I got blacklisted by Dominos because they kept giving me under cooked pizzas (to the point that the dough was literally raw, uncooked, cheese unmelted, toppings cold) and I complained every time. Funny enough, my local Pizza Hut (which is the BEST Pizza Hut I've ever gone to) has me on the priority list because I always leave tips over 50%. I've literally never had a complaint about that Pizza Hut. They even give me those little cheese and pepper shakers for free.
I had the opposite issue with my local Pizza Hut. I used to go there all the time to get an order of breadsticks and would chat with the guy who always worked the register. Then one time I got home and noticed that the marinara sauce tasted and smelled spoiled. I called to explain and emphasized that I wasn't looking for a refund because I was still able to eat the breadsticks without the sauce and just wanted to let them know so no one got sick from it. The person said they'd put their manager on the phone so I had to go through the whole thing again. Then THAT person said they would get their manager and I was like then who the hell was I talking to? Once I again I went through the whole thing and that third person got really nasty with me, insisting that it had been made fresh that morning and there's no way it was spoiled. I was like dude I don't care when it was made, I'm just letting you know so no one gets sicks from eating it and y'all don't have a bigger issue on your hands. Dude then hung up on me so I filed an online complaint with corporate making sure to tell them what an ass the supposed manager was and again emphasizing that I didn't want a refund, I just didn't want people to get freaking sick. Well they sent me a voucher for double what I paid. I figured eff it and used it to get a pizza from there. I got it as a pickup and when I got home I found that the whole underside was still raw. The edge crust was cooked and the top warm but everything else was completely raw. I didn't even bother calling them since I knew what would happen, filed a complaint with corporate but didn't leave my personal info since again I didn't want a damn refund, and never went back. They closed down two months later. I have a feeling I wasn't the only person complaining about their suddenly rubbish service.
@@MisanthropicOcellus actually it isn't. i suspect that particular location had a bad oven and... less-than-attentive workers. the Domino's i worked at never had that issue, and whenever we had a pizza that came out like that, we always checked that the oven was actually working correctly by putting some wings or something through, by itself, and temperature-test it. cold food = dead oven, and we called in for repairs. my location always had 3 ovens available, but we only ever used 2 at a time unless we had particularly large, or numerous, orders to deal with.
It turns out I'm on the no delivery list for almost every restaurant in my area. I just bought the house last year and the old owner was a real jerk. Really racist, and even on the offender registry. I always have to explain this but no one ever believes it until I show up.
We had one area that was crossed out on our map. I never really thought about it but a month or so before I left I asked why. My manager said that a driver got robbed and his car stolen when delivering there. They found the car two days later ON FIRE in a neighboring state. They were moving under the assumption that it was used for trafficking since they set it on fire. They re-listed the area as I left and I heard one of our delivery drivers got robbed. She ended up taking a leave for a week and the day she got back she got robbed AGAIN in the same area by the same people! I was shocked they kept the area listed after the first time.
I work pizza but im lucky as our store in the rich part of town so not too many shady areas. But we do deal with many a-hole customers who you can tell are not use to being told 'no'.
for the memphis story, as someone who was born there it absolutely was valid for them to avoid that whole section. memphis can be really dangerous in centralized areas, like you’re not in danger EVERYWHERE but your safety immediately decreases when you go to a certain street, neighborhood, park, etc. it’s very sad because there’s a lot keeping it that way that’s out of people’s hands
The story about the manager with the whitelist reminded me of my time as a delivery driver for a Chinese restaurant. There was this one house that always tipped super well. Thankfully the place I worked, the drivers split the orders pretty well, and we made sure that when that house came up, the one having the worst night with tips got it. Easy 20 bucks
Yeah, I mean, not to excuse her behavior but I can honestly totally see why she’d do it. Used to work for a pizza place and routinely would walk away with 80+ a night most weekdays and on Friday and Saturday it could be near to 200 if the local high school was hosting an event or one of the warehouses nearby was treating its employees to lunch. Pizza delivery is a lot more lucrative than you’d think.
I can't wrap my head around how people can treat delivery drivers so poorly. I appreciate delivery drivers so much that it's a pleasure to give them a good tip. They might get a little lost or be a little late finding my place but that's to be understood. One time the guy had to call me several times and I had to go out to a visible area to wait for him. He was apologizing profusely like he was in trouble and I told him it wasn't a big deal to me and I thanked him for not giving up like some others have.
Basically the opposite happened to me. A few years ago I was diagnosed with coeliac disease and we order pizza from this one place almost every Friday and one time we forgot to change the pizza base to a gf one and they must have recognised the address because they called us back to check if we forgot, so that was pretty cool of them.
not a delivery driver but a driver is banned from our store cos she treats everyone horribly and she just so happened to mess with the wrong employee (me), for context I work for McDonalds. So she used to come round our drive-thru and scream down the mic as soon as she approached (despite being told not to multiple times) and her latte is always "cold" despite it just coming out of the machine (we always put it under just before she got to the window). so I take her order and payment and start taking another order and as I'm taking the other order, she clicks her fingers at me (a big no-no) so I finish taking the other order and turn back to her and she says "I want a hot chocolate." No manners or anything, so as I'm taking her payment she goes to me "You don't like me do you?" and I just told her no and she goes "Well I don't like your face" (This is a middle aged woman) and I just shrug and as she drives away she calls me a twat. She drove down to the next window and told the manager what happened (she told the truth about what happened so that surprised me) and the manager just said "Well why did you ask her if you didn't want the answer", she got her stuff and left but now she's not welcome.
Something I've noticed about the older generations is they assume that if the mug/cup of drink is cold, that the drink inside must be cold, even IF you just did it in front of them. It's very strange, but I have seen great success in making the mug/cup sit on top of the machine (or even in boiling water in the case of a mug) stop any cold complaints.
You should've cranked up the machine so the Latte is boiling hot. No excuses about it being cold after you get third degrees burn from drinking it. (Don't do that, this is a crime, but it would be a good way to stop them from ever doing it again i it was a legal act.)
The domestic abuse one…we had a local woman with a pack of kids by her abusive husband get tired of that sh-t one night. He got really drunk that night and demanded food to be cooked for him. So she fried up a can of wet cat food and put it on a sandwich-which he was so drunk that he ate it. Then she went and grabbed her son’s baseball bat and beat the supreme sh-t out of him. She broke his jaw, his forearm etc etc. He was so messed up that she called an ambulance. Because of the obvious signs of abuse all over her and her previous hospitalizations due to his abuse-the police didn’t even arrest her. They were just like “well fair enough. Maybe now he won’t do this anymore”. Dude was so afraid and angry at her that he left HER, after he had beat her a bunch of time for trying to leave him. One good beating for himself and he was just done 😂. I guess he didn’t like it when the shoe was on the other foot and it was HIM abused 😂
Similar in our area and neighbour villages. Just a few: - guy got chased down the mane street by an angry mom with a showel after trying to r her daughter. Than went to church and told everyone what she had to do and he dared to force her to chase him. Guy was out casted. - brothers beat up a husband after beating their sister the wife who just gave birth and was on bed rest - kids destroying a property after some snobby neighbours tryed to force HOA - police got beat up by an entire village after some morron called them who got beaten up by the victim's family who he tried to r And many more shinanegans. Police don't do a thing because: A, they get beaten up B, it's the village they live in and risk out casting
I kinda wish it'd been that way for my case, but my mom's a mouse.. My father stopped being physically abusive when I was like 5, but we only properly severed ties three years ago, when I was 15. My mother was 17 when she first started dealing with my dad, who is ten years older. (He'd been dating a woman his own age at the time, from what my mom told me, and it wasn't until she was 19-20 that they started dating. She'd been staying with him as a roommate for school due to having run away from home, I think. Her family wasn't abusive, just very strict and religious. Jewish, though) My father is a narc, and I was his scapegoat for the longest time. We had a childrens' lawyer when I was like 12, but I'd been too blinded by the love-bombing to realise how bad he was abusing and gaslighting us. That is until my last summer there. The final straw was how he reacted when I came out as *questioning* my gender. Not even a certainty, just "maybe I'm trans." His immediate response was stereotypes and sexism from the 80s. Things like "this is why women shouldn't have rights" and "you can't be trans if you like men, you have to be straight if you're trans" part after the comma is paraphrased for context, but yeah. To be clear, we're on the winning end of the legal battle. He hasn't contacted me since christmas about a year ago, when I refused to visit him. My brother though wasn't as smart. Moved in with him about two years ago (will be in august, it's currently june) and is living in a youth shelter because it got so bad. Granted, my brother is a chronic liar, manipulator, and a glutton, and my dad doesn't like how my brother would evade his schooling, or eat more than they could afford, but he was definitely still abusive. He's currently under investigation, and my brother will probably be living with us again once his school year's over. (He's two years, one month, and ten days younger than me, and I was 18 as of the first week of april.) But yeah.. If my mom had had the courage (unlikely) as a 5'6 woman versus a 6'2 ex-soldier, maybe it would have ended faster. Abusers suck, and it's great when the cops let the victim off easy for finally putting their foot down, even if in a violent manner. One can only handle so much.
So glad the guy in story two was finally vindicated. People accusing normal people of being prejudiced against this or that group really irritated me. I’m not saying it was good. They almost got mugged or something, but just that the guy was forced to admit that OP was right and he was wrong and that OP is not racist for trying to be safe - breath of fresh air. God bless.
There was more than one neighborhood I refused to deliver to because the places were shady AF, next to no lights (street or otherwise) and more than once, I was followed back to my car by some sketchy people. I finally told my bosses that I wasn't going to those places after sunset, explained why and they agreed. The city finally just tore those places down, built a training center for the state soccer team, and it's not so bad down that way anymore. Still don't like going through it at night, but at least it's better lit now. The best times I had though were when people tried to offer me a puppy as a tip, and the one guy who would call, ask for me specifically so I could help train his Husky.
Oh, geez, I feel bad for that puppy... :/ I dunno, just, offering a puppy as a tip, I don't wanna make assumptions, but that doesn't sound like a loved puppy.
@@arandomsystemglitch2398 I'd imagine it happens a fair bit.. Some druggie can't find enough cash and offers some random low-personal-value object and just says "here, your tip" Stuff like condoms, or their pet's too-expensive-to-raise offspring, ect.
Delivery drivers if you make a no delivery list FOR THE LOVE OF GOD put the name on it too. This way people like me who move in there when the former resident moves out we don't have to bring 2 utility bills, our ID, and lease agreement only to get told "We can't deliver you are on the no delivery list.'
Agreed, my cousin and his gf and gf's sister found that out when they moved to Brisbane together (have since broken up) and their house was on the blacklist, they later got removed from it when they saw the old owners were gone and it was 3 fresh out of highschool/collage aged people.
Just remember, people: The old addage for "The customer is always right", in full is as follows; "The customer is always right in matters of taste and preference". Just like how "Blood is thicker than water" refers to "Blood of the covenant, thicker than the water of the womb". Reductive omitting of words from phrases drastically changing their meaning in ways the original phrase is contradictory to, is far from new. And it is sadly... Rampant.
Aw man, I’m bummed today I’m late to this. Not a delivery driver but counter staff, and worked at a Chinese takeout place not a pizzeria. Only worked on Fridays because of grad school, the busiest night of the week. One of my coworkers on this shift was basically the laziest person with no work ethic. She’d stand at the corner outside of the camera’s angle and text whenever she could. She’d go to the bathroom several times an hour. When she did take orders, she’s get them wrong, either taking walk-in customers who were good-looking young men (or older men since she was into dilfs - her own words) and spending the time flirting, not taking their orders or else spending the time taking call in orders texting instead of listening to the phone. The last straw was when she came in high as a kite and trashed the bathroom. She was fired and she threatened to come back and smash the shop windows. She ordered delivery from us again but then refused to pay the full amount, citing that, since she worked there until recently, she should get the employee discount. Former employees could usually get an employee discount for a while after leaving since the owners and management were just really friendly people, but obviously this didn’t extend to people who were fired after causing several thousand in plumbing repairs and then threatened them. When she realized that she wouldn’t get the discount, she refused to pay entirely. After that, she was blacklisted.
