A Red Card Rodeo
Why would DoorDash want this business?
Back when I worked for a sex magazine whose owners fancied fast cars and beefy motorcycles, the bosses wanted me to cater to some of the worst clients imaginable to keep their bullshit financial edifice from crumbling lest their toys get repossessed.
Even though my commission total (and compensation) depended on these deadbeats to a certain extent, my position was one of dumping the reprobates. Life was simply too short to fuck with those assholes. I didn’t care about the income loss.
Move to the present, my DoorDashing hobby, and the much-avoided (by me) red card dash. Why would DoorDash want this business? There’s no way it’s a money-maker.
In its greed to dominate the market, DoorDash has found it appropriate to accommodate not just customers who don’t want to cook or are too lazy to go out and get their own food — but people who want dashers to shop for groceries and/or drug store items as well.
Pursuant to this initiative, DoorDash has their own “Dashmart” for the groceries. But they don’t have a DashDrugstore yet. And thus, the company provides dashers with a credit card to purchase drugstore items for its customers.
I just received my third red card. Why three? Because I tore up the first two out of frustration when…
