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Haha, oh wow. Thank you everybody, I really do appreciate all of the feedback here. That up there was a lot of pent-up anger simmering since February and it is nice to know that it's justified. Thanks.
--Moirae: Yeah, exactly. Fortunately, the guy was about eighty and clearly more angry than dangerous. Still double locked my door after he left, though. >_>
--Andara Bledin: Good idea, and I would definitely do that if I were still employed there. Unfortunately I think I remember reading something about it in the employment contract. :\ Taking any kind legal action at this point would really be more trouble than it's worth. I know when I left, other people were talking about walking out as well, so one can only hope the higher ups will wise up. Still may call the labor board and inquire, if only for the benefit of the other deliverers. A neighbor delivers for the same people in a neighborhood further away than my old one, so she may be able to spread the word.
--BetweenShades: Thirty two dollars a day, not a week! That would be awful! I should have been clearer, my bad. The employment advertisement actually says that one can "Earn Up To An Extra $1,000 A Month!" Maybe if you deliver in Mayberry or Stepford, yeah. I've noticed that the new ad they put out a couple months ago adds "...with reliable transportation..." Hah.
--Chainedbarista: First thing's first. Great username. And I couldn't agree more about having a meeting or a write-up of some kind instead of a pay dock. Unless the complaint is completely legit and reoccuring, like skipping a house for days on end or something to that effect. After all, people are paying for a service and a product. Not something like leaving the paper by the garage door instead of "The Door By The Garage!" Oh, sorry. There is no way I could have possibly misread that at three AM and there is no way you can walk the extra ten feet to retrieve your paper.
--Mooncat: You've got that right. xD I feel worse for the service reps that deal directly with these people than for the deliverers. You can tell which house has given a rep a hard time because on the route sheet, instructions come in three varieties. The normal, italicized, Leave on porch by door on right; the firmer all-caps IN TUBE NEXT TO GARAGE; and the balls-to-the-wall insane, punctuation-mad DELIVER TO VESTIBULE, NOT TUBE, REPEATED ERROR!!!!!!!
--XCashier: Nice link! That ought to be printed out and included in all delivery menus, newspaper subscriptions, and be made available in all hospital waiting rooms. Weird thing is, the richer the neighborhood, the more out of order the houses will be and the more difficult the numbers will be to find. My particular route was split between three small neighborhoods: A very rural route, a mobile home community, and a very high-end development with more hills than homes and Wayne Manor level driveways.
--Frantic Freddie:
--EricKei: More or less.
--Racket Man: Hahaha, thank you. Oh man, pizza delivery? You have my sympathy as well. Blue on white and gold on brown, ughhh. Or when they have a little whitewashed plaque built into the moulding on their front door and use really ornate, unreadable numbers that look like they came out of an illuminated manuscript. Oh and pffft, shovel? Don't delivery people know how to, like, tie tennis rackets onto their shoes or something? What do we tip you people for?
--RetailDemon: Yeah, in hindsight I should have been more wary of how skeezy this company seemed. Late papers are annoying, yeah. Especially since everything looks way different during the day than it does in the dark. Who'd have thought it would actually be harder to navigate in the daytime? xP
--Protege: ...Damn. That truck driver, what a terrible way to go. You got your papers delivered to your house? Huh, that's different. Aside from...incidents, Jesus, how would you even catagorize that?...that sounds pretty convenient! Three hours is pretty admirable for that sort of weather. And wow, those two guys sound impossible. How wonderful must your life be if your biggest problem, the one that ruins your day, is that your newspaper didn't arrive on time during a total white-out? The guy with the paper on the doorknob reminds me of a gentleman who got The Record, a paper for which we were not provided bags, every day. He never locked his screen door, so instead of leaving it on the mat I'd just leave it in between his screen and storm door, since a lot of customers requested we do this. Mostly older people. A week later he left a very nasty note rubber banded to his porch railing and demanded I leave the paper under the rubber band from now on. Okay, fine. Three or four days later it started to rain about an hour after I delivered on his street.
--Caractacus Potts: For doing that, you have the respect of myself and doubtless every delivery person you have had. Trying to steal a twenty from the pizza guy, what a sleaze. I hope your next gig was/is better. Well, you're on this website, but I hope nobody else has tried to steal from you.