IDK if this counts but back when I served my substitutional military service in a fire brigade, we had an address as our "grey" list. Ambulances cannot turn down patients so it's not a "black" list. That address had a 100kg+ woman with psychiatric condition, and one night my fire brigade was called for "drunk incident" (a special term for that kind of ambulance calls, meaning someone is drunk and threatening their own or others' health/safety). When we got there the cops were there as well, I was only informed that the patient is drunk and caused some trouble. It was only after like 15 minutes into the ambulance drive that I found a disabled person handbook in her belongings. That plus her behaviour (including but not limited to the very fact that I have to look for ID in her belongings because she won't answer my questions) made me realized "holy fuck this is real, I'm dealing with a patient that has psychiatric conditions". Back at the scene the family members knew, the cops knew, the ambulance driver in the front knew, and I, the person who has to be in the same cabin with her for a 30 minute drive (being sortied with the slowest driver in the brigade definitely didn't help), was the ONLY person who didn't know she has such a condition. So with a patient that has psychiatric condition PLUS drunk I had to do everything the hard way, including at one point having to jump on her and seriously fight her to get her to comply. 10 minutes later we became 5 minutes from hospital, and I radioed the hospital (which is routine), specifically mentioning her attack on our personnel (namely, me). That channel goes to the entire county so my brigade heard it as well. When I returned to the station I was greeted with the biggest care bear treatment you won't imagine was possible for someone serving military service term. The brigade leader was fuming. He immediately called the police station in charge of that area to chew butts (because procedure dictates that when an ambulance is hauling a patient with psychiatric condition, a police officer must be in the ambulance. Those cops skipped that because it was dinner time and they just want to return to station ASAP), even the guy who was harshest on me (because I'm a slow learner in being a paramedic) was worried and that was the biggest laugh that night. Of course, after this, that address and her name became a "grey list". Like I said we can't turn them down but we have the address and name recorded so that if there ever was a next time, we'd know to take extra people and caution.
I'd say my husband and I are the opposite of black listed from Pizza Hut. We order for lunch quite often during the week (we both work from home) and there's one driver who usually works deliveries during the week. They are almost always out of the drink I order, so the driver calls me and we're at the point where he says who it is and I ask if "it's the usual" and he responds with "yes. the usual?" I also have been known to give this particular driver an additional tip in cash. Love it.
I worked at a pizza place in my hometown. They delivered to the local college campus, known for not tipping and violent behaviors. Well, even after several drivers were jumped, robbed and some hospitalized, the company never black listed them. Talk about caring more for the dollar than their people.
Jealous of the shop that banned the naked lady, at my last pizza delivery job I had to deliver to the local nudist resort. There’s something particularly disturbing about a man wearing a T-shirt, baseball cap, tennis shoes, but no pants or underwear.
I work at a popular gas station chain that sells hoagies. We had a customer come in and order 25 sandwiches at the deli counter. My ass of a manager at the time decided to accept the order when we were already busy. I had to make all of these sandwiches while I was already neck deep in other orders. I do not care for this manager.
@@fullmoonshadow6967 A hoagie is a type of bread roll. most people now call it a sub sandwich (think Subway), but a select few areas in the us still refer to it as a hoagie. Most are in the north eastern united states as the term is Italian American and those areas are where most Italian Americans first settled, though you can find small pockets/areas where the term hoagie is used all across the states.
My best pizza story is: One time when I and a few other people were at a friend's place, he phoned up the pizza place to make an order. The call went like this: Friend: "Hello, I'm phoning from [address], can -" Pizza guy: "Ah, hello, the usual? It'll be there in 30 minutes." Friend: "Uh, yes please, thanks, bye!" We all cracked up! This guy ordered the same two pizzas, sides and dips so frequently they knew his exact order by heart. Didn't even need his name, despite there being a dozen residents at this address. OK, maybe it's not the most amazing story when I recount it, but it was absolutely hilarious at the time.
@Story57 it feels so good to say "I AM the manager / i AM the owner" but if someone is exclusively going to go out of their way to waste your time, money, and energy, i think it's a little better when they say "i'm going to come in and talk to the owner" to respond with "sure thing their name is ____ and they'll be here till ___" and have them actually come in and ask for that person before going "Yes, how can i help you?" like you forgot the situation and let the realization hit them so you can see their face when it does. Just go that little extra to waste their time and energy in return :P
Are you alright?! That’s something I’ve noticed. DoorDash, Uber, grubhub, a lot of people are either incredibly rude and entitled, or else violent criminals, and I don’t think that there’s a blacklist in those apps. ☹️
@@jenna2720 yea, I’m alright. I called the cops and as far as I know he didn’t even get arrested. And you’re very right, I’ve had some sketch interactions on all those apps. Bet your bottom dollar every order I got my Glock on my hip just in case now
General PSA: be nice to retail workers generally. I've worked plenty and to spare of retail jobs, and we're just doing our best. One (admittedly unrelated) pet peeve that still guides my actions today: pay attention to whether check-out lanes have their light on before you jump in line. At the very least, just ask. The number of times that I have been stuck frantically trying to work through a backlog of customers for 10-20 minutes, either getting hangry from missing my break or trying desperately to get out the door...
No good person who has had a job running a register ever pulls crap like this. EVERYONE should have to work a cash register and work in customer service in order to know how to treat people. Now that I have moved up in my career and no longer am in customer service, I always try to make the person running the register have a better day by being a nice customer because I know how much better it made me feel.
15 minutes for 200 sandwiches equates to a sandwich every 4 and a half seconds. Even with two workers, that would be 9 seconds per sandwich. She was clearly off her rocker.
Story 14 is eye opening! I really want to just hug OP and comfort them! We think of pizza drivers as just being teenagers making an extra buck, but in reality THIS is the worst case scenario for this job and it cannot be overlooked! Edit: job, not hobby! Hobbies are fun
Hobby? It's a job. I really hope most people don't think of pizza drivers as "just being teenagers trying to make an extra buck." It's a livelihood, and a dangerous one at that.
I definitely paid in quarters sometimes as a kid, but I would make dollar stacks so they could easily see how much I was giving them. It's the only decent thing to do if you have to pay in change.
Good for you! When working a register, a bunch of east european construction workers (I'm in Germany, and this is common. There's lots that work here for a period of time to earn money in construction and go back to family periodically.). They had a mixture of a few small bills, but mostl lots of coins, luckily mostly 20s, some 10s and also a few 50s. I'd only deal with the copper coins if I had to. Their purchase was rather large, it looked like they were buying lunch for the entire team. They came up to me beforehand because they were aware of how this might be trick, so I told them while I had the right to refuse this form of payment, I'd accept it if they had time to wait for a bit and they'd arrange it beforehand in these stacks as I showed them. So I showed them the stacks, and even that they just had to match them in height on a surface to get the same amount, and so they got stacking coins (they got the hang quickly, it's easy after all. I think the height matching of identical denominations is what most people don't realise they can do. Of course as a cashier you should still look out people don't try to sneak in other denominations, but these guys were good to their word.). It was kind of endearing to see these rough and dirty construction guys getting busy arranging small coin stacks by the side of my cash station, like I did when I was a kid and counting my wealth I had collected in my piggy bank.😅 And wouldn't you know, what most of my colleagues would have refused outright took a lot less time with this preparation. I'd rather have this happen (preferrably with them telling me beforehand, not dropping it right in the transaction. Though luckily most modern registers have a function to put a transaction in the background while you do others) than someone trying to pay a small purchase with a huge bill, as that is not only inconvenient, but also a possible attempt to spread fake money. Oh, and that one lady who was grumpy I would give out a wide range of coins for her small purchase she bought with her 50 euros, and few small bills and two euro coins I had right in the morning. I told her this is *all* the change I had I currently had, and while I could give it to her, I then would not have any other change for any following customers. She was one of the first customers, and she nearly ran my change dry as is.
Makes me wonder if I'm the subject matter of anyone's stories... I genuinely don't pay for my pizza orders anymore until I see the pie in person. Why, you ask? Because Pizza Hut is ass, and they had made a habit of placing a hold on my card and then canceling my order, so I couldn't even go in person to carry out another one (times were tight, I wasn't exactly in as good of a spot as I usually am). So I'd make it a point to pull exactly enough cash for my usual order and a 20% tip, order COD, and then have to deal with a handful of phone calls from understandably sketched out delivery drivers, most of whom would end up having a good laugh at their employer's expense when I explained why I was demanding "proof of pie" before letting Pizza Hut see a single red cent
I have a story but it’s not mine, it’s my mom’s. My mom didn’t have a job at the time and worked for an app. It was a Walmart app where they could pick up deliveries and deliver them freely and whenever they want. She made about $20 an hour so 5 hours of working everyday for a week made about $700. Not bad at all. She picked up an order and there was a small description of the house to help her find it. When she got to the house, there was a big dog. Loose. In the yard. It had an invisible fence but it was huge and growling at her. She barely opened her door and it started to show its teeth and growl. Instantly, she shut the door and tried to call the dog’s owner. She called a few times. All went to voicemail. You’re able to take back orders if you don’t want to do the order if you can’t figure it out. Eventually, she went back to Walmart to drop off the delivery. If a house is reported, they have to know why. Obviously for reasons. My mom tells them what happens and apparently, the owner called and said my mom never showed. What? Excuse me?
4:27 HOLY FUCK DUDE. I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT YOU missed the point that she was setting up the fraud the whole time. She knew you can't make sandwiches that quickly.
I doubt it. Spent some time as a driver and a lot of people are just that stupid. We legit had a lady come in and order pizzas for 200 guests for some thing she had going on. When we told her how long it would take she flipped out. She couldn't understand why we couldn't make 50+ pizzas in fifteen minutes, and she was already late. Our manager actually made a pizza in front of her to show how long it takes. When he got it in the oven she just said "Then work faster. I was supposed to have the pizza there an hour ago!" Our manager was cool as hell just said "That sounds like a you problem." and made a remark about there being good books on teaching time management. That one got to the point the owner had to come in to talk with her. It finally ended when she started talking down to him because she was an Assistant Manager at a bank making six figures and he couldn't understand simply being "hired help" who still had a thick Indian accent. He just responded "You're right, I don't understand. I only made four million last year running my stores. I can't comprehend being poor like you." That ended it. Still a good laugh twenty years later.
I once tipped a pizza guy $100, I did it because I had the money at the time, knew it would make his day if I did that, and figured he would remember that for a long time.
I'm a doordasher and there's certain houses here where I'm at that do not get deliveries to him anymore and they're mad about it. But the thing is doordash will allow us to not get orders from them anymore if they notice no one's willing to take them and some people are pissed about it but there's like one lady who consistently saying she didn't get her food which messes up the dashers job so we don't deliver to her no one's willing to take her orders so doordash had to say hey you can't doordash.
I have a silly story in the same vein. Our area wasn't on a blacklist, but the entire city is made up of the kind of house where it's basically tucked down a goat trail with 6 other houses. Our specialist pizza place had a really good directions system that let me enter multiple lines and words, so when we first ordered from there, I put in a few extra directions (take path 1, look for thick banisters) and let the order go through. Still hard to find, so time after time I refined the explanation (if coming from x direction, go past the graffiti, but if you see the elephant go back one turn, or if you come from y direction you'll see the elephant and we're around the next corner, but if you see the grafitti you've gone too far, then down the first path, ignore the second path that points to the northwest, only step on the blue cobblestones) [exaggerated, but with this kind of detail] From that point on, every driver bar two made it to the front door, and when I checked if the instructions had been thorough enough, they were all extremely pleased with the detail that had meant they avoided about 5 wrong doors. Then there are the remaining two. One I forgive, because it seemed like english was his second language and he struggled with the length and specificity, so I totally get him calling us in confusion. He even got to the right pathway, but didn't come down far enough. The other guy though? he was going down the totally wrong set of stairs that were called out in the instructions as being deceptively close (and very easy to tell apart, those ones went off a car-pad, and I explicitly stated they would not lead to us), and wouldn't come down the right stairs, making me have to go all the way to the street. I asked if he'd read any of the instructions at all. "There's way too many, no one bothers with all of those, and your place is so easy to find" except you didn't find it buddy, and ignored all the instructions that said "don't go down those other stairs!"
