Years ago, I left college with my tail between my legs. I owed money to the world. I owed money to the power company, the gas company, the apartment complex, the college, the government, 2 phone companies, credit card companies and more.....
Anyway, I got a short lived job delivering pizzas and was basically trading the value of my car for a few bucks delivering pizzas. The pizza owner paid us minimum wage plus $1 per delivery and minimum wage. The $1 barely paid for gas and that was years ago. Maintenence and vehicle costs were on me. Sometimes it amazed me that a waitress could deliver food a few feet and get 15% - 20% tips and I could drive 30 miles in my car and get stiffed but hey thats how life goes. I learned that money doesnt buy class. I delivered pizzas to the country club section of town and got stiffed and I delivered pizzas to hovels and was tipped handsomely. I had a drunk sic his pitbull on me and I dropped the pizza and the dog ate it. I had to pay for that pizza out of pocket and before I made it back to the shop the guy had called in a complaint on me. I was stiffed by churches and asked in for cookies and milk by little old ladies. One church, upon ordering $300 worth of pizzas for a youth party insisted that they were free because churches should get free pizza. We had a policy at our store that the driver paid for the pizzas before leaving the store and they were his responsibility. I would have been out a months pay if I had given away the pizzas for free and it saddened me to have to fight for their value.
I guess that I was a loser for not having a college degree and was delivering pizzas but I always felt like if you owed people money that you should pay it back. I had debts and I needed a job and the pizza place hired me. We had heroes that worked with us. One guy had a daughter with cancer and was delivering pizzas as a third job to help pay for treatment. I really admired the guy and wanted to get to know him better but he didnt have time for friends. Others supported families and paid taxes and had their reasons for wanting to work.
I have a simple solution for not tipping if you dont want to tip. Dont ask for service that you dont intend to reward. If you dont want to tip a waitress then go to Burger King. If you dont want to tip a Pizza driver then dont order a Pizza. Its pretty simple really. No need to make a fuss about it.
Ive known my share of heartbroken people that live desperate lives where finances were a struggle. Ive known people that struggled to find money to eat or who have given up on god because poverty overwhelmed their happiness. I have wonderful succesful friends and I am thrilled with their success and happiness and I have friends who are down and out and Im proud of all of them and happy to be of their acquaintance.
I want to take a minute and say thank you to those people with jobs who pay taxes. I have a friend who is a 15 year employee at Wal-mart and has never missed a day of work or had a bad job evaluation and is making $8 something per hour. Thank you Ellen for working for others. Id like to say thank you to the many waitresses that bring us food. Thank you to the cashiers that check us out. If you stock shelves so I can buy something in a store rather than having to drive 100 miles to get it then I thank you. If you plumb pipes and jockey trucks then you have my gratitude. If you punch cows or ride a tractor then thank you. If you pick up trash, fix a car, change oil, or design products then I thank you. If you stand watch for your country or wear a badge and deal with people I want to avoid or fight flames then I thank you. If you pound nails then I thank you. If you wash dishes or bus tables then I thank you. If you heal the sick or teach the children then I thank you. If you dig ditches and lay pipes then I thank you. If you shovel the goodstuff at a feedlot then I thank you.
Each and everyone of you that works for a living and does his best to pay taxes and support yourselves and contribute to this great country has my admiration. We have people in this society who take from others, and demand welfare, and dont work and want happiness given to them for nothing and you know what the Pizza drivers of the world are the least of our problems.
This country has been built by heroes and the heroes who have built it have all contributed by playing their small parts.
Id like to thank each of you that does your small part to make my life better so that our streets are clean and safe and we have stores to shop in and restaurants where we can eat and after a long hard day we dont ALWAYS have to cook for our selves and we can enjoy the small luxuries of life.
Again, Thank You for all that you do!!!!!
Happy Motoring All,
)
Bugshu
Anyway, I got a short lived job delivering pizzas and was basically trading the value of my car for a few bucks delivering pizzas. The pizza owner paid us minimum wage plus $1 per delivery and minimum wage. The $1 barely paid for gas and that was years ago. Maintenence and vehicle costs were on me. Sometimes it amazed me that a waitress could deliver food a few feet and get 15% - 20% tips and I could drive 30 miles in my car and get stiffed but hey thats how life goes. I learned that money doesnt buy class. I delivered pizzas to the country club section of town and got stiffed and I delivered pizzas to hovels and was tipped handsomely. I had a drunk sic his pitbull on me and I dropped the pizza and the dog ate it. I had to pay for that pizza out of pocket and before I made it back to the shop the guy had called in a complaint on me. I was stiffed by churches and asked in for cookies and milk by little old ladies. One church, upon ordering $300 worth of pizzas for a youth party insisted that they were free because churches should get free pizza. We had a policy at our store that the driver paid for the pizzas before leaving the store and they were his responsibility. I would have been out a months pay if I had given away the pizzas for free and it saddened me to have to fight for their value.
I guess that I was a loser for not having a college degree and was delivering pizzas but I always felt like if you owed people money that you should pay it back. I had debts and I needed a job and the pizza place hired me. We had heroes that worked with us. One guy had a daughter with cancer and was delivering pizzas as a third job to help pay for treatment. I really admired the guy and wanted to get to know him better but he didnt have time for friends. Others supported families and paid taxes and had their reasons for wanting to work.
I have a simple solution for not tipping if you dont want to tip. Dont ask for service that you dont intend to reward. If you dont want to tip a waitress then go to Burger King. If you dont want to tip a Pizza driver then dont order a Pizza. Its pretty simple really. No need to make a fuss about it.
Ive known my share of heartbroken people that live desperate lives where finances were a struggle. Ive known people that struggled to find money to eat or who have given up on god because poverty overwhelmed their happiness. I have wonderful succesful friends and I am thrilled with their success and happiness and I have friends who are down and out and Im proud of all of them and happy to be of their acquaintance.
I want to take a minute and say thank you to those people with jobs who pay taxes. I have a friend who is a 15 year employee at Wal-mart and has never missed a day of work or had a bad job evaluation and is making $8 something per hour. Thank you Ellen for working for others. Id like to say thank you to the many waitresses that bring us food. Thank you to the cashiers that check us out. If you stock shelves so I can buy something in a store rather than having to drive 100 miles to get it then I thank you. If you plumb pipes and jockey trucks then you have my gratitude. If you punch cows or ride a tractor then thank you. If you pick up trash, fix a car, change oil, or design products then I thank you. If you stand watch for your country or wear a badge and deal with people I want to avoid or fight flames then I thank you. If you pound nails then I thank you. If you wash dishes or bus tables then I thank you. If you heal the sick or teach the children then I thank you. If you dig ditches and lay pipes then I thank you. If you shovel the goodstuff at a feedlot then I thank you.
Each and everyone of you that works for a living and does his best to pay taxes and support yourselves and contribute to this great country has my admiration. We have people in this society who take from others, and demand welfare, and dont work and want happiness given to them for nothing and you know what the Pizza drivers of the world are the least of our problems.
This country has been built by heroes and the heroes who have built it have all contributed by playing their small parts.
Id like to thank each of you that does your small part to make my life better so that our streets are clean and safe and we have stores to shop in and restaurants where we can eat and after a long hard day we dont ALWAYS have to cook for our selves and we can enjoy the small luxuries of life.
Again, Thank You for all that you do!!!!!
Happy Motoring All,
Bugshu