I have been sick with some head cold congestion crud and haven’t been online much.
Most know I work two jobs one as a bus monitor/aide and the other as a pizza delivery driver/cook/cashier.
The children I work with are between the ages of 3 and 5 years old, I enjoy working with children. I think I like working and dealing with children because of their simple honesty, it’s not in them to lie. Don’t get me wrong I have had a few 5-year-olds lie and I will say that I believe lying at such a young age is a learned behavior. The two children that flat out lied to me I believe learned to lie from their parents, please know I don’t say this lightly but I know their parents have lied many times in the past to the bus driver, teacher and myself. Children learn from their parents and usually act like their parents, this is just my simple observation and opinion.
And now to the point I have had a few situations at work delivering pizza’s, one involving a co-worker and two with customers. I would like to know what you think I should have done and what you would have done.
Complaining co-worker
I work with a woman that complains all the time because she doesn’t get to deliver pizza’s, she was offered the job and didn’t want it. This co-worker makes more on the hour than I do but she is jealous because I get tips and some nights my tips are pretty good. One night a week or so ago a customer gave me a $ 2.50 tip then he handed me another 5 bucks and ask I split the 5 bucks with the complaining co-worker. The customer used my co-worker first name, she had taken his order over the phone and he said he had given her a hard time he had been drinking. What would you have done? Also all worker use to get food half priced but because of this co-worker complaining now no employee gets food half off. All employee’s get a free sandwich at the end of their shift except delivery drivers again because of this same co-worker, she says drivers get tips.
Big tipper
Last night I delivered a pizza to a nice fancy new home, the pizza cost including the $3.00 delivery fee (my boss charges for gas and insurance) was $18.49. Long story short this customer gave me 2 twenty-dollar bills and 2 one-dollar bills and said there you go. The customer was going back in his house, when I looked down the money was fanned out with the 2 dollar bills in the middle with a twenty dollar bill on each end.
What would you do? What do you think is the right thing? It’s not unusual for me to get a $15.00 dollar tip and once I got an eighteen-dollar tip but usually when I get big tips it’s on $25.00 to $80.00 dollar food orders. The average tip for where I live and deliver is $3.50 to $ 5 bucks.
Cheap tipper
Sunday I was sent on a delivery that was out of the area we normally deliver to. I thought it was a little too far away from the pizza store, I don’t know who originally told this lady we delivered to her home but supposedly we had delivered pizza to her in the past. The total cost for her order on Sunday was $20.48 including the delivery cost. After driving for almost 20 minute’s I finally pulled into her driveway, the house was a very nice older home. Usually when customers live far out we are the only place that will deliver to them and they tip pretty well. When I told the customer the price she asked if the cost included my tip. I told her no that it included the delivery charge the company charges, then the customer puts two dollar’s back in her pocket and handed me $ 21.00 dollars then she says keep the change and have a nice day. I mumbled thank you while walking away I mean damn, it took about 40 minute’s round trip and she gave me 52 cents and acted like she had done something.
I’m not a rich person as far as money is concerned but we manage to get by, if you are interested in knowing what I did I tell all in my comments.
Have a great week!
Night Sparrow