I was a manager at a pizza joint back in the day. We had a customer that would always call after receiving the delivery and was so upset that the pizza was always cold. It happened so often that I on their next order, I tracked the pizza from the oven to the box to the delivery driver. Sure enough, 10 minutes later, the customer calls after receiving the pizza, that it is stone cold. I had enough and told the customer that it just came out of the oven 10 minutes ago and I know that it was delivered hot. I banned that customer. Another customer, always called to complain that there was always hardly any toppings on the combo pizza. Happened so often, that one day, I personally made the pizza (and put extra) just to shut her up. Sure enough, 10 minutes later after receiving her delivery, she calls and says there's no sausage and no pepperoni on the pizza. (Only veggies) I said I made the pizza myself and I KNOW that I put all the toppings on, in the correct amounts. I banned her from ordering from us. Fast forward several years later, I'm no longer in the pizza industry, and I run into one of my old delivery drivers. We reminisce for a bit about the "good 'ol days" when we he worked for me. One of his anecdotes was about how he and the other drivers would screw over customers who didn't tip. After leaving the store, they would take out the pizza box from the bag and open the box. (To let the pizza get cold while they were driving) Then deliver it cold... Also, they would open the box while driving to the customers house and eat the toppings!!!! DAMN....the customer's were right! Lesson learned, most of the time customers are wrong and just want something for free, but occasionally they were right...
Not really my story, but a friend of mine works at a local pizza shop that has a policy of, if you're a sex offender, they don't sell or deliver pizza to you. Legitimately they look every address up to see if it's on the registered sex offenders list and if it is, you ain't getting your pizza
Sadly had a similar incident here in Japan I say sadly because it was a case of false accusation but because of the justice system he was put on the offenders list, he was already on the suicide watch/check list at my work but he went to order at his favourite pizza place who does the same as your friends but we refused sadly this pushed him over the edge because he couldn't order anymore at his favourite long memory place and ended up hanging himself the next day. I don't blame the pizza place etc it's a policy they've always had because it's run by a mainly female family crew but it was just unfortunate enough to push this guy over the edge since then they check around with the story's instead of just looking at names I work in cyber crime so alot of people are falsely accused for money these days especially tourists obviously the real offenders exist and the falsely accused are a small minority in comparison just goes to check out someone's story first! But it was strange to hear somewhere else does the same haha
You shouldn't even be allowed in public other than a public prison in those cases, imagine thinking it's okay to let animals like that stay free, they clearly don't have the self control expected from any human being.
I have 2 rotties, and I ordered two pizzas and paid for them online, but was going to give the driver a cash tip (left note saying such in the order.) The dogs (who are well socialized, but loud and intimidating) were locked in the front bedroom so they couldn't even get to the front door. Driver heard the barking, saw the faces in the window, put the pizzas down on the driveway where he was, jumped back in his car and fled. I felt bad for the dude, knowing it was probably a horrible experience that caused that reaction.
@@liwiathan Agreed. My dad had an abuse rescue one. Sweetest traumatized thing ever. He sadly never got to fully recover (Dad got him in 2016, wasn't even looking for new dog but old owners were gonna take him out the back and shoot him) when he died in 2021 to a paralysis tick.
At 12:39 "Pizza The Hut".... Somebody just dropped a Spaceballs reference! [FYI: Jabba the Hutt was from Star Wars, Pizza the Hut was from Spaceballs.]
To be fair when I lived in the sticks the only takeaway available was the fish n chip shops. Didn’t even have a supermarket just a convenience store. Pizza shop 3 towns over would only deliver to the next town over. So if we wanted pizza we had to drive the 20 mins to the service station in that town to wait, while their driver came from 20 mins in the opposite direction. Worked for everyone involved no problem. After I got a job in the big town the neighbours would call and ask me to bring other kinds of takeaway on my way home. Gave me free milk, eggs and meat for my trouble. 🇦🇺
This was a Strange Delivery story from my 18yo son when he delivered for PH. He was taking a pizza order out to an area of town where it was dead end dirt roads. He rolled up to the house and it was dark, no lights on in the house or porch? He walks down and to the garage side of the house and sees a huge quonset hutwith the door open and lights on. He walked to the door and said, "hello? Pizza....." a guy walks up and stops him at the door. The guy paid cash and said " you didn't see anything " my son said Nope Nothing He tipped $20 and slowly closed the door . My son said it was a $15 pizza, he got a $20 tip and saw the LARGEST INDOOR POT FARM EVER. We live in a state where weed is still illegal but we are surrounded by 100% legal weed for everyone? Makes no sense.
The decoy pizza thing is absolutely genius. If you're going to have a difficult customer who regularly orders anyway, but always complains about the first pizza you give them, make them one that isn't going to be eaten anyway
I delivered pizzas briefly. I had a couple calls that I used my gut feeling on amd didn't deliver. Was too sketched out. Best delivery I ever had was my 2nd day on the job. A 5 pizza order for a party. I totally forgot their drinks but they were cool about it. I brought the drinks back and they still tipped me $50. Super nice people.
I have a story similar to two of these. I delivered a pizza to a guy's house once, and he paid me in all change. I gave him his pizza, he closed the door, and I counted out all the change right there on his doorstep. He was about three dollars short. I knocked on his door again to get the rest, and he answered with a shotgun in hand. I didn't say anything; I just put the change in my pocket and left. He got on the "do not deliver" list after that, and it wasn't long before his whole apartment complex was blacked out on the map.
I just really loved something about the kid getting reprimanded for "trying to rob" the delivery driver and them getting to know that their work is appreciated in a round about way.
I work for a package delivery company and we have a low income housing project that is several hundred units that is on the north side of delivery list. Too many drivers have been threatened, robbed, and shot at. Anytime someone new moves in they are always PISSED when they find out they cannot get packages delivered there.
I worked delivery for Papa John's a few years ago. One delivery i made ended up on the no delivery list right after. I showed up with the pizza and everything and they don't have enough money. They start trying to bully me into covering the last like 5 bucks, i say something like "uh no way, you should be paying ME, not the other way around. You would have had enough money if you didn't order delivery" (they were only like 2 miles away and actually I'm not sure if I even said that to their face or just thought it) they slam the door in my face and i take the food back to the store. When i get there the manager says the people called and said i cussed them out and called them the n word (I'm white, they were black. I've literally never used that word in my life) I explained what REALLY happened and the manager believed me and put them on the list, but man the AUDACITY of that interaction still baffles me. A lot of shit happened with that job, but i just remember this one time i was SO pissed at the person i was delivering to. I wanted to spit in her food SO FUCKING BAD, but now i don't even remember why lol. Anyways i guess I'm proud to say i never did do anything to anyone's food no matter how bad i wanted to steal a slice sometimes lmao
I'm surprised by the escort house. I used to do pizza delivery for Dominos and the escort house we delivered to always tipped really well and were really kind.
I worked at Dominoes in Australia when I was in high school 2012-2014 and a guy got added to our no delivery list bc he verbally abused me on the phone, threatened to come down and shoot the place up. Actually came to our store and screamed and yelled at me (a then 15/16 year old girl) and threw his perfectly good pizza and chocolate lava cake at me… Still no idea why he went off the deep end.
As a 17 year old woman, I don't understand some men. My cousin, male, has a crappy boss (he doesn't always pay up and they work in diesel mechanics) and he agrees some people shouldn't have power nor should have access to money if they just treat younger people or women like this.
I ordered a pizza for the last time from a big chain store. They delivered the wrong pizza. I sent it back, and they replaced it, but the correct pizza tasted like dish soap. Don't screw good tippers. I normally tip 30-50%, depending on delivery distance.
We had a "blacklist", but not a pizza place. A hotel. In a college city, I worked as the night receptionist, so I, of course, saw the craziest shit. We had a TYPED, two-page long list of people that weren't allowed to stay there and reasons why. In my free time on my first few night shifts there after training, I would read through this list and all the insane reasons why they were blacklisted. Keep in mind that in order to book here, you had to give us an ID with your name, home address, and picture on it, which was scanned into our system. I added three people to the list myself in the two years I worked there. A few I remember: 1> Client didn't want the neighbors calling the police on him again, so he booked a room to beat his wife in. 2> Client brought six badgers into a no-pet room (which was, hilariously, all the rooms at this location). 3> Client made a make-shift firepit in his room and burned a giant pile of weed in it to hotbox. The entire hotel and block smelled like weed for days. 4> Client pooped in front of the door right before checking out so the cleaning ladies would step in it. 5> Client has attempted to commit suicide in our hotel rooms multiple times; his family requested we do not service him anymore. 6> Client booked the entire hotel and paid a huge deposit for an entire weekend. Turns out, it was the weekend client's ex-girlfriend was getting married, and this hotel was the closest to the venue. 7> Client checked out and left her four very young children in the room for staff to find with no food, no clothes, and dirty diapers. 8> Nice client "bought" cookies for the entire staff as a thank you for letting him book an entire week in advance. Cookies were full of weed, the entire staff was high including the owner of the hotel chain.
I once delivered a sandwich to a dude that had a big ass French mastiff. When he opened the door, that dog knocked me flat on my ass. I saved the sammich by raising both my arms and just laid there until the dude came outside, getting absolutely smothered by kisses by the giant dog for 5 mins. Best delivery ever.
I love the dude from story 51 he’s just a vibe. Something weirdly wholesome of having a list that’s basically just the shops favourite customers. Bet he gets extra toppings.
4:14 I've got to say your statement is definitely not sexist. As a woman im lucky if i could make 4-6 sandwiches in 15 mins especially if they are all different 🤦🏻♀️ she has high expectations but she also sounds like a Karen
It comes from being on the internet too long, if you say _anything_ online, _someone somewhere_ is going to interpret it in the least charitable way humanly possible. It's inevitable.
Delivered pizzas back in the 80s when we didn’t have to worry about the crime like today, plus it was a college town, so sketchy areas were pretty much just poor college kids. My only concern then was prank calls to unoccupied apts. this was my thought one night near Halloween (yes, it was a dark & stormy) as I climbed the rickety wooden stairs to the third floor of the back of an old house converted to apts, with no porch light ( people used to turn on the outside light at night when expecting a delivery), so I was slightly suspicious when I saw no outside light, certain I was being pranked when I climbed all the way up and saw no inside lights either…I could see no doorbell so I knocked loudly, and promptly heard a loud thump inside. Now I’m really on alert…a little while goes by and finally the door slowly opens and I see 2 couples, only the light of a TV inside. one guy is on the floor with a shocked look his face, the person answering the door is cracking up, and answers my quizzical looks by telling me they were watching a horror flick, were so engrossed in the movie they forgot they’d ordered a pizza, and I knocked at THE critical moment in the movie when the tension was the highest, giving them all a good scare.😁
When I was in college, I would treat myself to Pizza every week to week and a half or so. I always got the same delivery guy, he was awesome. One time, I ordered like six times the amount of pizza I normally did because I was having the mother of all parties, and he came to my house and said I know you, I know this can’t all be for you. I don’t know why that sticks out in my mind, just that he remembered.
Honestly I was expecting an annoyingly fast paced AI voice to read over this but I was surprised :) your voice reads these posts very naturally and not overly hamfisted!
My pizza store doesn't have our own delivery drivers (We work with uber) however, one driver did get blacklisted from our store. I'm pretty sure this is the only person blacklisted, and it's because they smeared their own poop on the walls of our bathroom, since prepping the order took to long.
