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(vent) god I hate customers

I've said it before on beehaw but I work pizza delivery. You'd think it would be an easy job, just drive around and drop off pizzas and enjoy music, but holy shit the amount of pure hatred I've gotten from customers over the dumbest little thing is just insane. I had a guy call me, a white-male, a racial slur because we have a $5 delivery fee. I've had people scream swears at me because I forgot their food, or call back demanding I get fired for it.

And then I went on reddit to vent about it on my company's subreddit. I know reddit is normally pretty toxic but there's really no "pizza delivery" analogue that I can find on beehaw or lemmy in general, and there's just so much hate and vitriol on that subreddit that I can't even bother opening it. Customers telling me that I should "find a new job" or "quit working entirely" because they can't stop being mean about food. Not only is it just pizza, it's fast food! My company is even globally known for giving people free refunds on a whim so I just don't understand why they would hate me so much for venting about my job?? Do people not like being reminded that people like me go through so much shit on a day-to-day basis? It's so fucking insane to me that it's just a commonly accepted thing to be told to "get over it" after being called a slur for something that's not even my problem. 99% of the time when an order is fucked up it's not even my fault? I just delivery them!

I really want to understand why people are SO rude about pizza delivery but I Just can't! I've never in my life even considered cussing out a food service worker but these people are just doing it like its their job!

For anybody that says it, I'd have quit by now if I wasn't making so much money. You try making $16/hr + upwards of $100 in tips a day (yay US tipping culture). I've got so much money now I don't really have a whole lot to do with it, compared to my last jobs at least.

(I also desperately want to scream back at these people so much but I know I can't do that. I know my manager's got my back but if I do it in the store I'll most likely be fired.)

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  • I empathize bud (gender neutral bud). I really do, I have 5 years mcdonalds and 5 years retail under my belt and people. fucking. suck.

    The general public are just the worst to deal with, especially if they view you as "beneath them" in the societal ladder. Boomers by far were the most hateful generation, an entire generation who has been handed everything and just throw childlike tantrums if they don't get what they want.

    Nothing humbles you like being screamed at by some 60 year old woman because you put "too few" pickles on a $1.50 burger. Or too many. Or who really cares, no one should care so much about how many pickles are on their burger enough to literally scream at an employee. But these people are so unaware, they have no idea that they look like the idiots in that situation. The managers don't want a fight so they'll just give them what they want so they leave.

    As for what to do with money. SAVE. Save what you can. If you have a 401k put that money into it, 10% is a good measure if you can. Pay off all of your debt if you have any. Finally, invest. If everything else is done then invest. The economy is in a downturn and the way I like to think is that "stocks are on sale". Use that money now to fund yourself in the future, you'll thank yourself later.

    A good order of operations is

    1. 401k/retirement, 5-10%
    • If your work doesn't offer it you can still open some at your bank, look into IRAs
    1. Pay off debts
    • (like a lot, don't just pay minimums, do principal only payments and get that stuff off your back. Then you'll really have a lot of extra money)
    1. Save 6 months expenses for rainy day fund
    • High interest savings accounts like Ally can give you some interest on this too
    1. Save for down payment on a home if you're interested in home ownership
    • Some people aren't, but imagine all that money in rent going towards your own equity, not someone else's. That's a game changer for sure.
    1. Ad-hoc investing
    • This comes after everything, but can be stocks, funds, or a managed account of some sort.

    Also we absolutely should get a talesfromretail going somewhere. I know we have !talesfromretail@lemmit.online but that's just a clone from Reddit and it's pretty much read-only. (and the reddit stories you can really tell are just karma farming)

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