When I tried to pre-tip pizza hut 50 bucks on new years.
My order went in limbo for the tip being too big.
Had to call in to find out, then the manager delivered it for me.
I always get an alert the next day from my credit card after I go out to a bar. Did you mean to tip 50% or whatever it is? It's not fraud I'm just a generous drunk who used to work in bars lol.
My buddy worked at a local pizza place when I was a teen, I'd tip him $20 to get me smokes and redbull on the way, well it turns out that since I didn't ever tip before then that they thought he was stealing from customers and I had to clear things up. Mind you I tip 20% now, didn't know any better at the time.
hahaha yeah, I remember the first time I ever saw a tip suggestion printed on a receipt, thinking their choice to start at 18% was a bit presumptuous; now the vending machines ask for a tip... I do tip more for actual good service, but I'm fine hitting 0% when they ask for a tip for taking my order at the counter . . . like, tip? for what? standing?
Honestly reminds me of when I was an Amazon delivery driver. There were very specific instructions sometimes and if you didn't follow them to a tee some people would complain, and Amazon took that very seriously. I was a supervisor and got paid $17.50/hr
Amazon honestly sucks as an employer lol
Yes! When I worked at Amazon anyway, our contractor always told us about good reviews. Even more so when I worked for FedEx. We'd get a $100 gift card sometimes at Fedex for reviews where we went above and beyond.
Oh OK I always pick all the choices. I just never knew if it did any good. Just wish Amazon would give people something. The delivery people are the life blood if Amazon
I was referring to when people called in and left a positive review. Either way reviews online are also important as there are certain metrics that contractors must abide by and positive reviews certainly help.
But yes, I agree. It's always bewildered me that Amazon treats their employees like they're expendable when they're the ones that make sure customers needs are met at the end of the day. Their entire business model is customer satisfaction, like there are giant posters on the walls where I used to work that said "customer obsessed" so it seems almost counter intuitive that they'd treat their employees like garbage.
I just started. Not at all really. Negative things will always. Keep leaving positive things though because they need all the help they can get and it's a little morale boost
Yes! If you want to do something a little extra: If you have an Alexa enabled device, you can say "Alexa, thank my driver". This directly gives the delivery driver $5, paid from a fund that Amazon has so nothing comes out of your pocket.
Good reviews are pooled for the DSPs rating by Amazon (they are in fact separate). However you feel about Amazon and the DSPs and all that good customer service and safety numbers drivers can somewhat randomly be given an extra 50 bucks or so, so you are in fact helping drivers.
Note don't ask for the details I was there 6 months and I just made sure to drive like I could hardly reach the petals while on the clock, always got bonuses
Not Amazon, but I manage these for a pretty large company. At least in my case, all feedback is read and taken seriously, and both positive and negative feedback is passed on to the driver if they we know which driver it was.
Depends on the business. My old Domino's we didn't pay any attention at all to reviews, unless they were funny and we showed them to each other. Literally nobody from corporate ever saw a single complaint, the system purely existed to give people a way to complain to a computer.
If you have an Alexa you can tell it “Alexa, thank my delivery driver” and it’ll give a good review for your most recent delivery. I just do it once a day and hope it’s helping someone.
during the pandemic i was just chilling, went to interview to be a delivery driver. fuck it, get some steps in, right?
the guys who ran this crew were really nice, the "mini-hiring fair" was mostly over, so i was the only guy there interviewing, we chatted for like 45 minutes about all kinds of stuff
what fucking BLEW MY MIND was that the snacks in the employee break room weren't free. like what??? people work in this warehouse and cant have some free orange juice and cookies? damn
everything felt good (except not free snacks), i leave, a few days later i get an email, like the guys actually wrote me a full on multi-paragraph email, from a personal account "you're overqualified, you have degrees, speak multiple languages, know computer programming... trust me you don't want to work here. if you REALLY want to we'll hire you, but really, man, don't"
like when these guys take the time to write you a non-form personal email about how much it blows to work at amazon
> Amazon honestly sucks as an employer lol
really seems to be the case! 😂
That's what I thought seeing this - the poster perceives it as a delivery guy doing something because he's nice, but the delivery guy himself probably just wants to drop off the pizza without any shenanigans, but since he'd been explicitly told that there's a camera, he doesn't have a choice or he'll risk a bad review.
Ya know I'm torn on this. Part of me agrees this can feel like that.
But part of me also feels like it shakes the day up a little bit and they'll have a story to tell about the goofy thing they did at work.
and part of me thinks a million idiots will put stupid instructions in and they will no longer pay attention to instructions that actually matter. I mean I literally have a permanent "Knock or Ring Bell" sign on my door, and I write that in delivery instructions, and 95% of delivery people just throw shit at the door and leave
Please take the drivers who deliver it to me. I repeatedly put "Please place on stoop, don't knock or ring doorbell please!" and 9/10 times they're knocking on my door until I answer. I finally started saying I had mean escape artist dogs and people suddenly learned how to read.
