Pizza Guy Didn't have change - Update

[dawnbug]

Originally posted by: TallBill
I'm getting a chuckle about a few people getting so fired up about my dinner. I never did any name calling.

I am curious though how often delivery people get robbed, granted I'm sure its completely different for different areas.

Just for the record, my wife ordered the pizza and didn't know that all we had was our birthday money which was in 50's. I dont think she would have mentioned it anyways, seeing as that we use credit cards 99% of the time.

But regardless, I dont think pizza boy robbery is high in this area.

I've escorted 120,000 times the amount of money that my pizza delivery person had today on him, so maybe I just dont get worked up over 30 something dollars.

Granted, I was heavily armed

I read somewhere that being a pizza delivery person is considered a "hazardous job" by the government-- and the third most likely job to get murdered while doing.

I can totally understand why a delivery person wouldn't carry much change with them.

 

[Aimster]

Robbery happens all over.

Even in the good areas. Trust me. Every pizza place has a robbery story. You just don't hear about it because probably nobody was killed, but it does happen.
It makes the news one night and that's all.

 

[BrokenVisage]

that's nuts.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Ryan

Originally posted by: SampSon

Dude - are you not understanding this - CARRYING CASH ON YOU IS A LIABLITY, and I'll be damned if I'm going to use my personal cash to break your bill because you're too lazy to carry anything smaller than 50's on you.

The store won't cover personal cash If I'm robbed - so I don't give a fvck if I have 200 dollars in one dollar bills as my personal cash - you don't have anything smaller than a 50, sucks for you.

No, actually it sucks for the delivery guy.

Wouldn't suck for me - I wouldn't give him the pizza, and I'd have the personal satisfaction of knowing that he's an idiot.

Yeah. Now get off my porch scumbag. Choose a better line of work.

We live in a service industry and if you can't break a 50 and perform said job then suck it. I won't call your inept pizza place again.

We're talking 50 dollars here. A tank of gas.

 

[dawnbug]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Ryan

Originally posted by: SampSon

Dude - are you not understanding this - CARRYING CASH ON YOU IS A LIABLITY, and I'll be damned if I'm going to use my personal cash to break your bill because you're too lazy to carry anything smaller than 50's on you.

The store won't cover personal cash If I'm robbed - so I don't give a fvck if I have 200 dollars in one dollar bills as my personal cash - you don't have anything smaller than a 50, sucks for you.

No, actually it sucks for the delivery guy.

Wouldn't suck for me - I wouldn't give him the pizza, and I'd have the personal satisfaction of knowing that he's an idiot.

Yeah. Now get off my porch scumbag. Choose a better line of work.

We live in a service industry and if you can't break a 50 and perform said job then suck it. I won't call your inept pizza place again.

We're talking 50 dollars here. A tank of gas.

I guess you won't be getting pizza delivered from anywhere, then, because from what the people who work in the industry say, not carrying change for a 50 is the standard.

 

[Supermercado]

I worked a couple summers delivering pizza and we were told to never leave the store with more than $20.

 

[Aimster]

I say stop attacking the army guy (TallBill)

He gave the delivery guy a tip when he came back which was either $2-3.

$2.00 = acceptable
$3.00 = good
$3.00+ = great

Anything below $2.00 = cheap. Especially when the order is like $18.30 and the guy gives you a $20.00 and asks for $1.00 back because of the delivery charge that the store charged. The driver only made about $.70 for that run.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: Aimster
I say stop attacking the army guy (TallBill)

He gave the delivery guy a tip when he came back which was either $2-3.

$2.00 = acceptable
$3.00 = good
$3.00+ = great

Anything below $2.00 = cheap. Especially when the order is like $18.30 and the guy gives you a $20.00 and asks for $1.00 back because of the delivery charge that the store charged. The driver only made about $.70 for that run.

Trust me, I gain no kudo's from just being in the Army. There are plenty of scumbags that I have to deal with daily being a military police officer.

 

[dawnbug]

Originally posted by: Aimster
I say stop attacking the army guy (TallBill)

He gave the delivery guy a tip when he came back which was either $2-3.

