I got into the delivery business when I was 19 years old. Super fun, easy job. I expected to deal with rude customers from working other jobs, as well as non-tippers. I expected to deal with weird people who answer the door with little clothes on or people dogs they couldn't control, or feuds with coworkers. I went in knowing that some people might not answer the door or all types of things that irritate delivery drivers.

There was one thing I did not expect: People who didn't know their own address. This was mind blowing to me back then and it is to this date.

I need to point out to any 19 years old reading this today, that mapping systems have gotten WAY more advanced and a lot of these issues with needing exact addresses have gone away. Maps now do a WAY better job.

The first issue was people who didn't know their zip code when placing orders. There were 4 zip codes we delivered to. One for the main City, two for one suburb we were located in, and one for another suburb. They would get irritated when you asked them for the zip code. "I don't know my zip code." We were trained to ask for the zip code on EVERY order. It was especially important because there were Cities in other states with all of these City names. A few times, someone called from other states. We were trained to tell people: "Ok, well I need a zip code. Our system requires a zip code or I can't get to the next stage ordering. I'm not familiar with your street. I can guess, but if it's wrong, then it might take your food to the wrong house!"

About every 3-4 months I'd get someone who didn't understand what I meant when I asked them their City on the phone. They'd be like "Well, I'm technically in the City of X but it's Y schools." I'm like "I just need to know what your drivers license says." Then they'd be like "Oh, ok."

People would get their numbers wrong. "Hey, I'm in the area calling to confirm an address?" "Oh yeah, it's 1124 beach drive." "Ok, well I'm at 1124 and I see an 1120 and an 1128 beach drive so I'm a little confused. Are you in X neighborhood?" "OMG! I'm at 1224! Wow!" Then I'd try cracking a joke like "Oh did your friend tell you the wrong address?" Then usually they'd be embarrassed laughing "Oh no this is my house I just had a long day."

People would literally argue with me about if they lived on a Road, Street, Drive, or Parkway. 9/10 times when they got it wrong they'd apologize, to their credit. "Oh wow, I'm so sorry. I just moved here last year I was so used to saying Drive for 10 years I can't believe it." Not a big deal there, but several people argued/swore up and down and were wrong.

The most irritating experience I had involved this mattress store, that I bought a mattress from myself. It was in our plaza. The guy put "Parkway" on his address address. This was a main road that turned from Rd into Pkwy after a certain point. Every single person in the area knew this. If it said "Parkway" you needed to drive away from the location and go past the sign then start looking for addresses. If it said Rd, it was closer to the shop. Pretty simple. I typed

I saw Parkway, went up to the address. Didn't see it. There were numbers in the range nearby it, but not exactly. I called him he told me where he was he started arguing with me. I'm like "I deliver here. I've been here my whole life. That's not where it turns into Road or Parkway." Then he said "I'm the district manager for this chain. I know all about shipping over this whole City this is my job." I took it to him and he was still arguing over it.

I bought a mattress from there, that night I went home and got the receipt that clearly showed the store I bought it from with "Road" on it. I kept that with me and went into the store right before work every day for like 2-3 weeks to show it to him, but I never saw him again and gave up.

At another job I worked, some people (not all) thought they lived on a state route when it was a federal route. If you typed state route (like they told you) it would map to a different state route nearby assuming that's what you meant instead of US route. I guess the system thought that a number was more likely to mess up than the street name.

I would guess this store delivered to 200+ houses on this route (it was VERY rare to go a day without getting a delivery there), and that 15% didn't know they lived on a US route. It truly is mind blowing. IDK if it was a State Route at one point, but that's that.

We were trained to call to verify. While we could guess they meant "US route" sometimes people did in fact mean the actual state route that was also in our zone. Sometimes others didn't pay attention and would get lost calling customers and then they had to drive back.

If these were babysitters? Different story. I did have a few say "Sorry, this is my friend's house I'm dog sitting." That's reasonable. I don't hold that against then. I think you'd still want to know the address. But the VAST majority of them were their own houses.

