I’ve said it before on beehaw but I work pizza delivery. You’d think it would be an easy job, just drive around and drop off pizzas and enjoy music, but holy shit the amount of pure hatred I’ve gotten from customers over the dumbest little thing is just insane. I had a guy call me, a white-male, a racial slur because we have a $5 delivery fee. I’ve had people scream swears at me because I forgot their food, or call back demanding I get fired for it.
And then I went on reddit to vent about it on my company’s subreddit. I know reddit is normally pretty toxic but there’s really no “pizza delivery” analogue that I can find on beehaw or lemmy in general, and there’s just so much hate and vitriol on that subreddit that I can’t even bother opening it. Customers telling me that I should “find a new job” or “quit working entirely” because they can’t stop being mean about food. Not only is it just pizza, it’s fast food! My company is even globally known for giving people free refunds on a whim so I just don’t understand why they would hate me so much for venting about my job?? Do people not like being reminded that people like me go through so much shit on a day-to-day basis? It’s so fucking insane to me that it’s just a commonly accepted thing to be told to “get over it” after being called a slur for something that’s not even my problem. 99% of the time when an order is fucked up it’s not even my fault? I just delivery them!
I really want to understand why people are SO rude about pizza delivery but I Just can’t! I’ve never in my life even considered cussing out a food service worker but these people are just doing it like its their job!
For anybody that says it, I’d have quit by now if I wasn’t making so much money. You try making $16/hr + upwards of $100 in tips a day (yay US tipping culture). I’ve got so much money now I don’t really have a whole lot to do with it, compared to my last jobs at least.
(I also desperately want to scream back at these people so much but I know I can’t do that. I know my manager’s got my back but if I do it in the store I’ll most likely be fired.)
Sorry you are going through that. I have only been mean or rude to a service worker one time, and that’s because they were actively being an asshole to me by serving everyone else at the table besides me, and after their orders were brought, I had to make it a point to ask for food and drinks. And everyone else had refills and their food before I ever got my drinks.
And let me be clear, by mean or rude, I mean I just didn’t tip them.
One time I got a tray of drinks dumped on me by our server as they were bringing them. I paid for those drinks and the replacements and I still tipped that server.
I don’t get people that are rude to service workers. Even at McDonald’s when they forget fries or something, no need to be a dick. Just politely ask for them. They literally don’t give a shit and will usually give you a bigger size.
But OP, if you are making so much money doing this, why stress about it Just enjoy the money and don’t let it get to you.
your comment was so good until I read this. “Just don’t let it get to you” is a really really annoying thing to say.
Pay me enough and I can forget about how much work sucks.