A couple nights ago, my gf and I got hungry kind of late, so we decided to order a pizza. The pizza place's website estimates that our pizza will arrive at 10:30 but at 11:10, we still haven't got anything. I call the place and ask what's going on and the lady on the other end of the line (who barely speaks English...I mention this not to be xenophobic but because its important for later) eventually tells us that the pizza is on its way. 20 minutes later - a full hour after the initial scheduled delivery time - I get the call from the delivery guy asking me to come downstairs to meet him (I live in a dorm with card access so this is how deliveries have to work).

It takes me maybe a minute or two to put on my shoes and get down to meet this guy (standard), but at first everything seems like its going to be normal: he hands me the receipt so I can sign for my card and put down what I want to tip him, I sign it, etc etc etc whatever. But then as he hands me the pizza he says, "Oh, and uh by the way, I was waiting down here for like 5 minutes or something, so next time if you could just like come down early that would be great, thanks."

So maybe this made me angrier than it should have because I had been waiting for an full hour longer than I was "supposed" to have been, and maybe he didn't have any way to know how absurdly late he was delivering this pizza, but really???? If nothing else, his tone was pretty unacceptable but I'm pretty sure the content of what he was saying was pretty far out of line too. Like really, how tf am I supposed to anticipate when it is he's going to show up and deliver the pizza...if I had gone downstairs at the scheduled time, I would have stood around in the lobby of my building for an hour! Also, you're the service worker and I'm the paying customer...if you have to be slightly inconvenienced and stand in my lobby while I put on my shoes, that's your fucking job so stfu and do it and don't give me any lip about it. And if you really don't want to have to wait around for me, how about calling when you're 5 minutes out instead of when you get to my door???

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So I was pretty tilted about this, but wasn't exactly sure how to handle it. Options I considered:
-Take back the credit card receipt and change his tip to $0.00 or $0.01
-Bitch him out to his face there in the lobby
-Call the pizza place to complain about his behavior
-Any combination of the above

or just not say anything and let it go.

WWOTD?

fwiw this is a pizza place that I enjoy and definitely want to order from again, despite this kid's rudeness. So I do have to balance my desire to bitch out this kid with my desire to not have my pizzas spat/shat/jizzed on in the future. Also, as noted above, the manager for this place didn't seem to have a really good command of the English language so that may or may not diminish the efficacy of my complaint if I decided to call and complain.

Cliffs:
-Order pizza one night
-Pizza comes an hour late
-Upon delivery, the delivery boy makes (imo) a pretty rude remark to me
-What should I have done?

shoot him with your gun marked with secret jesus codes

While the way he acted was obviously unacceptable and unprofessional, I would just brush it off and attribute his attitude to it being 11:30 at night and him being roi. I'd be pissed at the late delivery and the way he acted toward me, but it's my nature to just brush it off and take the high road. Whatevs.

You call and bitch until you get a free pizza. Make sure it's stored in the computer then wait approx one month until management and delivery team have forgotten you or turned over before you redeem your free pizza so they dont spit in it! And make sure you lay the blame on the extra long delivery time more than the guy's attitude so in case he's still around he doesnt remember you later.

if you're waiting to get the pizza and calling the restaurant, then why does it take a minute or two (standard) to get your shoes on? When I need to be somewhere to get food (even at a hotel, being ready to get the door) I am dressed to get it quickly. Seems like if you were unhappy about the delay, you would be ready to get your food quickly and not give him any reason to say something like that.

With that said, as played I would still stab the guy. Carryout FTW vs delivery. Waiting for cold food and dealing with dumbasses = minus EV.

 

Originally Posted by saxman

ask ABQ's wife to pray for him

lol.

But yeah I pretty much agree with Msheep. No need to take any extra measures because of the guy's attitude as he was prob having a shitty night. But definitely let the pizza place know that you weren't satisfied with their service (the delivery being an hour late and all).

 

Originally Posted by Seykota

Make sure it's stored in the computer then wait approx one month until management and delivery team have forgotten you or turned over before you redeem your free pizza so they dont spit in it!

lmao

OP, was the delivery driver a muslim?

 

Originally Posted by AbnormalQ

lol, that guy would be golden for awhile then!

hahaha - i can only poke fun b/c my wifes family is very religious. I'm a heathen obv.

 

Originally Posted by saxman

hahaha - i can only poke fun b/c my wifes family is very religious. I'm a heathen obv.

likewise on the heathen thing

Call me crazy, but Lord Supremo kinda sounds like some kind of meat lovers pizza or something.

"Hello, Domino's"
"Yeah, I'd like to order 2 Lord Supremo pizzas and an 8 piece hot wings."
"That will be $22.38, it should be there in 30-40 minutes."
"Yeah right, bish."

I definitely wouldve said some sort of shitty/smart ass remark back to him but thats just me. You probably handled it correctly

^pretty much this, with the addition of a few choice words for emphasis.

the only time i'd ever make any kind of remark was when people would ask for their "change". for instance it'd be 19.68 they'd give me a 20, and when I'd start walking away they'd say "where's my change?" ... I'd make them feel like a dick like "oh, you want your change, change?" if they still insisted I'd get it from my car and make sure to give as many pennies as I had, etc.

but in OP's scenario that guys a douche. we used to deliver to a hospital that would take people 5-10 mins to come down, so I'd call them when I was a couple minutes away to save time.

On a good day, I would have chuckled at him to his face and said sarcastically "ooooooook Ricky" as I walked away. On a rough day, I would tell him "go fuck yourself faggot".