A customer ordered a prepaid delivery, I get to the house she has a ring camera doorbell. No one is coming to the door then I ring again and she answers on the ring camera “sorry im not home, this was supposed to be for a later, I forgot to put the time. I’m going to unlock my door so you can place it inside” she unlocks it remotely, I open the door and place the order inside her house, then she locks it. I thought it was a trip. I’m only 35 but it’s wild times we’re living in

Just having a disgusting time processing it. He was incredibly intelligent and didn’t have the entitlement that so many of his age have. He was doing this job part time and worked his ass off like it was his career . Which it was most certainly not as he was heavily invested in his film career . Life is crazy people be careful out there

Delivered pizza to a repeat customer, a blind lady in a wheelchair. At first I was very sympathetic towards her, but over the course of a few months she’s become very needy and sometimes rude.

Recently she said that her aide wasn’t there and wanted me to wheel her back to her room. Fine. Once we got there, she asked if I could make sure that she got into bed and tried to have me fix her food for her. I told her I could not do that and I had pizza in the car getting cold.

Today she tried to get me to wheel her back again and I told her I was strapped for time and she would have to get an aide.

She always calls after every goes home so there’s never usually anyone at the front desk and only 1-2 aides on duty for probably 50 patients.

Was I being a jerk?

Edit: okay glad I’m not the asshole here. Also the one time there was a worker at the front desk I asked if I could drop this off for RM 564 (not actually the number) and front desk worker said they absolutely can not leave anything at the front desk. Knowing it would be a 5-10 min affair getting her her food, I exclaimed that I had came into contact with someone who had COVID and left it for an aide 🤷‍♂️

I know it’s, really, none of my business. But I’m having a difficult feeling about bringing food to a particular customer who’s definitely killing herself with pizza (soda, breadsticks, etc)

Should I refuse their tips? ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Is that incredibly rude? I could donate their tips? (ಠ_ృ)

I dunno. Anyone else encounter this type of situation?

Man. I get it. I was a teen once. I was exactly the same way. Talking to my friend was the most important thing. Doing actual work was the worst thing in the world.

But man... I want to scream in their faces. They're so lazy it makes my blood boil. Getting them to do one thing for 5 minutes is impossible. I've said my piece about it to the big boss, it fell on deaf ears. The whole kitchen notices they SUCK. Doesn't matter. Theyre bodies. I was told to step aside and let them do more. What happens? They work slow and complain about ME not doing anything, when IVE BEEN HERE FOR 11 HOURS AND ALREADY DID EVERY SINGLE THING LEFT TO DO IN THE SPAN OF TIME IT TOOK YOU TO CLEAN 3 DISHES. I'm literally doing what I was told, TO MAKE YOU DO THINGS.

Tonight I didn't just lose my cool. Something broke inside me. I did the usual, got angry, busted out a half hours work in 5 minutes, told them what to do, they did it, realized THEY suck, and told me I could leave early.

But it doesn't matter man. I've been doing this for 9 years. They broke me dude. I don't even know what they broke but I want it back! I've just had it. I was throwing things as I was working. I lost control. I don't think I can even use words with them anymore. They always pick the stupidest, easiest thing to do, and milk it. Meanwhile our actual work piles up!AND THEY EXPECT ME TO DO IT WHILE THEY LAUGH AND HAVE FUN. Next time I'm probably going to get in my car and take off. I don't even know anymore. I might get a unicycle just so I can ride it around when they make me angry. I'm not kidding, I will unicycle in the parking lot, laugh and sing about how much fun my job is, and if anyone asks I'll say my therapist told me to do it. They already told me it's OK to smoke pot when teenagers make me angry, I'll throw the unicycle in too.

I have a seriously busted back and will proba ly be on disability in the next decade. Worsening bipolar. Just got blindsided in a breakup and lost everything. My house, my cats. Then there's the road rage, people coming at me on the wrong side of the road more in the past year than my entire career... I have very little patience or care for these teens. I'm trying not to die. They try to be my friend and ALL I WANT IS TO GO HOME AND NOT HATE MY LIFE BECAUSE IM IN SO MUCH PAIN FROM DOING THE WORK OF 2 PEOPLE. THATS HOW YOU BE AN ADULTS FRIEND!!!!! You HELP THEM!

They also brag about whenever they get a tip over $10. Real cool, why don't you just tell all the cooks you make twice as much as them and don't do much work to deserve it while you're at it??? Make sure to tell them every time the food they made makes you a ton of cash! Especially when it's 2 dozen pizzas and you made $40! The cooks LOVE to hear all that work they just did made you a ton of money! ITS THEIR FAVORITE!! THATS WHY THEY CHOSE THIS JOB - TO MAKE YOU MONEY!

