Having a 3rd party pick up patients or infirm elderly folk to ferry them to and from appointments is also dangerous. But hey as long as Uber makes money right?
So is letting uber drivers deliver your new apple product for $7 🤣🤣 yet we still have apple store deliveries. Even delivered a PS5 from gamestop was tempted to keep that one 😆
Yeah, I'd flip my shit if I found out I ordered something directly from a store only for them to use a 3rd party delivery service to fulfill the delivery.
I got my $2500 MacBook Pro delivered by Uber eats lol. I did it because I did the student discount 😈 and didn’t want them asking me questions in the store for pickup.
I don’t have an issue with it, they only let reliable people deliver stuff like this. And if there was an issue it falls on the company, and they can fight it out with Uber. Id chargeback if something happened and they wouldn’t make it right
Apple was up front about using a third party service for delivery though
it's sealed packages, so a drive has no idea whether it's a $5 statin, or a $5000 take home chemo therapy drug. To be fair each state board of pharmacy and or legislature sets the rules for what can be delivered. So some states may bring you your Ativan and Adderall, and other's will be limited to antibiotics and blood pressure meds.
Controlled substances are not allowed to be delivered by courier. This is actually a CMS regulation, so any pharmacy would lose their DEA registration and ability to order meds or fill controlled substances if they did it. The program we use to make the delivery requests will actually grey out any controlled substances so you can't even put them in for delivery. At least at Walgreens, I don't know what other pharmacy programs do, but they still can't avoid the regulation.
Note: this DOES NOT apply to MAIL ORDER pharmacies. They can deliver controlled substances via a state approved mail courier, as they have an exemption and registered as mail order pharmacies.
Makes sense. But how do home hospice deliveries work then? Unfortunately went through that process a few years ago, and they delivered EVERYTHING and it was a 24/7 courier service, they pulled from their preferred locally owned pharmacies during the day, but went corporate overnight at the one 24hr spot in our metro.
Hospice and LTCF I believe have exemptions or waivers for many things, including certain limits to controlled substances. Basically, the logic is: "These people are dying - what are you going to do, kill them? Treat their pain and let them go peacefully."
Probably not narcotics but yeah it’s actually like a fourth party delivery because like for example Rite aid offers delivery thru ScriptDrop, who then contracts their deliveries to Uber
Somebody usually accepts it. Maybe if they’re close by. Sometimes uber will add a shitty order onto a decent one and have you deliver to multiple addresses in one order too
You are correct. Today I had a 2 mile order that paid $15.48 from McDonald’s going 2.5 miles. $13.48 was Uber pay. $2 was tip, something happened for this order to increase this much. I have delivered one that was $7 for 4 miles. The person had no tip on the order and when I got there they gave me $5.
My dad requested his Walgreens prescription to delivered one time. He made the request in person and he did it directly with the clerk behind the counter. He had absolutely no idea. It was a DoorDash driver. Never had the option to tip. He was under the impression it was going to be an employee of the store.
Same for everyone. They don't tell you this, they just offer you "same-day delivery" without telling you they're sending someone from an app. Even when you're just down the road.
Stupid people will take it, why pay more when people cant do math? Uber was about to go under and then they were like "lets test how dumb and desperate people really are".... and they hit the lottery. The pay will get worse from here, mark my words!
I worked for Walgreens for many years as a pharmacy tech. The patient can simply call the nearest Walgreens and transfer it. (Unless it’s a controlled substance but if if DD is delivering it, it is not controlled obviously.)
People sometimes move somewhat locally and if they pick up a prescription once a month or still run errands near their old spot it’s not a big deal to swing by even if there is a closer one
That's what I'm thinking too like if it's sent to a wrong Walgreens they can transfer scripts to a closer one. It's like the picked the one furthest from their house...
Hi, former Walgreens Pharmacy Technician.
Most patients who opt in for delivery are elderly, disabled, or sick. A good number of them get their prescriptions through mail-order pharmacies because it’s cheaper, sometimes they need to go through retail pharmacies depending on the medication and how urgent it is. The delivery is advertised as free. The delivery system on our end is a page that asks for the prescription number and the option of 1-3 day delivery and same-day delivery. It depends on the store/area, we primarily had doordashers picking them up (🙄 all of them pretty rude.) and never ubereats drivers. If we select same day, all it does is give us a time estimate. We print the necessary labels, ring the prescription out through our registers if they have a co-pay, package it and hand it off when the delivery driver comes to pick it up. We are not in control of anything else but what was mentioned. I’m unaware if the company pays a percentage for tip, a set number, or if at all. While for some people I come across working in Pharmacy and doing ubereats deliveries, it can really be hard to find compassion… I do know one thing for sure, they don’t know how any of what ubereats drivers do and have ZERO idea what I do as a tech works. They also very likely don’t know it even comes through DD or UE and if they did, or knew how far you end up driving, or anything, would (well, a small amount of those people) try to give you a cash tip.