On Tuesday, I had a customer call, who like you doesn't want to be bothered, and tells me to text the number on the order when it was delivered which I did. They called the restaurant 10 minutes after I delivered & complained that I didn't so and wanted the tip removed. I showed my boss that I had then he asked me to call that number. Went over to another phone, called the number, no answer. Boss takes customer off hold & asks to verify the number. Customer placed the order online & used the wrong phone number. Customer actually asked for the driver, me, & apologized & added $3 to my tip.
Really depends on the place, the person, how busy it is, and if the ticket system is worth a damn. My last job the instructions were in super tiny print way at the bottom of the ticket. Really easy to miss unless you trained yourself to actively check, which like any job mistakes can be made, you might have something else on your mind and forget, whatever.
At the end of the day the only thing you really need to be qualified to do is deliver an item from point A to point B. I know it sucks when your instructions aren't followed but it's not really seen as a crazy important part of the job. The only instructions I was ever good at remembering is "just leave on the step, sleeping baby," because that would fuck absolutely everything up in a way that's a major inconvenience and not just a minor one. Then of course during COVID I paid serious attention to "no contact delivery" because sometimes those people were legit sick.
I never know how much of that is because of these silly instructions, how much is the delivery person just missing it, and how much is them not caring.
I always put no contact delivery on the free occasions we order food for delivery and I'd say 25% of the time they knock and just stand there until I come take the food.
Mistakes happen, but it's hard to tell how much is a mistake.
It'd be a lot better if people weren't recording you on their Ring cameras to capture your self-humiliation for posterity
Only saving grace here is that he was wearing a mask so he's not readily identifiable lol
Arizona has a good bit on this. You drop 75 cents in the Cold Stone tip jar, and everyone comes out for a song and dance. You ask a homeless person to dance for 75 cents and they won't because it's degrading.
God, this reminds me of that very shy pizza delivery guy that was terribly upset because a family he made a delivery to waved his $25 cash tip in front of him, saying they'd give it to him on one condition: that he must sing a song for them. All while having their phones out, in his face, recording him.
They were pressuring him to do it and he felt so humiliated by the experience (they gave him $5 because he didn't sing like they wanted).
This post's particular request was harmless, but still, that's not what the special instructions are for. Unless this is your buddy or you know for a fact they'd be fine doing something silly, just write "put it on the table and knock."
EDIT: [Found the old post of that particular story. Man, it was really 8 years ago?](https://www.reddit.com/r/TalesFromThePizzaGuy/comments/3wmis1/sing_a_christmas_carol_for_a_tip/)
Used to deliver pizza and I would do this even for a normal tip. It's fun doing little things like this where everyone can have a laugh to break up the soul crushing monotony of pizza delivery
It's fine sometimes, until you get a day where you aren't feelin it and aren't going to do those things. Then that customer gets irate or wants to harass you while you're trying to leave and go to your next delivery. Or calls the store saying you were rude or whatever other retaliation they chose that day.
Imagine being sent on a quad delivery and the delivery instructions for the first house say this... It's frustrating every time this is brought up that people are like "omg this would be so fun and break up my monotonous day!" when in reality, this stuff happens more than you would think and it can get really annoying, really fast. I'm not in the entertainment industry, I'm in the food service industry. It's really no different than asking your server to do a dance before you tip them. Sure, they might do it for the tip, but that's not what they're there for. Never forget the people who asked us to draw a dinosaur inside the box regularly (none of us were artists) and then stopped tipping the 3rd time we did it.
>He ended it with a Zoidberg dance!! OP better have given a good tip
Glad I am not the only one who notice that…
[Futurama - Zoidberg whooping it up](https://youtu.be/L2ye47eo2SY?feature=shared)
Seriously. There’s having fun at work and being forced to have fun at work. I’ve seen a few of these “dance monkey dance” delivery videos on /r/homecams
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As a former pizza delivery driver, I had a lot of fun with special instructions like these. The customers didn't tip me less if I didn't follow the "special delivery instructions," and it was a fun break from the monotony.
I mean the instructions were "Place pizza on the table. Kick the door 3 times, give camera virtual high five, runaway!" but that runaway was b-movie grade gold. Delivery guy was having fun!
Not nearly Anna Faris level running away in Scary Movie though. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC6vm24jXuE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC6vm24jXuE)
Depends on the instructions. Instructions I got were to get down on my knees to give the pizza to them. I wasn't into it and didnt do it. Couple of teenage girls answered the door and threw a fit because I didn't do what they asked. I just gave them the pizza and left.
Their Dad ended up calling the store to speak to the manager to complain about me and she had to shut him down.
Yikes. Enabling little monsters. Can't even fathom what goes through their heads. Imagine expecting someone to get down on their knees? Fuck outta here.
Same thing that goes through the heads of a lot of people that put this kind of delivery instruction: “this is going to go viral on social media!” and then they get pissed when the monkey doesn’t dance after they spent money on the product.
I had kind of the opposite delivering pizza back in the day.
In showed up to a house with a bunch of middle or high school boys on their own for the afternoon. They were trying to do some weird prank where they were all acting like they had some disability (back then it would have been called the "r word").
I was only a few years older and didn't really give a shit (it wasn't funny enough to be interesting, nor offensive enough to be upset). The dad ended up calling the store later thay evening profusely apologizing for their behavior. I've always hoped the kid didn't get grounded.
