Ain’t no punchline. That fool is just mad.
Some of you may recall a post I did a while ago about my issues with tipping over a delivery charge, and how suckeriffic I think begging pizza men are. Sorry, but I don’t think tipping is mandatory. I can break out equations for you to show how a tax negatively affects the delivery man, but I’ll spare you.
Well, a few days ago, I noticed a lot of referrals to Virtual Bomaniland from a site dedicated to increasing awareness about how badly pizza men need tips. Seriously…stop begging! If you’ve gotta beg me to give you something so you can live, you need to get another job. There are other ways to make a living, most of which aren’t as hard on your cars.
I feel where you’re coming from, but that should just serve as motivation for you to do your job better. The solution to your need for tips is not to expect me to bankroll your operation out of the goodness of my heart. My friends don’t even ask me for money. I only know you because you’re on my doorstep.
When you think about it like that, to be a begging pizza man is actually impolite. Your mama raised you better than that.
I didn’t bother to go to the pizza man charity site, but lemme tell ya…the comments they left on my site are pretty entertaining.
Deb is, technically speaking, a snitch.
“I am way late answering but I just found this through another link. I don’t think people understand that pizza drivers are paid sub-minimum wages JUST LIKE waitresses now. I was a driver, now I am a part time manager because it pissed me off to put miles on my car to be stiffed 50% of the time. I will tel you this, if you are going to stiff your driver then you had better make sure your house doesn’t reek of reefer and you have no drugs visible. I had my share of customers busted when all would have been fine had they thrown a couple of bucks at me. Don’t give a shit about me? Why should I give a shit about you? The PoPo ain’t nuthin’ but a call and I made that call MANY times.”
If I were you, Deb, I’d make sure never to deliver to those neighborhoods again. Anyway, it’s not that we don’t understand your conditions. I just can’t understand why you don’t get ours. Or, you could always impress me with your work ethic. That’s supposed to be how you earn a tip, right? Not with your hand out.
Shane wasn’t too pleased, either.
I’m a delivery guy. I have a ton of ghetto pricks like you who stiff on a regular basis. I remember non-tippers very well. Plus, it’s pretty easy to identify “ghetto” over the phone. I mess with your pizza and deliver it as late as possible. If I ever got caught and lost my job, it’s no big deal. The very next week I’d be working for a competitor. Start tipping or get a car so you can pick it up yourself.
That ambition’s gonna carry you far, pimpin. Going from driving for the Chinese joint to becoming the pizza man is like taking a trip across the globe, right? There’s irony in a man that works in a car calling someone that works in a chair “ghetto.” If you’d like me to put this the context of general equilibrium and transfers, I could. But that would be too hood for Shane, I’m sure. All that slang and stuff.
And, of course, someone named “nope.”
this is why i always spit in niggers pizza
Yanno, I’m noticing that a lot of these white dudes don’t seem to appreciate having to bring food to black people. Might wanna get a better job or just chalk this up to the game.
Can someone tell me where the pizza men of the world get off being so entitled? Seriously. Your beef is with your boss, not me. The delivery charge steals from you, not the customers. But of course, you get mad at me instead of the man signing your check. Typical.
Reminds me of the diner scene in “Reservoir Dogs”:
Mr. Pink: I’m very sorry the government taxes their tips, that’s fucked up. That ain’t my fault. It would seem to me that waitresses are one of the many groups the government fucks in the ass on a regular basis. Look, if you ask me to sign something that says the government shouldn’t do that, I’ll sign it, put it to a vote, I’ll vote for it, but what I won’t do is play ball. And as for this non-college bullshit I got two words for that: learn to fuckin’ type, ’cause if you’re expecting me to help out with the rent you’re in for a big fuckin’ surprise.
Nice Guy Eddie: C’mon, throw in a buck!
Mr. Pink: Uh-uh, I don’t tip.
Nice Guy Eddie: You don’t tip?
Mr. Pink: Nah, I don’t believe in it.
Nice Guy Eddie: You don’t believe in tipping?
Mr. Blue: You know what these chicks make? They make shit.
Mr. Pink: Don’t give me that. She don’t make enough money then she can quit.
Nice Guy Eddie: I don’t even know a fucking Jew who’d have the balls to say that. Let me get this straight: you don’t ever tip?
Mr. Pink: I don’t tip because society says I have to. All right, if someone deserves a tip, if they really put forth an effort, I’ll give them something a little something extra. But this tipping automatically, it’s for the birds. As far as I’m concerned, they’re just doing their job.
Mr. Blue: Hey, our girl was nice.
Mr. Pink: She was okay. She wasn’t anything special.
Mr. Blue: What’s special? Take you in the back and suck your dick?
Nice Guy Eddie: I’d go over twelve percent for that.
This is why I don’t order delivery anymore. Personally, I do believe in tipping, and am quite generous. (My father was a hospitality major in college and taught us to tip well since we were teens). However, after witnessing what some employees of fast-food and delivery places do to custmers orders, I went cold-turkey. Bo’, if you do repeat orders to the same place and don’t tip, you’d better believe there’s a couple boogers or some snot on your food. Be careful man.
I’ve been saying the same thing Strong. At this point, if you even THINK about ordering for delivery, you’re asking for some heinous things on your food.