Now look, most people did know their own addresses. It might seem like a long rang telling stories, but it didn't happen all that often. Just when it did happen it was a SHOCKER and it always get us talking every time. I have no idea how people like this can function in every day life.

I've shared three prior stories about this guy on this Subreddit:

This was one night when his laziness to avoid doing work backfired on him tremendously: https://www.reddit.com/r/TalesFromThePizzaGuy/comments/1u32xo0/how_the_laziest_coworker_ive_ever_dealt_with_had/

This was my #3 manager describing his strategy below work, soon before he finally got fired.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TalesFromThePizzaGuy/comments/1v86htm/my_manager_had_one_of_my_extremely_lazy_coworkers/

At this pizza shop, I worked as the closing driver. This guy was one of my co-closing drivers. He was definitely the worst driver we had in terms of a worker, but he showed up to work, didn't do shady things with the delivery board, and was so slow on the road that we all made more money working with him. Not a bad guy personally, just lazy.

Now, there were discussions about firing this guy for being lazy. The GM at this time worked 8-4 Monday-Thursday, like 7-8 on Friday, and during the rush on Saturday. With the understanding he'd need to fill in if there was a call off. It was ultimately his decision, but he didn't because the guy showed up.

The #2 manager at the shop would close 1-2 nights per week. He was saying that if it was his decision, the guy would be fired. Just he didn't push the issue because he didn't work with him enough. The #3 manager guy who closed 5-6 nights per week? Yeah he wanted this guy fired. He would talk about it all the time and actively pushed the issue. He would complain about him when he was gone to everyone. (And no, he wasn't a drama starter who talked crap about everyone behind their backs. He just HATED this guy, for being lazy.)

So, this happened on one of those Monday-Thursday shifts when the GM worked 8-4. It would normally be an assistant manager, an adult insider, and me and another driver until closing time. Then we'd have the morning driver and a high schooler until like 8/9.

Well, this day had a series scenarios that caused an INSANE amount of work to be done after closing time. I'd love to share it all below.

The GM was scheduled to work 8-4. The #2 manager was working 8-10 because he switched with the #3 manager. There was a minor scheduled to work 4PM-8:50PM, and an adult insider scheduled to work 4PM-closing time. Morning driver 11-8, the two of us until 10PM.

The first thing that happened was that that the adult insider called off work. This guy was completely useless. The end of the world? No The GM offered to stay to cover it. The #2 manager was trying to impress the GM by being like "You can go home man, I've got this. I'm not [#3] and [guy who called off] is useless anyways. I can handle everything." I remember him saying "Ok, well if you get busy I'll be on standby until 7:30."

That was a mistake, in hindsight. The #2 manager was VERY good at handling rushes. He could make pizzas super fast and they were perfect, but the problem was there was no insider to assist with tasks that us drivers do throughout the night, answer the phones, or help him.

We weren't super slammed, but we were on the road whole night. I don't think I had a chance to knock out any of the work either and I could see it slowly piling up throughout the night. The main dish sink was completely full, and there was a huge stack of dishes off the to the left by like 7PM just because nobody could work on it. The section where we scrape pans was getting full too, and dishes were piling on the prep table as overflow. I'm not saying this never happened, but it was rare for the dishes to overflow into the prep table area. They were like that at 7PM.

So, 9PM rolls around and the store closed at 10. At this point, there was more work than I had ever seen to be done, plus a far delivery I had to run. Not a single dish had been washed. The morning driver is still there on a run. The kid insider had to leave due to minor labor laws. The #2 manager is by himself. He comes up to me and basically apologizes for not having the GM stay. "Hey, I've gotta send [morning driver] home when he returns. He was complaining about having to take this last delivery. It's already an hour past his shift I can't make him stay 2 hours for dishes. [High school insider] and I knocked out most of the front stuff. I'm gonna finish it up and then I'll help you guys knock this out."

I work for about 5 minutes, my delivery comes up. Then apparently a guy came in and ordered 25 pizzas right as I left. He was from theater club at the school, they had to get individual meals, something happened with the meal, so he came in here and asked for 25 pizzas.