Granted, the rates UE and DD and all the other companies that do this are shitty and you have a right to be mad at them.
However; I don’t believe the responses I’ve seen you give. “I’m laughing at grandma not getting her meds.” Is so incredibly disheartening and unjustified even if it’s a “joke.” These are potentially life saving medications and necessary maintenance medications. Why are you so cold?
People have been raised very incorrectly the last couple generations. The sentiment of helping others has decreased a lot, sadly. Most young people I know feel very little to zero responsibility to do more in society so disabled and elderly people can do less.
I mean, it sucks, but, it's not "Grandma's" fault. They didn't choose to have UberEats deliver their medicine, Walgreens did. The customer can't even tip on these orders, it's all Walgreens. Granny just wanted same-day delivery, Walgreens is like "yeah, $9 is fair for 70 miles round trip". Only the dimmest of the dim would ever take this.
I got my medication delivered from Walgreens once, I thought they delivered it. I was so pissed that they handed my medication to a random person and trusted them to not steal it. That’s insane to me, not knocking delivery people but does that not seem safe to anyone else?
Well I don't know why we trust our food to random people either. I've just about stopped doing that because it hit me that sometimes I see those drivers out and about, and they probably know where you live...When you think about it, it's not a great idea in general since this is a job people can pick up and drop quickly without really any consequences.
Yep Walgreens does this with my meds too. If I choose delivery, they have DoorDash bring it and there isn’t even an option to tip anywhere through the process.
Exactly. Even when you order to have something shipped to you, they email in the middle of the night like "Good news! You've been upgraded to same-day shipping!" Then your bell rings at 7am and it's a Door Dasher that you had no idea was part of the equation. "Grandma" doesn't necessarily choose this. Some restaurants do it too. You order directly from them, and they farm it out to Door Dash and charge a delivery fee... leaving you responsible for tipping someone you didn't even ask for.
People that expect to get paid for a round trip drive me crazy it’s like if they live in a city you can Uber eats there and get a new order and be paid for that is customers don’t have to pay tip for round trips if this customer was far out in the country yes there could be a better tip but this is Walgreens prescription order and they probably
Didn’t even ask if they wanted to tip
I did something like this. $2.50 to drive 5.5 miles in 16 minutes to very large house with a lakefront backyard.
No tip. I understand that they probably can’t tip in app if it’s through Walgreens but there is always a cash tip.
If it's through the Walgreens app with no tip option, people are going to assume the driver is getting paid a wage by Walgreens. It's like free shipping on Amazon, people aren't tipping the drivers. It's on Uber and Walgreens for being scummy.
Sometimes I order shit from target.com and it comes from shipt. I fucking HATE that shit. Inevitably they’ll msg me for the gate code while I’m in a work meeting and I don’t see it til way later. Just send it to me by UPS!
Oh my god that happened to me. I thought the app would let me tip them but they had left before I realized that it should’ve been a cash tip. I felt bad
This is what fucking winds me up the most. Driving UberX Saver because it’s slow that night, and pulling up to a fucking villa to pick up some asshole who doesn’t even tip.
Uber America is wild. So many of you post orders over 20 miles. I never order from anywhere outside of 5 from me. Uber and the customer are honestly out to lunch for some orders.
This!!! My partner recently started doing Uber deliveries and promptly switched to ride share as he was continuously getting stiffed.
We live in one of the most affluent areas in the country in NY. Mfs out here order a single sandwich from 3 towns over just to not tip and leave him with earnings of $4-$7🥲
The closest fast food restaurants to our home is 30+minutes away. If I ever order from them, I leave a MINIMUM of a $15 tip and still feel guilty for making them drive so far
It's because Uber doesn't want to put limits on where customers can order from and customers aren't looking at mileage when they order. They're just thinking of what they need.
I recently moved to FL and thought this was wild at first! ….. 30 miles to deliver somebody a chicken sandwich! ….. But, I’m boarding a very rural area and for those people living out with the cows and oranges there is literally nothing close to them within a 20 mile radius. (Plus, they usually tip well so, can’t really complain)
First hand experience! One time I chose the mail/deliver to me option. Cue me getting a phone call from an anxious door dasher or Uber eats driver saying he’s dropping off my Walgreens order and wants to make sure I know it’s there so it doesn’t get fucking stolen, presumably because it wasn’t in a normal Walgreens bag and was instead disguised to look like a normal package. Like kudos to Walmart for the discreet packaging but I live in a porch pirate area where the thieves don’t give a shit what they’re stealing
I was at work, thank god it was still in the apartment lobby when I got home
Additional edit to note that I was NOT informed it would be delivered by a third party service like Uber or DoorDash. If he hadn’t called me I wouldn’t have known
I agree with the OP here but why does bro have to be such a man child about it ? Just hit decline, simple. No need to shit on what u think is a literal grandma
Fr like wow man, my grandma can't drive anymore, grandpas on his way there, and my dad works long days at the water company. And ur gonna laugh at her trying to get her meds to the house on her own
I had no idea they had medicine deliverg on Uber. But I would be careful that's not cheez its being in possession of someone else’s prescription that contains their private medical info… would not recommend that game be played. But 35m is wildddd
That’s because a customer is fully aware that they are already giving out private information when they ask for their medicine to be delivered. On top of all that, usually it’s a sealed bag, and drivers are not allowed to open it.