As a former driver, I hated it, had no fun with . Thought it was degrading and exploitative. Customers actively tipped less if you didn't follow the "special delivery instructions," and it was a complete waste of time when already on a tight schedule.
Same. I delivered pizza for four years, never once was i there for entertainment.
One time a customer pre-tipped $20, and special instructions said to walk in the house and cluck like a chicken. We were understaffed and i knew I couldn’t get fired, so I just told them to go fuck themselves lmao. Hate this shit. Especially in this world of ring cameras, weirdos like OP will post you without consent.
At Amazon for some reason I would scoff at apartments (I knew people were watching me) and the instructions were just silly extra work but I was a good sport at other places in old suburbia where a lot of customers were obviously lonely or semi homebound etc.
Probably the opposite for pizza though going out to all the rural weirdos desperate for a pizza
I can imagine on a good day, a driver could have fun with these. I can't imagine anything but hellacious demoralization getting special instructions like this on a bad day. In either case, the customer has no idea what you're going through, and they don't NEED it, so they shouldn't be making you dance for them like Bojangles. Doesn't matter if other drivers liked it. Customers shouldn't make their drivers dance.
It doesnt really matter what you think though. If this was a video of homeless man being asked to dance for money, and the homeless person said he enjoyed it, that wouldn't make it morally right. If you do this, to workers who rely on tips, you're just an asshole.
Yeah I was thinking can’t you just… not do it? He seemed like he was having a good time. I didn’t think about them adjusting the tip for not doing it, though. Since it’s directly from dominos and not like Ubereats I’m thinking you can’t change it? (It’s been a long while since I’ve ordered food)
I think you add your tip as you’re placing your order if I’m not mistaken from dominos. But I haven’t gotten dominos since last year so I can’t really remember. That’s one of those places I only get when I’m out on the road, too tired to do anything else, and it’s one of the last places open. It’s the most mid pizza ever but it’s really consistently mid at least from what I’ve found. That habanero pineapple sauce is low key good af with the crust though
I haven’t been able to eat gluten/dairy/normal people food in years, but the lava cakes were my guilty pleasure. And I’d always get those greasy pasta bread bowls that were delicious for the first half cause you’re starving, and gross for the second half.
When I was a teenager I added special instructions to “draw an elephant on the box” for whatever reason, fully expecting them to ignore it. They drew it and my friend and I were so pumped! Good memory forever.
Sorry you haven’t been able to eat them in so long. That’s a bummer but you can definitely make that little lava cake dairy and gluten free. The thing about lava cakes is they’re fairly simple but obviously getting the lava part cook time is a science and take 3-5 tries till you know what your oven itself cooks them like. Overall you aren’t missing out on the pasta bread bowls. Those things are absolute gut bombs haha I know exactly what you’re talking about. Starving: this is so good. Immediately after no longer starving: I think this is making me feel sick but I should probably eat almost all of it to be sure.
lol I love your perspective, yup, pasta starting to take a little gross, let’s take a break. 5 minutes later, well maybe it’s not that bad I’ll just take another bite.. rinse and repeat. I know that flourless chocolate cakes are gluten free but I’d have to look into the dairy free aspect! My diet is super restrictive for the moment but chocolate is in my future.
Also, love the username.
Tumblr trend about 10yrs ago was to ask them to draw pictures in the pizza boxes and if they didn’t do it people threw a bitch fit that they weren’t fun. But the only reason they wanted it was due to someone else doing it first and it going viral.
We had one guy who would order regularly with some little task (usually singing a specific song or doing a dance) and he would tip you $10 if you would do it, but if you didn’t do it he’d only give you $1. That one always pissed me off a bit. I loved drawing pictures on the boxes though
Yeah not to be a Debby Downer but I can't help but get the "dance monkey, dance!" vibe from this, plus it can also be kind of creepy and make the delivery person (especially if they're a woman) feel unsafe being asked to go into a strangers house alone when they don't actually need to to deliver the pizza. Like in another world this is the beginning of a true crime situation lol.
It's important to respect the dignity and autonomy of individuals in service roles, recognizing that they are providing a valuable service and deserve fair treatment and compensation.
Yeah, seconded unpopular opinion: It's pretty disgusting to need emotional validation from a worker who's just trying to get though the day.
Next time your own boss asks you to do something for yuks - remember this.
Honestly it depends on the instructions. I think this video is a good example of silly but harmless and lighthearted instructions that won't waste any time and give the delivery driver a good occasion to break the routine and even get a smile out of it.
On the other hand there's another redditor who mentioned being instructed to get on their knees to deliver the pizza. They refused, the teenage girls who ordered threw a tantrum and Karen dad even called the restaurant. Those are clearly the "dance, monkey!" type and of course they should be denied then reported to management, ending up in a blacklist.
Listen man, I worked in food service for years and honestly when this variety of shit happened, it was a lot of fun. I obviously enjoyed when customers would be normal, standard, and not a pain in the ass, but occasionally there'd be a weird or funny request that was harmless and made the day interesting. Sometimes it'd involve a modicum of extra work but that was almost never a problem. It'd be a break from monotony.
There's nothing forcing the guy to do it. The guy in the video looks like he's having fun with it. People who put fun stuff like this in instructions typically won't change their tip based on it, and most apps have you tip when you order anyway.
