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Jun 17, 2006 - 02:19 AM |
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My boss is trying to get me fired + Delivery Driver's Pet Peeves |
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Ugh. Worst night EVER tonight.
I come into work, my boss is sitting outside, smoking, and takes one look at me and sends me home to change my pants. I dash there and back (a half-hour drive total), and clock in... and then my boss writes me up. "Why?" I ask. "Because you didn't show up yesterday," he said. I point out that I wasn't scheduled for Thursday, and he shows me a schedule... that has me scheduled for Thursday, and tells me that he hadn't changed the schedule either. I sigh, sign the form, and go about my work.
Then, during a delivery, I'm letting my mind wander, when I notice something about the schedule in my mind's eye: it had nothing under Tuesday.
Tuesday, I was scheduled from 5:30 to 9:00, but I had been called in as an opening driver, and I remembered during the day looking at the whiteboard where we write the day's schedule and seeing myself on it.
After the delivery, I race back, check, and lo and behold, nothing but blank under Tuesday. So, at the VERY least, my boss wrote me up for a bullshit reason (which I was wondering about, since the policy states that no call+no show is an immediate termination, and the guy is a stickler for rules, yet he only wrote me up) AND lied to me about changing the schedule, and at worst, is trying to get me fired. WHY he would do this, though, I have no clue. It's not like I'm a bad worker or anything; hell, I'd go so far as to say I'm one of the better drivers despite my inexperience.
So tomorrow morning I'm going in under the pretense of having lost my hat (because I don't trust anybody in that god damn store anymore, and if my boss IS trying to get me fired, it would be as easy as pointing out to corporate offices that I was a no-show yesterday and changing my status from written up to fired) and looking up the number for HR and disputing this thing.
Enough about office Pizza Hut drama, though, it's time for pet peeves.
Asshole bosses who console you while stabbing you in the back: Err.... yeah. NOW I'm done with that.
CHECKS. I'm throwing my lot in with Tails and Mo0 here. Checks are the MOST ANNOYING GOD DAMN THING EVAR. Not only are they unreliable (some asshole wrote TWO checks for us from a closed account, which means that he basically got free pizza =\ ), but they're a PAIN to process compared to the rest. With cash, it's just shove in the register and take your tip. With cards, it's staple the signed and imprinted receipt to the ticket and take your tip.
With checks, it's endorsing it by stamping the back, writing a T-bar with the driver's license number of the customer (optional, but the boss yells at me if I don't do it), the ticket number, the phone number, and the driver's initials, and grabbing your (usually piddly) tip.
People who get pissed off at the driver for something he had no control over: Yes, I know it's a half hour late. Yes, I'm sorry. Yes, I know I won't get a damn tip, despite having gotten there in under five minutes. The only reason your pizza is late is because some fucktard at the store was sitting out back smoking instead of dispatching drivers.
Related: Yes, I know I had trouble finding your house. Yes, I'm sorry. Yes, I know I won't get a damn tip, despite having gotten there within the promise time. The only reason you're pissed is because your house, which has an address of 20th Street, is on FUCKING KENNEWICK PLACE, AND NO THE STREET SIGN DOES NOT SAY 20TH STREET YOU FAT BITCH.
Apartment complexes: Is it so fucking hard to put your address somewhat clearly on the sign? Seriously, some I've seen have a sign declaring the name of their complex yet have an address this big on it. And ONE sign I've seen doesn't have the address ANYWHERE on the sign. Just the name.
OI.
Areas without street lights: Not only is it unsafe (delivery drivers DO get robbed, ya know), but it makes it hard as fuck to find the house you're looking for because you can't see the address. THESE PLACES ARE WHY I NEED TO HAVE A FLASHLIGHT IN MY CAR AT ALL TIMES.
Houses with similarly colored addresses and walls Uhh... you DO realize that people find your house by address, right? So WHY would you have a tan-colored address, and a house painted a slightly lighter shade of tan?
Poor tippers: The worst case of this was one where I delivered a pizza a full HOUR early, and the guy casually handed the exact amount to me and slammed the door in my face. You know, when you work your ass off to get a pizza to somebody from the oven within five minutes, it sorta gets frustrating to not even get a nod or a "thank you."
Preferably, that nod or "thank you" would be in the form of a five-dollar bill.
Aaaand... that's about it for me.
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