I think I'm on the good tipper list. I always do at least 20% and ask for no contact delivery. I've noticed they load up on the toppings, and when the app says 45-60 minutes, delivered in less than 30 😊.
A sad one for me. Was either the assistant manager or shift lead at the time at pizza slut. One of our drivers went missing the previous night and was then later found murdered. Black listed the whole area.
Delivery driver here! Only guy that I know of getting banded was becuz of me! He would show up to his door (always paid cash) in nothing but very dirty underwear and would take ages to give u the money all while trying to get you to come inside. He would only do this to female drivers.
Why would the DM be _happy_ they kept a difficult customer? And what are their margins that they can afford to throw away an entire pizza each time? They're essentially giving this lady half off, only she doesn't even eat one of them, and their only solace is at least they don't use full cheese on it? If it were me, one day I'd deliver her a pizza one day with _extra_ sauce. Not just a little bit extra, either. Not just a lot extra, not just enough to make you sick, I mean so much that when you open that pizza box it looks like the elevator scene from the Shining. Then, when she inevitably complains, I'd say, "Well... you always reject the first one, and accept the second, no matter what. So we've got a bet going down at the shop, see the next one's gonna have twice as much sauce!" Then I'd put her on the black list.
15:30 I am so using "thin crust pizza, double anchovies, olives, extra cheese" as a code word. I don't know for what, but I so wanna use it for something!
Pizza workers I moved into an apartment and discovered It's been on the no delivery list for just about EVERYWHERE that delivers for years alresdy. I have gone to the shops IN PERSON with my ID, 2 utility bills, and my lease only to get told your address is on our no delivery list that means we can't deliver to your address. I'm like 'Your system has a woman's name attached to the address. You say it's been this way for a few years now. I have proof I just moved in to this address in the form of utility bills, a lease, and a valid ID. Please take me off the no delivery list.' They're like 'If you're on the no delivery list we can't deliver to you.' What can I do. P.S. I don't know if this will help or not but where I live and out of date law from the around 1950's give the local DMV the right to at their discretion deny diabetics driver licenses cause our sugar could crash while we're behind the wheel leading to an accident and food is not allowed on the bus in ANY form so I am reliant on delivery.
wow that sucks :( i unfortunately have no idea how to fix this aside from specifically calling/speaking to the managers (rather than a regular employee who may not have the power to remove you from the list) of these places and maybe the managers above them in the corporate hierarchy and explaining your situation, that you've moved in recently and are not the former resident, and that you are reliant on delivery? i know you didn't ask so feel free to ignore this but i do have some ideas on how to order food in the event you can't get this sorted: - maybe trying to ask gor advice on how to recify the issue on an active (recent posts, a few thousand members at least) subreddit for your local area or food delivery with specific companies or people seeking legal/customer advice could help generate a way to solve this? or a similar social media group (eg: Facebook group, NextDoor app if that's available in your region)? - idk your transport system's rules or what grocery options are available but maybe the bus will allow uncooked food - eg: prepared tinned food, refrigerated or frozen ready meals? - if any new food delivery apps have opened up, perhaps your place isn’t yet banned - call first to check before making an order just in case they accept and take payment but don't deliver. - maybe you could ask for delivery to a nearby place - either a couple doors down from you if you've nice neighbours who won't eat your food and are happy for you to wait outside their place? - request deliveries to a nearby apartment complex or hotel or business where you don't specify a house or room number but ask to meet in the lobby or by the entrance - to avoid someone else claiming the order and refusing to give it to you, maybe ask to pay upon receiving it or use an app which requires you to give a code to the delivery person or state your name and ask the delivery people to confirm it's you before handing it over? - finally, are there any charities or peer support groups in your local area? these can be for people with diabetes or other conditions or who require help with shopping for different reasons. check online via search engines and maybe call local charities or third-sector / social or government support organisations to see if this could be available to you?
@@projectjupiter5523 in regards to the bus issues the supervisors say it's just no eating on the bus the drivers say no fod period and since here you can't record without permission I have no proof of this and for whatever reason even though everything's open again the food pantries are still on curbside only which I can't do since I don't driver (An old law from around 1950 bars diabetics from driving).
Not sure if you've resolved the issue or not, but, you might have to comment the issue on their social media if they have one. Businesses tend to listen to those more than direct contact, unfortunately.
My wife spent 15 years in Pizza, Triple Sauce Mike is the story she imitatively thought of when i gave her the prompt. Guy would order triple the amount of sauce and get upset because the toppings and sauce would be all over the place. You put that much sauce on the pizza, its going to just be tomato soup on flat bread for a normal pizza, they eventually told him no.
I also love the racist getting banned for being a bully to black employees. The food industry is already dangerous and you may constantly having to feel extreme heat for hours. Nobody needs to also deal with a bully customer too.
I've been delivering pizza for about 4 years and I guess I've been pretty lucky. I've never seen someone end up on a No Delivery list, but there's one lady that ended up on it right before I started working at my current job and I was there the last time she called right after I started. She was a repeat check bouncer.
I feel bad for the folks who will live in Story 2's dorm in the future. In like 5 years, I imagine this conversation could happen: "Hey, why can't we get Bob's Pizza to our dorm?" "Because some seniors five years ago kept sending in fake orders."
Tip culture seems so weird to me. I pay for food, i pay for delivery and i'm expected to basically pay a "i'm no asshole" tax? I understand giving a tip if you're happy with service but when it's expected you give more money or else you're a bad person just feels manipulative. I'm from Europe so i probably just don't understand. Edit: just heard the bit about deliveries being made with personal transport. In that case, yeah a tip makes sense.
@@asthmeresivolisk3129 In fairness, from what I've been led to believe, restaurants in Europe actually charge more than in the US, so you'd still be paying roughly the same.
@@stevenbart2375 then I live under a delusion. But honestly that makes sense. I have done additional research since and apparently another benefit of typing for employees, especially ones that work at bars, is that they often take home significantly more than minimum wage due to the generosity of their patrons. I suppose there's more to tipping than I originally believed. Perhaps there's even some merit to the practice.
@@asthmeresivolisk3129 At the same time, they should be making the standard minimum wage, instead of having to rely on tips. The federal minimum for tipped workers is ~$2-3/hr, and they're taxed as if they're making $8+. And if they don't make as much as they "should" in tips, they still have to pay taxes on what they didn't earn.
Former Pizza Hut driver. 5 1/2 years working there. Thankfully was never robbed, but I’ve seen some crazy stuff to justify putting people on a list. There was a whole mansion/apartment complex full of people that would order, not answer the door or phone, then complain when I return the order to the store. Like, I’m not sorry you peaked-in-high-school dropouts are a waste of time and resources.
Not on the ban list, on the good customer list, like they would give me free 2 liters of soda, really cool of them, but I had to stop ordering pizza, was getting too expensive, sadly.
I work at a pizza place and i dont think we have a Do Not Deliver to address? Not that i know of, but i dont do deliveries, Im the one making the pizzas normally. But we might add one, not sure, but its actually a local school. The recently ordered alot of pizzas from us like 300 pizzas. but the email they sent didnt say what size and they ordered last year with them all being smalls pizzas but this time they wanted them large. So at like 1 pm or so we have just made 300 small pizzas only to be told that they need LARGE pizzas. So we had to go make a bunch of large pizzas. We only charged them for the smalls with a major discount. BUT they then called later wanting a BIGGER discount because the pizzas were 'burnt'. (the cheese was browned). the worst part was the fact that they didnt tip at ALL. this was like a $500 maybe $1000. it really messed up our supplies for the rest of the week. I will mention this is all second hand information as i was scheduled to work at the time but i came in after it all went down to piss offed coworkers. But as a store we all agree that we dont want to deal with them anymore.
Well this is nice, I worked at a pizza place once for a little bit in my younger adult life and can safely say that we've never had, while I was working there anyway, a person who did this. However I would say the real problem was the pizza place itself. I worked at a place called Dominos and it was a hell. The manager was a moron, every person there had some kind of drama, and the place was so unkept I vowed to never order from there again. They kept the dough when it was out of the fridge room next to the sink everyone washed their hands in and dishes/tools got cleaned, and yes there was a bit of splashing and I know for a fact people were eating soap in their pizza as a result. Worst still the place ended up having it's Pizza oven thing (IDK what it's called it's like a pizza oven with a conveyor-belt) Repoed once because the thing wasn't paid for, right in the middle of a lunch rush at that but that happened after I left. Sometimes the worst people in fast food are the people you work for
I got blacklisted by Dominos because they kept giving me under cooked pizzas (to the point that the dough was literally raw, uncooked, cheese unmelted, toppings cold) and I complained every time. Funny enough, my local Pizza Hut (which is the BEST Pizza Hut I've ever gone to) has me on the priority list because I always leave tips over 50%. I've literally never had a complaint about that Pizza Hut. They even give me those little cheese and pepper shakers for free.
I had the opposite issue with my local Pizza Hut. I used to go there all the time to get an order of breadsticks and would chat with the guy who always worked the register. Then one time I got home and noticed that the marinara sauce tasted and smelled spoiled. I called to explain and emphasized that I wasn't looking for a refund because I was still able to eat the breadsticks without the sauce and just wanted to let them know so no one got sick from it. The person said they'd put their manager on the phone so I had to go through the whole thing again. Then THAT person said they would get their manager and I was like then who the hell was I talking to? Once I again I went through the whole thing and that third person got really nasty with me, insisting that it had been made fresh that morning and there's no way it was spoiled. I was like dude I don't care when it was made, I'm just letting you know so no one gets sicks from eating it and y'all don't have a bigger issue on your hands. Dude then hung up on me so I filed an online complaint with corporate making sure to tell them what an ass the supposed manager was and again emphasizing that I didn't want a refund, I just didn't want people to get freaking sick.
Well they sent me a voucher for double what I paid. I figured eff it and used it to get a pizza from there. I got it as a pickup and when I got home I found that the whole underside was still raw. The edge crust was cooked and the top warm but everything else was completely raw. I didn't even bother calling them since I knew what would happen, filed a complaint with corporate but didn't leave my personal info since again I didn't want a damn refund, and never went back. They closed down two months later. I have a feeling I wasn't the only person complaining about their suddenly rubbish service.
No one out pizzas' the hut.
Im pretty sure thats the dominoes style
@@MisanthropicOcellus actually it isn't. i suspect that particular location had a bad oven and... less-than-attentive workers. the Domino's i worked at never had that issue, and whenever we had a pizza that came out like that, we always checked that the oven was actually working correctly by putting some wings or something through, by itself, and temperature-test it. cold food = dead oven, and we called in for repairs. my location always had 3 ovens available, but we only ever used 2 at a time unless we had particularly large, or numerous, orders to deal with.
Lucky but I don’t eat pizza though
New fear unlocked: moving to a new house and finding out the previous owners got it blacklisted
200 sandwiches in 15 minutes equates to 1 sandwich every 4.5 seconds
Not including the time it would take for the food to actually arrive.
They probably assume that the restaurant has a hundred Oompa-Loompah slaves in back making the sandwiches.
Man it takes me longer than that to get the bread out
Holyfuck-
So if the travel time was somehow met, she was getting extremely shitty sandwiches and multiple complaints
It turns out I'm on the no delivery list for almost every restaurant in my area. I just bought the house last year and the old owner was a real jerk. Really racist, and even on the offender registry. I always have to explain this but no one ever believes it until I show up.
that sucks man
I’m sorry for laughing, but that is pretty hilarious
@@Nopadopebro bought the ghosts too
@CocoGames_0lmao facts 😂😂😭
That's sad!
We had one area that was crossed out on our map. I never really thought about it but a month or so before I left I asked why. My manager said that a driver got robbed and his car stolen when delivering there. They found the car two days later ON FIRE in a neighboring state. They were moving under the assumption that it was used for trafficking since they set it on fire. They re-listed the area as I left and I heard one of our delivery drivers got robbed. She ended up taking a leave for a week and the day she got back she got robbed AGAIN in the same area by the same people! I was shocked they kept the area listed after the first time.
