One of the many upsides of gig work is being able to make your own hours and take on the jobs and clients that you want to. Of course, there are downsides to this kind of work as well (a lack of health insurance and job security among them), but many people go into it with their eyes open.
That doesn’t mean that losing one of these jobs doesn’t come as a shock for some people, like Threads user @triomommie89_, who posted a screenshot of a message she received from DoorDash. “Well damn, I just got fired from DoorDash for not accepting them low a– orders,” she wrote.
The post quickly blew up, and people jumped into the comments to talk about the situation. However, not everything appeared to be as it seemed, according to some eagle-eyed commenters. That’s because quite a few people said that there was more to the story than the Threads user was letting on.
More specifically, several people accused the poster of making a major mistake in the way she was handling her orders, which they believe ultimately cost her the gig.
DoorDasher Says She Was Fired Over a Low Acceptance Rate
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The Threads user alluded to the low-paying orders as the reason why her Dasher account was “indefinitely deactivated.” However, the wording in the message from DoorDash seemed to say otherwise, telling the Dasher that her Completion Rate had fallen below 90 percent.
“As you were previously notified, this is the minimum threshold,” the screenshot said, along with some additional legal verbiage about the agreement she signed when she became a Dasher.
People Tried to Explain the Difference
A lot of people claiming to be experienced Dashers hopped into the comments to tell the Threads user what was actually going on. “That mostly happens when you take an order and then cancel it before even picking up the order,” one person wrote.
Someone even added a “Community Note” to the post, adding a little more insight into the difference. “Having a low Completion Rate on DoorDash means that the user accepts orders, but then does not complete them,” the note explained. “However, there is no minimum for the Acceptance Rate, so the user can simply not accept orders with low pay, instead of accepting then failing to complete them.”
Others Joked About the Threads User Stealing Food
A lot of people opted to make jokes about the situation, even accusing the Dasher of eating other people’s food. “Right, we can’t get deactivated for acceptance rate; she must’ve been pocketing them food orders,” one person speculated.
“Well, no. If you accept an order and then decide you don’t even wanna pick it up even right after you accepted it, they drop your completion rate,” another person wrote. “You don’t necessarily have to have picked up the food already, but hey maybe she was grubbin, lol.”
The Threads user didn’t return to her post to defend herself, so there’s no way of really knowing what actually happened. But for now, people in the comments can’t stop laughing over the situation and coming up with all kinds of theories about how she could’ve been using her position as a Dasher to eat for free.