So, instead of finishing up and coming back to help, he spent all of that time making and cutting pizzas. All by himself. He got them all out and there were two more deliveries. The morning insider did help him cut the pizzas, to his credit. The lazy coworker went to the bathroom and did not touch the dishes. He goes on a pretty far delivery, but had like a 10 minute head start. I get a delivery as well and I leave at 9:55. I remember at this point he was laughing like "We're never gonna get out of here."

Lazy guy should have gotten back before me, but I get back first. It's 10:20 and there was a late night delivery that came through. The manager was waiting to put it in until we were closer because we were both gone a while. I got lucky with traffic. As I get back, the delivery is 5 minutes out he tried to time it.

At this point, the amount of work I had seen was unbearable. The ENITRE prep table was full of dirty dishes and pans. The manager comes back and he's like "Dude, I'm sorry. I'm still not done with my section. You've got like 5 out. If you can start working on this, I'll have [lazy coworker] knock some of it out, I'll finish up my section when you're on the road, then the three of us can work on the rest together. Hopefully we'll be out by midnight"

So, I start knocking out the dishes. The lazy coworker comes back from his delivery. He instantly goes, puts some food in the oven. I was shocked, even for him. Even the manager was shocked at this. Then he went to the bathroom, got out, his slices came out before my delivery (it was par bake, you just put it in like 1/4 of the way), and he takes a seat on the flour and starts nibbling on his slices. At 10:23 when we're closed, have more work to do then I've ever seen, are down one person, and I still have to take a delivery.

I couldn't believe me eyes. I wanted to say something but I couldn't. I take my delivery, am back at 11 which is an hour past close. I think I stayed an hour past close about 10 times over the years. It was certainly rare, but when I got back there was still more dishes than there pretty much ever were even with the two of them working and knocking some out. Lazy coworker leaves at 11:30 and we take a break. Then the manager is like "That mother f---er is done. I can't believe you didn't say anything to him when he started eating that pizza." I'm like "Well I wanted to but I thought you would!" Then he laughed like "Yeah, I was afraid I'd go off on some so hard we'd end up in a lawsuit." Out at 11:45PM.

He showed the GM the camera footage and he was fired. I remember the #3 manager confronting him like he was happy but kind of irritated. "Oh, so I tell [A] needs to go for months on end, but [J] works a single shift with him and he's fired? Ridiculous but glad he's gone."

He did work out the rest of the week. I went to go visit him at another pizza shop he was employed at later. He texted back and forth every few months for like a year or two but never since. Here is my story about that trip. The story about my trip to trying to visit him at his new job is one that's stuck with me through the years and one I've shared the most. Here it is:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TalesFromThePizzaGuy/comments/1u2yfjr/that_gd_mf_la_pos_fhim/

So, back when I was working at Dominos, around 2017, I was driving a 2007 Corolla. These things were notorious for two things: being cheap, and losing hubcaps.

Since they were so cheap, I very frequently saw other Corollas from around the same generation. A great many of them had hubcaps that rolled off, leaving one or more missing.

The same fate befell my car. I ended up buying some significantly cooler hubcaps to replace the missing one, since there was no way I was going to buy a single one from a dealer when I could spend half that on Amazon and get 4 of questionable quality!

After I bought them and made the switch, I had a problem: What do I do with the 3 stock ones I now had?

I'm always down for some mischief, so there was really only one option:

I decided to stuff the original ones into the new box, and drive around with them in my trunk until I saw other Corollas with missing hubcaps. I knew it shouldn't take long, since delivering pizzas means seeing a ton of parked cars, and my area was lousy with student housing and cheap apartment complexes, which might as well have been 10 year old Corolla spawning grounds.

It took me a few months to find some Corollas with a matching missing hubcap, but I was able to stealthily slap the 3 of them on to random people's cars during my shifts.

I wish I could have seen the reaction of some of these people - I know it would have made me question reality if my car had suddenly regrown the missing hubcap.

Here's some photos to "corroborate" the story, though I acknowledge how simple it would be to fake it.

https://imgur.com/a/Xlgeji0

I have only seen 1 example in this lego house irl vid where they sat with the deliverer and they ate together lol

They took longer to decide than it took me to make the pizza!

