Little anecdote.
One of my first jobs was working for a company very much like Home Depot, or Lowes, but much smaller.
I was 17 and was grateful to have the job. A man who lived on my block and was the paint section manager vouched for me and I was hired.
I stocked shelves, unloaded trucks and helped people with large items, rolling them out to their cars on “U-boats.” Sometimes they would ask if I could help them tie-down their trunk with rope. Stuff like that.
People would offer a tip and I always refused. Maybe I was being stupid, but I felt I was already paid for my job and the service I provided was part of the job description when I accepted the position. It was a bit of pride, as well. Like I said, maybe I was being foolish, but I never judged any of the other guys when they took the tips.
I realize some workers rely on tips because it’s the nature of certain service industry jobs. But I cannot imagine my younger self complaining about a 25% tip.
Also, expecting a bigger tip because you believe that person is wealthy communicates that you don’t really think what you’re doing has a core value. You’re just trying to extract as much money from people as possible. This is the mentality of a person that will take advantage of a tourist and take 150 bucks from them for a 5 minute cab ride.
I don’t like this pizza guy.
Totally agree with your last paragraph!
I dont like him either!
“Love of $ is the root of ….!”! He clearly loves $! Ipso facto EVIL!
I’d be calling the pizza manager & complaining.
See how much he likes being fired.
Ungrateful bastard.
May he have perpetual sand in his mangina.
25% for doing what?
Congratulations, Dude. Now the world gets to see what an entitled dick you are.
He is too young to know about Dominos original 30 minute delivery or FREE back in my college days. People paying for pizza and a 25% tip – would those deliver folks have loved that. Pizzas were also well under $10 back then with a good coupon and sometimes we paid in change.
I usually order from a “Mom & Pop” local pizza place and the majority of their delivery people are young guys with families that are working a second or third job. So my tips can go anywhere from 25% to 100% depending on their attitude…and most of them are grateful regardless of what it is.
Hey, how am I supposed to pay off my student loans on $5 tips?
The best pizza in the Denver metro area is at a little place called Pietras in Wheat Ridge…….Their delivery service includes a time when you can pick it up….always worked for me….
Damn near a century ago someone once told me that Tip was and acronym for To Insure Promptness. I have to agree with that because of my tipping habits, when I order a pizza and the girl on the phone tells me it will be delivered within 45 mins. to an hour…it usually shows up within 20 minutes!
@BFH
I started out working at a hardware store also. I did everything – stocking shelves, unloading delivery trucks, loading customer’s cars, cleaning bathrooms, polishing the floors and mixing paint. I even sharpened mower blades and put the acid in the lead batteries we sold. I think I was offered a tip once, after loading a pickup truck with lawn fertilizer.
Had 2 beers with an HVAC Buddy on Friday late afternoon.
Got ignored by 5 or 6 wait staff in a very lightly populated patio.
All queers, freaks, & assholes with washers & pins in their heads. One was still wearing a mask FFS.
When it was time to pay, the VISA machine started the Tips at 18% 20% 25%.
Not going back.
I bet it was more profitable when Trump had Gasoline 40% Lower, Eh Genius.
My pizza joint charges a “delivery fee” so I don’t feel compelled to give a tip at all, or at least consider it “part of the tip.” When they started doing that the delivery times went from 30-40 mins to 1-1/2 to 2 hours! I started making the 15 minute round trip drive myself to pick up the pie and avoid the whole “what should I tip” nonsense, plus I get the pizza back home within 30-40 minutes from ordering just like it used to be AND no delivery dude can spit in it AND I can check to make sure they got it right before I leave the joint AND I save money on delivery fees/tips. I also stopped eating pizza (well, okay except for very very rare occasions), so there’s that too.
Be more valuable, loser. Get a – or make – a job that requires more than driving and wearing a company jacket.
A drone is about to replace you anyway. That’s how valuable you are right now. How much of a tip will you get for zero income?
Cry me a tear the size of a horse turd.
A tip economy is a primitive economy. Tipped service is service that is not valuable enough to sell at face value, or one cartelized or commoditized enough the employees have zero leverage regarding wages.
Tips are a polite version of bribery, a vestige of the old aristocratic societies where there were lots of desperately poor people vying to obtain scraps from the master’s plate. The worker is essentially reduced to the status of a house dog in tipped work.
We are noticeably moving further into tipping as compensation, therefore our society is regressing in that element (among many others).
My first job was delivering the Spokesman Review morning newspaper at 4:30 to 5 AM Monday to Sunday, in the morning at 13 when I was in 7th grade in 1966. And then I went to work pumping gas for my dad at 14 and 15 in 1967-68. It was good experience and taught me how to work.
@ willysgoatgruff AT 6:36 PM
Willy, the best one around me in Omaha is Piezon’s (I know about the spelling), and they have the same delivery policy.
It works just fine for me.
One of the first things our tour guide told us when we went to Israel was DO NOT, under any circumstances, tip a taxi driver. They consider tips to be an insult. Also all taxi drivers will ask you if you want a firm price for your ride or do you want it on the meter? We found that the set price was mostly cheaper, especially in Tel Aviv where the traffic is manic.
Looking back, Fred regretted his decision to not finish high school.
This guy spends most of his time on ‘get rich schemes’.
Obviously, he’s trying to think way above his pay-grade.