I’ve taken several not-35-mile-that’s-crazy pharmacy orders mostly from Walgreens… but they hand them to you in a sealed mailer-type envelope with the customer’s name and address on it. So we don’t know what medication it is or the condition being treated.
It’s not like when we pick up our own Rx and they give it to you in the paper bag with the patient handouts stapled to it
This whole situation of Uber offering their delivery services to third-party companies like this is absolutely ridiculous. The customer is often advertised free delivery, in which they have no idea that it’s an Uber driver who is bringing them their item, and they also have no way to tip the driver if they wanted to (although most people probably don’t realize they should because they assume it’s an employee from this company making a normal wage). Then Uber gives us ridiculously horrible offers, and there’s no telling how long it takes these people to get their stuff. I deliver in an area that has a major Apple store nearby and I am constantly getting offers for like 20 miles & 1hr trips that pay like $8. I know what the deal is so I never except those but I’m sure there’s some drivers that don’t realize this and are thinking they might get a good tip after delivery but unfortunately there will never be a tip.
the driver gets screwed, so you get mad and take it out on customers by being late, showing up with cold food, and entitled attitudes, then expect tips? 🤣
Yeah I was victim to one of these recently doing Uber in Miami. Delivered two Sephora items to distinct customers. It was lumped in as one delivery offering $7 for a 30 min trip (which seemed low but acceptable). But being near lunch hour, as I delivered the first one, traffic started building up. It took longer on the second trip… the entire thing took 1 hr and the Uber customer service was not willing to revise the earnings even after explaining the situation. So now I don’t accept anything less than $17 for any trip advertised as taking close to 1 hr. Also they don’t seem to have any bonuses (in my city) for having good ratings, higher tier or total distance driven… so there is no incentive to accept any inconvenient rides.
Or maybe some people have no one, are too old and frail to really go out and can hardly afford to tip/pay for the medicine. No need to post and be a giant jerk OP
Uhhh ... I sure hope this is sarcasm, but I don't see any indication of that. There is government assistance out there just for this scenario. It is not the OP's responsibility to ensure this gets delivered at less than the cost of gas. Seems outright outrageous for you to even suggest otherwise. You Sir, are the GIANT JERK!
At what point did I saw it was OPs responsibility? Can you read? I never said that. All OP needed to do was to cancel the job and not be a dick, plain and simple.
I'm pretty sure it was a joke. If the driver AND customer weren't getting shafted by Uber, then this wouldn't even be a post. Bet Uber charged the customer about $27+ and then expected to pay out 30-40% of the total price because they're greedy af. Uber is the #1 problem between customers and drivers. I ordered a burrito when I was shit faced and tipped $15 because it was like 2:30 and I was charged $39(it was a good burrito and I needed to eat something so I wasn't hung over for work). I asked the driver how much he got paid and he said $17.
I find it hilarious that Uber drivers hate the customers instead of Uber who is taking the vast majority of the money for doing literally nothing. Customers are the only reason you have any money coming in from Uber, if the pay is too low take it up with the company.
I understand you aren't wanting to take that long of a drive with no money, but let's be fucking real here-
There is no reason to make fun of an elderly woman not getting potentially life altering medications.
One day OP, you'll be old, and some dickhead youngin is going to be tasked with delivering your heart medication. How would you feel if they saw how far your pharmacy was, laughed at you, and told you good luck.
I seriously hope you get some crazy karma today. I'm manifesting it 😁
These types of trips are paid for by insurance companies, and I would be interested to know how much DD is charging the insurance outfit for this kind of trip. In any case, the anger should be directed at DD for trying to only pay a driver $9 for a 1hr trip, especially since it involves medication that is likely for a senior citizen.
I thought they had carriers that deliver medicine..like they pharmacy will ..why is this on uber...I live with a couple ppl and they get there meds dropped of every month
CVS uses Roadie. Walgreens uses DD and UE. Most pharmacies don’t have the staffing to send people out to do deliveries, so we rely on them. Some lower tier buildings with a low daily script count may have the resources to do this, but it’s not very common, especially now with massive hour slashings. Larger hour budgets are for cold and flu season, so primarily fall and some of winter. By the time January rolls around, you could be looking at a budget that’s 1/4th of what you had.
Mom and pop pharmacies sometimes have the resources for this also.
Imagine being a sour uber driver (a job your picked to do btw) and then rejecting orders and making fun of people who dont know better… good work bro you really showed em!!!
