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<h2>&quot;Acting like a Karen,&quot; especially in 2020, will definitely not score you any karma points in the new year...</h2><p>While it might make you feel better in the moment to take your frustrations with a service industry worker to Yelp or Google Reviews, writing a five-paragraph essay about why a bartender should be fired for not smiling enough, or why a server should lose their job because they forgot your refill of Diet Coke is pretty repugnant, immature behavior. Angry reviews and toddler-level temper tantrums on Yelp are permanent, and it&#39;s best to take your frustrations out on the business as a whole and not an individual who was probably simply doing their job. Delivery drivers tackle extreme weather conditions to bring you your dinner on time, intact and at the ideal temperature. Unless your pizza is 90% on the top of the box or your lasagna is actually a chicken, &#39;tis the season to have some empathy for essential workers in a pandemic and let a little mistake slide.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Still, if you truly feel you received bad service or you were cheated out of money in some way as a customer, a polite complaint can occasionally be justified. So, when a frustrated Doordash approaching-Karen customer decided to consult the internet&#39;s moral compass otherwise known as Reddit&#39;s &quot;Am I the As*hole?&quot; people were quick to weigh in.</p><h2><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/ki4uhs/aita_for_reporting_my_delivery_driver/">AITA</a> (Am I the as*hole) for reporting my delivery driver?</h2><blockquote> <p>Last night I was exhausted from work and forgot to thaw any meat, so I ordered Doordash for dinner. I gave a $4 tip on a $12 order. When my food arrived, my roommate opened the door as I was in the bathroom. I heard my roomie ask the driver &quot;did she tip you on the app?&quot; AND THE DRIVER SAID NO!</p> <p>My roomie gave them a few bucks we keep by the front door for situations just like this and sent them on their way. When I got out of the bathroom, I asked what was up and they informed me they tipped her $3. I was pissed! Though, honestly, most of my being upset was a lot of crap just cumulating into my evening. I was, in all fairness, really just frustrated about stuff that had gone on throughout my day, and this was the straw that broke the camel&#39;s back </p> <p>I can respect hustle, and honestly even if she had said yes, my roomie and I are the type to tip extra as long as we&#39;re able, my roomie still probably would have given them a few extra bucks. The fact she (the delivery driver) lied is what really got to me.</p> <p>I reached out to a friend who delivers for DD and asked &quot;hey, are you able to see when people tip you on the app for a delivery?&quot; and she informed me that yes, you see the tip and you see how much and it&#39;s very clearly marked. She said she believes it&#39;s incentive to do a good job.</p> <p>So, I informed my roomie that she was getting a bad review, and they told me I&#39;m &quot;being a Karen&quot;. I can understand why they feel this way, especially in a pandemic, but that&#39;s an even bigger reason I want to leave a negative review. We&#39;re in the middle of a pandemic!! Yes, my roomie and I could afford a $7 tip, but not everyone can.</p> <p>So, reddit, please help me out here. If I&#39;m in the wrong, I&#39;ll give 5*&#39;s (maybe 4?) and I&#39;ll simply submit a request to never be paired with them as a delivery driver again.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>Here&#39;s what the jury of internet strangers had to say:</h2><blockquote> <p>NTA (Not the as*hole). The delivery driver lied and got double tipped. It&#39;s not unreasonable to report her for that. - bonniebluest</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>As a door dash driver, we don&rsquo;t know what received as a tip until the transaction is complete. It was a bit disingenuous for them to say no, but not necessarily a hustle either. - wuebdudneiwiqksns</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>YTA (You&#39;re the as*hole). I agree with your roommate and I think you are overreacting. You have painted your delivery driver as this malicious, lying thief looking to con anyone she can out of their cash (and in your comments, you&#39;ve even escalated this to her stealing from starving, broke families), and you have other people in the comments shouting <em>she committed fraud!</em> but, really, she could have just made a genuine mistake. Maybe she&#39;s used to not getting tipped in advance, so her automatic response was no. Maybe she has a lot on her mind and is distracted, or maybe she&#39;s simply exhausted and just accidentally overlooked the tip you left.</p> <p>People make mistakes all the time, but it doesn&#39;t make them villains. Your roommate is more than willing to just let this go and chalk it up to a misunderstanding, but <em>you</em> want to really dig in and are willing believe the absolute worst about someone and jeopardize their job during a pandemic over $3. Sorry, but that makes you the as*hole - prairiemountainzen</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I drive for Doordash and you CANNOT see if they tipped or even how much they tipped UNTIL you deliver and close out the order. If a $4 order pops up it could be $4 base pay with no tip or a $2 base pay with $2 tip. You never ever know how much the tip actually is until you close the order (or if you wanna waste 10 min contacting support to find out if they&rsquo;re is a tip but that&#39;s ridiculous and food would get cold.)