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Millstone posted:I worked for an independent place between 2002-2005, was before smartphones and all I had was a dumbphone with poor reception. That job turned me into a roadgeek because I started to learn all the roads in the town, the addressing layout, the unopened road allowances, the N/S/E/W boundaries... so if you told me a delivery was at 4500 Fuckyou Rd, I'd know where that house was and what side of the street it was on. Yeah I had a similar experience and now I'm a total road know-it-all for my local quarter of the city plus I went from a somewhat timid driver to one that pushes the limits of legality. My friends commonly tell me I still drive like a delivery driver ~10 years later.
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Millstone posted:I worked for an independent place between 2002-2005, was before smartphones and all I had was a dumbphone with poor reception. That job turned me into a roadgeek because I started to learn all the roads in the town, the addressing layout, the unopened road allowances, the N/S/E/W boundaries... so if you told me a delivery was at 4500 Fuckyou Rd, I'd know where that house was and what side of the street it was on.
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Jul 7, 2014 00:23
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pandaK posted:Question for drivers: when you total it up, I tend to tip big, like at least $5 for a standard delivery time. However, this is partly due to me almost never having small bills so I often just hand off a twenty or two to the driver and yellcthem the change is the tip. Would you say that this has any sorely of negative impact on the driver's income since now the burden of calculating the change is on them, even if the total tip is higher? Or have I unknowingly been a huge rear end in a top hat doing this? I can guarantee you that the driver has no problems calculating what the change is, and that drivers want large tips, the larger the better.
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Jul 7, 2014 07:21
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Orange Sunshine posted:I can guarantee you that the driver has no problems calculating what the change is, and that drivers want large tips, the larger the better. This includes dicks, by the way.
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Jul 7, 2014 07:48
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pandaK posted:Question for drivers: when you total it up, I tend to tip big, like at least $5 for a standard delivery time. Just a heads up, the time it takes to get the food there almost always has nothing to with the driver. I wouldn't personally recommend tipping based on how long it takes unless the driver blatantly did something wrong or the food is cold. Everything else is fine. $5 is a solid tip. That's usually what I'm hoping for when I go out on run. Anything higher than that is appreciated but not necessary (not that it's necessary to tip $5,but I think it's considered the ideal tip) . veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 08:11 on Jul 7, 2014 |
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Jul 7, 2014 08:06
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I'd never want to deliver pizzas but both the people I know who did it liked it a lot, relatively speaking. The most  story was one of said friends. The guy he delivered to once snuck out the back door and tried to stab him through the window. Three blocks from a police station, where he was promptly dragged by being tangled with the car. His defence was that my friend robbed him and he was acting in self defence.  The other friend's a fairly attractive woman and she got harassed sometimes but never actually attacked.
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Jul 7, 2014 08:18
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I'm not jealous of the robbery/violence stuff but I'm kind of sad I haven't seen more crazy poo poo after doing this for a year. Like, nothing interesting has ever really happened. I think the most interesting story i have is some lady calling the shop and accusing me of putting a human tooth in her pizza, then realizing that her own tooth fell out into it mid tirade and sheepishly backing off. *knock on wood* Really the 2 worst things about it for me have been 1. Dogs. I love dogs, but for the love of god don't leave your loving dog unattended in the yard when you know a stranger will be walking through it shortly. I can't count how many times someone has told me "she's actually really sweet she's just very protective" after having some huge snarling dog barrel at me out of nowhere 2. Not answering the door or picking up the phone. At least twice a week some dummy decides to hang out in the basement or run to the liquor store while I'm standing on their porch. This is the most egregious offense. I can't believe someone would order pizza and not pay attention to see if someone rings the bell/calls their phone, but it happens all the time. Also, the people that do this almost never throw you any extra tip even though you had to drive to their house twice or hang out it front of it for 15 minutes while you lose 2 deliveries. You are lucky of you get an apology. The worst was some guy who ordered a pizza and didn't answer the door, so I called him and he had forgotten he had moved like 5 miles out of the delivery zone and had given us his old address (how is this possible?), so he apologized and said he'd come pick it up. Already stupid enough but I was really cool about it, but when he came into the store I heard him bitching loudly in the background about how he "better not be getting charged for a tip since he had to pick it up." He wasn't. Don't worry man. the only one who paid for that was me. I lost at least 2 real deliveries trying to sort your dumb poo poo out and probably a dollars worth of gas, but hey feel free to loudly talk about how I deserve nothing for my work because you are too stupid to know own address. veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 09:38 on Jul 7, 2014 |
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Jul 7, 2014 09:33
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It's real funny how some people get mad about pizza. There's been a few times where I've had people call exactly 31 minutes after placing the order and say "I've been waiting past 30 minutes isnt my food free now???" Or have had people blame me for their kid not being able to eat because they waiting until after we've closed to attempt to place an order. I've had multiple pizzas thrown at me and even had a lady threaten to burn down my store because she waited until after we closed to call and get a refund because she didn't get her ranch with her potato wedges.