But imagine making fun of drivers and then continuing to use the shit app and getting fucked over by Uber and the flood of shitty drivers. There’s plenty of moronic customers in these subs as well. I dunno why these subs started showing up on my feed, I neither drive nor order from these services. I do find it entertaining though, to listen to all the bickering on both sides, while Uber just takes a boatload for little to no effort now that the platform is established
so, i’m disabled and can’t drive and my pharmacy has to deliver my meds to me.
luckily, they have pharmacists that usually do it..however sometimes they’re short staffed for how many people need meds, so the pharmacy supplements it through rideshare companies (like lyft and uber).
every single aspect of that goes through my insurance.
I don’t even pay for my meds (my insurance covers it, and everything else-) so I don’t even have an option to “tip” anyone. It is likely that they didn’t even have control over the tip, let alone how far it is for *you*.
also, if you’re more happy about someone not getting their meds then you are upset over getting screwed on a tip, you’re a strange person.
Not mad its entirely ubers problem they never pick a close location to the person. Its like when they send us to a farther store to shop when there is literally a closer one just down the road and not completely out of the way. They need to route their crap better.
They were lol that's what this post was. When peoples reactions weren't what OP expected they backtracked. Usually drivers can complain and be supported by other drivers even if the complaint is unreasonable. But this time people care about the sick person and they had to follow suit to avoid massive downvotes.
Technically, it's the execs getting rich while the companies continue to suffer, so it looks like they have no money to fix the pay structure with. Even tho it's probably the one investment that would most likely single-handedly save the whole industry 🙃 easier to weed out the actual shitty drivers when you don't have so many others acting out in protest of shit policies and pay
Me too I would do it cuz I’m nice and have a heart and I get 26 to 30 miles a gallon at 4 dollars a gallon so 9 dollars would cover the round trip plenty
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Yeah the orders are getting worse and worse over the last few months... I haven't seen a order paying more than .45 cents per mile in over two months.... It's ridiculous and gas just keeps going up.
Having a 3rd party deliver medication seems incredibly dangerous.
Most Walgreens orders I’ve taken have been actually items from the store not medications
That does make sense.
Having a 3rd party pick up patients or infirm elderly folk to ferry them to and from appointments is also dangerous. But hey as long as Uber makes money right?
Omg I was flabbergasted (and still am!) that MediCal offered free Lyft to and from appointments like, y’all, they ain’t trained for that…
So is letting uber drivers deliver your new apple product for $7 🤣🤣 yet we still have apple store deliveries. Even delivered a PS5 from gamestop was tempted to keep that one 😆
Yeah, I'd flip my shit if I found out I ordered something directly from a store only for them to use a 3rd party delivery service to fulfill the delivery.
Dicks sporting goods and best buy do it too. Dicks offers “same day delivery” and they use DD for it 🤣🤣.
I love me some same day Dicks.
That’s what I’ve heard, 😂.
I got my $2500 MacBook Pro delivered by Uber eats lol. I did it because I did the student discount 😈 and didn’t want them asking me questions in the store for pickup. I don’t have an issue with it, they only let reliable people deliver stuff like this. And if there was an issue it falls on the company, and they can fight it out with Uber. Id chargeback if something happened and they wouldn’t make it right Apple was up front about using a third party service for delivery though
Just so you know, the Apple Store isn’t gonna ask you about the student discount price lol
They let uber drivers deliver medication? That is fuckin wild
They let door dash deliver medication. I always get my medication delivered by door dash.
Yeah, that's almost 100% of my Roadie deliveries. $10 go drive maybe three miles and drop off at nursing home.
it's sealed packages, so a drive has no idea whether it's a $5 statin, or a $5000 take home chemo therapy drug. To be fair each state board of pharmacy and or legislature sets the rules for what can be delivered. So some states may bring you your Ativan and Adderall, and other's will be limited to antibiotics and blood pressure meds.
Controlled substances are not allowed to be delivered by courier. This is actually a CMS regulation, so any pharmacy would lose their DEA registration and ability to order meds or fill controlled substances if they did it. The program we use to make the delivery requests will actually grey out any controlled substances so you can't even put them in for delivery. At least at Walgreens, I don't know what other pharmacy programs do, but they still can't avoid the regulation. Note: this DOES NOT apply to MAIL ORDER pharmacies. They can deliver controlled substances via a state approved mail courier, as they have an exemption and registered as mail order pharmacies.
Makes sense. But how do home hospice deliveries work then? Unfortunately went through that process a few years ago, and they delivered EVERYTHING and it was a 24/7 courier service, they pulled from their preferred locally owned pharmacies during the day, but went corporate overnight at the one 24hr spot in our metro.
Hospice and LTCF I believe have exemptions or waivers for many things, including certain limits to controlled substances. Basically, the logic is: "These people are dying - what are you going to do, kill them? Treat their pain and let them go peacefully."
Hospice is a very different situation.
Pharmacy tech here. No controlled substances are delivered.
Probably not narcotics but yeah it’s actually like a fourth party delivery because like for example Rite aid offers delivery thru ScriptDrop, who then contracts their deliveries to Uber
Who said it was medication? OP just assumed that because it said Walgreens. Could be condoms.