</p> <p>After you close the order THEN it will show you the break down of base pay and tip and sometimes if there was an added tip it will say &ldquo;customer added a tip, you received $6 instead of $4&rdquo; but again not until after you close the order. So your friend who does door dash did not give you the correct information/ doesn&rsquo;t know what they&rsquo;re talking about. I use an iPhone so if she uses a different kind of phone maybe the app is set up different but I doubt it. I have never been able to see the tip before delivering.</p> <p>The dasher quite possibly just assumed there was no tip if it was $6 or less when they accepted it but she should have said she didn&rsquo;t know if there was a tip instead of a hard no. - shuttingup711</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>YTA. It&rsquo;s seriously $3. You want to damage someone&rsquo;s ability to make money over $3. WTF. A significant number of people who use Door Dash don&rsquo;t tip. Maybe it was a legit mistake, maybe the person was trying to get a couple extra bucks. It&rsquo;s $3, move on. - Fightoplasm</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>YTA if you report for three dollars for what is most likely a miscommunication. - Tolerant-intolerance</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>If you&#39;re really that concerned about the pandemic, maybe you should be more concerned about potentially costing someone their only source of income over three dollars in said pandemic. I can&#39;t even imagine being this mad about this, it&#39;s THREE dollars. What do think the driver is going to do with your three dollars? Buy a Porsche? YTA. - saintaryll</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>NTA if you want to give a poor review. That&#39;s what the review system is for.</p> <p>But I don&#39;t know if it&#39;s worth it to give the delivery person a black mark around Christmas time during a pandemic when you&#39;re not positive it wasn&#39;t just a dumb mistake. You&#39;ll have to decide that for yourself. - Jane_The_Quene</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>Later, the post was edited:</h2><blockquote> <p>EDIT - Thank you all for informing me how the &quot;tipping&quot; works on your side for DD. I asked a simple question for my friend and she in turn answered simply. I had no idea all the hoops you had to jump through before being able to see it. Thank ya&#39;ll for educating me</p> </blockquote><h2>So, there you have it!</h2><p>While the opinions were mixed for this one, most people thought that it would be wrong to leave this delivery driver a bad review over what was most likely a miscommunication. Even if she was attempting to snag a little extra tip money, an essential worker in a pandemic doesn&#39;t deserve to be punished or potentially lose their job over three dollars. Good luck, everyone!</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Woman asks if she would be wrong to report Doordash delivery driver for trying to get two tips.

&quot;Acting like a Karen,&quot; especially in 2020, will definitely not score you any karma points in the new year...While it might make you feel better in the moment to take your frustrations with a service industry worker to Yelp or Google Reviews, writing a five-paragraph essay about why a bartender should be fired for not smiling enough, or why a server should lose their job because they forgot your refill of Diet Coke is pretty repugnant, immature behavior. Angry reviews and toddler-level temper tantrums on Yelp are permanent, and it&#39;s best to take your frustrations out on the business as a whole and not an individual who was probably simply doing their job. Delivery drivers tackle extreme weather conditions to bring you your dinner on time, intact and at the ideal temperature. Unless your pizza is 90% on the top of the box or your lasagna is actually a chicken, &#39;tis the season to have some empathy for essential workers in a pandemic and let a little mistake slide.Still, if you truly feel you received bad service or you were cheated out of money in some way as a customer, a polite complaint can occasionally be justified. So, when a frustrated Doordash approaching-Karen customer decided to consult the internet&#39;s moral compass otherwise known as Reddit&#39;s &quot;Am I the As*hole?&quot; people were quick to weigh in.AITA (Am I the as*hole) for reporting my delivery driver? Last night I was exhausted from work and forgot to thaw any meat, so I ordered Doordash for dinner. I gave a $4 tip on a $12 order. When my food arrived, my roommate opened the door as I was in the bathroom. I heard my roomie ask the driver &quot;did she tip you on the app?&quot; AND THE DRIVER SAID NO! My roomie gave them a few bucks we keep by the front door for situations just like this and sent them on their way. When I got out of the bathroom, I asked what was up and they informed me they tipped her $3. I was pissed! Though, honestly, most of my being upset was a lot of crap just cumulating into my evening. I was, in all fairness, really just frustrated about stuff that had gone on throughout my day, and this was the straw that broke the camel&#39;s back  I can respect hustle, and honestly even if she had said yes, my roomie and I are the type to tip extra as long as we&#39;re able, my roomie still probably would have given them a few extra bucks. The fact she (the delivery driver) lied is what really got to me. I reached out to a friend who delivers for DD and asked &quot;hey, are you able to see when people tip you on the app for a delivery?