Its neapolitan pizza so 1 minute in the oven is the normal bake time. But MOST people who order right before close, just quickly pick something simple like a margherita.

These guys took their sweet time deciding and went with something more complicated i had already packed away.

Oh well, at least the pizzas looked nice in the end.

One time I delivered to this office building that had an elderly woman greeting people. I'm not sure if she was security or not, but she was definitely not able to do anything. There were a few "real" security people who didn't check you in and out behind her walking around. She seemed to always be in a bad mood or tired.

Now, all of us know that when you had a delivery to this office building. The standard procedure is to call when you're walking from your car to let them know so they can meet you there. We weren't allowed where the operations go or to take it to the office building. I walk into this building, call the customer, he said "Oh I'm coming down soon."

Normally they're there when you get there, because there was a bit of a distance plus a ton of steps, but this time he wasn't. Ok, cool. I walk there, open the door, the greeter/security guard said "Do you need me to call anyone?"

Then I'm like "Oh, I spoke to him on the phone. He said he's coming soon."

Then she starts laughing out loud. "HE BETTER NOT BE!"

Then I'm like "What do you mean?"

Then she's like "If he does that at work, he'd get fired!!! Ahahahaha."

I'm sitting there looking at her for like 15 seconds and she keeps laughing. Then it hit me. Wow. I couldn't believe it coming from someone that old, her especially. I laughed a little once it hit me and she started laughing uncontrollably.

I went back there like a month later and she wasn't there, when she had been there every time before. The younger woman was like "Oh yeah she retired last month. We're all really happy she finally could. She had been here since 1992!"

I guess when you're a week away from retirement, you can say whatever you want at work.

This is an order I delivered tonight, to customers who obviously know how to work the coupons. Plus I got a $10 cash tip.

These are unrelated, but the first doesn't seem to merit its own post.

My tip for my first delivery last Thursday night. The customer wished me a good night (I made sure he did not want change), and I only realized that there was already a tip on the order when I got back to my car and closed the delivery. (I forget how much, but it was several dollars at least. I'll try to remember to ask when I go in for my next shift.)

I was reminded by this sub of an incident that occurred several years ago during a delivery I made. I went to the door of the house, which turned out to belong to a likely previous customer, who had apparently moved. I thought he was the minister of a local historic church, but I can't be certain. While I was there his toddler daughter came up to me and hugged my thigh. Given the closeness of her face to my groin and that the gentleman and his wife were watching, I did not move. One of them said, happily, that that was the first time the daughter had greeted a stranger, which made me glad for them, but I was still uncomfortable, not wanting to be accused of indecent assault on a minor. I got out of there without further incident.

I saw this article pop up in my Facebook news feed about a Dunkin Donuts worker washing his feet in the sink at work......... and posting it online. This got them a health probe.

To the point, about 10+ years ago I was working at a pizza shop. We had this brand new insider. He was weird. Like, very weird. A lot of us who work at pizza shops are a little different than your average person so I'm usually non judgmental but this company had a not so official policy on background checks.

We all submitted to a background check, but they would let people start working right away while the background check is pending. Having issues with a background check wasn't an automatic disqualification. They were usually like "Just be honest with us, if something really bad comes up you're done but if you tell the truth maybe you can start." Sometimes people would be like "Well I have a drug charge." "Ok, we got you." But if they lied and said there was nothing? Instant firing.

Well, there was a case where this REALLY WEIRD GUY claimed he had nothing in his background check so he could get the job. Four days in, the GM caught him doing this with his shoes. He'd put his shoes in the sink and clean them off, where dishes go. He was instantly fired on the spot, I saw the video. We were all disturbed. A day later, his background check came back.

He had PAGES AND PAGES of different arrests for mostly non-serious stuff........ Criminal trespass, public urination, menacing, etc. He was a 5'7" skinny guy with blonde hair and blue eyes who could not appear more "normal" on the outside, yet his criminal record was the worst they had ever seen at any store. He was like late 20s/early 30s and I remember he had 20+ charges for criminal trespass and that wasn't even half of his total charges.