I work pizza but im lucky as our store in the rich part of town so not too many shady areas. But we do deal with many a-hole customers who you can tell are not use to being told 'no'.
for the memphis story, as someone who was born there it absolutely was valid for them to avoid that whole section. memphis can be really dangerous in centralized areas, like you’re not in danger EVERYWHERE but your safety immediately decreases when you go to a certain street, neighborhood, park, etc. it’s very sad because there’s a lot keeping it that way that’s out of people’s hands
Fellow Memphian here and I highly agree!
Also mempnian but have since left, love my 901 but not a good place to raise kids if it's not Germantown or Mississippi lol
The story about the manager with the whitelist reminded me of my time as a delivery driver for a Chinese restaurant. There was this one house that always tipped super well. Thankfully the place I worked, the drivers split the orders pretty well, and we made sure that when that house came up, the one having the worst night with tips got it. Easy 20 bucks
Yeah, I mean, not to excuse her behavior but I can honestly totally see why she’d do it. Used to work for a pizza place and routinely would walk away with 80+ a night most weekdays and on Friday and Saturday it could be near to 200 if the local high school was hosting an event or one of the warehouses nearby was treating its employees to lunch. Pizza delivery is a lot more lucrative than you’d think.
I can't wrap my head around how people can treat delivery drivers so poorly. I appreciate delivery drivers so much that it's a pleasure to give them a good tip. They might get a little lost or be a little late finding my place but that's to be understood. One time the guy had to call me several times and I had to go out to a visible area to wait for him. He was apologizing profusely like he was in trouble and I told him it wasn't a big deal to me and I thanked him for not giving up like some others have.
Basically the opposite happened to me. A few years ago I was diagnosed with coeliac disease and we order pizza from this one place almost every Friday and one time we forgot to change the pizza base to a gf one and they must have recognised the address because they called us back to check if we forgot, so that was pretty cool of them.
Keeping you safe ❤️😭
What nice people!
Ngl, this sounds like somebody claiming they were diagnosed celiacs, when in reality they self diagnosed gluten intolerant.
@@marcush4741you have nothing to base that on other than your own cynical psyche
Now THAT is customer service!
not a delivery driver but a driver is banned from our store cos she treats everyone horribly and she just so happened to mess with the wrong employee (me), for context I work for McDonalds.
So she used to come round our drive-thru and scream down the mic as soon as she approached (despite being told not to multiple times) and her latte is always "cold" despite it just coming out of the machine (we always put it under just before she got to the window). so I take her order and payment and start taking another order and as I'm taking the other order, she clicks her fingers at me (a big no-no) so I finish taking the other order and turn back to her and she says "I want a hot chocolate." No manners or anything, so as I'm taking her payment she goes to me "You don't like me do you?" and I just told her no and she goes "Well I don't like your face" (This is a middle aged woman) and I just shrug and as she drives away she calls me a twat. She drove down to the next window and told the manager what happened (she told the truth about what happened so that surprised me) and the manager just said "Well why did you ask her if you didn't want the answer", she got her stuff and left but now she's not welcome.
Something I've noticed about the older generations is they assume that if the mug/cup of drink is cold, that the drink inside must be cold, even IF you just did it in front of them. It's very strange, but I have seen great success in making the mug/cup sit on top of the machine (or even in boiling water in the case of a mug) stop any cold complaints.
You should've cranked up the machine so the Latte is boiling hot. No excuses about it being cold after you get third degrees burn from drinking it. (Don't do that, this is a crime, but it would be a good way to stop them from ever doing it again i it was a legal act.)
The domestic abuse one…we had a local woman with a pack of kids by her abusive husband get tired of that sh-t one night. He got really drunk that night and demanded food to be cooked for him. So she fried up a can of wet cat food and put it on a sandwich-which he was so drunk that he ate it. Then she went and grabbed her son’s baseball bat and beat the supreme sh-t out of him. She broke his jaw, his forearm etc etc. He was so messed up that she called an ambulance. Because of the obvious signs of abuse all over her and her previous hospitalizations due to his abuse-the police didn’t even arrest her. They were just like “well fair enough. Maybe now he won’t do this anymore”. Dude was so afraid and angry at her that he left HER, after he had beat her a bunch of time for trying to leave him. One good beating for himself and he was just done 😂. I guess he didn’t like it when the shoe was on the other foot and it was HIM abused 😂
At least the police understood what was going on in a hard situation.
Similar in our area and neighbour villages. Just a few:
- guy got chased down the mane street by an angry mom with a showel after trying to r her daughter. Than went to church and told everyone what she had to do and he dared to force her to chase him. Guy was out casted.
- brothers beat up a husband after beating their sister the wife who just gave birth and was on bed rest
- kids destroying a property after some snobby neighbours tryed to force HOA
- police got beat up by an entire village after some morron called them who got beaten up by the victim's family who he tried to r
And many more shinanegans. Police don't do a thing because:
A, they get beaten up
B, it's the village they live in and risk out casting
I kinda wish it'd been that way for my case, but my mom's a mouse.. My father stopped being physically abusive when I was like 5, but we only properly severed ties three years ago, when I was 15. My mother was 17 when she first started dealing with my dad, who is ten years older. (He'd been dating a woman his own age at the time, from what my mom told me, and it wasn't until she was 19-20 that they started dating. She'd been staying with him as a roommate for school due to having run away from home, I think. Her family wasn't abusive, just very strict and religious. Jewish, though)
My father is a narc, and I was his scapegoat for the longest time. We had a childrens' lawyer when I was like 12, but I'd been too blinded by the love-bombing to realise how bad he was abusing and gaslighting us. That is until my last summer there. The final straw was how he reacted when I came out as *questioning* my gender. Not even a certainty, just "maybe I'm trans." His immediate response was stereotypes and sexism from the 80s. Things like "this is why women shouldn't have rights" and "you can't be trans if you like men, you have to be straight if you're trans" part after the comma is paraphrased for context, but yeah.
To be clear, we're on the winning end of the legal battle. He hasn't contacted me since christmas about a year ago, when I refused to visit him. My brother though wasn't as smart. Moved in with him about two years ago (will be in august, it's currently june) and is living in a youth shelter because it got so bad. Granted, my brother is a chronic liar, manipulator, and a glutton, and my dad doesn't like how my brother would evade his schooling, or eat more than they could afford, but he was definitely still abusive. He's currently under investigation, and my brother will probably be living with us again once his school year's over. (He's two years, one month, and ten days younger than me, and I was 18 as of the first week of april.)
But yeah.. If my mom had had the courage (unlikely) as a 5'6 woman versus a 6'2 ex-soldier, maybe it would have ended faster.
Abusers suck, and it's great when the cops let the victim off easy for finally putting their foot down, even if in a violent manner. One can only handle so much.
@@antares8476 I'm glad to be canadian, while the HOA only exists in the US.
@@fullmoonshadow6967 *hugs* I'm glad things are a bit better for you now.
So glad the guy in story two was finally vindicated. People accusing normal people of being prejudiced against this or that group really irritated me. I’m not saying it was good. They almost got mugged or something, but just that the guy was forced to admit that OP was right and he was wrong and that OP is not racist for trying to be safe - breath of fresh air. God bless.
Exactly just because a person complains doesn't mean they are racist. Glad someone agrees.
The manager was the only racist in that story
@@Veronica-dx7oo exactly. What some might erroneously call racism is in reality, like in this situation, just common sense.
@@PixelSlayer247 yeah. He assumed way too much.
There was more than one neighborhood I refused to deliver to because the places were shady AF, next to no lights (street or otherwise) and more than once, I was followed back to my car by some sketchy people. I finally told my bosses that I wasn't going to those places after sunset, explained why and they agreed. The city finally just tore those places down, built a training center for the state soccer team, and it's not so bad down that way anymore. Still don't like going through it at night, but at least it's better lit now.
The best times I had though were when people tried to offer me a puppy as a tip, and the one guy who would call, ask for me specifically so I could help train his Husky.
Oh, geez, I feel bad for that puppy... :/ I dunno, just, offering a puppy as a tip, I don't wanna make assumptions, but that doesn't sound like a loved puppy.
Poor puppy but i wonder if there's any storys where a driver just brings back some random thing and say it's a tip
Yes, it happens, random weirdos will tip weird random things.
@@arandomsystemglitch2398 I'd imagine it happens a fair bit.. Some druggie can't find enough cash and offers some random low-personal-value object and just says "here, your tip"
Stuff like condoms, or their pet's too-expensive-to-raise offspring, ect.
Delivery drivers if you make a no delivery list FOR THE LOVE OF GOD put the name on it too. This way people like me who move in there when the former resident moves out we don't have to bring 2 utility bills, our ID, and lease agreement only to get told "We can't deliver you are on the no delivery list.'
Agreed, my cousin and his gf and gf's sister found that out when they moved to Brisbane together (have since broken up) and their house was on the blacklist, they later got removed from it when they saw the old owners were gone and it was 3 fresh out of highschool/collage aged people.
Just remember, people:
The old addage for "The customer is always right", in full is as follows; "The customer is always right in matters of taste and preference".
Just like how "Blood is thicker than water" refers to "Blood of the covenant, thicker than the water of the womb".
Reductive omitting of words from phrases drastically changing their meaning in ways the original phrase is contradictory to, is far from new. And it is sadly... Rampant.
This, so much this. It’s infuriating.
In addition, "The customer is always right in matters of taste and preference" originates from a Pimp being overheard giving instruction to his hoes.
No, the original phrase is the original phrase. The extra words were added later. Look it up.
wait, so blood of the covenant, thicker than the water of the womb implies _friends over family_ ?
@@SpaghettiDog86. It was originally "blood is thicker than water". Someone retconned it after that.
Aw man, I’m bummed today I’m late to this. Not a delivery driver but counter staff, and worked at a Chinese takeout place not a pizzeria. Only worked on Fridays because of grad school, the busiest night of the week. One of my coworkers on this shift was basically the laziest person with no work ethic. She’d stand at the corner outside of the camera’s angle and text whenever she could. She’d go to the bathroom several times an hour. When she did take orders, she’s get them wrong, either taking walk-in customers who were good-looking young men (or older men since she was into dilfs - her own words) and spending the time flirting, not taking their orders or else spending the time taking call in orders texting instead of listening to the phone. The last straw was when she came in high as a kite and trashed the bathroom. She was fired and she threatened to come back and smash the shop windows. She ordered delivery from us again but then refused to pay the full amount, citing that, since she worked there until recently, she should get the employee discount. Former employees could usually get an employee discount for a while after leaving since the owners and management were just really friendly people, but obviously this didn’t extend to people who were fired after causing several thousand in plumbing repairs and then threatened them. When she realized that she wouldn’t get the discount, she refused to pay entirely. After that, she was blacklisted.
IDK if this counts but back when I served my substitutional military service in a fire brigade, we had an address as our "grey" list. Ambulances cannot turn down patients so it's not a "black" list.
That address had a 100kg+ woman with psychiatric condition, and one night my fire brigade was called for "drunk incident" (a special term for that kind of ambulance calls, meaning someone is drunk and threatening their own or others' health/safety).
When we got there the cops were there as well, I was only informed that the patient is drunk and caused some trouble. It was only after like 15 minutes into the ambulance drive that I found a disabled person handbook in her belongings. That plus her behaviour (including but not limited to the very fact that I have to look for ID in her belongings because she won't answer my questions) made me realized "holy fuck this is real, I'm dealing with a patient that has psychiatric conditions".
Back at the scene the family members knew, the cops knew, the ambulance driver in the front knew, and I, the person who has to be in the same cabin with her for a 30 minute drive (being sortied with the slowest driver in the brigade definitely didn't help), was the ONLY person who didn't know she has such a condition.
