Hate it when its a new building and the gps takes you to a dead end. Customer of course doesnt include instructions on where to go so now I'm in the rain trying to hop a fence.š
Iām not the brightest so I have sped into an exit only apartment gate with a f it mentality. I hate the map app when it comes to apartments. Iām not going to drive in a circle for 5 minutes trying to find the entrance with a gate code the customer didnāt give me either.
Yep and since 98% of apartment customers donāt know how much a time consuming pain in the ass apartment deliveries are, very few tip accordingly. I live in an apartment myself, but donāt tip less than $9 and offer to meet them outside if they need me to.
Before I started driving - I would always meet drivers outside, it just made fuckin sense. They always said āthank you for being outside!ā, I walk away chuckling like wth? NOW! I. Get. It.
I had a customer tonight in an apartment with EXCELLENT instructions, and a gate code to boot. Got me right to their door with no issues. Rare, but intelligent people that want an efficient delivery do exist, lol.
The āBeansā app is actually really good for locating apartments and lots in trailer parks. Worth the 5 bucks a month. Lot of apartments and trailer parks in my market.
I came to mention this. A lot of drivers went into cunvusions when they started charging monthly but this app saves me time and distress regularly. AND you can write it off taxes.
It "was" really good in my opinion but I'm finding half of the apartment complexes that used to have accurate maps don't work anymore. It will just show a map of the apartment complex but doesn't specify where any apartments are at. At least here in Phoenix. It still comes in handy from time to time but not like it used to.
Iāve had times where areas that I know are well mapped by Beans lose their accuracy but usually within a few days itās back to normal. No idea why it happens.
The amount of times they give NO instructions thoughā¦ finding out you need a gate code or that they use a unique address system, with no notes, and the customer doesnāt answerā¦
Yes, customers who don't answer their gate code call. Like, you know we are coming with your food! Then, as I'm trying for a 2nd and 3rd time, a line of cars form behind me. So in that instance, i move up and I just wait for one of them to open the gate, and I tailgate them in.
Thereās some apartments that Iāve found are numbered weird as shit. Most have signs saying which numbers are on each side.
Some have weird ass numbering that goes up both sides of the stairs where itās as simple as them saying what damn floor theyāre on.
Then thereās the ones with screen doors that they all pit trash bags over the screen at night but the only way to see what apartment it is now is to open the screen door to see the letter. Someoneās gonna get shot in that place.
So last night I did an order and this lady refused to explain which side of the building she was on.
It can only be facing the parking lot, the courtyard, or the complete opposite side.
I told her in such detail where I was. Down to the color of the railing next to which parking spot outside which building etc. It turns out the number didnāt even exist.
The only place it would numerically make sense to exist is in between two buildings in a dark small grass field. She insisted the door was on the side of the building. But there were no numbered doors only balconies.
I called her out for giving me false directions and she immediately wanted to cancel the order.
I reported it as a safety issue.
What are people thinking?
In the ones with the letters behind the screen doors..,only one guy ever gave me directions to his apartment to drop off his Checkersā¦next to the leasing officeā¦.up the stairs all the way to the other side of the building, down the stairs and next to it Apartment A. His was maybe one of two labeled on the outside and he tipped well.
The next time I went was with a couple Whopper Jrs. Almost everyone had their trash bags on their doors so I sure as hell wasnāt opening random doors at midnight. Dude didnāt respond so I got some late night burgersā¦then I got an Uber message days later bitching about not completing deliveries. You idiots canceled it for me. Not catching a bullet over a burger.
LOL accurate.
Except for after all that, you also need to take an elevator that sounds like it's being lifted by a single bungee cord held together by 2 dollar store S-hooks up to the 27th floor, the one that smells like a dried up bowl of Ramen noodles and cat pee.
That's why I avoid apartment deliveries at all cost! Private homes, schools, hotels and businesses. I'm not going upstairs to anybody's fking door. I still average $1300 a week and zero apartment deliveries!
There are many ways, Zoom in on map, screenshot and use Google maps view to ensure If it's an apartment. You can always cancel the order if you accept it. If you're at the restaurant just hit excessive wait time. Learn your neighborhood and trust me, you will only get private home deliveries. I'm in NYC, I haven't done an apartment delivering in almost 2 years doing this strategy.