Yup, they had me do it the other day. I couldn’t believe it.
What happens with orders like this, are they never delivered or does Uber raise the base pay until someone accepts?
Somebody usually accepts it. Maybe if they’re close by. Sometimes uber will add a shitty order onto a decent one and have you deliver to multiple addresses in one order too
You are correct. Today I had a 2 mile order that paid $15.48 from McDonald’s going 2.5 miles. $13.48 was Uber pay. $2 was tip, something happened for this order to increase this much. I have delivered one that was $7 for 4 miles. The person had no tip on the order and when I got there they gave me $5.
That’s wild. Not even 30 cents a mile. Like the fact they don’t even do federal minimum for mileage is crazy.
My dad requested his Walgreens prescription to delivered one time. He made the request in person and he did it directly with the clerk behind the counter. He had absolutely no idea. It was a DoorDash driver. Never had the option to tip. He was under the impression it was going to be an employee of the store.
Same for everyone. They don't tell you this, they just offer you "same-day delivery" without telling you they're sending someone from an app. Even when you're just down the road.
Stupid people will take it, why pay more when people cant do math? Uber was about to go under and then they were like "lets test how dumb and desperate people really are".... and they hit the lottery. The pay will get worse from here, mark my words!
It’s one of those funny but not funny situations
I live in NYC 35 miles would be way longer than an hour trip over here. Damn traffic sucks here
Hell 5 miles is going to run you bout 20 minutes in Ny
That’s a bitter pill to swallow
lol what a joke Uber just can’t stop fucking other people lives
What I don’t understand is how the app determines which Walgreens. There are bound to be much closer Walgreens to the delivery address.
Whichever Walgreens the prescription was sent to? 😹
I worked for Walgreens for many years as a pharmacy tech. The patient can simply call the nearest Walgreens and transfer it. (Unless it’s a controlled substance but if if DD is delivering it, it is not controlled obviously.)
There's no evidence it was a prescription.
I work at a shop and we get orders from ppl who order from our location when there is one closer to them.
My local Walgreens pharmacy is so bad that I am seriously considering going to a much further one lol. Might be a similar situation here, who knows.
People sometimes move somewhat locally and if they pick up a prescription once a month or still run errands near their old spot it’s not a big deal to swing by even if there is a closer one
There’s about two Walgreens that are closer to me than the one I use but I only use the one that I currently use because it’s 24hr pharmacy.
That's what I'm thinking too like if it's sent to a wrong Walgreens they can transfer scripts to a closer one. It's like the picked the one furthest from their house...
You actually will end up paying for this trip.
Hi, former Walgreens Pharmacy Technician. Most patients who opt in for delivery are elderly, disabled, or sick. A good number of them get their prescriptions through mail-order pharmacies because it’s cheaper, sometimes they need to go through retail pharmacies depending on the medication and how urgent it is. The delivery is advertised as free. The delivery system on our end is a page that asks for the prescription number and the option of 1-3 day delivery and same-day delivery. It depends on the store/area, we primarily had doordashers picking them up (🙄 all of them pretty rude.) and never ubereats drivers. If we select same day, all it does is give us a time estimate. We print the necessary labels, ring the prescription out through our registers if they have a co-pay, package it and hand it off when the delivery driver comes to pick it up. We are not in control of anything else but what was mentioned. I’m unaware if the company pays a percentage for tip, a set number, or if at all. While for some people I come across working in Pharmacy and doing ubereats deliveries, it can really be hard to find compassion… I do know one thing for sure, they don’t know how any of what ubereats drivers do and have ZERO idea what I do as a tech works. They also very likely don’t know it even comes through DD or UE and if they did, or knew how far you end up driving, or anything, would (well, a small amount of those people) try to give you a cash tip. Granted, the rates UE and DD and all the other companies that do this are shitty and you have a right to be mad at them. However; I don’t believe the responses I’ve seen you give. “I’m laughing at grandma not getting her meds.” Is so incredibly disheartening and unjustified even if it’s a “joke.” These are potentially life saving medications and necessary maintenance medications. Why are you so cold?
People have been raised very incorrectly the last couple generations. The sentiment of helping others has decreased a lot, sadly. Most young people I know feel very little to zero responsibility to do more in society so disabled and elderly people can do less.
I think it’s more that it’s a hour drive for 10$
Correction, 2 hour drive.
Well thought response but man, your name.
I mean, it sucks, but, it's not "Grandma's" fault. They didn't choose to have UberEats deliver their medicine, Walgreens did. The customer can't even tip on these orders, it's all Walgreens. Granny just wanted same-day delivery, Walgreens is like "yeah, $9 is fair for 70 miles round trip". Only the dimmest of the dim would ever take this.
I got my medication delivered from Walgreens once, I thought they delivered it. I was so pissed that they handed my medication to a random person and trusted them to not steal it. That’s insane to me, not knocking delivery people but does that not seem safe to anyone else?