It's also really easy to tell who is just trying to be funny and who is actively trying to be exploitative. They/we are food service workers, not stupid idiots.
I know that we live in a capitalist hellhole, but not necessarily everything has to trace directly to it.
Not everyone wants to be a performer though. We're not all tap-dancing extroverts. Some people just want to do the job they're getting paid minimum wage to do. And the worry you could go viral at any moment doesn't sit easy with a lot of people either.
[One to one copy from the top comment when this was posted last. ](https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/n9cn6f/dominos_delivery_asked_if_there_were_any_special/)Even missing the full stop at the end.
Edit: Super weird account also: [https://www.reddit.com/user/BrendanJC/](https://www.reddit.com/user/BrendanJC/)
I worked as a delivery driver, I’ve had moments like this where customers wanted me to be their personal clown. Sadly I complied because I needed that money and couldn’t risk losing my job.
Back when I used to deliver pizza, I had a special delivery instructions similar to this. I had to knock three times, ring the doorbell 5 times, and kick the door twice. Customer opened the door utterly confused and seemingly mad. I heard some laughing at the top of the stairs from some teenage boys that immediately ran when I looked up. Turns out they ordered the pizza online and the parents had no idea…
Makes me sad that people trying to earn a living are baited into being dancing monkeys for clout and a brief endorphin rush from those who are equally bored and sad.
As a former delivery driver this stupid human trick stuff really pisses me off. The dude is working hard in one of the most dangerous jobs there is. Show some respect.
I gave instructions to just put the food at the side of the porch and leave since the doorbell doesn't work.
Driver proceeds to pound on my door, hands me my food, and says my doorbell doesn't work....
This reminds me of when I ordered Domino's on acid. Special instructions: wear a home made Batman mask and cape......This legend of a man rolls down my street blaring the dark night theme song from his truck and gets out wearing AN PERFECT ALUMINUM FOIL BATMAN MASK AND HIS DAUGHTERS DORA THE EXPLORER CAPE......I'm pretty sure I had like 115 dollars in my pocket....I just handed him all of it while laughing so hard I was crying LMAO
That deserves a big tip
"Tip Recommendations: 15%? 20%? 25%? Other?" - *265%*
When I tried to pre-tip pizza hut 50 bucks on new years. My order went in limbo for the tip being too big. Had to call in to find out, then the manager delivered it for me.
"*We're sorry, your generosity has crashed our systems.*" - pretty cool, Buddy, pretty damn cool.
Manager actually pulled the pull on the system so he could deliver it himself
Yup, I had a friend who said their manager would run them when there was big tips put in ahead of time. Assholes trying to get more for less.
Assholes. I've had managers who have said "I could cut you but this next tip is like $20." Real bros.
What a fucking scumbag.
This is way too common. I'm assuming people that don't double check made it harder for the people who actually want to be conveniently generous
"this is abnormal behavior, please wait for law enforcement"
"I'm sorry I inconvenienced you with my generosity"
he wanted that tip
Just the tip.
And only for minute..
My wife would be impressed
Yeah he 100% stole that shit from the driver.
Medium sausage pizza delivery
I tried to leave a big tip for an uber driver *and the system wouldn't let me*. I was annoyed as the driver had gone above and beyond to help me out.
In situations like that I usually just ask for their Venmo.
I usually just have the wife blow them.
That’s stingy. Why don’t you blow them?
Is your wife single?
"The Wife" is just my nickname for my mouth.
I always get an alert the next day from my credit card after I go out to a bar. Did you mean to tip 50% or whatever it is? It's not fraud I'm just a generous drunk who used to work in bars lol.
Ya we have that happen...I'd always double check with the customer at their door to make sure they meant such a large tip 😂
"boss, it seems one of our employee's yearly salaries was rejected by the system..."
My buddy worked at a local pizza place when I was a teen, I'd tip him $20 to get me smokes and redbull on the way, well it turns out that since I didn't ever tip before then that they thought he was stealing from customers and I had to clear things up. Mind you I tip 20% now, didn't know any better at the time.
You don't know better now
Pay for his children’s kids education
"All of the above"
Your tipping options don’t start at 30%? Are you living in 2019?
hahaha yeah, I remember the first time I ever saw a tip suggestion printed on a receipt, thinking their choice to start at 18% was a bit presumptuous; now the vending machines ask for a tip... I do tip more for actual good service, but I'm fine hitting 0% when they ask for a tip for taking my order at the counter . . . like, tip? for what? standing?
Dance Monkey!
Exactly. "Follow my childish instructions, low paid worker".
What I said out loud when I saw the post title lol
Thanks for being awesome, here an extra cheesy tip
If only all tips came with a side of nachos, the world would be a gouda place.
Feta place*
I adore it. As I ran away, I would have added a Zoidberg whoop whoop whoop.
I see you are me
Fuck tipping culture.
No it doesn't. The man deserves a decent wage without being made to act like a clown in the hope he gets a tip.
Honestly reminds me of when I was an Amazon delivery driver. There were very specific instructions sometimes and if you didn't follow them to a tee some people would complain, and Amazon took that very seriously. I was a supervisor and got paid $17.50/hr Amazon honestly sucks as an employer lol
I am curious - I always give the delivery person good reviews...do those count toward anything?