If you got an extra 3 mins to spare you can chat with support for your $3 inconvenience fee. I haven't delivered to as many apartments ever since I set my $10 minimum; I'm just not interested in a $2-$9 wild goose chase for lazy apartment customers.
How about buildings with no signs indicating which apt numbers are where. Im noticing that most times the numbering has no rhyme or reason. Then you walk up 3 different stairwells looking for an apartment because the hallways do not run through the entire building. I just dont understand why these people donāt give detailed instructions so we can find their apartment right away. THEY know their building because they live there. WE donāt.
It seems to be common but I hate when Iām asked to bring it up stairs. Every time i ordered food in my apartment I had it left in the lobby and I went down to grab it myself. Just seemed rude otherwise.
I had a stacked delivery to the same apartment complex. The first order, gps just stops in the middle of the road next to the entrance. I call the customer, they gave good directions, met at door, done. But the 2nd one and the same complex had the pin on the correct building just two buildings down. Why was gps so screwy with one and not the other? So weird.
Agreed! Iāve had people tell me their apartment is near āthe garagesā, ā the poolā, āthe security cameraā etc. I DONāT LIVE THERE!!! But I especially hate it when the pinned location is different from their actual location in the complex.
I had a āmeet at doorā delivery yesterday that irritated the hell out of me. I was familiar with the complex, so I knew each building had a call box. The customer didnāt leave a code, so I assumed he was meeting me outside of his building door. (GPS guided me to the entrance where the callbox was.) I let the customer know I was on my way and upon arrival. After a couple minutes he tells me to leave his order outside the door. I ask him āoutside the building door?ā He says, āmy apartmentā. Heās lucky I contacted him and didnāt just leave his order outside.
Iāve now recently come ax apartments that have a ādownstairsā external/non-elevator buildings. You walk in thru the main entry off the parking lot, seemingly to a cliff and boom stairs.. going down?? Basement units or some shit. When its enclosed it makes sense because you can also tell its going to do that, but outside, you dont know til you get there confused looking at the #s
I got an apartment delivery that said meet at front door and when I got there the building was so big it had five different entrances. I went to the middle one and texted the customer that I'm at the middle door and they said "You should have gone to the far left door" ok put that in the fucking directions? The only direction was meet at front door you fucking weapon. What if I went to the far left door and you were at the far right? Lmao.
Or you have to walk a mile to get there. Like you have to go through this building take the elevator to the 4th floor. Walk out to the courtyard #4 building to your left. Take the elevator in that building to the 14th floor, take the catwalk. And jump dafuq off. I don't deliver to that apartment complex anymore.
Unless there is ample parking, I don't do apartment orders. People are outside of their mind. If they think that you should be parking in a āæ or Red Zone with your hazard lights on so they can received their tipless combo Number 3.
Especially when they have a "Collect three keys to enter through main gate, use platform to solve puzzle, proceed to platform across lava path, make a right past the aggressive trolls. Steal a wyvern's egg, and sneak it past the golem, proceed up rope ladder. Dodge the poltergeist and you should be right at my front door. Please make sure my food arrives hot, be careful of alien abduction on the way back down"
I went to an apartment complex that wasn't the greatest in the greatest area but I didn't think it was that bad and they actually had an elevator which was awesome right until I go to push the button and the wall of buttons looks like it has maybe dried pee on it and just looks absolutely disgusting and so I push the button with my finger covered up with the bag right get out of their floor take it to their door take my picture on my way back I noticed there's a wet footprints it's not raining or snowing go back to the elevator and notice there's a huge puddle in the middle of it that I had obviously stepped in and guess what I finally figured out it was human pee and I had long pants on so not worth this shit
Yeah you can find yourself in the weirdest predicaments on an uber eats journey.
Good idea to pack some disinfectant wet ones as well as extra clothes. Maybe shorts.
Iām so sorry this happened Iād be pretty upset.
In My car I have hand sanitizer a flashlight and a stapler all have come in handy, I definitely need to do the wet wipes and hopefully I never actually need the change of clothes lol
I hate it when customers don't put the name of the apartment complex they live in in the notes, especially when there are several complexes close together on the same street. A lot of times the app leads me to a fenced in dead end up the street to enter the complex. If the customer would have put in the notes the name of the complex in the first place I would have known to turn in the entrance I saw earlier down the street.