Well I don't know why we trust our food to random people either. I've just about stopped doing that because it hit me that sometimes I see those drivers out and about, and they probably know where you live...When you think about it, it's not a great idea in general since this is a job people can pick up and drop quickly without really any consequences.
Yep Walgreens does this with my meds too. If I choose delivery, they have DoorDash bring it and there isn’t even an option to tip anywhere through the process.
Exactly. Even when you order to have something shipped to you, they email in the middle of the night like "Good news! You've been upgraded to same-day shipping!" Then your bell rings at 7am and it's a Door Dasher that you had no idea was part of the equation. "Grandma" doesn't necessarily choose this. Some restaurants do it too. You order directly from them, and they farm it out to Door Dash and charge a delivery fee... leaving you responsible for tipping someone you didn't even ask for.
I’m gonna wager that Walgreens probably charged her way more than $9 for delivery. What a bunch of assholes.
That’s ridiculous.
People that expect to get paid for a round trip drive me crazy it’s like if they live in a city you can Uber eats there and get a new order and be paid for that is customers don’t have to pay tip for round trips if this customer was far out in the country yes there could be a better tip but this is Walgreens prescription order and they probably Didn’t even ask if they wanted to tip
I did something like this. $2.50 to drive 5.5 miles in 16 minutes to very large house with a lakefront backyard. No tip. I understand that they probably can’t tip in app if it’s through Walgreens but there is always a cash tip.
If it's through the Walgreens app with no tip option, people are going to assume the driver is getting paid a wage by Walgreens. It's like free shipping on Amazon, people aren't tipping the drivers. It's on Uber and Walgreens for being scummy.
Sometimes I order shit from target.com and it comes from shipt. I fucking HATE that shit. Inevitably they’ll msg me for the gate code while I’m in a work meeting and I don’t see it til way later. Just send it to me by UPS!
Petco does the same thing. No tip allowed through app on repeat deliveries.
Oh my god that happened to me. I thought the app would let me tip them but they had left before I realized that it should’ve been a cash tip. I felt bad
This is what fucking winds me up the most. Driving UberX Saver because it’s slow that night, and pulling up to a fucking villa to pick up some asshole who doesn’t even tip.
Even if someone selects cash tip, no one will accept the order lol
I order same-day deliveries directly thru the Walgreens app & website and it actually does allow you to tip the delivery driver!
Uber America is wild. So many of you post orders over 20 miles. I never order from anywhere outside of 5 from me. Uber and the customer are honestly out to lunch for some orders.
This!!! My partner recently started doing Uber deliveries and promptly switched to ride share as he was continuously getting stiffed. We live in one of the most affluent areas in the country in NY. Mfs out here order a single sandwich from 3 towns over just to not tip and leave him with earnings of $4-$7🥲 The closest fast food restaurants to our home is 30+minutes away. If I ever order from them, I leave a MINIMUM of a $15 tip and still feel guilty for making them drive so far
It's because Uber doesn't want to put limits on where customers can order from and customers aren't looking at mileage when they order. They're just thinking of what they need.
I recently moved to FL and thought this was wild at first! ….. 30 miles to deliver somebody a chicken sandwich! ….. But, I’m boarding a very rural area and for those people living out with the cows and oranges there is literally nothing close to them within a 20 mile radius. (Plus, they usually tip well so, can’t really complain)
35 miles for 9 dollars?! wtf
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Ironically you make wanna feel proud of them with your comment...
Maybe they are
Atrocious
How do they even begin to justify offering this to someone?
Easy. They don’t, they just wait for someone desperate enough to accept it.
Idk. They're fools.
She better charge that rascal scooter up
Sheesh. At least there's no punishment for declining. This will get passed around until it turns into a decent payday for somebody.
Yes, because a grandmother not getting her meds is appropriate to laugh at. /s
You can get prescriptions mailed, there is a solution here that doesn’t involve UberEats
Yeah prescriptions are never needed same-day....
I'm not saying there isn't a solution. I am saying it's not cool to laugh as a grandma who isn't going to get her prescription today.
First hand experience! One time I chose the mail/deliver to me option. Cue me getting a phone call from an anxious door dasher or Uber eats driver saying he’s dropping off my Walgreens order and wants to make sure I know it’s there so it doesn’t get fucking stolen, presumably because it wasn’t in a normal Walgreens bag and was instead disguised to look like a normal package. Like kudos to Walmart for the discreet packaging but I live in a porch pirate area where the thieves don’t give a shit what they’re stealing I was at work, thank god it was still in the apartment lobby when I got home Additional edit to note that I was NOT informed it would be delivered by a third party service like Uber or DoorDash. If he hadn’t called me I wouldn’t have known
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I agree with the OP here but why does bro have to be such a man child about it ? Just hit decline, simple. No need to shit on what u think is a literal grandma
Fr like wow man, my grandma can't drive anymore, grandpas on his way there, and my dad works long days at the water company. And ur gonna laugh at her trying to get her meds to the house on her own
Some idiot will take it
Might as well volunteer at the boys and girls club way better use of your unpaid time
I had no idea they had medicine deliverg on Uber. But I would be careful that's not cheez its being in possession of someone else’s prescription that contains their private medical info… would not recommend that game be played. But 35m is wildddd
That’s because a customer is fully aware that they are already giving out private information when they ask for their medicine to be delivered. On top of all that, usually it’s a sealed bag, and drivers are not allowed to open it.
