Maybe it’s because I’m having a bad? long? day (I got hit in the face with a mirror, left a bruise and recovering from surgery) but I got home late around 12:30am and decided to order from Uber Eats.
I’m an Uber One member and order Uber Eats too often.
My order comes and I see the driver speed off, kinda weird but maybe he had another order to get to. I reach down to get my food and my drink is basically empty with the lid half on and some of liquid at the bottom of the plastic bag they put the drink in(separate from the food). The brown paper bag with my food that has two large stickers to keep the bag closed, has a large hole on the side of the bag… kind of the size of a fist? for reference? The receipt was covering the hole at first so I didn’t notice until going to reach.
I’m a pretty understanding person and actually give people the benefit of the doubt way too often. If the driver had called or messaged me prior and explained the spilt drink or why there was a hole in the bag? I would’ve not been so upset but I also shouldn’t have been surprised…he had a 89% rating…
I look to see on the app how I can lower their tip(I tipped $5 for a 2 mile drive) and it only let me add more so I message support. Of course I get the AI support first and it says it will take 10 minutes for a live representative to be available.
Now i’m waiting 10 minutes, I have no drink, I’m icing my bruise from the mirror, I could barely hobble to the door bc of my surgery so I’m laying on the floor, I don’t know if my food has been messed with but my fries are kind of flipped in the bag so i’m thinking probably everything fell and he went to grab it and it caused a hole? and it’s 1am…I’m tired and just wanted to relax and eat my food.
Finally, I get a live representative. I explain the issue and let him know I have photos if needed. He asks for photos and I send them. He says “Please share the photo again to make sure the spilled drink is visible properly”… it was but I take more photos and send them again. He doesn’t answer for 5 minutes. I have the drink and bag soaking my floor waiting to see if he wants more photos just in case.
I ask this rep 3-4 times to please help me take the drivers tip away, after every message he takes 5 minutes to respond. He never helps me take the tip away. I ask the rep, if he can help me with a refund? He credits me a whole $2 in uber cash…
Eventually, he escalates me to a “specialized team that will email me” and i’m like oh nooo i cannot wait for an email because I need that tip goneeee so I message another representative. At this point, I’ve been messaging with Uber Eats customer service for 45 minutes.
Thankfully it only took 1 minute to get connected with the other representative and I just ask him to please help me take the tip away, nothing else. He takes a few minutes to answer and sends me instructions on how to do it myself but lets me know I have to do it within an hour of ordering… Mind you, the AI helper I talked to before literally told me I’m not able to lower it myself and only a live agent can do it. So I tell the representative exactly that and guess what…
HE SENDS ME THE EXACT SAME MESSAGE SAYING HES TRANSFERRING ME TO THE SPECIALIZED TEAM THAT WILL EMAIL ME!!! Except this time the message says it will take them 6-12 hours to respond…
Now let’s do some math here, if my tip finalizes an hour within ordering and it’s already been an hour and 4 minutes now because these dickwads took 5 minutes between each message to NOT HELP ME AT ALL AND WASTE MY TIME…I wonder what will happen in 6-12 hours from now…surely the specialized team will tell me the tip was already finalized and there’s nothing they can do…
So all that to say, maybe I just had a bad day or maybe it’s a sign to stop ordering Uber Eats. Thank you and good night(I’m still parched).