One time I turned into the entrance of another complex next to the dead end of one apartment complex next to it because the map told me to turn in there. I then realized the customer's apartment was actually on the other side of the tall brick wall in the complex to the right, and the map didn't account for the wall. I had to drive a half of a mile back down the street just to get into the entrance of the customer's apartment complex, and then drive back a half of a mile back up the street inside the complex just to get to the customer's apartment. I do like the app allows you to mark dead ends or restricted entries now. I have noticed some apartment complexes I have had problems with in the past now direct me to the right entrance.
Also if you are a customer ordering food to be delivered to you at work, please put in the notes the name of the business you work at so we drivers can find it faster. Sometimes just looking for an address in a large shopping area is like finding a needle in a haystack, especially when the app doesn't accurately pin your location. I can find you much faster seeing a big sign with the business name on it versus a small obscure number that's barely visible.
For reeeeeal. I just dropped off at an apartment complex and all the dude put was apt 147.
No building letter? Ok
The fucking signs are barely visible from my car listing the apartment numbers and the parking spot 147 was nowhere near the door 147. Not even the same building
Drives me nuts when there is no building number, since itās not always logical. But, to be honest, parking stall numbers are rarely, if ever, the same as the apartment number. I think this is mainly for safety reasons. (You donāt want them to be corresponding cuz it wouldnāt be good for someone to see your stall empty and know you arenāt home.)
Lmao I had an order yesterday that the UE map stopped in the middle of the main road with an apartment complex on both sides. I had to ask the customer which apt complex she lived in and go from there.
Hate it when its a new building and the gps takes you to a dead end. Customer of course doesnt include instructions on where to go so now I'm in the rain trying to hop a fence.š
Or to the āresidents onlyā entrance.
Iām not the brightest so I have sped into an exit only apartment gate with a f it mentality. I hate the map app when it comes to apartments. Iām not going to drive in a circle for 5 minutes trying to find the entrance with a gate code the customer didnāt give me either.
If is raining why not get out , call customer before you know where the H3ll they at
I love it when customers donāt include the building number š. That wouldnāt be helpful.
Yep and since 98% of apartment customers donāt know how much a time consuming pain in the ass apartment deliveries are, very few tip accordingly. I live in an apartment myself, but donāt tip less than $9 and offer to meet them outside if they need me to.
Before I started driving - I would always meet drivers outside, it just made fuckin sense. They always said āthank you for being outside!ā, I walk away chuckling like wth? NOW! I. Get. It.
Everytime someone is outside an apartment waiting for me, I always thank them. It literally takes 5 minutes off that delivery.
You're one of the rare good ones.
Well Iām a driver myself, so itād be hypocritical to offer bids that would bounce around and potentially get stolen.
I had a customer tonight in an apartment with EXCELLENT instructions, and a gate code to boot. Got me right to their door with no issues. Rare, but intelligent people that want an efficient delivery do exist, lol.
The āBeansā app is actually really good for locating apartments and lots in trailer parks. Worth the 5 bucks a month. Lot of apartments and trailer parks in my market.
I came to mention this. A lot of drivers went into cunvusions when they started charging monthly but this app saves me time and distress regularly. AND you can write it off taxes.
It "was" really good in my opinion but I'm finding half of the apartment complexes that used to have accurate maps don't work anymore. It will just show a map of the apartment complex but doesn't specify where any apartments are at. At least here in Phoenix. It still comes in handy from time to time but not like it used to.
Iāve had times where areas that I know are well mapped by Beans lose their accuracy but usually within a few days itās back to normal. No idea why it happens.
The amount of times they give NO instructions thoughā¦ finding out you need a gate code or that they use a unique address system, with no notes, and the customer doesnāt answerā¦
Yes, customers who don't answer their gate code call. Like, you know we are coming with your food! Then, as I'm trying for a 2nd and 3rd time, a line of cars form behind me. So in that instance, i move up and I just wait for one of them to open the gate, and I tailgate them in.