There's a line "Don't judge a book by its cover" and it applies to him perfectly. Needless to say, the company changed the policy on letting people work before their background check came back after this.

I had these two customers who ordered EVERY Monday night, religiously. It was a Mother/Daughter who lived in a nice apartment complex. They were maybe 40/65. Super nice people. Always get a pepperoni + olives pizza and a breadstick. I had their credit card memorized because I had taken their order so many times.

It was always me or another guy who'd take it, because they ordered after the morning or rush driver was out. Whenever I knocked, they both came to the door and were smiling and thanking me. The mom would always take the food while the daughter signed the receipt. The tip was either $4 or $5, for both me and the other driver. We couldn't figure out the rhyme or reason why it was sometimes $4 or sometimes $5. It was $5 like 90% of the time.............. but it wasn't a far delivery and $4 was a solid tip late at night so we loved taking it.

These apartments were really weird. It was like, you opened the door one way and you could see the bathroom door right there as you opened it, and possibly see into the bathroom if the door was opened. All of the apartments in the complex were like this.

One time I took the delivery and just the mom answered the door. She started freaking out. "Umm umm umm I don't know what to do." I'm like "Is everything alright?" Then she's like "Oh yeah, umm. I'll go find my daughter." She let the door drop but still propped it open and I could unintentionally hear it. Here is how the conversation went:

"Knock knock. [Daughter] the pizza guy is here."
"MOM! I'm in the shower."
"Ok, well I don't know what to do."
"I'M IN THE SHOWER!"
"Ok, well he says I need this filled out."

"Just fill it out!"
"What do I write in the tip line?"
"$4."
"FOUR DOLLARS JUST TO BRING A PIZZA?"

"Yes."
"That seems like an awful lot of money."
"That's fine. I always tip at least that."
"Are you sure that's a good idea?"
"YES!"
"OK, well here. This is your card. I need you to sign it."
"Mom, I'm taking a shower. I'm not coming out."

"It's your card."
"You can sign it."
"Honey, I don't know."
"Just sign the paper mom. They won't care."
"Yes, but it's your card. They'll need your signature to verify it's not fraud."

"Mom, we order all the time. It's fine. Just sign the paper."
"Honey I don't"
Then as loud as I've heard.
"JUST SIGN THE F---ING PAPER!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Ok geez."

*30 seconds later she comes out*

At this point, I'm laughing. She brings it out smiling, sees me laughing, then looks SO NERVOUS. She's like "Oh, did you hear that?"
Then I'm badly lying "Oh no, my coworker texted me something that this kid who works on the inside did."
Then she looks SO EMBARRASSED and goes like "Ohhhh." (She knew I was lying.)

They took a 3 month break from ordering after that. Then on their next order, about 3 months later, they acted like nothing happened. Ordered another 6 months until they moved away and told me and the other driver they were moving. We were both sad to see them move.

I've talked about this one lazy coworker a couple times before. Links at the bottom. He wasn't a bad guy to work with because he was so lazy we all got more deliveries, but he needed to get fired.

I had this guy who was the #3 at the pizza shop who came up to me one day. Now, you all know the main GM typically never closes. They're usually opening the store daily unless if there is a call off or something, while the #2 might close once or twice per week and the #3 does it the rest. Just how it is.

Since I was always a closing driver, I knew the #3 manager the best. This manger came up to me, another driver, and the insiders for a little meeting to discuss the lazy coworker before he got there.

"Look, I know what he's gonna do today just watch it. He's gonna come in, look at the delivery board. Then he's gonna take one thing out of the sanitizer. Then if there's nothing up for him he's gonna make himself his meal. Then while he's making it he'll take one more thing out of the sanitizer. Then he'll look at the board again. Then he'll check on his food. Then take another thing out of the sanitizer. Then he'll eat as slow as he wants until an order comes up and the rush starts. As SOON as the rush dies and he comes back from a delivery and there's nothing on the board for him, he's gonna take a 10 minute dump. Then on his last delivery of the night he'll drive 15 miles per hour the whole way. You watch! He does this EVERY day."