Haha, oh wow. Thank you everybody, I really do appreciate all of the feedback here. That up there was a lot of pent-up anger simmering since February and it is nice to know that it's justified. Thanks.
--Moirae: Yeah, exactly. Fortunately, the guy was about eighty and clearly more angry than dangerous. Still double locked my door after he left, though. >_>
--Andara Bledin: Good idea, and I would definitely do that if I were still employed there. Unfortunately I think I remember reading something about it in the employment contract. :\ Taking any kind legal action at this point would really be more trouble than it's worth. I know when I left, other people were talking about walking out as well, so one can only hope the higher ups will wise up. Still may call the labor board and inquire, if only for the benefit of the other deliverers. A neighbor delivers for the same people in a neighborhood further away than my old one, so she may be able to spread the word.
--BetweenShades: Thirty two dollars a day, not a week! That would be awful! I should have been clearer, my bad. The employment advertisement actually says that one can "Earn Up To An Extra $1,000 A Month!" Maybe if you deliver in Mayberry or Stepford, yeah. I've noticed that the new ad they put out a couple months ago adds "...with reliable transportation..." Hah.
--Chainedbarista: First thing's first. Great username. And I couldn't agree more about having a meeting or a write-up of some kind instead of a pay dock. Unless the complaint is completely legit and reoccuring, like skipping a house for days on end or something to that effect. After all, people are paying for a service and a product. Not something like leaving the paper by the garage door instead of "The Door By The Garage!" Oh, sorry. There is no way I could have possibly misread that at three AM and there is no way you can walk the extra ten feet to retrieve your paper.
--Mooncat: You've got that right. xD I feel worse for the service reps that deal directly with these people than for the deliverers. You can tell which house has given a rep a hard time because on the route sheet, instructions come in three varieties. The normal, italicized, Leave on porch by door on right; the firmer all-caps IN TUBE NEXT TO GARAGE; and the balls-to-the-wall insane, punctuation-mad DELIVER TO VESTIBULE, NOT TUBE, REPEATED ERROR!!!!!!!
--XCashier: Nice link! That ought to be printed out and included in all delivery menus, newspaper subscriptions, and be made available in all hospital waiting rooms. Weird thing is, the richer the neighborhood, the more out of order the houses will be and the more difficult the numbers will be to find. My particular route was split between three small neighborhoods: A very rural route, a mobile home community, and a very high-end development with more hills than homes and Wayne Manor level driveways.
--Frantic Freddie:
--EricKei: More or less.
--Racket Man: Hahaha, thank you. Oh man, pizza delivery? You have my sympathy as well. Blue on white and gold on brown, ughhh. Or when they have a little whitewashed plaque built into the moulding on their front door and use really ornate, unreadable numbers that look like they came out of an illuminated manuscript. Oh and pffft, shovel? Don't delivery people know how to, like, tie tennis rackets onto their shoes or something? What do we tip you people for?
--RetailDemon: Yeah, in hindsight I should have been more wary of how skeezy this company seemed. Late papers are annoying, yeah. Especially since everything looks way different during the day than it does in the dark. Who'd have thought it would actually be harder to navigate in the daytime? xP
--Protege: ...Damn. That truck driver, what a terrible way to go. You got your papers delivered to your house? Huh, that's different. Aside from...incidents, Jesus, how would you even catagorize that?...that sounds pretty convenient! Three hours is pretty admirable for that sort of weather. And wow, those two guys sound impossible. How wonderful must your life be if your biggest problem, the one that ruins your day, is that your newspaper didn't arrive on time during a total white-out? The guy with the paper on the doorknob reminds me of a gentleman who got The Record, a paper for which we were not provided bags, every day. He never locked his screen door, so instead of leaving it on the mat I'd just leave it in between his screen and storm door, since a lot of customers requested we do this. Mostly older people. A week later he left a very nasty note rubber banded to his porch railing and demanded I leave the paper under the rubber band from now on. Okay, fine. Three or four days later it started to rain about an hour after I delivered on his street.
--Caractacus Potts: For doing that, you have the respect of myself and doubtless every delivery person you have had. Trying to steal a twenty from the pizza guy, what a sleaze. I hope your next gig was/is better. Well, you're on this website, but I hope nobody else has tried to steal from you.
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