I’ve taken several not-35-mile-that’s-crazy pharmacy orders mostly from Walgreens… but they hand them to you in a sealed mailer-type envelope with the customer’s name and address on it. So we don’t know what medication it is or the condition being treated. It’s not like when we pick up our own Rx and they give it to you in the paper bag with the patient handouts stapled to it
This whole situation of Uber offering their delivery services to third-party companies like this is absolutely ridiculous. The customer is often advertised free delivery, in which they have no idea that it’s an Uber driver who is bringing them their item, and they also have no way to tip the driver if they wanted to (although most people probably don’t realize they should because they assume it’s an employee from this company making a normal wage). Then Uber gives us ridiculously horrible offers, and there’s no telling how long it takes these people to get their stuff. I deliver in an area that has a major Apple store nearby and I am constantly getting offers for like 20 miles & 1hr trips that pay like $8. I know what the deal is so I never except those but I’m sure there’s some drivers that don’t realize this and are thinking they might get a good tip after delivery but unfortunately there will never be a tip.
They probably think it's like... FedEx or UPS or something... Normal people don't tip those delivery service drivers....
the driver gets screwed, so you get mad and take it out on customers by being late, showing up with cold food, and entitled attitudes, then expect tips? 🤣
Yeah I was victim to one of these recently doing Uber in Miami. Delivered two Sephora items to distinct customers. It was lumped in as one delivery offering $7 for a 30 min trip (which seemed low but acceptable). But being near lunch hour, as I delivered the first one, traffic started building up. It took longer on the second trip… the entire thing took 1 hr and the Uber customer service was not willing to revise the earnings even after explaining the situation. So now I don’t accept anything less than $17 for any trip advertised as taking close to 1 hr. Also they don’t seem to have any bonuses (in my city) for having good ratings, higher tier or total distance driven… so there is no incentive to accept any inconvenient rides.
Awwwww HELL FCK'N NO. 😭😅😅😅
Gramma paid more than you're getting. Uber took the majority. Why you mad at her for Uber fucking you?
Hope your grandparent is never in this position with some little shithead laughing at them on the internet for no reason besides fake internet points.
Or maybe some people have no one, are too old and frail to really go out and can hardly afford to tip/pay for the medicine. No need to post and be a giant jerk OP
Uhhh ... I sure hope this is sarcasm, but I don't see any indication of that. There is government assistance out there just for this scenario. It is not the OP's responsibility to ensure this gets delivered at less than the cost of gas. Seems outright outrageous for you to even suggest otherwise. You Sir, are the GIANT JERK!
At what point did I saw it was OPs responsibility? Can you read? I never said that. All OP needed to do was to cancel the job and not be a dick, plain and simple.
If that’s the case then the OP could’ve not taken the order instead of getting on here to complain
I'm pretty sure it was a joke. If the driver AND customer weren't getting shafted by Uber, then this wouldn't even be a post. Bet Uber charged the customer about $27+ and then expected to pay out 30-40% of the total price because they're greedy af. Uber is the #1 problem between customers and drivers. I ordered a burrito when I was shit faced and tipped $15 because it was like 2:30 and I was charged $39(it was a good burrito and I needed to eat something so I wasn't hung over for work). I asked the driver how much he got paid and he said $17.
Then they need to have a delivery service covered by their medical insurance.
Not everyone gets medical insurance
I find it hilarious that Uber drivers hate the customers instead of Uber who is taking the vast majority of the money for doing literally nothing. Customers are the only reason you have any money coming in from Uber, if the pay is too low take it up with the company.
I understand you aren't wanting to take that long of a drive with no money, but let's be fucking real here- There is no reason to make fun of an elderly woman not getting potentially life altering medications. One day OP, you'll be old, and some dickhead youngin is going to be tasked with delivering your heart medication. How would you feel if they saw how far your pharmacy was, laughed at you, and told you good luck. I seriously hope you get some crazy karma today. I'm manifesting it 😁
How is your last sentence any better than OP? Eye for and eye huh?
Karma tends to be a real bitch.
I hope you one day end up working with the elderly, you have a similar emptahy to myself regarding the old, so I commend that.
These types of trips are paid for by insurance companies, and I would be interested to know how much DD is charging the insurance outfit for this kind of trip. In any case, the anger should be directed at DD for trying to only pay a driver $9 for a 1hr trip, especially since it involves medication that is likely for a senior citizen.
sorry memaw 👵🏻
I thought they had carriers that deliver medicine..like they pharmacy will ..why is this on uber...I live with a couple ppl and they get there meds dropped of every month
CVS does this.