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FAT CURES MUSCLES posted:"I've been waiting past 30 minutes isnt my food free now???"
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Jul 7, 2014 18:41
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I delivered pizza for 4 years for Domino's in a small town (about 12,000) people. This was in the mid/late 90s though, so probably not completely accurate now, but I'm sure people are still dickwads and won't tip you, or only give you $1.quote:So on Friday I start work as a pizza delivery boy for a convenience store/pizza shop (Casey's General Store for those in the Midwest). I worked before GPS nav devices existed, so I usually asked somebody that had been there before. You're in a small town, you will know every nook and cranny of it in a couple months. The biggest problems were people with no clear numbers on their houses, or out in the rural areas where county roads aren't known for lots of signage. For really rural parts we would not deliver past a certain point. If they lived past that point they would have to meet us at that point or somewhere close to there of their choosing. quote:* How does tipping usually run? quote:* Will gas outweigh the benefit of tips? I drive an 05 Cavalier and our delivery area only covers a small, rural town of a little under 10,000 people For me, I got paid mileage and that mostly covered my gas, I got paid 20 cents a mile. However this was in the 90s when gas was $1 a gallon. Tips on a busy Friday or Saturday were usually $30-$40 plus usually $20 in mileage (100 miles). quote:* Any really weird poo poo happen to you guys that have delivered before? Nothing really strange. People answering the doors in questionable clothing. A woman that ordered pizza about 3x a week. She couldn't really move around due to her girth and when you knocked she always just told you to come in. Place was filled with pizza boxes and cat poo poo. One time some people called bitching at the manager that I drove on their back lawn and was doing donuts and tearing poo poo up. Manager comes out yelling at me and he takes another driver up there and looked, place was fenced in and no donuts on the lawn. I really wanted to get a bitchin camaro after that and do some donuts on their lawn though. King Metal fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Jul 7, 2014 |
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Jul 7, 2014 19:21
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gagelion posted:I was at a sonic the other night and smoked a cigarette with our waitress and she told me she makes $5 an hour and the manager takes all of her tips.
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Jul 7, 2014 21:37
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kinmik posted:Sorry for hijacking the topic, but a brief question about the Sonic bussers: Do you normally tip them? We've been going occasionally for the past three years and it only recently occurred to me that they might require, if not at least like, a small tip. Have we been "those guys" all this time? As someone who used to run a Sonic - we paid the carhops minimum wage, and any tips they got were theirs. Usually it was just the change up to the nearest dollar, sometimes they got some decent tips. (when I was carhopping on skates I could make about 15-20 dollars extra a shift). Most sonics will pay the carhops minimum wage, but this varies from franchise to franchise. I moved halfway across the country to a grody as hell one that i didn't know i was hired to turn around, and wound up quitting because of refusals to pay carhops minimum wage, how absolutely nasty the store was, and various other issues. Really, it depends on the store - most are great and pay at least minimum wage to their carhops and let them keep tips. some pay minimum+ but the tips
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photomikey posted:This was a promotion by Domino's 25 years ago that lasted a year or two and was shut down by the FTC because drivers were being maniacs because part of the free 'za came out of their check if it took longer than 30 minutes. I got the "isn't it free because it took longer than 30 minutes?" line by people who hadn't been born when the promotion ran. That's how ingrained it is in American culture. Pizza Pizza does something similar here in Canada, although the time varies depending on how busy they are and poo poo (if you order during a snow storm for example, it'll show "no guaranteed time" or whatever) Got a $45 order for free once. Still tipped the driver, cause he had to haul that poo poo.
