Delivery story 256 Bett writes: I use to work at Eagle Boys in Western Australia in a coastal suburb an hour and a half north of Perth. This was a story of mistaken identity. I had just come back from a delivery and my manager asked me to quickly take an order to a stuff up (a customer who received the wrong order or wasn't satisfied.) The manager told me he would still pay me for the delivery out of his own pocket, as our delivery drivers work as subcontractors and get paid $9.00 AUD for delivery plus tips. So I wouldn't get any tips from this one but $9.00 AUD ain't so bad. It's better than waiting for the next order. I deliver this order and this big bloke comes out and he is extremely angry. He comes out with a baseball bat and starts swearing at me. I tell him I'm the pizza guy and he must have me confused with someone else! He tells me that it was the pizza guy he was after. I s#!t myself after he pins me against my car. He took a step back and is about to swing his bat into my face when his daughter appears from behind the fence and yells out, "Stop! It's not him!" The guy looks at me closely and says, "Yeah. This guy's darker than the other fella." It turns out that the previous driver didn't take it too well when he didn't get tipped, and did a burnout on the guy's lawn while calling his daughter a cheap whore. The guy invited me inside for a beer, but i got the hell outta there. And for the record his daughter did look like a cheap whore. So please tip your drivers. $9.00 AUD for me will not even cover the drive to the house and the kilometres it took me to drive there. If a driver has less than 2 or 3 deliveries that night, he will not make enough to cover his overheads like petrol etc., particularly if they work as subcontractors and use their own cars. return to top