So with a patient that has psychiatric condition PLUS drunk I had to do everything the hard way, including at one point having to jump on her and seriously fight her to get her to comply. 10 minutes later we became 5 minutes from hospital, and I radioed the hospital (which is routine), specifically mentioning her attack on our personnel (namely, me). That channel goes to the entire county so my brigade heard it as well.
When I returned to the station I was greeted with the biggest care bear treatment you won't imagine was possible for someone serving military service term. The brigade leader was fuming. He immediately called the police station in charge of that area to chew butts (because procedure dictates that when an ambulance is hauling a patient with psychiatric condition, a police officer must be in the ambulance. Those cops skipped that because it was dinner time and they just want to return to station ASAP), even the guy who was harshest on me (because I'm a slow learner in being a paramedic) was worried and that was the biggest laugh that night.
Of course, after this, that address and her name became a "grey list". Like I said we can't turn them down but we have the address and name recorded so that if there ever was a next time, we'd know to take extra people and caution.
I'd say my husband and I are the opposite of black listed from Pizza Hut. We order for lunch quite often during the week (we both work from home) and there's one driver who usually works deliveries during the week. They are almost always out of the drink I order, so the driver calls me and we're at the point where he says who it is and I ask if "it's the usual" and he responds with "yes. the usual?" I also have been known to give this particular driver an additional tip in cash. Love it.
I worked at a pizza place in my hometown. They delivered to the local college campus, known for not tipping and violent behaviors. Well, even after several drivers were jumped, robbed and some hospitalized, the company never black listed them. Talk about caring more for the dollar than their people.
For the lady callin for 200 sandwishes and booking out with them and cancelling her credit card payment: you should totally sue her for theft.
Jealous of the shop that banned the naked lady, at my last pizza delivery job I had to deliver to the local nudist resort. There’s something particularly disturbing about a man wearing a T-shirt, baseball cap, tennis shoes, but no pants or underwear.
I work at a popular gas station chain that sells hoagies. We had a customer come in and order 25 sandwiches at the deli counter. My ass of a manager at the time decided to accept the order when we were already busy. I had to make all of these sandwiches while I was already neck deep in other orders.
I do not care for this manager.
I hope you find a better job.
I do not care for this manager, either. He puts greed ahead of all else.
Pretty sure I know the answer to this, but I have to ask: did they even bother helping make that order?
Shoulda reported them to the top rung.
Edit: Wanna be clear I have no clue what a hoagie is lol. I'm canadian.
@@fullmoonshadow6967 A hoagie is a type of bread roll. most people now call it a sub sandwich (think Subway), but a select few areas in the us still refer to it as a hoagie. Most are in the north eastern united states as the term is Italian American and those areas are where most Italian Americans first settled, though you can find small pockets/areas where the term hoagie is used all across the states.
My best pizza story is: One time when I and a few other people were at a friend's place, he phoned up the pizza place to make an order. The call went like this:
Friend: "Hello, I'm phoning from [address], can -"
Pizza guy: "Ah, hello, the usual? It'll be there in 30 minutes."
Friend: "Uh, yes please, thanks, bye!"
We all cracked up! This guy ordered the same two pizzas, sides and dips so frequently they knew his exact order by heart. Didn't even need his name, despite there being a dozen residents at this address.
OK, maybe it's not the most amazing story when I recount it, but it was absolutely hilarious at the time.
That's the best kind of story. So wholesome and silly. That guy is definitely the highlight of someone's day.
My uncle used to order from this one pizza place so much as a kid, he would just call them and say his name, then hang up, and he would get the pizza.
Working for dominos, we blacklisted an entire motel because one of our female drivers was almost .... taken advantage of while on a delivery there.
This is real . Red roof almost snatched me up
@@SarahEmmi-qk6egthere’s the biggest prostitution front in the states too
@Story57 it feels so good to say "I AM the manager / i AM the owner" but if someone is exclusively going to go out of their way to waste your time, money, and energy, i think it's a little better when they say "i'm going to come in and talk to the owner" to respond with "sure thing their name is ____ and they'll be here till ___" and have them actually come in and ask for that person before going "Yes, how can i help you?" like you forgot the situation and let the realization hit them so you can see their face when it does. Just go that little extra to waste their time and energy in return :P
Door dash driver here. Had a guy pull a knife on me over a soft drink
Are you alright?!
That’s something I’ve noticed. DoorDash, Uber, grubhub, a lot of people are either incredibly rude and entitled, or else violent criminals, and I don’t think that there’s a blacklist in those apps. ☹️
@@jenna2720 yea, I’m alright. I called the cops and as far as I know he didn’t even get arrested. And you’re very right, I’ve had some sketch interactions on all those apps. Bet your bottom dollar every order I got my Glock on my hip just in case now
@@jenna2720the driver can report the user and get their account banned
Leaving a job "On good terms" is a thing my guy
General PSA: be nice to retail workers generally. I've worked plenty and to spare of retail jobs, and we're just doing our best. One (admittedly unrelated) pet peeve that still guides my actions today: pay attention to whether check-out lanes have their light on before you jump in line. At the very least, just ask. The number of times that I have been stuck frantically trying to work through a backlog of customers for 10-20 minutes, either getting hangry from missing my break or trying desperately to get out the door...
No good person who has had a job running a register ever pulls crap like this. EVERYONE should have to work a cash register and work in customer service in order to know how to treat people. Now that I have moved up in my career and no longer am in customer service, I always try to make the person running the register have a better day by being a nice customer because I know how much better it made me feel.
100%. It peeves me too. I think they assume the lane is open bc the cashier is there.
The story about the kid who was killed because someone called the cops about DV is actually SUPER sad
Brooo, the woman probably takes 15 minutes to make like 4 sandwiches, she can't be talking
She must be thinking there's like 50 people making sandwiches in there.
@@gabrielc7861 I think some people are actually that deluded, though.
15 minutes for 200 sandwiches equates to a sandwich every 4 and a half seconds. Even with two workers, that would be 9 seconds per sandwich.
She was clearly off her rocker.
Story 14 is eye opening! I really want to just hug OP and comfort them! We think of pizza drivers as just being teenagers making an extra buck, but in reality THIS is the worst case scenario for this job and it cannot be overlooked!
Edit: job, not hobby! Hobbies are fun
Er... which one was that? ^^;
Hobby? It's a job. I really hope most people don't think of pizza drivers as "just being teenagers trying to make an extra buck." It's a livelihood, and a dangerous one at that.
@@catbatrat1760The one with the murder
I definitely paid in quarters sometimes as a kid, but I would make dollar stacks so they could easily see how much I was giving them. It's the only decent thing to do if you have to pay in change.
Good for you! When working a register, a bunch of east european construction workers (I'm in Germany, and this is common. There's lots that work here for a period of time to earn money in construction and go back to family periodically.). They had a mixture of a few small bills, but mostl lots of coins, luckily mostly 20s, some 10s and also a few 50s. I'd only deal with the copper coins if I had to. Their purchase was rather large, it looked like they were buying lunch for the entire team.
They came up to me beforehand because they were aware of how this might be trick, so I told them while I had the right to refuse this form of payment, I'd accept it if they had time to wait for a bit and they'd arrange it beforehand in these stacks as I showed them. So I showed them the stacks, and even that they just had to match them in height on a surface to get the same amount, and so they got stacking coins (they got the hang quickly, it's easy after all. I think the height matching of identical denominations is what most people don't realise they can do. Of course as a cashier you should still look out people don't try to sneak in other denominations, but these guys were good to their word.). It was kind of endearing to see these rough and dirty construction guys getting busy arranging small coin stacks by the side of my cash station, like I did when I was a kid and counting my wealth I had collected in my piggy bank.😅
And wouldn't you know, what most of my colleagues would have refused outright took a lot less time with this preparation. I'd rather have this happen (preferrably with them telling me beforehand, not dropping it right in the transaction. Though luckily most modern registers have a function to put a transaction in the background while you do others) than someone trying to pay a small purchase with a huge bill, as that is not only inconvenient, but also a possible attempt to spread fake money. Oh, and that one lady who was grumpy I would give out a wide range of coins for her small purchase she bought with her 50 euros, and few small bills and two euro coins I had right in the morning. I told her this is *all* the change I had I currently had, and while I could give it to her, I then would not have any other change for any following customers. She was one of the first customers, and she nearly ran my change dry as is.
Makes me wonder if I'm the subject matter of anyone's stories... I genuinely don't pay for my pizza orders anymore until I see the pie in person. Why, you ask? Because Pizza Hut is ass, and they had made a habit of placing a hold on my card and then canceling my order, so I couldn't even go in person to carry out another one (times were tight, I wasn't exactly in as good of a spot as I usually am). So I'd make it a point to pull exactly enough cash for my usual order and a 20% tip, order COD, and then have to deal with a handful of phone calls from understandably sketched out delivery drivers, most of whom would end up having a good laugh at their employer's expense when I explained why I was demanding "proof of pie" before letting Pizza Hut see a single red cent
I have a story but it’s not mine, it’s my mom’s. My mom didn’t have a job at the time and worked for an app. It was a Walmart app where they could pick up deliveries and deliver them freely and whenever they want. She made about $20 an hour so 5 hours of working everyday for a week made about $700. Not bad at all. She picked up an order and there was a small description of the house to help her find it. When she got to the house, there was a big dog. Loose. In the yard. It had an invisible fence but it was huge and growling at her. She barely opened her door and it started to show its teeth and growl. Instantly, she shut the door and tried to call the dog’s owner. She called a few times. All went to voicemail. You’re able to take back orders if you don’t want to do the order if you can’t figure it out. Eventually, she went back to Walmart to drop off the delivery. If a house is reported, they have to know why. Obviously for reasons. My mom tells them what happens and apparently, the owner called and said my mom never showed. What? Excuse me?
They didn't want to admit it and get blacklisted.
4:27 HOLY FUCK DUDE. I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT YOU missed the point that she was setting up the fraud the whole time. She knew you can't make sandwiches that quickly.
I doubt it. Spent some time as a driver and a lot of people are just that stupid. We legit had a lady come in and order pizzas for 200 guests for some thing she had going on. When we told her how long it would take she flipped out. She couldn't understand why we couldn't make 50+ pizzas in fifteen minutes, and she was already late.
Our manager actually made a pizza in front of her to show how long it takes. When he got it in the oven she just said "Then work faster. I was supposed to have the pizza there an hour ago!" Our manager was cool as hell just said "That sounds like a you problem." and made a remark about there being good books on teaching time management.
That one got to the point the owner had to come in to talk with her. It finally ended when she started talking down to him because she was an Assistant Manager at a bank making six figures and he couldn't understand simply being "hired help" who still had a thick Indian accent. He just responded "You're right, I don't understand. I only made four million last year running my stores. I can't comprehend being poor like you."
That ended it. Still a good laugh twenty years later.
Cracking up at Vonnegut being blacklisted.
I once tipped a pizza guy $100, I did it because I had the money at the time, knew it would make his day if I did that, and figured he would remember that for a long time.
Blessings
I'm a doordasher and there's certain houses here where I'm at that do not get deliveries to him anymore and they're mad about it. But the thing is doordash will allow us to not get orders from them anymore if they notice no one's willing to take them and some people are pissed about it but there's like one lady who consistently saying she didn't get her food which messes up the dashers job so we don't deliver to her no one's willing to take her orders so doordash had to say hey you can't doordash.
I have a silly story in the same vein. Our area wasn't on a blacklist, but the entire city is made up of the kind of house where it's basically tucked down a goat trail with 6 other houses.
Our specialist pizza place had a really good directions system that let me enter multiple lines and words, so when we first ordered from there, I put in a few extra directions (take path 1, look for thick banisters) and let the order go through. Still hard to find, so time after time I refined the explanation (if coming from x direction, go past the graffiti, but if you see the elephant go back one turn, or if you come from y direction you'll see the elephant and we're around the next corner, but if you see the grafitti you've gone too far, then down the first path, ignore the second path that points to the northwest, only step on the blue cobblestones) [exaggerated, but with this kind of detail]
From that point on, every driver bar two made it to the front door, and when I checked if the instructions had been thorough enough, they were all extremely pleased with the detail that had meant they avoided about 5 wrong doors.
