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I am so so so so happy that school is starting back up.
Currently I deliver pizzas for a living. Not much, but hey Im making my own way.
Over the summer we get a rash of scammers and pranksters.
Pranksters are almost always younger teens who have to little to do with their time. I guess playing outside just isnt enough. About a week all on the same day we got at least ten calls from the same people (kids). In the first call they were asking for orange chicken. I told them that no, we are a pizza place and do not have orange chicken. This was just the first call. I was then giving them the benefit of the doubt that they may have just been very confused. Eventually I told them that if we received anymore calls we would involve the police and it stopped.
All the calls involved a variation of asking for something a pizza place simply would not have. Normally chinese themed food.
We have also had far more scammers than usual. Once a week is about average. The past month though we have had as many as six a week.
They call in and tell us the order was wrong in some fashion: it was burnt, wrong toppings, wrong crust, something missing. Many of these calls have one thing in common. We have NO record of the order. Anywhere. We won't even have a name or address associated with the number. So no order has been placed from the number for a very long time.
The other common scammers are those who placed an order and then attempt to call back two or more days later claiming something was wrong. If we have no record of them calling in to tell us the same day, or the next day in case it was a late order and we had closed then we wont replace those orders either.
The worst are the ones that do call back right away. Normally what happens in these cases is that they order one medium pizza and find that it will not adequately feed the 10 people they have in the house. I often find myself knowing when we are going to get a call back as soon as I leave a house because I can hear/see a lot of people there.
Not saying we dont make mistakes. We do. But they are generally due to a miss communication and we are happy to fix those Heck, we had a rather nasty one a few months back, someone got a new cell phone and who ever took the order didnt bother to confirm the address... took me a bit of detective work to fix that one since I had to find the original order.
Currently I deliver pizzas for a living. Not much, but hey Im making my own way.
Over the summer we get a rash of scammers and pranksters.
Pranksters are almost always younger teens who have to little to do with their time. I guess playing outside just isnt enough. About a week all on the same day we got at least ten calls from the same people (kids). In the first call they were asking for orange chicken. I told them that no, we are a pizza place and do not have orange chicken. This was just the first call. I was then giving them the benefit of the doubt that they may have just been very confused. Eventually I told them that if we received anymore calls we would involve the police and it stopped.
All the calls involved a variation of asking for something a pizza place simply would not have. Normally chinese themed food.
We have also had far more scammers than usual. Once a week is about average. The past month though we have had as many as six a week.
They call in and tell us the order was wrong in some fashion: it was burnt, wrong toppings, wrong crust, something missing. Many of these calls have one thing in common. We have NO record of the order. Anywhere. We won't even have a name or address associated with the number. So no order has been placed from the number for a very long time.
The other common scammers are those who placed an order and then attempt to call back two or more days later claiming something was wrong. If we have no record of them calling in to tell us the same day, or the next day in case it was a late order and we had closed then we wont replace those orders either.
The worst are the ones that do call back right away. Normally what happens in these cases is that they order one medium pizza and find that it will not adequately feed the 10 people they have in the house. I often find myself knowing when we are going to get a call back as soon as I leave a house because I can hear/see a lot of people there.
Not saying we dont make mistakes. We do. But they are generally due to a miss communication and we are happy to fix those Heck, we had a rather nasty one a few months back, someone got a new cell phone and who ever took the order didnt bother to confirm the address... took me a bit of detective work to fix that one since I had to find the original order.
Glad your management doesn't cave on the more obvious ones.
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