$2.00 = acceptable
$3.00 = good
$3.00+ = great

Anything below $2.00 = cheap. Especially when the order is like $18.30 and the guy gives you a $20.00 and asks for $1.00 back because of the delivery charge that the store charged. The driver only made about $.70 for that run.

I'd say that attacking is too harsh of a word in this situation. People are merely setting him straight on how the pizza delivery business works. And the thread had nothing to do with whether or not he tipped.

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: TallBill
I'm getting a chuckle about a few people getting so fired up about my dinner. I never did any name calling.

I am curious though how often delivery people get robbed, granted I'm sure its completely different for different areas.

Just for the record, my wife ordered the pizza and didn't know that all we had was our birthday money which was in 50's. I dont think she would have mentioned it anyways, seeing as that we use credit cards 99% of the time.

But regardless, I dont think pizza boy robbery is high in this area.

I've escorted 120,000 times the amount of money that my pizza delivery person had today on him, so maybe I just dont get worked up over 30 something dollars.

Granted, I was heavily armed

no one gives a fvck what kind of money you work with or how much money you have in your house. the problem most people here have with you is your snotty attitude.

Worst delivery person ever.

WORST EVER?? sheesh. what he should have done is said, "i'm sorry sir, i don't have sufficient change, i'll make the other three deliveries i have waiting in my car and then bring back your pizza and change.

instead he trusted you and all you can say about him is "Worst delivery person ever".

that's what makes you a moron. not seeing someone going out of his way for you and calling him incompetent (paraphrased).

 

[KK]

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: Aimster
I say stop attacking the army guy (TallBill)

He gave the delivery guy a tip when he came back which was either $2-3.

$2.00 = acceptable
$3.00 = good
$3.00+ = great

Anything below $2.00 = cheap. Especially when the order is like $18.30 and the guy gives you a $20.00 and asks for $1.00 back because of the delivery charge that the store charged. The driver only made about $.70 for that run.

Trust me, I gain no kudo's from just being in the Army. There are plenty of scumbags that I have to deal with daily being a military police officer.

What are you doing with bills larger than a 20 spot? When I was in the military, we didn't carry around 50s.

 

[TallBill]

Oh, I know that he coulda just taken my pizza back and trashed it. But thats just not fun to post about.

Getting people riled up and having them insult me is twice teh fun.

 

[DAGTA]

One thing is safe to say: you've probably been added to 'the list' at that pizza joint, TallBill. Might want to order from somewhere else for the next six months.

 

[TallBill]

What are you doing with bills larger than a 20 spot? When I was in the military, we didn't carry around 50s.

Its explained somewhere in the madness of this thread.

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: TallBill
Oh, I know that he coulda just taken my pizza back and trashed it. But thats just not fun to post about.

Getting people riled up and having them insult me is twice teh fun.

ahhh, i c, just a neffing attention whore.

that will win you big kudos from the crowd.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

Originally posted by: TallBill
Oh, I know that he coulda just taken my pizza back and trashed it. But thats just not fun to post about.

Getting people riled up and having them insult me is twice teh fun.

ahhh, i c, just a neffing attention whore.

that will win you big kudos from the crowd.

Nawh, it just sounded good at the time.

 

[flot]

I have to join the "you're being an ass" camp.

I wouldn't assume that a delivery guy would have more than $15-20 in change. So if your order was $35 and you were paying with a $50, that'd be reasonable. But $50 on an $11 order is not.

I have had drivers pull the "oh I don't know if I have enough change" routine before and I patiently wait until they dig it all up, and then tip them out of it. But just as often I'll do the math ahead of time and ask them for a reasonable $ amount back, leaving them a $2-5 tip. Usually they come up with that amount no problem.

I wouldn't tip $7 for a single pizza order... but I would probably tip $7 if I made the guy come to my house twice. Odd situation.