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I've been delivering pizzas since May for a small pizza chain. I get paid minimum wage but tips help make up for it. I wouldn't work there if I weren't a driver, for example. I drive between 15-30 miles per night. I use Waze for GPS. I have a little but powerful LED flashlight for people who don't know how to turn on their porch lights. I get paid $1 per trip. A lot of people don't understand how to tip and are generally stupid, the ones who do tip usually do it well. "Normal" is $1-3. I've gotten $5 tips on like $30 orders, but I'm also a woman who knows? (My first delivery ever was a $5 tip. Then the next one was $0.) My best tip ever was $10 on a $36 order. No idea why, but I'll take it. The most money I carry is $15 at a time to make change. This means dumb people don't understand why I can't break $100 on their $30 order and start giving me quarters and I end up with a 5 cent tip or some poo poo. On a good night (3-4 hours) I've made $30+ in tips, bad night I've made $7. It depends on whether you're delivering to dumbasses, how many other drivers there are, and so forth. samizdat fucked around with this message at 02:25 on Jul 22, 2014 |
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Jul 22, 2014 02:08
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kinmik posted:Sorry for hijacking the topic, but a brief question about the Sonic bussers: Do you normally tip them? We've been going occasionally for the past three years and it only recently occurred to me that they might require, if not at least like, a small tip. Have we been "those guys" all this time? I usually give them 2-3 bucks but don't feel bad. I never thought about it either until I went with a friend and he gave me a filthy look for not tipping them.
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I delivered pizza for 5 months when I was in college. It was my favorite job ever, and if I could make what I make now for delivering pizza, I'd do it again. It was a really nice part of town, where the crappiest one bedroom apartments in the delivery area were $700/mo in a city where you could find apartments for less than half that. Most of it was golf course communities and million dollar homes. Wealthy people don't necessarily tip more, but they seem more likely to tip *something*. Owner was super cool, and would sometimes take deliveries in his black Cadillac when it got really busy  I listened to tons of audiobooks (you'd be surprised how fast you go through them). We had a regular who looked like Robert Smith from The Cure circa 1989 named "Thaddeus Potter". He was probably mid 20's, but always answered the door wearing a bathrobe, white socks, and sandals. Another guy who ordered often lived in the apartments across the street from the store, walking distance away. His apartment was stacked floor to ceiling with M&M merchandise, including a 5 foot tall plastic statue of one of the anthropomorphic M&M guys from the commercials. His name on the resident call-box you had to buzz in at the gate was "YELLOW MM". That's my delivery driving story.
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NESguerilla posted:The worst was some guy who ordered a pizza and didn't answer the door, so I called him and he had forgotten he had moved like 5 miles out of the delivery zone and had given us his old address (how is this possible?)... Marijuana.
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I loooved delivering pie. It was the best job for a college student. It allowed me time to do one of two things, chill out and not think about school or review flash cards and think about what I was studying. It was also a great source of income. This was a while ago but the standard rule was to tip $2 for a normal size order and a little more if it was larger. I could make $100 in a night easy. Lunch was the better shift because there would be pizza parties for schools and businesses where I'd take a bunch of pizza's. Since the person paying wasn't paying with their money you would always get an awesome tip that was typically based on the number of pizza's or how well off the company was you were delivering to. There was this one house that I delivered to, twice, that the girl greeted me at the door, cueue the porn music, in her bathrobe the first time. Second time was over the Christmas holidays and she had some Holly hanging over the door. Both times I got a huge tip and a big kiss. I kick myself now thinking about it because I should have done more than just stand there shocked at getting a kiss from some sexy redhead. wow. TLDR; It was a cool job that paid well and had plenty of adventure and excitement!
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NESguerilla posted:2. Not answering the door or picking up the phone. At least twice a week some dummy decides to hang out in the basement or run to the liquor store while I'm standing on their porch. This is the most egregious offense. I can't believe someone would order pizza and not pay attention to see if someone rings the bell/calls their phone, but it happens all the time. Also, the people that do this almost never throw you any extra tip even though you had to drive to their house twice or hang out it front of it for 15 minutes while you lose 2 deliveries. You are lucky of you get an apology. Some dumbass didn't hear their doorbell, any of the pounding on the door, nor their phone. Eventually they realize I'm out there. Of course, no loving tip. I should have driven away. gently caress that poo poo. samizdat posted:I've been delivering pizzas since May for a small pizza chain. I may no longer deliver pizzas sometime in the near future, as our franchise was just sold and is even more crappy and disorganized than before. There's also been a huge turnover/exodus and an influx of unbearable teenagers within the store and I'm sick of dealing with them. I've been listening to "The Chronic" loudly lately while making runs. Our sales have plummeted since the local military base banned all outside food delivery and nobody knows how long that will last. A lot of our business was to military base housing. I will miss working 4 hours/day for minimum wage ($8) and walking away that night with an equal amount or more of that in pretty much untraceable cash. I might try to find another food delivery job, though. samizdat fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Jul 28, 2014 |
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