Posted on 12/16/2022 12:04:24 PM PST by nickcarraway
'So you have a car? Come get it next time.'
A customer posted security camera footage of a Domino’s delivery driver asking them for a tip as they handed them a pizza in a now-viral TikTok, angering some people in the comments.
In the video posted by TikToker X (@user626366461) on Dec. 11, the Domino’s worker asks for a tip and when the person doesn’t immediately offer one, points out that the customer has a car. She then tells them to “drive” to get their pizza.
The customer explains to the driver that delivery is more for her “convenience” and says “have a good day” without handing them a tip.
“Come get it next time,” the worker says as they leave the porch.
The caption reads, “Umm…. The entitlement is killing me. #dominos come get your girl Absolutky the f not.”
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The video got over 2.7 million views as of Dec. 13, with users split on who was in the wrong.
“STG get ur broke ahh on next time & go get it,” one commenter said, criticizing the customer.
“That’s embarrassing not to tip a driver,” another wrote.
However, others came to the customer’s defense, putting the driver on blast for asking for a tip before completing the delivery.
“If someone literally said ‘tip?’ to me before I had the chance to even reach in my pocket and grab it, I simply wouldn’t give it to her anymore,” one user wrote.
“I always tip. But the audacity to immediately say ‘tip??’ another said.
“Who asks for a tip BEFORE giving the pizza though? Lol,” a third added.
The user responded to some of the outrage on her video about not tipping by sharing a new video, telling the driver and others who were upset that they could learn to code.
“I always way overtip.”
Me too. Waitressed a lot in high school and college.
In college, my job started at 5 a.m. On Saturdays and Sundays.
Drunks tipped great. The hung over not so much.
The video got 2.7 million views on TikTok. That might be enough to monetize and get free pizza for life.
Dominos drivers often make less than minimum wage when they’re on the road. Tipping is part of their wage. If you order service from someone where tipping is part of their wage, and you have no intention of tipping, you are a thief. That being said, if service is sub-par such that you wish you had gone to get it yourself, then maybe not tipping is justified.
At pizza places that deliver, like Dominos, the drivers usually know who is known to be a good tipper or bad. The driver might have been very direct because drivers would rather not get orders from customers who steal their service. In other words, the driver was already expecting the customer not to tip and was rude and aggressive because this customer may already have a reputation.
She should have said, “I’m not allowed to ask for a tip, but I can ask for protection money.”
What bugs me more, though, is that this customer might be able to monetize his or her evil deeds.
Bkmk
I tip delivery people. If one asks for a tip I will not give it, but will contact the company.
Did the same thing in a ‘progressive’ city. They tacked on a 3.5% (or something like that) “Living Wage Charge”, so I said, “Fine, that’s your tip”. They were pissed. And the thing was, the guy had a portable credit card processor so he knew his non-tip before he even walked away from the table.
Needless to say, he got an ‘appropriate’ review on-line.
“TIPS were to insure proper service...perhaps asking before delivering is acceptable.”
Then build it into the price, like most countries do.
Now with waiters making $20+ per hour (more than twice what they made just 5 years ago), they already have their ‘tip’ as far as I’m concerned.
Besides, paying beforehand isn't a "tip," it's baksheesh. If you want baksheesh, move to Arabia. We don't do that crap here.
Pizza delivery is traditionally a job in which the driver works for tips. This driver was rude, but to not tip a pizza delivery driver is just cheap and tacky.
Tips are a bonus, customers give one when they choose, it is random.
Traditionally a pizza deliverer’s job is to deliver pizza, collect his wages and gas compensation, hope for tips, and be grateful when they are given.
“It was standard to tip your executioner back in the day.”
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“You know your history!” From Evelyn, in The Mummy
PS. Most folks today cannot comprehend wanting to pay someone before being executed. Though they were paying to be simply executed; they were being paid to execute correctly and true to the mark on the first swing.
Egads. What a thought, yes?
Ack!
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Though they were *not* paying to be simply executed; they were being paid to execute correctly and true to the mark on the first swing.
I have always tipped, and I tip well for good service. If you are unwilling to tip as you should then you should never eat out and you should never order delivery.
I even avoid eating out with people that I know who do not tip or do not tip properly.
There was this couple I knew that would not tip and always had an issue with the bill, after two or three times it became a pattern and I KNEW they were getting good service.
So now whenever they ask to meet at a restaurant I, am conveniently doing other things and can’t make it.
You might try posting what really happened: ‘Delivery driver demanded tip before delivering tip!’
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