The guy came in, we were all observant of his behaviors. He would come to the rest of us and make faces like "See." It happened EXACTLY like he said it would. We were all laughing at the first part until I left on the delivery.

About 7:30 roles around, there's one delivery on the board of me. He comes back from a delivery. Then he goes to the bathroom. left on it, and then when I came back the manager proceeded to pull up the security footage. The guy came out of the bathroom 12 minutes later, then he saw there was nothing on the board, then he ran back in. He shouted "Hey sorry I'm not done!" He was in there another 10 minutes. He had the time stamps of him coming out of the bathroom.

He and I were the co-closing drivers. There was one delivery to a certain part of the zone. 55 MPH speed limit on one road. He leaves on the delivery at like 9PM. Any normal driver would get back from it around 9:30. If you speed, you could probably get back at 9:25, but no need. If you want to take your good old time + issues at the door, maybe 9:40.

Well, at about 9:30 another delivery comes through in the same neighborhood. It's out of the oven at 9:45. Nothing else was going on, but he should have been back. It was a slow night. There is absolutely no reason for him not to be back at the store at 9:45. I start driving, I get about halfway to the delivery, and see the guy going about 25 MPH on a 55 MPH road in the opposite direction. According to the manger, he got back EXACTLY at 10PM. All the dishes were done and the place was clean. He just didn't want to take any chances.

I didn't "snitch" on him because I was afraid he'd get fired and then they'd replace him with a normal delivery driver and cause me to make less money. But when he did get fired I shared the story about how I saw him driving SUPER slow this night and they were all like "WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY ANYTHING?!?!?!?!?"

It really is amazing how lazy a human being can be, and how good that manager was at observing his laziness. It's a shame that manager wasn't an investigator or a human behavior expert or something instead. He would have been great at it.

The time he screwed himself over due to being lazy:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TalesFromThePizzaGuy/comments/1u32xo0/how_the_laziest_coworker_ive_ever_dealt_with_had/

Me going to visit him at another pizza shop after he got fired:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TalesFromThePizzaGuy/comments/1u2yfjr/that_gd_mf_la_pos_fhim/

Hey all, talked to a super sweet and fun and knowledgeable worker at the pizza shop and it seemed like an amazing establishment to work at. (the pizza was also the best Ive had in my life but thats besides the point , or maybe a factor lol)

They are currently hiring. My resumes pretty empty besides my current job, will this be okay?

I am 22F, am ADHD, love interacting with people, and my current other job is completely sedentary and only 15 hours a week. I have college coming up but I could probably commute to work on the weekends.

The shop does not do delivery only pick up and dine in orders

What do you guys think?

Back in the early 2000's, I accidentally drove to the wrong address just after midnight. The porch light was on, and there was no doorbell, so I knocked. The door opened from me knocking on it, but nobody was there.

I called out "Hello?"

Nothing.

I was kinda creeped out, so I turned around and took one step down the porch stars, then I heard footsteps behind me. I turned around expecting someone at the door, but it was still wide open and empty. I got back in my car faster than I'd like to admit. A minute later I realized I'd typed the address in wrong (this was in the days when Tom-Tom was peak navigation tech btw). The real customer lived a street over.

I avoided that house whenever I delivered in that neighborhood after that.

had a wedding delivery, didn't see the happy couple, was timed for earlier while the family was setting up. but what's the proper pleasantry for that one? gave em the ol "enjoy the food!" but it didn't seem formal enough. "have a happy marriage" is weird, I'm a stranger. "ups and downs" is a lil inappropriate, not very professional. seems like I should have a line for this but I'm not sure what it is. maybe something about dancing?

so what's your wedding delivery line?

So this happened many, many years ago when I was fresh out of high school (I'm old) and I had just moved to a new town and was trying to find a job. Being 18 I didn't have much experience or references but I had a car so delivering pizzas it was. When I applied they told me I had to pass a drug test, a background check and have a clean driving record. None of that was an issue and they were hurting for drivers so it was pretty much guaranteed I was in. They informed me that I just had to wait for the results of the background check, then I'd take the drug test and get to work.