Then there are the remaining two.
One I forgive, because it seemed like english was his second language and he struggled with the length and specificity, so I totally get him calling us in confusion. He even got to the right pathway, but didn't come down far enough.
The other guy though? he was going down the totally wrong set of stairs that were called out in the instructions as being deceptively close (and very easy to tell apart, those ones went off a car-pad, and I explicitly stated they would not lead to us), and wouldn't come down the right stairs, making me have to go all the way to the street. I asked if he'd read any of the instructions at all. "There's way too many, no one bothers with all of those, and your place is so easy to find"
except you didn't find it buddy, and ignored all the instructions that said "don't go down those other stairs!"
Amazon drivers, yall got all my love and respect, too.
chasing someone 3 blocks over 2 pizzas is unhinged loool. Now that's dedication
"Why mess with people who handles your food AND knows where you live?"
Good question! I would love to know that answer too.
I was a manager at a pizza joint back in the day. We had a customer that would always call after receiving the delivery and was so upset that the pizza was always cold. It happened so often that I on their next order, I tracked the pizza from the oven to the box to the delivery driver. Sure enough, 10 minutes later, the customer calls after receiving the pizza, that it is stone cold. I had enough and told the customer that it just came out of the oven 10 minutes ago and I know that it was delivered hot. I banned that customer.
Another customer, always called to complain that there was always hardly any toppings on the combo pizza. Happened so often, that one day, I personally made the pizza (and put extra) just to shut her up. Sure enough, 10 minutes later after receiving her delivery, she calls and says there's no sausage and no pepperoni on the pizza. (Only veggies) I said I made the pizza myself and I KNOW that I put all the toppings on, in the correct amounts. I banned her from ordering from us.
Fast forward several years later, I'm no longer in the pizza industry, and I run into one of my old delivery drivers. We reminisce for a bit about the "good 'ol days" when we he worked for me. One of his anecdotes was about how he and the other drivers would screw over customers who didn't tip. After leaving the store, they would take out the pizza box from the bag and open the box. (To let the pizza get cold while they were driving) Then deliver it cold... Also, they would open the box while driving to the customers house and eat the toppings!!!!
DAMN....the customer's were right! Lesson learned, most of the time customers are wrong and just want something for free, but occasionally they were right...
Not really my story, but a friend of mine works at a local pizza shop that has a policy of, if you're a sex offender, they don't sell or deliver pizza to you. Legitimately they look every address up to see if it's on the registered sex offenders list and if it is, you ain't getting your pizza
Sadly had a similar incident here in Japan I say sadly because it was a case of false accusation but because of the justice system he was put on the offenders list, he was already on the suicide watch/check list at my work but he went to order at his favourite pizza place who does the same as your friends but we refused sadly this pushed him over the edge because he couldn't order anymore at his favourite long memory place and ended up hanging himself the next day.
I don't blame the pizza place etc it's a policy they've always had because it's run by a mainly female family crew but it was just unfortunate enough to push this guy over the edge since then they check around with the story's instead of just looking at names I work in cyber crime so alot of people are falsely accused for money these days especially tourists obviously the real offenders exist and the falsely accused are a small minority in comparison just goes to check out someone's story first! But it was strange to hear somewhere else does the same haha
You shouldn't even be allowed in public other than a public prison in those cases, imagine thinking it's okay to let animals like that stay free, they clearly don't have the self control expected from any human being.
Key takeaway...
One may own rotties, and one may order pizza, however one may NOT both own rotties and order pizza.
I have 2 rotties, and I ordered two pizzas and paid for them online, but was going to give the driver a cash tip (left note saying such in the order.) The dogs (who are well socialized, but loud and intimidating) were locked in the front bedroom so they couldn't even get to the front door. Driver heard the barking, saw the faces in the window, put the pizzas down on the driveway where he was, jumped back in his car and fled. I felt bad for the dude, knowing it was probably a horrible experience that caused that reaction.
No it's just shity owners my godmother had a couple of rotties and they were sweet dogs
@@liwiathan Agreed. My dad had an abuse rescue one. Sweetest traumatized thing ever. He sadly never got to fully recover (Dad got him in 2016, wasn't even looking for new dog but old owners were gonna take him out the back and shoot him) when he died in 2021 to a paralysis tick.
At 12:39
"Pizza The Hut"....
Somebody just dropped a Spaceballs reference!
[FYI: Jabba the Hutt was from Star Wars, Pizza the Hut was from Spaceballs.]
To be fair when I lived in the sticks the only takeaway available was the fish n chip shops. Didn’t even have a supermarket just a convenience store. Pizza shop 3 towns over would only deliver to the next town over. So if we wanted pizza we had to drive the 20 mins to the service station in that town to wait, while their driver came from 20 mins in the opposite direction. Worked for everyone involved no problem. After I got a job in the big town the neighbours would call and ask me to bring other kinds of takeaway on my way home. Gave me free milk, eggs and meat for my trouble. 🇦🇺
This was a Strange Delivery story from my 18yo son when he delivered for PH. He was taking a pizza order out to an area of town where it was dead end dirt roads. He rolled up to the house and it was dark, no lights on in the house or porch? He walks down and to the garage side of the house and sees a huge quonset hutwith the door open and lights on. He walked to the door and said, "hello? Pizza....." a guy walks up and stops him at the door. The guy paid cash and said " you didn't see anything " my son said Nope Nothing
He tipped $20 and slowly closed the door . My son said it was a $15 pizza, he got a $20 tip and saw the LARGEST INDOOR POT FARM EVER. We live in a state where weed is still illegal but we are surrounded by 100% legal weed for everyone? Makes no sense.
The decoy pizza thing is absolutely genius. If you're going to have a difficult customer who regularly orders anyway, but always complains about the first pizza you give them, make them one that isn't going to be eaten anyway
I delivered pizzas briefly. I had a couple calls that I used my gut feeling on amd didn't deliver. Was too sketched out. Best delivery I ever had was my 2nd day on the job. A 5 pizza order for a party. I totally forgot their drinks but they were cool about it. I brought the drinks back and they still tipped me $50. Super nice people.
I have a story similar to two of these. I delivered a pizza to a guy's house once, and he paid me in all change. I gave him his pizza, he closed the door, and I counted out all the change right there on his doorstep. He was about three dollars short. I knocked on his door again to get the rest, and he answered with a shotgun in hand. I didn't say anything; I just put the change in my pocket and left. He got on the "do not deliver" list after that, and it wasn't long before his whole apartment complex was blacked out on the map.
I lost it at the son that took a beat to the Y = mx+b. Bruh was a victim of FAFO. (Fuck around and find out)
nah, bro got hit with the ax^2 + bx + c = 0
Next time he'll get the [-b±(√b²-4ac)]/(2a)
@@hannankruger4315 bro got a negative discriminant and ended up with an imaginary relationship with his parents
He found out the slope of the y-axis of the ground
I don't get the reference
I just really loved something about the kid getting reprimanded for "trying to rob" the delivery driver and them getting to know that their work is appreciated in a round about way.
I work for a package delivery company and we have a low income housing project that is several hundred units that is on the north side of delivery list.
Too many drivers have been threatened, robbed, and shot at. Anytime someone new moves in they are always PISSED when they find out they cannot get packages delivered there.
Well I learned to never be a pizza delivery driver
Gives you weird dreams when the youtube algorithm puts stuff like this on while you're asleep.
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I worked delivery for Papa John's a few years ago. One delivery i made ended up on the no delivery list right after. I showed up with the pizza and everything and they don't have enough money. They start trying to bully me into covering the last like 5 bucks, i say something like "uh no way, you should be paying ME, not the other way around. You would have had enough money if you didn't order delivery" (they were only like 2 miles away and actually I'm not sure if I even said that to their face or just thought it) they slam the door in my face and i take the food back to the store. When i get there the manager says the people called and said i cussed them out and called them the n word (I'm white, they were black. I've literally never used that word in my life) I explained what REALLY happened and the manager believed me and put them on the list, but man the AUDACITY of that interaction still baffles me.
A lot of shit happened with that job, but i just remember this one time i was SO pissed at the person i was delivering to. I wanted to spit in her food SO FUCKING BAD, but now i don't even remember why lol. Anyways i guess I'm proud to say i never did do anything to anyone's food no matter how bad i wanted to steal a slice sometimes lmao
I'm surprised by the escort house. I used to do pizza delivery for Dominos and the escort house we delivered to always tipped really well and were really kind.
I worked at Dominoes in Australia when I was in high school 2012-2014 and a guy got added to our no delivery list bc he verbally abused me on the phone, threatened to come down and shoot the place up. Actually came to our store and screamed and yelled at me (a then 15/16 year old girl) and threw his perfectly good pizza and chocolate lava cake at me…
Still no idea why he went off the deep end.
As a 17 year old woman, I don't understand some men. My cousin, male, has a crappy boss (he doesn't always pay up and they work in diesel mechanics) and he agrees some people shouldn't have power nor should have access to money if they just treat younger people or women like this.
I ordered a pizza for the last time from a big chain store. They delivered the wrong pizza. I sent it back, and they replaced it, but the correct pizza tasted like dish soap. Don't screw good tippers. I normally tip 30-50%, depending on delivery distance.
We had a "blacklist", but not a pizza place. A hotel. In a college city, I worked as the night receptionist, so I, of course, saw the craziest shit. We had a TYPED, two-page long list of people that weren't allowed to stay there and reasons why. In my free time on my first few night shifts there after training, I would read through this list and all the insane reasons why they were blacklisted. Keep in mind that in order to book here, you had to give us an ID with your name, home address, and picture on it, which was scanned into our system. I added three people to the list myself in the two years I worked there. A few I remember: 1> Client didn't want the neighbors calling the police on him again, so he booked a room to beat his wife in. 2> Client brought six badgers into a no-pet room (which was, hilariously, all the rooms at this location). 3> Client made a make-shift firepit in his room and burned a giant pile of weed in it to hotbox. The entire hotel and block smelled like weed for days. 4> Client pooped in front of the door right before checking out so the cleaning ladies would step in it. 5> Client has attempted to commit suicide in our hotel rooms multiple times; his family requested we do not service him anymore. 6> Client booked the entire hotel and paid a huge deposit for an entire weekend. Turns out, it was the weekend client's ex-girlfriend was getting married, and this hotel was the closest to the venue. 7> Client checked out and left her four very young children in the room for staff to find with no food, no clothes, and dirty diapers. 8> Nice client "bought" cookies for the entire staff as a thank you for letting him book an entire week in advance. Cookies were full of weed, the entire staff was high including the owner of the hotel chain.
I once delivered a sandwich to a dude that had a big ass French mastiff. When he opened the door, that dog knocked me flat on my ass. I saved the sammich by raising both my arms and just laid there until the dude came outside, getting absolutely smothered by kisses by the giant dog for 5 mins. Best delivery ever.
This channel is one of my favorites
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Our old apt complex was on the x list. 1 driver had gotten robbed for the pizza, his car and his pants.....
His pants? Why his pants? You know what, I don't wanna know.
I love the dude from story 51 he’s just a vibe. Something weirdly wholesome of having a list that’s basically just the shops favourite customers. Bet he gets extra toppings.
As a mailman who delivers packages to peoples houses I thankfully have had no issues. Other than a dog attacking me a couple weeks ago
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I've got to say your statement is definitely not sexist.
As a woman im lucky if i could make 4-6 sandwiches in 15 mins especially if they are all different 🤦🏻♀️ she has high expectations but she also sounds like a Karen
It comes from being on the internet too long, if you say _anything_ online, _someone somewhere_ is going to interpret it in the least charitable way humanly possible. It's inevitable.
Agreed.
