I was at the office today, sitting around. It was just me in the cardiology clinic, by myself, in a 23-story building, and I was on the ninth floor. My task at hand was to wait for the guy who fixes medical equipment to show up and repair an EKG machine, then lock up and leave when he finishes.

It was like the stone age in this office. A copier and a fax, but NO COMPUTER! I printed out local dialup numbers before leaving the house so I could get online -- NOPE! All I had was my five year old cell phone and its web browser, so I was able to cumbersomely tap through NICO and Business Week.

The repair guy had to leave to pick up some parts, further extending my boredom, and I was getting hungry. At 5:30p I called Papa Johns and ordered a two-topping large.

A half hour later, I get a phone call from a guy with a thick eastern european accent,
"Hi, I'm here with your pizza."
'Oh, well come on in.'
"I'm out in front."
'The suite number is 960.'
[Long Pause]
"I'm here at the main door."
'Downstairs?'
"Yes yes."
'Okay, I'm in suite 960.'
[Long Pause]
"I'm in a white Corolla."
[Long Pause]
'Uhh, okay. I'll see you.'

I headed to the elevator and found him in front by the revolving door, waiting in his car. I signed the credit card slip and thought I was finally clear, until he handed me his parking stub.
He says, "Uhh, what do I do with this?"
[I looked at him and shrugged, and there was yet another long pause.]
'Ummm, I guess I'll validate it.'

I took my pizza and his parking stub, headed up the elevator, set the pizza down on a desk, and stamped his stub, saving him fifty cents. I then had to go BACK DOWN the elevator and hand it to him, then go BACK UP again and finally eat my god damn pizza. If he had brought the pizza up to the ninth floor, he would have saved time.

Next time I'll stuff dollar bills into the vending machine and call it dinner.

Strange. When I worked in a very large hospital in Missouri the pizza delivery dudes would always refuse to being the pizzas up to the 3rd floor. It was always irritating. Maybe they're inherantly lazy, or perhaps there's some company policy?

On another note, when ordering from Papa John's in Springfield, MO you have to specifically ask them to hold the pubic hair. :vomit:

Well,was the pizza good?What kind of toppings?

I don't take that from delivery guys.
You bring it to MY door.

Even some of the couriers will carry the stuff form the truck, up the stairs and then, to make a point, leave it outside the office.
If they don't bring it into the office when I ask them to I either refuse to sign or call their manager up and make a complaint.

And as for the parking, that's not my problem either.


I hope you didn't give that guy a tip.

I don't give delivery guys crap. Their job isn't that easy usually, they don't get paid very well, and they have to put up with people like hardrockcamaro.

I don't give delivery guys crap either unless they give me attitude (just like you are).

Their job is easy as jobs go. Drive truck to destination, get box out of back, press buzzer and announce yourself. When door opens walk to reception and hand over box and delivery receipt. Get given signed delivery receipt back, return to truck and repeat.

NOT

Leave box on truck, walk to reception and tell receptionist to sign paper and come to truck to get box herself. And certainly do NOT combine with ignoring receptionist when she tells you she isn't going to sign to say she's received something she doesn't have yet. And especially do NOT combine that with giving her the evils and attitude.


If they can't tell the differences between those 2 processes they don't deserve their job as they're incapable of doing it.


Now, compare this to the UPS guy (always well trained, polite and cheerful). We get on real well with our local UPS delivery guy. If he comes in and tells me the boxes are heavy and could someone possibly give him a hand to bring them up I'll go down myself and do it.
If I have bulky, heavy boxes for him to take away I personally help him carry them down to the truck.


If they give me delivery papers to sign (ie received x number of packages and good in good condition) and then just tell me they're outside the building on the sidewalk and can I just sign it and go and get them, then I'll tell them they need to bring them in for me to check them first. Sign first and go and unload goods off the truck myself afterwards? Get real.


I *paid* for delivery from A to B.
And my paying the delivery company is what pays him.

Giving customers attitude?
I'd fire his a****.

Hey if you sound like you sound arrogant and bossy then damn right I'll give you attitude and maybe a little more. And you said in your post "bring it to MY door" 'parking outside of my place of business isn't my problem.' Which does make you sound arrogant and bossy.

And tell the UPS guy who just delivered my friend's iron cylinder heads that the job is easy. Some of the stuff they have to move is heavy.

No it's not OK for the delivery guy to not do his job.

How I sound when I write sometihng vs how I am are two different things.
We're missing 80% of communication here.

The UPS guy delivering iron heads would certainly find me helping him.

The guy delivering a small lightweight packet who tells me to sign and THEN go and get it from his truck becuase he can't be bothered is gonna get a chance to change his mind and bring it like he's supposed to or I call his boss.

Thanfully guys like that are rare but there's always one now and again who wants everyone else to do his job for him (and pay for the privilige of doing it!).
If they're not prepared to collect something from somwhere and drop it off at the required destination then they should quit and get a different job or if they feel the physical labour part of the job is too much for one person, get their company to put 2 guys on the truck or something. But don't just not do the job and expect to get paid. We all have to do stuff we don't really want to when we're at work, that's life.

How was the pizza?

How was the pizza?

Good response. I just appreciate not having to support them on my tax dollars.

Papa Johns is good pizza. I was flying 1st class back from Seattle and sat next to Frank Carney, one of the founders of Pizza Hut and the guy who started Papa Johns. We had a good talk. He says Pizza Hut was cutting corners on quality which is why he started Papa Johns. Youl'd think he would have given me some coupons!

Papa Johns Pizza is really good.

Dominos tastes like corpse.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0427061pizza1.html?link=rssfeed

We're missing 80% of communication here.

:thumbsup:

That happens alot on the internet it seems.

Dominos tastes like corpse.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0427061pizza1.html?link=rssfeed

Eww...

But I still really like Domino's (even though I do know a lot of people that don't) and since it's pretty much the only pizza place we have nearby home, it's where we usually get it from.

But that could have been any pizza place, I still eat Domino's, I like Pizza Hut better, but Domino's is cheaper...

nothing like NYC local pizza parlor. Dominos is more like a snack 4 me.

We have Pizza Hut and Dominos here, and they recently opened a Papa Johns.
Paps Johns is hardly known in the UK though as they don't advertise.
I gave them a try and they were ok, if a little expensive.

So far Dominos wins hand down imho...

Pizza Hut pepperoni stuffed crust with breadsticks is where it's at :thumbsup:

Hmmmmm...I guess I like Pizza Hut out of those three, but theres a local place called "Pizza and Pasta" I like that the most!

All the chains suck. I go to a small locally owned chain called Dions, get an 8 topping large for $16, and man it's a hundred times better than anything delivered. Besides, I own 2 Cadillacs and a Lincoln, and I like driving.