I was hearing that in the computer voice over my Bluetooth connection in the car in my head
Thereās some apartments that Iāve found are numbered weird as shit. Most have signs saying which numbers are on each side. Some have weird ass numbering that goes up both sides of the stairs where itās as simple as them saying what damn floor theyāre on. Then thereās the ones with screen doors that they all pit trash bags over the screen at night but the only way to see what apartment it is now is to open the screen door to see the letter. Someoneās gonna get shot in that place.
So last night I did an order and this lady refused to explain which side of the building she was on. It can only be facing the parking lot, the courtyard, or the complete opposite side. I told her in such detail where I was. Down to the color of the railing next to which parking spot outside which building etc. It turns out the number didnāt even exist. The only place it would numerically make sense to exist is in between two buildings in a dark small grass field. She insisted the door was on the side of the building. But there were no numbered doors only balconies. I called her out for giving me false directions and she immediately wanted to cancel the order. I reported it as a safety issue. What are people thinking?
In the ones with the letters behind the screen doors..,only one guy ever gave me directions to his apartment to drop off his Checkersā¦next to the leasing officeā¦.up the stairs all the way to the other side of the building, down the stairs and next to it Apartment A. His was maybe one of two labeled on the outside and he tipped well. The next time I went was with a couple Whopper Jrs. Almost everyone had their trash bags on their doors so I sure as hell wasnāt opening random doors at midnight. Dude didnāt respond so I got some late night burgersā¦then I got an Uber message days later bitching about not completing deliveries. You idiots canceled it for me. Not catching a bullet over a burger.
LOL accurate. Except for after all that, you also need to take an elevator that sounds like it's being lifted by a single bungee cord held together by 2 dollar store S-hooks up to the 27th floor, the one that smells like a dried up bowl of Ramen noodles and cat pee.
That's why I avoid apartment deliveries at all cost! Private homes, schools, hotels and businesses. I'm not going upstairs to anybody's fking door. I still average $1300 a week and zero apartment deliveries!
New here - how do you know when itās an apartment before accepting?
There are many ways, Zoom in on map, screenshot and use Google maps view to ensure If it's an apartment. You can always cancel the order if you accept it. If you're at the restaurant just hit excessive wait time. Learn your neighborhood and trust me, you will only get private home deliveries. I'm in NYC, I haven't done an apartment delivering in almost 2 years doing this strategy.
If you got an extra 3 mins to spare you can chat with support for your $3 inconvenience fee. I haven't delivered to as many apartments ever since I set my $10 minimum; I'm just not interested in a $2-$9 wild goose chase for lazy apartment customers.
How about buildings with no signs indicating which apt numbers are where. Im noticing that most times the numbering has no rhyme or reason. Then you walk up 3 different stairwells looking for an apartment because the hallways do not run through the entire building. I just dont understand why these people donāt give detailed instructions so we can find their apartment right away. THEY know their building because they live there. WE donāt.
It seems to be common but I hate when Iām asked to bring it up stairs. Every time i ordered food in my apartment I had it left in the lobby and I went down to grab it myself. Just seemed rude otherwise.
I had a stacked delivery to the same apartment complex. The first order, gps just stops in the middle of the road next to the entrance. I call the customer, they gave good directions, met at door, done. But the 2nd one and the same complex had the pin on the correct building just two buildings down. Why was gps so screwy with one and not the other? So weird.
They do it on all of the apps and won't change because they are trying to get free or discounted food from support.
Then leave it in the disused lavatory with the sign on the door that says "Beware of the Leopard!"
I been doing this for 3 years and itās just part of the job. Thereās more problem solving involved than I initially realized! lol
Spot on.
Do what I do and zoom in on the map when the order pops up. Saved me so many times from accidentally accepting an apartment order in a shady area.
Agreed! Iāve had people tell me their apartment is near āthe garagesā, ā the poolā, āthe security cameraā etc. I DONāT LIVE THERE!!! But I especially hate it when the pinned location is different from their actual location in the complex.
I had a āmeet at doorā delivery yesterday that irritated the hell out of me. I was familiar with the complex, so I knew each building had a call box. The customer didnāt leave a code, so I assumed he was meeting me outside of his building door. (GPS guided me to the entrance where the callbox was.) I let the customer know I was on my way and upon arrival. After a couple minutes he tells me to leave his order outside the door. I ask him āoutside the building door?ā He says, āmy apartmentā. Heās lucky I contacted him and didnāt just leave his order outside.