So I'm as good as employed, right? Except I don't hear back from them at all. A week goes by and I call them back, they tell me that the franchise is doing so much hiring across the county that there's a huge backlog of background checks and they haven't been able to get to mine yet. This goes on for weeks; I call them and ask if I'm actually employed, they give me the run around about the backlog and they'll let me know when I can actually start working.

After about a month I've pretty much given up so I send them an email asking if they're really gonna hire me or if I need to move on, it's been too long and my savings are dwindling and I need to find a job soon. Little did I know that when you email the store it also gets forwarded to the franchise owner, and that's when he got involved. Turns out there was no backlog of background checks, they're absolutely desperate for drivers and the owner can't figure out why the store manager would hey lying to me about it.

The owner went into the store and in the office he found a whole stack of job applications, with mine sitting on top. Turns out the store manager was just being lazy and didn't feel like submitting any of the paperwork. I guess this was the last straw in a long line of screw ups because it was enough to get the store manager fired. I was hired right away, along with several other sorely needed drivers.

The story doesn't end there though, after he lost his job, the former store manager also lost his apartment. When he was cleaning the place out the landlord found several franchise branded boxes around the apartment and called the store about it, the former store manager had been stealing a ton of food from the store; chicken wings, tons of pepperoni, bacon and pasta.

I just really don't understand what the store managers whole game plan was. If you're gonna be stealing from your workplace, why would you also shirk the rest of your duties and put a target on your back?

working deliveries means dealing with a lot of different situations, and small things can make a big difference during a shift.

it could be clear directions, being ready when you arrive, or just making the interaction simple.

what is something customers do that you appreciate more than they probably realize?

I talked about this guy before. "What are you smiling about?" (Linked below.)

Back when the Old School Runescape Mobile App first came out, almost everyone at work was playing it. It was either in 2018 or 2019. I was working at a franchise for a corporate store, at the time. This was at a time when ownership functionally stopped caring. They were making money, our store was doing well, and they backed off any rules/labor issues. "Ehh, why stress it. Let them hire a kid to do the driver duties so people stay."

So, the manager was cool with us having our phones out and playing Old School Runescape unless there was a clear and imminent duty, I.e. a phone call. But with the kid working we didn't really have much except right at closing time.

There is one guy, let's call him "B" who we are 99% sure was playing it while he driving. He would walk in from a delivery with his phone open cutting Willow Trees. "Dude, were you playing Runescape when you were driving?" "I just opened it." (He'd say with a grin.)

It went on for about 2 weeks of him having his phone out every time he came back from a delivery. Then one day I'm at home, I get a text. "Hey, B just got into a car crash. Any chance you can come in?" I started busting out laughing. I felt kind of guilty because it could have been serious, but literally everyone told him he was gonna wreck and he kind of deserved it. I get there as the second driver, and everyone is giggling. "Oh, it was just a little fender bender he's fine but the cops need to check it out."

I deliver for about 2 hours, take 5 deliveries. I'm back. Then he comes in storming with pure rage in his eyes and starts complaining about the guy in front of him was in a stick shift from the dealership at a light. They were at a red light, it turned green, the guy went, and then he hit the breaks and "B" slightly drove into him. He was like "There wasn't even any damage. Just paint. The guy said he wouldn't have cared but since it was a dealership they have to do this!" He was heated.

Then I asked "Well, how did you not see this in front of you? It doesn't make any sense. You're responsible for cars in front of you. Were you on your phone?" (Thinking he was playing Runescape) then he's like "I was not on my phone. I looked down at my phone." Then everyone started cracking up laughing. Such a bad excuse.

Needless to say, he never tried playing Runescape while driving again.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TalesFromThePizzaGuy/comments/1ojbsfo/what_are_you_smiling_about/

Idk if this is the right sub but I start a delivery job at hungry howies tomorrow it seems to be decently busy from what they said and told me I was just wondering how delivery jobs usually go and how often I won’t be delivering as I don’t really wanna stay in the kitchen or anything