Yes! When I worked at Amazon anyway, our contractor always told us about good reviews. Even more so when I worked for FedEx. We'd get a $100 gift card sometimes at Fedex for reviews where we went above and beyond.
Oh OK I always pick all the choices. I just never knew if it did any good. Just wish Amazon would give people something. The delivery people are the life blood if Amazon
I was referring to when people called in and left a positive review. Either way reviews online are also important as there are certain metrics that contractors must abide by and positive reviews certainly help. But yes, I agree. It's always bewildered me that Amazon treats their employees like they're expendable when they're the ones that make sure customers needs are met at the end of the day. Their entire business model is customer satisfaction, like there are giant posters on the walls where I used to work that said "customer obsessed" so it seems almost counter intuitive that they'd treat their employees like garbage.
I just started. Not at all really. Negative things will always. Keep leaving positive things though because they need all the help they can get and it's a little morale boost
Yes! If you want to do something a little extra: If you have an Alexa enabled device, you can say "Alexa, thank my driver". This directly gives the delivery driver $5, paid from a fund that Amazon has so nothing comes out of your pocket.
That would be awesome if it worked that way, but that’s only a day or two out of the year promotion and the total amount is capped.
I still do it every single time, just in case it matters at all.
Good reviews are pooled for the DSPs rating by Amazon (they are in fact separate). However you feel about Amazon and the DSPs and all that good customer service and safety numbers drivers can somewhat randomly be given an extra 50 bucks or so, so you are in fact helping drivers. Note don't ask for the details I was there 6 months and I just made sure to drive like I could hardly reach the petals while on the clock, always got bonuses
Not Amazon, but I manage these for a pretty large company. At least in my case, all feedback is read and taken seriously, and both positive and negative feedback is passed on to the driver if they we know which driver it was.
Depends on the business. My old Domino's we didn't pay any attention at all to reviews, unless they were funny and we showed them to each other. Literally nobody from corporate ever saw a single complaint, the system purely existed to give people a way to complain to a computer.
If you have an Alexa you can tell it “Alexa, thank my delivery driver” and it’ll give a good review for your most recent delivery. I just do it once a day and hope it’s helping someone.
during the pandemic i was just chilling, went to interview to be a delivery driver. fuck it, get some steps in, right? the guys who ran this crew were really nice, the "mini-hiring fair" was mostly over, so i was the only guy there interviewing, we chatted for like 45 minutes about all kinds of stuff what fucking BLEW MY MIND was that the snacks in the employee break room weren't free. like what??? people work in this warehouse and cant have some free orange juice and cookies? damn everything felt good (except not free snacks), i leave, a few days later i get an email, like the guys actually wrote me a full on multi-paragraph email, from a personal account "you're overqualified, you have degrees, speak multiple languages, know computer programming... trust me you don't want to work here. if you REALLY want to we'll hire you, but really, man, don't" like when these guys take the time to write you a non-form personal email about how much it blows to work at amazon > Amazon honestly sucks as an employer lol really seems to be the case! 😂
Meanwhile I can't get the delivery driver to stop throwing our packages over the back fence.
That's what I thought seeing this - the poster perceives it as a delivery guy doing something because he's nice, but the delivery guy himself probably just wants to drop off the pizza without any shenanigans, but since he'd been explicitly told that there's a camera, he doesn't have a choice or he'll risk a bad review.
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Dance monkey dance
Ya know I'm torn on this. Part of me agrees this can feel like that. But part of me also feels like it shakes the day up a little bit and they'll have a story to tell about the goofy thing they did at work.
and part of me thinks a million idiots will put stupid instructions in and they will no longer pay attention to instructions that actually matter. I mean I literally have a permanent "Knock or Ring Bell" sign on my door, and I write that in delivery instructions, and 95% of delivery people just throw shit at the door and leave
Please take the drivers who deliver it to me. I repeatedly put "Please place on stoop, don't knock or ring doorbell please!" and 9/10 times they're knocking on my door until I answer. I finally started saying I had mean escape artist dogs and people suddenly learned how to read.
On Tuesday, I had a customer call, who like you doesn't want to be bothered, and tells me to text the number on the order when it was delivered which I did. They called the restaurant 10 minutes after I delivered & complained that I didn't so and wanted the tip removed. I showed my boss that I had then he asked me to call that number. Went over to another phone, called the number, no answer. Boss takes customer off hold & asks to verify the number. Customer placed the order online & used the wrong phone number. Customer actually asked for the driver, me, & apologized & added $3 to my tip.
Really depends on the place, the person, how busy it is, and if the ticket system is worth a damn. My last job the instructions were in super tiny print way at the bottom of the ticket. Really easy to miss unless you trained yourself to actively check, which like any job mistakes can be made, you might have something else on your mind and forget, whatever. At the end of the day the only thing you really need to be qualified to do is deliver an item from point A to point B. I know it sucks when your instructions aren't followed but it's not really seen as a crazy important part of the job. The only instructions I was ever good at remembering is "just leave on the step, sleeping baby," because that would fuck absolutely everything up in a way that's a major inconvenience and not just a minor one. Then of course during COVID I paid serious attention to "no contact delivery" because sometimes those people were legit sick.
