Pizza Panhandler

[Aethian]

Just got a reply email from their corporate email...

I have just received your e-mail. Thank you for writing to us in regards to your satisfaction with our product and employees. Customersatisfaction is our number one goal. Again thank you for the wonderful compliment and if you have any further comments or questions please write to us again and have a wonderful day.

Why does that look email generated to me?

[MoonCat]

Just got a reply email from their corporate email...



Why does that look email generated to me?

Probably because it is. You'd think they would read your email a little more carefully.

[Lyse]

If it is possible, write up a letter and give it directly to the manager while letting him know what the employees did for you.

[Canarr]

If it is possible, write up a letter and give it directly to the manager while letting him know what the employees did for you.

Seconded. Corporate may not read your recommendations, but the store manager might.

[Pixilated]

plus who's to say he's not lying. some guns fit nicely into pockets, so they wouldn't be visible under a shirt even after you lift it up. plus the fact he thought to do this makes me a distrusty pepper

the only thing i'd have suggested is... if your car was already unlocked then carry on, ignore this part.

but if your car wasn't unlocked or open... i'd have suggested going back right away. sometimes it's not food or money they're after but... your car.

The whole thing with his insistence that he has no guns reminds me of something written by Gavin de Becker in The Gift of Fear. I don't have the book in front of me but I believe de Becker says something about being very wary of people who give up "too much information" because they're usually, at best, trying to scam you. I think announcing "I don't have any guns" would rank right up there as "Did I ASK you??" (and since I didn't, why do you feel compelled to tell me this?!) information ...

[Lace Neil Singer]

Just got a reply email from their corporate email...


Why does that look email generated to me?

Probably is; I'd suggest going back to the place with a thankyou card and something small.

[Geek King]

Keep in mind, many corperate email systems send out a generic autoreply as soon as they get your email. You may see other things happen later as the mail gets to the right people.

[greensinestro]

Wow. Scary stuff there. If they've called the cops on him before, it makes me wonder why he still hangs around there.

[Seshat]

Even if corporate does end up sending the employees a commendation, it'd be nice for them to get a letter from you, personally, that they can post on an in-store bulletin board.

(Or photocopy, and keep copies in the files of each of those five guys. Might help tip the balance if they seek a promotion within the chain.)

[Moosenogger]

My gut would have been screaming a red alert the moment the guy asked to take him somewhere else. Probably the moment you let him in your car he would have done something terrible.

Isn't that what kidnappers and other criminals want to do first? Get you to another, safer (for them), location?

[Can I Help Your A$$?]

You have good instincts. That guy was no one I'd want to hang around with.

[Sapphire Silk]

Keep in mind, many corperate email systems send out a generic autoreply as soon as they get your email. You may see other things happen later as the mail gets to the right people.

That's what happened to me when I wrote a thank you letter to Applebe's after the manager there found and returned my pedometer to me last year. I got the generic thank you email, then a more personalized reply later.

[Kristev]

Now, I'll confess, I've made deals with people for a little food every now and then. But my preferred style is by trading - they help me and I give them a tarot reading in return.

[Pixilated]

My gut would have been screaming a red alert the moment the guy asked to take him somewhere else. Probably the moment you let him in your car he would have done something terrible.

Isn't that what kidnappers and other criminals want to do first? Get you to another, safer (for them), location?

Yeah, exactly -- get the victim as far away as possible from any potential help.

Now, I'll confess, I've made deals with people for a little food every now and then. But my preferred style is by trading - they help me and I give them a tarot reading in return.

But I'm betting those were people who already knew you, right? And also, you were offering something specific in return ... and you weren't insisting on the person driving you "somewhere else" to get your food ...

Trade and barter isn't much of a "way of life" around here. Wish it was. There's been repeated efforts in trying to get "barter" groups going but they never seem to catch on.