work when you want to. You don't have to be worried about a boss being mad at you. Or so I thought.

There is a lot of talk about tipping your delivery drivers in Amarillo. Some people think they pay enough fees through the delivery service that a tip shouldn't be necessary. They feel the delivery company should pay a decent wage. Oh, we wish that they would.

Nothing is worse than getting a pay cut in Amarillo. I remember the year I started a new job in town. They offered me a certain amount to leave my current job. I was at that job for a few months before the company issued pay cuts across the company and I lost all of the money I was offered to leave my former employee. So that was fun.

Some days I just want to take my car and just go back to my home in Amarillo and try another day. We have all been there. Not every day can be perfect when you spend some of your time driving around and delivering food to hungry Amarillo customers.