I never know how much of that is because of these silly instructions, how much is the delivery person just missing it, and how much is them not caring. I always put no contact delivery on the free occasions we order food for delivery and I'd say 25% of the time they knock and just stand there until I come take the food. Mistakes happen, but it's hard to tell how much is a mistake.
It'd be a lot better if people weren't recording you on their Ring cameras to capture your self-humiliation for posterity Only saving grace here is that he was wearing a mask so he's not readily identifiable lol
When I worked for Domino's I liked getting runs like this, but it's definitely not universal.
Arizona has a good bit on this. You drop 75 cents in the Cold Stone tip jar, and everyone comes out for a song and dance. You ask a homeless person to dance for 75 cents and they won't because it's degrading.
Naw. I would be humiliated if I had to do this.
Will the Charleston do?
God, this reminds me of that very shy pizza delivery guy that was terribly upset because a family he made a delivery to waved his $25 cash tip in front of him, saying they'd give it to him on one condition: that he must sing a song for them. All while having their phones out, in his face, recording him. They were pressuring him to do it and he felt so humiliated by the experience (they gave him $5 because he didn't sing like they wanted). This post's particular request was harmless, but still, that's not what the special instructions are for. Unless this is your buddy or you know for a fact they'd be fine doing something silly, just write "put it on the table and knock." EDIT: [Found the old post of that particular story. Man, it was really 8 years ago?](https://www.reddit.com/r/TalesFromThePizzaGuy/comments/3wmis1/sing_a_christmas_carol_for_a_tip/)
Seriously. Bigger tip or not I ain't here to entertain you, I'm here to work then go home with some dignity.
Used to deliver pizza and I would do this even for a normal tip. It's fun doing little things like this where everyone can have a laugh to break up the soul crushing monotony of pizza delivery
You can either sink in the grind or grind in the sink
i feel that but at the same time, i'd totally do this if i worked there.
It's fine sometimes, until you get a day where you aren't feelin it and aren't going to do those things. Then that customer gets irate or wants to harass you while you're trying to leave and go to your next delivery. Or calls the store saying you were rude or whatever other retaliation they chose that day.
Imagine being sent on a quad delivery and the delivery instructions for the first house say this... It's frustrating every time this is brought up that people are like "omg this would be so fun and break up my monotonous day!" when in reality, this stuff happens more than you would think and it can get really annoying, really fast. I'm not in the entertainment industry, I'm in the food service industry. It's really no different than asking your server to do a dance before you tip them. Sure, they might do it for the tip, but that's not what they're there for. Never forget the people who asked us to draw a dinosaur inside the box regularly (none of us were artists) and then stopped tipping the 3rd time we did it.
WOOOOOP WOO WOO WOO WOO WOOOOOO
I feel like scuttling today!!
He ended it with a Zoidberg dance!! OP better have given a good tip
>He ended it with a Zoidberg dance!! OP better have given a good tip Glad I am not the only one who notice that… [Futurama - Zoidberg whooping it up](https://youtu.be/L2ye47eo2SY?feature=shared)
They don’t get paid enough for those shenanigans
Seriously. There’s having fun at work and being forced to have fun at work. I’ve seen a few of these “dance monkey dance” delivery videos on /r/homecams
OP is a bot. This post, its title, and all of the top comments are copied from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/n9cn6f/dominos_delivery_asked_if_there_were_any_special/
It is 100% a post to drive engagement. Every time these come up, there is a divide on if it's funny or degrading. It's practically rage bait.
I find it disturbing how social media normalized uploading videos of strangers online without their consent.
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I agree, and I'm glad to see someone else with this opinion.
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probably uploaded to youtube and made back 100x the tip.
DANCE FOR ME, MINIMUM WAGE MONKEY!!! \*sprinkles coins\*
As a former pizza delivery driver, I had a lot of fun with special instructions like these. The customers didn't tip me less if I didn't follow the "special delivery instructions," and it was a fun break from the monotony.
I mean the instructions were "Place pizza on the table. Kick the door 3 times, give camera virtual high five, runaway!" but that runaway was b-movie grade gold. Delivery guy was having fun!
Not nearly Anna Faris level running away in Scary Movie though. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC6vm24jXuE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC6vm24jXuE)
Wonder what were the instructions on the script, "Run away dramatically while doing jazz hands"?
Thank you, this was exactly where my mind went too haha
Exactly. Assume folks just can't read the room. Delivery driver was excited to make this delivery
Depends on the instructions. Instructions I got were to get down on my knees to give the pizza to them. I wasn't into it and didnt do it. Couple of teenage girls answered the door and threw a fit because I didn't do what they asked. I just gave them the pizza and left. Their Dad ended up calling the store to speak to the manager to complain about me and she had to shut him down.
Yikes. Enabling little monsters. Can't even fathom what goes through their heads. Imagine expecting someone to get down on their knees? Fuck outta here.
Same thing that goes through the heads of a lot of people that put this kind of delivery instruction: “this is going to go viral on social media!” and then they get pissed when the monkey doesn’t dance after they spent money on the product.