Just to get the 200 sandwichs order done in 15 min would be 4.5sec/sandwich not included is drive time to the area as a random bit of information
Delivered pizzas back in the 80s when we didn’t have to worry about the crime like today, plus it was a college town, so sketchy areas were pretty much just poor college kids. My only concern then was prank calls to unoccupied apts. this was my thought one night near Halloween (yes, it was a dark & stormy) as I climbed the rickety wooden stairs to the third floor of the back of an old house converted to apts, with no porch light ( people used to turn on the outside light at night when expecting a delivery), so I was slightly suspicious when I saw no outside light, certain I was being pranked when I climbed all the way up and saw no inside lights either…I could see no doorbell so I knocked loudly, and promptly heard a loud thump inside. Now I’m really on alert…a little while goes by and finally the door slowly opens and I see 2 couples, only the light of a TV inside. one guy is on the floor with a shocked look his face, the person answering the door is cracking up, and answers my quizzical looks by telling me they were watching a horror flick, were so engrossed in the movie they forgot they’d ordered a pizza, and I knocked at THE critical moment in the movie when the tension was the highest, giving them all a good scare.😁
When I was in college, I would treat myself to Pizza every week to week and a half or so. I always got the same delivery guy, he was awesome. One time, I ordered like six times the amount of pizza I normally did because I was having the mother of all parties, and he came to my house and said I know you, I know this can’t all be for you. I don’t know why that sticks out in my mind, just that he remembered.
Honestly I was expecting an annoyingly fast paced AI voice to read over this but I was surprised :) your voice reads these posts very naturally and not overly hamfisted!
LMAO at you spelling Glock as Galak!
My pizza store doesn't have our own delivery drivers (We work with uber) however, one driver did get blacklisted from our store. I'm pretty sure this is the only person blacklisted, and it's because they smeared their own poop on the walls of our bathroom, since prepping the order took to long.
....... Yeah, that'd do it.
I think I'm on the good tipper list. I always do at least 20% and ask for no contact delivery. I've noticed they load up on the toppings, and when the app says 45-60 minutes, delivered in less than 30 😊.
A sad one for me. Was either the assistant manager or shift lead at the time at pizza slut. One of our drivers went missing the previous night and was then later found murdered. Black listed the whole area.
OMG
Delivery driver here! Only guy that I know of getting banded was becuz of me! He would show up to his door (always paid cash) in nothing but very dirty underwear and would take ages to give u the money all while trying to get you to come inside. He would only do this to female drivers.
"On good terms" means they weren't fired or being let go for bad reasons, that they could potentially have their job back if they returned.
Why would the DM be _happy_ they kept a difficult customer? And what are their margins that they can afford to throw away an entire pizza each time? They're essentially giving this lady half off, only she doesn't even eat one of them, and their only solace is at least they don't use full cheese on it? If it were me, one day I'd deliver her a pizza one day with _extra_ sauce. Not just a little bit extra, either. Not just a lot extra, not just enough to make you sick, I mean so much that when you open that pizza box it looks like the elevator scene from the Shining. Then, when she inevitably complains, I'd say, "Well... you always reject the first one, and accept the second, no matter what. So we've got a bet going down at the shop, see the next one's gonna have twice as much sauce!"
Then I'd put her on the black list.
I love long lists of stories like this.
15:30 I am so using "thin crust pizza, double anchovies, olives, extra cheese" as a code word. I don't know for what, but I so wanna use it for something!
It’s code for “I have gas and diarrhea for some reason” I think
Just wanted to chime in that the Irish have historically been a very discriminated against group. I guess that’s a shock to our narrator?
Talk about luck on story 6.. some people are just plain creepy.
yea...
Oh yay undersparked is no longer ruining their channel with hotdog format and bad voice acters. The balance of the universe has been restored ^^
Oh no oh nooooooo I didn’t fucking ask
I didn’t even notice the hotdog formatting most the time
That other guy was really odd about relationship stuff it was weird
The other voice actor isnt really bad, hes just not the normal one. But lmao to the guy saying hes odd about relationships.
Pot meet kettle.
@@MisanthropicOcellus he went on a whole tirade about poly relationships after reading a story about one, it was weird
Pizza workers I moved into an apartment and discovered It's been on the no delivery list for just about EVERYWHERE that delivers for years alresdy. I have gone to the shops IN PERSON with my ID, 2 utility bills, and my lease only to get told your address is on our no delivery list that means we can't deliver to your address. I'm like 'Your system has a woman's name attached to the address. You say it's been this way for a few years now. I have proof I just moved in to this address in the form of utility bills, a lease, and a valid ID. Please take me off the no delivery list.'
They're like 'If you're on the no delivery list we can't deliver to you.'
What can I do.
P.S. I don't know if this will help or not but where I live and out of date law from the around 1950's give the local DMV the right to at their discretion deny diabetics driver licenses cause our sugar could crash while we're behind the wheel leading to an accident and food is not allowed on the bus in ANY form so I am reliant on delivery.
P.S. I forgot door dash has this place on the no delivery list as well.
wow that sucks :( i unfortunately have no idea how to fix this aside from specifically calling/speaking to the managers (rather than a regular employee who may not have the power to remove you from the list) of these places and maybe the managers above them in the corporate hierarchy and explaining your situation, that you've moved in recently and are not the former resident, and that you are reliant on delivery?
i know you didn't ask so feel free to ignore this but i do have some ideas on how to order food in the event you can't get this sorted:
- maybe trying to ask gor advice on how to recify the issue on an active (recent posts, a few thousand members at least) subreddit for your local area or food delivery with specific companies or people seeking legal/customer advice could help generate a way to solve this? or a similar social media group (eg: Facebook group, NextDoor app if that's available in your region)?
- idk your transport system's rules or what grocery options are available but maybe the bus will allow uncooked food - eg: prepared tinned food, refrigerated or frozen ready meals?
- if any new food delivery apps have opened up, perhaps your place isn’t yet banned - call first to check before making an order just in case they accept and take payment but don't deliver.
- maybe you could ask for delivery to a nearby place - either a couple doors down from you if you've nice neighbours who won't eat your food and are happy for you to wait outside their place?
- request deliveries to a nearby apartment complex or hotel or business where you don't specify a house or room number but ask to meet in the lobby or by the entrance - to avoid someone else claiming the order and refusing to give it to you, maybe ask to pay upon receiving it or use an app which requires you to give a code to the delivery person or state your name and ask the delivery people to confirm it's you before handing it over?
- finally, are there any charities or peer support groups in your local area? these can be for people with diabetes or other conditions or who require help with shopping for different reasons. check online via search engines and maybe call local charities or third-sector / social or government support organisations to see if this could be available to you?
@@projectjupiter5523 in regards to the bus issues the supervisors say it's just no eating on the bus the drivers say no fod period and since here you can't record without permission I have no proof of this and for whatever reason even though everything's open again the food pantries are still on curbside only which I can't do since I don't driver (An old law from around 1950 bars diabetics from driving).
@@projectjupiter5523 I have posted on Facebook/reddit but the mods insist it's false news and take it down.
Not sure if you've resolved the issue or not, but, you might have to comment the issue on their social media if they have one. Businesses tend to listen to those more than direct contact, unfortunately.
My wife spent 15 years in Pizza, Triple Sauce Mike is the story she imitatively thought of when i gave her the prompt. Guy would order triple the amount of sauce and get upset because the toppings and sauce would be all over the place. You put that much sauce on the pizza, its going to just be tomato soup on flat bread for a normal pizza, they eventually told him no.
I also love the racist getting banned for being a bully to black employees. The food industry is already dangerous and you may constantly having to feel extreme heat for hours. Nobody needs to also deal with a bully customer too.
I've been delivering pizza for about 4 years and I guess I've been pretty lucky. I've never seen someone end up on a No Delivery list, but there's one lady that ended up on it right before I started working at my current job and I was there the last time she called right after I started. She was a repeat check bouncer.
I feel bad for the folks who will live in Story 2's dorm in the future. In like 5 years, I imagine this conversation could happen:
"Hey, why can't we get Bob's Pizza to our dorm?"
"Because some seniors five years ago kept sending in fake orders."
This guy finally again
Tip culture seems so weird to me. I pay for food, i pay for delivery and i'm expected to basically pay a "i'm no asshole" tax?
I understand giving a tip if you're happy with service but when it's expected you give more money or else you're a bad person just feels manipulative.
I'm from Europe so i probably just don't understand.
Edit: just heard the bit about deliveries being made with personal transport. In that case, yeah a tip makes sense.
Essentially the business passes the employee's wage onto the customer. It's really messed up.
@@asthmeresivolisk3129 In fairness, from what I've been led to believe, restaurants in Europe actually charge more than in the US, so you'd still be paying roughly the same.
@@stevenbart2375 then I live under a delusion. But honestly that makes sense. I have done additional research since and apparently another benefit of typing for employees, especially ones that work at bars, is that they often take home significantly more than minimum wage due to the generosity of their patrons. I suppose there's more to tipping than I originally believed. Perhaps there's even some merit to the practice.
@@asthmeresivolisk3129 At the same time, they should be making the standard minimum wage, instead of having to rely on tips. The federal minimum for tipped workers is ~$2-3/hr, and they're taxed as if they're making $8+. And if they don't make as much as they "should" in tips, they still have to pay taxes on what they didn't earn.
Usa religion where companies are the gods
Former Pizza Hut driver. 5 1/2 years working there. Thankfully was never robbed, but I’ve seen some crazy stuff to justify putting people on a list. There was a whole mansion/apartment complex full of people that would order, not answer the door or phone, then complain when I return the order to the store. Like, I’m not sorry you peaked-in-high-school dropouts are a waste of time and resources.
Not on the ban list, on the good customer list, like they would give me free 2 liters of soda, really cool of them, but I had to stop ordering pizza, was getting too expensive, sadly.
Who tf puts mayo on a pizza?
Wow never realized how dangerous delivering pizza can be. Where I live you just don't hear stories like this.
6:21 i can't get over the way he says that so menacingly
I work at a pizza place and i dont think we have a Do Not Deliver to address? Not that i know of, but i dont do deliveries, Im the one making the pizzas normally. But we might add one, not sure, but its actually a local school. The recently ordered alot of pizzas from us like 300 pizzas. but the email they sent didnt say what size and they ordered last year with them all being smalls pizzas but this time they wanted them large. So at like 1 pm or so we have just made 300 small pizzas only to be told that they need LARGE pizzas. So we had to go make a bunch of large pizzas. We only charged them for the smalls with a major discount. BUT they then called later wanting a BIGGER discount because the pizzas were 'burnt'. (the cheese was browned). the worst part was the fact that they didnt tip at ALL. this was like a $500 maybe $1000. it really messed up our supplies for the rest of the week. I will mention this is all second hand information as i was scheduled to work at the time but i came in after it all went down to piss offed coworkers. But as a store we all agree that we dont want to deal with them anymore.
Well this is nice, I worked at a pizza place once for a little bit in my younger adult life and can safely say that we've never had, while I was working there anyway, a person who did this. However I would say the real problem was the pizza place itself.
I worked at a place called Dominos and it was a hell. The manager was a moron, every person there had some kind of drama, and the place was so unkept I vowed to never order from there again. They kept the dough when it was out of the fridge room next to the sink everyone washed their hands in and dishes/tools got cleaned, and yes there was a bit of splashing and I know for a fact people were eating soap in their pizza as a result. Worst still the place ended up having it's Pizza oven thing (IDK what it's called it's like a pizza oven with a conveyor-belt) Repoed once because the thing wasn't paid for, right in the middle of a lunch rush at that but that happened after I left.
Sometimes the worst people in fast food are the people you work for
“Big Black Marvin” 😅
Damn, imagine losing your life to deliver a pizza...
Story 28:
Mugger: gimme all your money!
Driver: Uno reverse card!
Ahh, yeah! The Pizza Man with the pizza plan! Friggin LOVE you guys.