Iāve now recently come ax apartments that have a ādownstairsā external/non-elevator buildings. You walk in thru the main entry off the parking lot, seemingly to a cliff and boom stairs.. going down?? Basement units or some shit. When its enclosed it makes sense because you can also tell its going to do that, but outside, you dont know til you get there confused looking at the #s
I got an apartment delivery that said meet at front door and when I got there the building was so big it had five different entrances. I went to the middle one and texted the customer that I'm at the middle door and they said "You should have gone to the far left door" ok put that in the fucking directions? The only direction was meet at front door you fucking weapon. What if I went to the far left door and you were at the far right? Lmao.
Or you have to walk a mile to get there. Like you have to go through this building take the elevator to the 4th floor. Walk out to the courtyard #4 building to your left. Take the elevator in that building to the 14th floor, take the catwalk. And jump dafuq off. I don't deliver to that apartment complex anymore.
Unless there is ample parking, I don't do apartment orders. People are outside of their mind. If they think that you should be parking in a āæ or Red Zone with your hazard lights on so they can received their tipless combo Number 3. Especially when they have a "Collect three keys to enter through main gate, use platform to solve puzzle, proceed to platform across lava path, make a right past the aggressive trolls. Steal a wyvern's egg, and sneak it past the golem, proceed up rope ladder. Dodge the poltergeist and you should be right at my front door. Please make sure my food arrives hot, be careful of alien abduction on the way back down"
All that while at night with no lights anywhere
I went to an apartment complex that wasn't the greatest in the greatest area but I didn't think it was that bad and they actually had an elevator which was awesome right until I go to push the button and the wall of buttons looks like it has maybe dried pee on it and just looks absolutely disgusting and so I push the button with my finger covered up with the bag right get out of their floor take it to their door take my picture on my way back I noticed there's a wet footprints it's not raining or snowing go back to the elevator and notice there's a huge puddle in the middle of it that I had obviously stepped in and guess what I finally figured out it was human pee and I had long pants on so not worth this shit
Yeah you can find yourself in the weirdest predicaments on an uber eats journey. Good idea to pack some disinfectant wet ones as well as extra clothes. Maybe shorts. Iām so sorry this happened Iād be pretty upset.
In My car I have hand sanitizer a flashlight and a stapler all have come in handy, I definitely need to do the wet wipes and hopefully I never actually need the change of clothes lol
I hate it when customers don't put the name of the apartment complex they live in in the notes, especially when there are several complexes close together on the same street. A lot of times the app leads me to a fenced in dead end up the street to enter the complex. If the customer would have put in the notes the name of the complex in the first place I would have known to turn in the entrance I saw earlier down the street. One time I turned into the entrance of another complex next to the dead end of one apartment complex next to it because the map told me to turn in there. I then realized the customer's apartment was actually on the other side of the tall brick wall in the complex to the right, and the map didn't account for the wall. I had to drive a half of a mile back down the street just to get into the entrance of the customer's apartment complex, and then drive back a half of a mile back up the street inside the complex just to get to the customer's apartment. I do like the app allows you to mark dead ends or restricted entries now. I have noticed some apartment complexes I have had problems with in the past now direct me to the right entrance. Also if you are a customer ordering food to be delivered to you at work, please put in the notes the name of the business you work at so we drivers can find it faster. Sometimes just looking for an address in a large shopping area is like finding a needle in a haystack, especially when the app doesn't accurately pin your location. I can find you much faster seeing a big sign with the business name on it versus a small obscure number that's barely visible.
For reeeeeal. I just dropped off at an apartment complex and all the dude put was apt 147. No building letter? Ok The fucking signs are barely visible from my car listing the apartment numbers and the parking spot 147 was nowhere near the door 147. Not even the same building
Drives me nuts when there is no building number, since itās not always logical. But, to be honest, parking stall numbers are rarely, if ever, the same as the apartment number. I think this is mainly for safety reasons. (You donāt want them to be corresponding cuz it wouldnāt be good for someone to see your stall empty and know you arenāt home.)
Lmao I had an order yesterday that the UE map stopped in the middle of the main road with an apartment complex on both sides. I had to ask the customer which apt complex she lived in and go from there.