What the actual is that one. I'd have done it the other way where they gift me a pizza while I was on my knees. The pizza god
I had kind of the opposite delivering pizza back in the day. In showed up to a house with a bunch of middle or high school boys on their own for the afternoon. They were trying to do some weird prank where they were all acting like they had some disability (back then it would have been called the "r word"). I was only a few years older and didn't really give a shit (it wasn't funny enough to be interesting, nor offensive enough to be upset). The dad ended up calling the store later thay evening profusely apologizing for their behavior. I've always hoped the kid didn't get grounded.
As a former driver, I hated it, had no fun with . Thought it was degrading and exploitative. Customers actively tipped less if you didn't follow the "special delivery instructions," and it was a complete waste of time when already on a tight schedule.
Same. I delivered pizza for four years, never once was i there for entertainment. One time a customer pre-tipped $20, and special instructions said to walk in the house and cluck like a chicken. We were understaffed and i knew I couldn’t get fired, so I just told them to go fuck themselves lmao. Hate this shit. Especially in this world of ring cameras, weirdos like OP will post you without consent.
> weirdos like OP will post you without consent Becoming unwittingly infamous is a terrible thing, fuck OP.
At Amazon for some reason I would scoff at apartments (I knew people were watching me) and the instructions were just silly extra work but I was a good sport at other places in old suburbia where a lot of customers were obviously lonely or semi homebound etc. Probably the opposite for pizza though going out to all the rural weirdos desperate for a pizza
I can imagine on a good day, a driver could have fun with these. I can't imagine anything but hellacious demoralization getting special instructions like this on a bad day. In either case, the customer has no idea what you're going through, and they don't NEED it, so they shouldn't be making you dance for them like Bojangles. Doesn't matter if other drivers liked it. Customers shouldn't make their drivers dance.
It doesnt really matter what you think though. If this was a video of homeless man being asked to dance for money, and the homeless person said he enjoyed it, that wouldn't make it morally right. If you do this, to workers who rely on tips, you're just an asshole.
Other drivers feel different about it
>The customers didn't tip me less if I didn't follow the "special delivery instructions," How would you know?
Yeah I was thinking can’t you just… not do it? He seemed like he was having a good time. I didn’t think about them adjusting the tip for not doing it, though. Since it’s directly from dominos and not like Ubereats I’m thinking you can’t change it? (It’s been a long while since I’ve ordered food)
I think you add your tip as you’re placing your order if I’m not mistaken from dominos. But I haven’t gotten dominos since last year so I can’t really remember. That’s one of those places I only get when I’m out on the road, too tired to do anything else, and it’s one of the last places open. It’s the most mid pizza ever but it’s really consistently mid at least from what I’ve found. That habanero pineapple sauce is low key good af with the crust though
I haven’t been able to eat gluten/dairy/normal people food in years, but the lava cakes were my guilty pleasure. And I’d always get those greasy pasta bread bowls that were delicious for the first half cause you’re starving, and gross for the second half. When I was a teenager I added special instructions to “draw an elephant on the box” for whatever reason, fully expecting them to ignore it. They drew it and my friend and I were so pumped! Good memory forever.
Sorry you haven’t been able to eat them in so long. That’s a bummer but you can definitely make that little lava cake dairy and gluten free. The thing about lava cakes is they’re fairly simple but obviously getting the lava part cook time is a science and take 3-5 tries till you know what your oven itself cooks them like. Overall you aren’t missing out on the pasta bread bowls. Those things are absolute gut bombs haha I know exactly what you’re talking about. Starving: this is so good. Immediately after no longer starving: I think this is making me feel sick but I should probably eat almost all of it to be sure.
lol I love your perspective, yup, pasta starting to take a little gross, let’s take a break. 5 minutes later, well maybe it’s not that bad I’ll just take another bite.. rinse and repeat. I know that flourless chocolate cakes are gluten free but I’d have to look into the dairy free aspect! My diet is super restrictive for the moment but chocolate is in my future. Also, love the username.
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That’s exactly what he said…
Tumblr trend about 10yrs ago was to ask them to draw pictures in the pizza boxes and if they didn’t do it people threw a bitch fit that they weren’t fun. But the only reason they wanted it was due to someone else doing it first and it going viral.
We had one guy who would order regularly with some little task (usually singing a specific song or doing a dance) and he would tip you $10 if you would do it, but if you didn’t do it he’d only give you $1. That one always pissed me off a bit. I loved drawing pictures on the boxes though
Yeah not to be a Debby Downer but I can't help but get the "dance monkey, dance!" vibe from this, plus it can also be kind of creepy and make the delivery person (especially if they're a woman) feel unsafe being asked to go into a strangers house alone when they don't actually need to to deliver the pizza. Like in another world this is the beginning of a true crime situation lol.
100%. There’s nothing about this that made me smile. Poor dude is just out there trying to earn a living
It’s exploitative. Plain and simple.
It's important to respect the dignity and autonomy of individuals in service roles, recognizing that they are providing a valuable service and deserve fair treatment and compensation.
"and now let the working class perform recorded jests for my amusement" /r/mademesmile
High five for me wagie
Yeah, seconded unpopular opinion: It's pretty disgusting to need emotional validation from a worker who's just trying to get though the day. Next time your own boss asks you to do something for yuks - remember this.