&quot; and she informed me that yes, you see the tip and you see how much and it&#39;s very clearly marked. She said she believes it&#39;s incentive to do a good job. So, I informed my roomie that she was getting a bad review, and they told me I&#39;m &quot;being a Karen&quot;. I can understand why they feel this way, especially in a pandemic, but that&#39;s an even bigger reason I want to leave a negative review. We&#39;re in the middle of a pandemic!! Yes, my roomie and I could afford a $7 tip, but not everyone can. So, reddit, please help me out here. If I&#39;m in the wrong, I&#39;ll give 5*&#39;s (maybe 4?) and I&#39;ll simply submit a request to never be paired with them as a delivery driver again. Here&#39;s what the jury of internet strangers had to say: NTA (Not the as*hole). The delivery driver lied and got double tipped. It&#39;s not unreasonable to report her for that. - bonniebluest  As a door dash driver, we don&rsquo;t know what received as a tip until the transaction is complete. It was a bit disingenuous for them to say no, but not necessarily a hustle either. - wuebdudneiwiqksns  YTA (You&#39;re the as*hole). I agree with your roommate and I think you are overreacting. You have painted your delivery driver as this malicious, lying thief looking to con anyone she can out of their cash (and in your comments, you&#39;ve even escalated this to her stealing from starving, broke families), and you have other people in the comments shouting she committed fraud! but, really, she could have just made a genuine mistake. Maybe she&#39;s used to not getting tipped in advance, so her automatic response was no. Maybe she has a lot on her mind and is distracted, or maybe she&#39;s simply exhausted and just accidentally overlooked the tip you left. People make mistakes all the time, but it doesn&#39;t make them villains. Your roommate is more than willing to just let this go and chalk it up to a misunderstanding, but you want to really dig in and are willing believe the absolute worst about someone and jeopardize their job during a pandemic over $3. Sorry, but that makes you the as*hole - prairiemountainzen  I drive for Doordash and you CANNOT see if they tipped or even how much they tipped UNTIL you deliver and close out the order. If a $4 order pops up it could be $4 base pay with no tip or a $2 base pay with $2 tip. You never ever know how much the tip actually is until you close the order (or if you wanna waste 10 min contacting support to find out if they&rsquo;re is a tip but that&#39;s ridiculous and food would get cold.) After you close the order THEN it will show you the break down of base pay and tip and sometimes if there was an added tip it will say &ldquo;customer added a tip, you received $6 instead of $4&rdquo; but again not until after you close the order. So your friend who does door dash did not give you the correct information/ doesn&rsquo;t know what they&rsquo;re talking about. I use an iPhone so if she uses a different kind of phone maybe the app is set up different but I doubt it. I have never been able to see the tip before delivering. The dasher quite possibly just assumed there was no tip if it was $6 or less when they accepted it but she should have said she didn&rsquo;t know if there was a tip instead of a hard no. - shuttingup711  YTA. It&rsquo;s seriously $3. You want to damage someone&rsquo;s ability to make money over $3. WTF. A significant number of people who use Door Dash don&rsquo;t tip. Maybe it was a legit mistake, maybe the person was trying to get a couple extra bucks. It&rsquo;s $3, move on. - Fightoplasm  YTA if you report for three dollars for what is most likely a miscommunication. - Tolerant-intolerance  If you&#39;re really that concerned about the pandemic, maybe you should be more concerned about potentially costing someone their only source of income over three dollars in said pandemic. I can&#39;t even imagine being this mad about this, it&#39;s THREE dollars. What do think the driver is going to do with your three dollars? Buy a Porsche? YTA. - saintaryll  NTA if you want to give a poor review. That&#39;s what the review system is for. But I don&#39;t know if it&#39;s worth it to give the delivery person a black mark around Christmas time during a pandemic when you&#39;re not positive it wasn&#39;t just a dumb mistake. You&#39;ll have to decide that for yourself. - Jane_The_Quene Later, the post was edited: EDIT - Thank you all for informing me how the &quot;tipping&quot; works on your side for DD. I asked a simple question for my friend and she in turn answered simply. I had no idea all the hoops you had to jump through before being able to see it. Thank ya&#39;ll for educating me So, there you have it!While the opinions were mixed for this one, most people thought that it would be wrong to leave this delivery driver a bad review over what was most likely a miscommunication. Even if she was attempting to snag a little extra tip money, an essential worker in a pandemic doesn&#39;t deserve to be punished or potentially lose their job over three dollars. Good luck, everyone!

&quot;Acting like a Karen,&quot; especially in 2020, will definitely not score you any karma points in the new year...  While it might make you feel better in the moment to take your frustrations with a service industry worker to Yelp or...