As a delivery driver in Amarillo, I’m technically a contractor — which means I’m my own boss. I pick my hours, and DoorDash isn’t my employer in the traditional sense. That pretty much means you are your own boss.
“Contract Employee” Really Means for Dashers
Delivering food as a contract employee, you are not an employee of DoorDash. You don’t have to work at a certain time. You work when you want. The employees can’t threaten your job at DoorDash because they are mad about something. They can try, but it won’t work.
The bad thing about being your own boss and wanting to stay a Platinum Driver for DoorDash, which I am, and which I do. There are things I need to do to keep it from day to day.
The Platinum Status Requirements
I have to have 100 completed deliveries in the past 30 days. It’s a rolling scale. So if last month I delivered 8 deliveries on a certain day, when I make it to that point of the next month, 8 deliveries will drop off. If I don’t still have 100 deliveries at the start of the day, I lose Platinum.
I don’t want to lose Platinum because then I can deliver whenever I want, and they say I will get better offers. I also have to have an acceptance rate of at least 80 percent. Again, if I dip down, I lose the status…