There is a good NY style pizza place 4/10th’s of a mile from the house. If I order delivery it takes about an hour and it stands a 75% chance of being wrong and cold. I can order for pickup and get it less than 20 minutes and they get it right most of the time. Most of the employees are major stoners but they can make some good pizza.
no, I wouldn’t call up the pizza place & complain.
I would just call the manager & say that the delivery ‘boy’ didn’t appreciate my 25% gratuity & that, in the future, to save him from an unnecessary further trauma, please do not send him to my residence anymore.
thank you, I enjoy your pies & hope we can do business in the future.
btw, one of my first jobs was as a pump jockey at a gas station. pump gas, wash the windshield, ask if the customer wanted oil & water checked, along w/ tire pressure (when I was allowed to use the pressure gauge). gas was only 25 cents a gallon then! ALWAYS refused tips.
great job for a 15/16-year-old kid in the ’60’s
Max should have peed on his leg.
I wonder if they tip the tattoo and the extra hole maker guy now days?
Oh, that’s different.
Lotta young people don’t understand basic manners, nor do they understand why they have a job. You have a job to make the company money whether it’s your company or someone else’s, when enough forget that bad things happen to companies.
For the most part, you can blame the government indoctrination schools, but also the churches that don’t teach basics on how to treat other people.
That’s a generous tip.
For me, it is around 10% to 15%.
I would have tipped a %15 on such relatively small order. That’s $4. And if he doesn’t like it and with such attitude and such a foul-mouthed comment, I would have reversed that tip.
just goes to show what an indoctrinated, entitled snowflake is like.
I was very young when I learned the power of a tip.
Grew up in a military family, we shopped for food at the commissary, never ate out.
When Mom would go shopping she would always take me along, beast of burden.
At that time, the bag boys would work for tips, just tips. Figured out Mom must have been a good tipper.
When we would make our monthly trip to the commissary she would get the high sign from the guys who knew her.
Just after payday the place was swamped, you think Walmart at Christmas is busy.
When Mom showed up in line there was an obvious rush placed on our line, both the baggers and the cashiers.
Now, we are talking about groceries for a family of 7, for a whole month. We would often push 2 carts up and once in line, sometimes I would go and retrieve another cart full of non perishables.
20 old style bags, full to the brim, bagged, pushed out to the car and loaded into the back of the Ford, then Dodge, station wagon.
We are talking service like I doubt many have ever seen.
Asked Mom how much she gave them, she told me it was none of my business.
$5 to deliver a pizza, FUCK YOU TOO.
That’s another thing that’s voluntary – tips. I never give tips when there’s a tip jar sitting there at the register. Homeless started ripping off their tip jars so that went away. LMAO! I can’t wait when they ask me to round it up to the next dollar for blah, blah, blah. I ask them to take the tax off my tab and I’ll donate the tax to your cause. These are young kids, tatted, purple hair, pants down around their ass. I love messing with their head. I was asked the other day by one of them if I knew how to read cursive!!! It was on a record album, she couldn’t read “101 Strings.” Times that by thousands of breeders coming here who who are illiterate. We’re screwed.
What a douchenozzle… I’d call the pizzeria and inform them that they’re never getting my business again until Mr. Entitled Fuckstick is looking for a new gig. 25% is extremely generous.
I refuse to go anywhere where they automatically add the tip, usually 20%. I’ve always believed a tip should represent how well they did their job. If you suck at it, I don’t think you deserve a tip. Then I hate places today where one person comes and takes your order, a different person brings your drinks, and then different people bring your food and that’s usually the only service you get, as you’re forgotten. So who do you leave a tip to?
A good waitress/waiter that isn’t in your face the entire time or one who pays attention from afar and comes when they see you need something, I will leave a good tip. One who hovers or one who never returns, doesn’t get a good tip and if I have to get up and find someone to ask for a drink refill, silverware, etc. won’t get any tip.
I live in the sticks, so never have anything delivered, but have went to pick up food and have had them ask for a tip. I laugh at them.
When I was young I worked in fast food and restaurants, I never depended on tips, some people tipped, some didn’t, some who didn’t ever tip were regulars, but I still always treated people the same and did my job. This generation does as little as possible and then expects tips.
I was just griping the other day when going to a drive-in and ordered nothing but ice cream for the grandkids, it took them 30 minutes to make two ice cream cones. It’s a little place, you order at the walk up window and can see the entire place, they had two people taking orders, one person at the grill, one person at the fryer, two doing ice cream and three doing drinks. Blows my mind, when I was 15 I started working at a drive-in, we never had more than two people working, one who did all the cooking, grill and fryers, the other taking all the orders, making drinks, ice cream, delivering the food and taking the money. Nobody ever had to wait 30 minutes to get ice cream, rarely did they even have to wait 30 minutes to get food. It’s a sad world when 9 people can’t do the work that it once only took two to do because they’re obviously slow and lazy and possibly stupid and then expect a tip for being slow, lazy and stupid?
He’d watched too much porn while living in mom’s basement. He was expecting a hot blonde to give him some action.
Ungrateful bastard!
I can buy a decent frozen pizza for under $6. That price includes no unwelcomed ingrate assholes visiting my home.
Next thing you’re paying Walmart, or whoever, more money so some dipshit can load bags with bruised or subpar produce for you because you’re unwilling to shop for yourself. That way your ass can get wider while you dick with your phone as your car idles in today’s “lazy loser parking spots”.