DoorDash driver says she dropped off an order behind a curtain at night, then a stranger stepped out: ‘That’s not my front door’

An Albany, New York-based TikToker has raised concerns about personal safety in the gig economy after a disturbing experience that led her to stop working for DoorDash. The account is from a TikTok video posted by the creator herself, and the details have not been independently verified.

The video from @massageandreikiny has the caption: “PLEASE don’t do doordash if you can avoid it. The world is too scary rn. People are going missing left and right.” In the video, she goes through what she says was the sequence of events that led to her deleting the app after just five or six shifts. She says she’d taken it on to cover her minimum credit card payments.

The creator says her earlier deliveries had gone fine. Things took a worrying turn when she took an order outside the city. She says she got to an unfamiliar apartment complex at about 8:00 PM in the winter, when it was already quite dark.

It ended up being her last DoorDash delivery

She says she’d had a few chats with the customer to establish the drop-off point and was told to leave the parcel behind a curtain. She says she did that, and just after, a stranger came out from behind the curtain and said, “That’s not my front door.”

She says she was stunned and frightened by the experience and ran from the property. She’s now decided she won’t be doing any more deliveries through the app. She’s also referenced reports of people going missing while on the app and is warning other gig workers to be very careful.

Her concerns come amid public interest in missing person cases, including those of delivery drivers. The case of 32-year-old DoorDash driver Zach Schuck in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, is one example. His car was reportedly found abandoned just after he’d completed an evening run, according to CBS Pittsburgh.

There’s no known link between Schuck’s disappearance and the Albany creator’s story. Cases of missing delivery drivers do feed into wider concern about the risks of working alone, especially when such cases are shared on social media.

We Got This Covered was unable to independently verify the customer’s side of the story, as this account originates solely from the creator’s TikTok video.