Sorry for the rant. Some background first. I'm 37 married with a teenage son. Prior to covid I worked a lot of different jobs mainly restaurant management and warehouse work. The most I made at these jobs was $16/hr. Covid comes and the restaurant I work at closes down. Out of desperation I called up a friend of mine who managed a pizza joint and started to deliver. I could not believe the money I was making. My take home pay even after saving for car repairs was doubled. Fast forward 3 years I'm making great money but I am burned out. The schedule has ruined my family life. My wife works days I work evenings. Most weekdays I see her for about 30 minutes in the when get home. With my son's school and other activities i have not spent any real quality time with him in months. Recently started looking for a day job with maybe a few weekend days off a month. With my qualifications nothing in my area will come close to paying what I make delivering. Delivering is not the worse job their is by any means and pays great if you know what you are doing but the hours and lack of benefits is horrible. Just realized today that I will probably be doing this for the rest of my life and kind of started freaking out. Anyone else here feel like you are "TRAPPED" in this job and what have others done to get out of it. Thanks for reading rant over.

UPDATE: Thanks to all for the advice and sharing their stories. More comments than I was expecting. Yes I do have a plan in the works. I was just feeling down and out this morning and wanted to vent in a place where others could sympathize. I have been looking into some trade schools and speaking with some friends about different job prospects.

Cash orders are always a bit dicey.

Right away this one tells me "The manager told me this one was free, its a credit for a previous order."

Nope. Those say "Amt Due: $0.00". Yours says "$25.41".

So she says she has the store on her phone. Oh no. This should be rich.

"Hello, this is /u/yodarded"

A female voice says "Hi, I'm the manager and this pizza is free."

"We don't have a female manager on tonight."

"Yes you do, I'm the manager."

"What's your name then?"

"... I'm the manager."

"Ok thanks."

Told this customer that this is a common scam and that her attempt wasn't even close to good, LOL

At an old pizza place I used to work at, we had this CRAZY deal where on Thursdays, we would sell chicken wings or shrimp for 55cents a piece. As you can guess, this caused a LOT of people to order.

The restaurant was less than 1 mile away from one of the LARGEST VA hospitals in the entire country (USA), and we would deliver there very often (5-10 times a day easy, EVEN more on Thursdays). In the ER, there was one nursing section where all the nurses would order food at the same time. It was probably for 7 or 8 people. Each ordering wings or shrimps. Every single time we would go there, the same nurse would come down and pay for the food. Every time the total was over 70$, and every time the tip would be less than 1$. It was this way every Thursday for months and months and months. It was the drivers most DREADED order, and we would make sure to take a couple other orders going to the VA with it to balance it out.

Well, one day the order comes in, I head to the VA ER, and a different nurse comes down, and she pays me, and the tip is like 25$ or so. I was in shock. I knew it was for the same people as always (We would write the names of the people on the box of food they ordered), so I asked the nurse, "Do you guys normally tip?

The nice nurse says "Yes, everyone gives like 3-5$ tip, and we give it all to Nurse X who comes down and picks it up". I tell her that EVERY SINGLE time that nurse X has come down to get the food, she would give less than 1$ tip total for the whole order.

Nurse X has been pocketing the 25$ in tips from her co-workers, and using it to pay for her food, and then keeping the rest of the money. Every single week... for god knows how long... Nice Nurse was mad. Next week comes along, it is Nice Nurse downstairs again. Tells me that Nurse X has been fired for stealing. She tells me that Nurse X was the most hated person on the floor.

And just like that, the worst order of the week, became the best order of the week, that every driver was super happy to take. Who knows how much Nurse X had stolen over the years, and how many other delivery guys from other restaurants were getting screwed over by Nurse X.

If so, how do you feel about this? I mean, it’s certainly a coal mine canary re: eliminating our position, right?

Like, is my boss legally required to pay the difference if I'm making 8-9 bucks an hour including tips ?

In my strong opinion a one cent tip is worse than a stiff bc it’s like they are opening mocking you. So I stopped at Brooklyn bagels before taking them their food. And shook their pop. Sorry not sorry. 🤷‍♀️

So, my very first day of delivering pizza was yesterday, and one of the first things i am told after i am on the clock is by the dude that is training me. He says that in 4 years of working there he has been robbed, shot at, shot, and had his car stolen twice, all while working, all on multiple occasions. Then we get back to the store and another guy says "You know, a family got 10-15 years of free pizza because their son died while delivering for us." and then just walked away.

I can't carry a gun on me, I have a knife but thats not gonna do anything against being shot, the knife is more of a tool. My next shift is Saturday and I really dont wanna go back out of fear of being robbed, shot at, shot, or having my car stolen.