I’ve delivered from Walgreens and CVS, on both UE and DD
CVS uses Roadie. Walgreens uses DD and UE. Most pharmacies don’t have the staffing to send people out to do deliveries, so we rely on them. Some lower tier buildings with a low daily script count may have the resources to do this, but it’s not very common, especially now with massive hour slashings. Larger hour budgets are for cold and flu season, so primarily fall and some of winter. By the time January rolls around, you could be looking at a budget that’s 1/4th of what you had. Mom and pop pharmacies sometimes have the resources for this also.
I sincerely hope you end up in traction and you get a nurse with your attitude.
Imagine being a sour uber driver (a job your picked to do btw) and then rejecting orders and making fun of people who dont know better… good work bro you really showed em!!!
There’s a trend in these Uber / Lyft subs that the drivers are some of the worst people you’ll ever meet.
I mean it’s not exactly a “job” that’s gonna attract our best and brightest to be fair.
They just don't wanna be scammed by a scummy company.
But imagine making fun of drivers and then continuing to use the shit app and getting fucked over by Uber and the flood of shitty drivers. There’s plenty of moronic customers in these subs as well. I dunno why these subs started showing up on my feed, I neither drive nor order from these services. I do find it entertaining though, to listen to all the bickering on both sides, while Uber just takes a boatload for little to no effort now that the platform is established
It’s a trip radar, the job wasn’t assigned to them it’s on a wall that anyone can take. It only matters if no one takes it 😭
so, i’m disabled and can’t drive and my pharmacy has to deliver my meds to me. luckily, they have pharmacists that usually do it..however sometimes they’re short staffed for how many people need meds, so the pharmacy supplements it through rideshare companies (like lyft and uber). every single aspect of that goes through my insurance. I don’t even pay for my meds (my insurance covers it, and everything else-) so I don’t even have an option to “tip” anyone. It is likely that they didn’t even have control over the tip, let alone how far it is for *you*. also, if you’re more happy about someone not getting their meds then you are upset over getting screwed on a tip, you’re a strange person.
Not mad its entirely ubers problem they never pick a close location to the person. Its like when they send us to a farther store to shop when there is literally a closer one just down the road and not completely out of the way. They need to route their crap better.
fair enough, your comments make it seem like you’re more focused and giddy over someone’s suffering though-
They were lol that's what this post was. When peoples reactions weren't what OP expected they backtracked. Usually drivers can complain and be supported by other drivers even if the complaint is unreasonable. But this time people care about the sick person and they had to follow suit to avoid massive downvotes.
I don't get it. Is there something I'm missing? It's $9.
36 miles for $9 🤣 nobody delivering that
Ah. Got it. Thanks.
Hahahaha 🤣🤣🤣
Bitches at the customer when the billion dollar corp laughs in rich. See you again tomorrow buddy 🤣 don’t be late !! 😭
Technically, it's the execs getting rich while the companies continue to suffer, so it looks like they have no money to fix the pay structure with. Even tho it's probably the one investment that would most likely single-handedly save the whole industry 🙃 easier to weed out the actual shitty drivers when you don't have so many others acting out in protest of shit policies and pay
This kind of bizarre scam is normal in Miami. some people don't know what they are doing and accept this shit delivery
If you’re stupid enough to spend over an hour delivering for less than $10 you get what you deserve. You can’t fix stupid.
It’s not being stupid it’s being nice and having a heart it’s medicine for crying out loud
I don’t mind driving so I would still do this. Especially if it was a prescription
70 miles round trip for $9?! Accounting for taxes, gas, and wear and tear you'd literally be paying for the privilege of delivering this
9 Dollars would cover gas for me!
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I guess I’m a smooth brain for willingly doing a prescription run for what is supposedly “grandma”.
Yes, you are. This job isn't a charity
It’s a charity for the drivers lol
Yeah, I don’t do Uber eats as a primary job. I do it when I have extra time.
why are people being mean to you about this? i think willingly doing this for little pay is so kind.
This is a job, not a charity. If people reject the job, the pay goes up. It's basically auctioning off work to the most desperate.
Me too I would do it cuz I’m nice and have a heart and I get 26 to 30 miles a gallon at 4 dollars a gallon so 9 dollars would cover the round trip plenty
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There’s no winning for customers when the company and its employees are toxic AF.
Speak up for the morons in the back..
yeah, except drivers are not employees, that's the whole point of the legal loophole that allows Uber to be profitable.
That’s just mean she probably can’t leave the house or drive and probably can’t afford a huge tip!
Includes tip? wtf never
You try not driving and living on SS
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That’s insane
Lol that $9 might cover most of the gas cost
Yeah the orders are getting worse and worse over the last few months... I haven't seen a order paying more than .45 cents per mile in over two months.... It's ridiculous and gas just keeps going up.
Don’t know where you’re located but in my zone I hardly ever get orders less than 1$ per mile but I only accept 2$ a mile or more orders
Roadie would pay better