PS: I actually had a pizza delivery guy call me 7 times (not maliciously, he just never left a message and I just never answered) and then show up knocking on my door an hour later because I had forgotten to give him the $3 internet coupon that I told them I had when I placed the order. Apparently if he didn't come back with the physical coupon, he was out the $3. The funny thing is I'm pretty sure I tipped him at least $4, so he would have been breaking even on the deal anyway...

PPS: I just came back from vegas - only place I've ever seen where you could pay for a pack of gum with a $100 bill and they wouldn't even flinch.

 

[MangoTBG]

$2.00 tip is not acceptable. It is a poor tip. $3 is a decent tip, anything above is good-great. If you are making this guy come back (by not having the money, yes YOU are making him) he deserves more of a tip.

The fact that you wanted $35 back and he only had $31 is what amazes me. I'm a college student, with little money and I would have accepted the $31. Shame on you.

 

[TallBill]

PPS: I just came back from vegas - only place I've ever seen where you could pay for a pack of gum with a $100 bill and they wouldn't even flinch.

lol, only place i've ever seen benjiman come out of an atm

 

[Baked]

Sprinkle gold dust at him next time and ask him for change.

 

[dawnbug]

Originally posted by: MangoTBG
$2.00 tip is not acceptable. It is a poor tip. $3 is a decent tip, anything above is good-great. If you are making this guy come back (by not having the money, yes YOU are making him) he deserves more of a tip.

The fact that you wanted $35 back and he only had $31 is what amazes me. I'm a college student, with little money and I would have accepted the $31. Shame on you.

:thumbsup:

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: MangoTBG
$2.00 tip is not acceptable. It is a poor tip. $3 is a decent tip, anything above is good-great. If you are making this guy come back (by not having the money, yes YOU are making him) he deserves more of a tip.

The fact that you wanted $35 back and he only had $31 is what amazes me. I'm a college student, with little money and I would have accepted the $31. Shame on you.

I'm a former delivery guy (and soon to be current again) and I felt indifferent about getting a $2 tip. I was happy they weren't cheap enough to tip me only a dollar, or less than a dollar, but I wasn't blown away by their generosity. It's a fair amount.

$3 tip was nice, and a $5 tip normally bumped you to the top of the delivery list once your pizza was ready, regardless of the other orders.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: MangoTBG
$2.00 tip is not acceptable. It is a poor tip. $3 is a decent tip, anything above is good-great. If you are making this guy come back (by not having the money, yes YOU are making him) he deserves more of a tip.

The fact that you wanted $35 back and he only had $31 is what amazes me. I'm a college student, with little money and I would have accepted the $31. Shame on you.

I'm a former delivery guy (and soon to be current again) and I felt indifferent about getting a $2 tip. I was happy they weren't cheap enough to tip me only a dollar, or less than a dollar, but I wasn't blown away by their generosity. It's a fair amount.

$3 tip was nice, and a $5 tip normally bumped you to the top of the delivery list once your pizza was ready, regardless of the other orders.

I'd probably be more pissed about getting under a dollar then if I just got nothing.

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: MangoTBG
$2.00 tip is not acceptable. It is a poor tip. $3 is a decent tip, anything above is good-great. If you are making this guy come back (by not having the money, yes YOU are making him) he deserves more of a tip.

The fact that you wanted $35 back and he only had $31 is what amazes me. I'm a college student, with little money and I would have accepted the $31. Shame on you.

I'm a former delivery guy (and soon to be current again) and I felt indifferent about getting a $2 tip. I was happy they weren't cheap enough to tip me only a dollar, or less than a dollar, but I wasn't blown away by their generosity. It's a fair amount.

$3 tip was nice, and a $5 tip normally bumped you to the top of the delivery list once your pizza was ready, regardless of the other orders.

I'd probably be more pissed about getting under a dollar then if I just got nothing.

Some people are just that consistently cheap. Doesn't matter if you get their food to them in under 15 minutes, or over 40 minutes, it would be the same exact tip every time. We learned to accept it, and those people usually got their food after everyone else.

I'm not saying a $1 is unacceptable though. I don't really expect a person to tip much more than a $1 or $2 on an $8 order, for example.

 

[NiKeFiDO]

wait...is this one the parody? or the other one?