I hadn’t even wanted pizza or even had any since last October. Reading this sent me over the edge with a craving and I ordered some.
But you better hurry up and know that I went and picked that mess up. No more delivery for me.
Business:money wise Bo’s point is valid, albeit, from a service person’s perspective – cheap. easy to give 2$. no %age just 2 bucks.That should stop your hateful desire to pass diseases in the hospitality industry to him.From a mgt standpoint, who is hiring you? One of the responses claims to know all voices over the phone.
So I guess, John Clark news anchor with an average voice with no real accent or dialect would have a salive free pizza.Look for some other jobs where you don’t need to stop and start so frequently;also broaden your habits and friends.check this “stuff white people like” its a hilarious best seller – see if you even understand it. Theres a website also.
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It’s absolutely ridiculous that Bomani tries to justify the fact that he’s a cheapskate.
I can relate to these pizza delivery guys. I’ve waited tables for several years — first at casual spots and now I make decent money working at Morton’s. Obviously it’s still not the best job but I’m young and I’m working my way up…
Sad to say but my fellow africans are typically horrible tippers — although old women are the worst.
But, it really gets me down when a successful brother comes in and I provide great service but my tip is almost always — 5-10%. When it’s a white guy, I get 20% if not more…
Bomani, stop trying to justify yourself — you’re cheap…just admit it.
If the pizza man needs to get another job instead of complaining about his job conditions, then parallel logic would suggest that you need to tip or get your own pizza instead of complaining about the pizza man conditions.
“I feel where you’re coming from, but that should just serve as motivation for you to do your job better.”
This doesn’t even make sense. How can a delivery man do his job better besides get there? Drop Zamundian rose pedals at your door? But the point about his service is irrelevant anyway since you were tipping the man before, right? So the service has nothing to do with it. If you’re gonna take out your hatred of the delivery charge on the small guy, I guess that’s life, but don’t suddenly start blowing smoke about his service.
I was starting to type something serious, but then I read this line – “This doesn’t even make sense. How can a delivery man do his job better besides get there? Drop Zamundian rose pedals at your door?”. That has to be the best line on the thread.
But Bomani, you’re logic is flawed. What is the delivery guy doing? He is allowing you not to have to drive to the pizza place to pick up your own damn pizza! He is helping you save your gas, not miss a play in the NBA game and allowing you not to have to “get decent” to drive your own damn car in public! What more do you want? Now if he smile at you at the door, is neat and polite, what would be your reason for not tipping? His car, his gas, what’s the deal?
All the way from Nigeria to comment…What Bo is saying is that the specific service, the actual delivery, is already taken care of in the “delivery/service charge” that is added to delivery bills. That is to pay for the service rendered, to answer Harry. Now, he doesn’t believe in adding something on top of that just cause folk say he should, especially when he has already paid extra for the service. Now, bo can be a cheapskate, and really there’s nothing wrong with that. The man is still buying a pizza and asking for delivery, meaning the pizza man has a job. But he does have a legitimate point in that the pizza man’s, or really any service worker’s, beef is with their employer, not their customer. Why should the customer pick up the slack where the employer is wanting? The only argument is a moral one. You can claim injustice and cheapassness, but at the end of the day, you need to either get a better job or organize with others to get paid a living wage. This is why folk do need to change shit politically instead of arguing over crumbs. That is truly “ghetto”.
Most people tip when they visit a restaurant or bar, so why would you not tip the delivery driver? It’s cheaper to tip a delivery driver than to tip a waiter. $2 or $3 for not having to drive to the local pizza place is a price I’m willing pay if not more. I drove for a pizza place while in college and the majority of your money comes from tips.
I can see Bomani’s point about objecting to tipping when there is a delivery charge also. TIPS stands for “To Insure Proper Service.” I would like to know what the delivery charge goes toward. Does it help pay for the driver’s gas? Does it go toward the store’s overhead in some other way? I agree with all of Jamaal’s comments.
I don’t like workin for less than minimum wage. Hell, I make MORE than minimum wage and I STILL don’t like it. But the solution to the problem lies within ME. I don’t like the conditions, I go find a better paying job.
I’m paying for the food. Not for you to bring it to me, not for your sunny disposition. If I wanted company, I would’ve brought someone with me, not roll the dice on your unfamiliar ass. The RESTAURANT should pay you for doing your job, it’s the service THEY offered. I didn’t ask for it. And if they’re charging delivery fees, hell…I already paid extra to not have to leave the house. Go ask your boss for yo’ money.
Let me find out the FIRST one of you muthaf…sorry, Bo, I was about to have a moment. Let me find out one of you fools messed with my food. Wanna find out if you get tips for pushing up daisies? Hell, if you workin for tips, I DAMN sure know you ain’t got insurance. Mess wit my food and you’ll get 5…across the face. Keep pullin that “snot in the food” crap if you want to. You’ll go from serving fresh rolls to askin for second in the bread line…
the charge was made to help with expenses when gas prices went sky high. The truck drivers gotta get paid as well. Pizza places couldve easily raised the prices of all their pizzas $1-2, and you have specials for 13.99 instead of 11.99. $13.99 doesnt sound like a deal does it? So in order to keep prices lows, companies made up the delivery charge, to make it look like it was going to us drivers”
Niggers don’t tip. That’s a fact of life.