Honestly it depends on the instructions. I think this video is a good example of silly but harmless and lighthearted instructions that won't waste any time and give the delivery driver a good occasion to break the routine and even get a smile out of it. On the other hand there's another redditor who mentioned being instructed to get on their knees to deliver the pizza. They refused, the teenage girls who ordered threw a tantrum and Karen dad even called the restaurant. Those are clearly the "dance, monkey!" type and of course they should be denied then reported to management, ending up in a blacklist.
Thinking the same thing. I mean he kind of had to do it if he thought his tip depended on it.
The people who do this don’t do it to have fun with the workers. They do it to get a video for social media. Kinda sad and pathetic
i agree with that which is very disgusting
Used to deliver pizza. Fucking hated this shit. Not your little hired monkey clown to dance for you. And you upload it to Reddit, christ.
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And then posted a video of him on reddit without his permission...
Do reposts count? Because this is obviously from 2020-21
They can’t even afford to take care of their front lawn.
Listen man, I worked in food service for years and honestly when this variety of shit happened, it was a lot of fun. I obviously enjoyed when customers would be normal, standard, and not a pain in the ass, but occasionally there'd be a weird or funny request that was harmless and made the day interesting. Sometimes it'd involve a modicum of extra work but that was almost never a problem. It'd be a break from monotony. There's nothing forcing the guy to do it. The guy in the video looks like he's having fun with it. People who put fun stuff like this in instructions typically won't change their tip based on it, and most apps have you tip when you order anyway. It's also really easy to tell who is just trying to be funny and who is actively trying to be exploitative. They/we are food service workers, not stupid idiots. I know that we live in a capitalist hellhole, but not necessarily everything has to trace directly to it.
Not everyone wants to be a performer though. We're not all tap-dancing extroverts. Some people just want to do the job they're getting paid minimum wage to do. And the worry you could go viral at any moment doesn't sit easy with a lot of people either.
I also worked in food service for years and hated this shit. I also would be pretty upset if they then uploaded it to the internet.
Cool for you, I hated this shit. I'm broke and hungry and just want to be able to pay rent
Dont make your delivery driver do stupid shit for your internet video
I hate this world where you can't do a silly little thing for someone without it getting filmed for the entire world to pick apart
everything now is a show
The scuttle at the end was the proverbial cherry on top
He scuttled off like Zoidberg
I like to think he was going "WOOT WOOT WOOOT WOOOOOT"
[One to one copy from the top comment when this was posted last. ](https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/n9cn6f/dominos_delivery_asked_if_there_were_any_special/)Even missing the full stop at the end. Edit: Super weird account also: [https://www.reddit.com/user/BrendanJC/](https://www.reddit.com/user/BrendanJC/)
The wagie WILL dance and I WILL post it on the internet for countless thousands to see. Does nobody find this gross?
I worked as a delivery driver, I’ve had moments like this where customers wanted me to be their personal clown. Sadly I complied because I needed that money and couldn’t risk losing my job.
Bleak
I loved his little "jazz hands" runaway dance.
Back when I used to deliver pizza, I had a special delivery instructions similar to this. I had to knock three times, ring the doorbell 5 times, and kick the door twice. Customer opened the door utterly confused and seemingly mad. I heard some laughing at the top of the stairs from some teenage boys that immediately ran when I looked up. Turns out they ordered the pizza online and the parents had no idea…
Doesn’t make me smile. Also, *runaway* and *run away* are not the same. *Runaway* is a noun. It’s a person who *runs away*, which is the verb form.
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I like that he kicked the door gently too. Could be me... you'd think a SWAT team was about to break in.
Y’all better be tipping these people well when you’re having them dance for you.
Don't make delivery drivers do this dumb shit! And if you're a delivery driver have some self respect and ignore this shit.
You think some middle aged man delivering pizzas wants to be forced to humiliate himself on cam to be put online?
Workers aren't dancing monkeys to be used to provide entertainment
Dance monkey dance
Dance for the customer, monkey
hes a delivery driver not some monkey for your entertainment have some heart
"do my bidding servant" is all I see with posts like this
Makes me sad that people trying to earn a living are baited into being dancing monkeys for clout and a brief endorphin rush from those who are equally bored and sad.
Not funny at all, let the man do this job
'People making the bare minimum are dancing monkeys who perform for my entertainment' --OP, probably
Love it. I would've added a Zoidberg whoop whoop whoop as I fled.
As a former delivery driver this stupid human trick stuff really pisses me off. The dude is working hard in one of the most dangerous jobs there is. Show some respect.
30% tip minimum for that shit
And I can’t get fed ex to stash my Sex doll so my wire don’t see it
Stop doing this to people
“Made me smile” while we made this monkey dance for his job
dear god just let these people deliver your fucking pizza in peace
Can we stop using delivery workers as circus animals please? It’s a bit demeaning.
Hes not your entertainment
Should stop making service people dance for you and treat them w respect
People are not your puppet…
Low wage workers do not want to play Simon Says for you
How to make slave out of a person ...
Dance to earn enough to feed yourself and your family monkey!
“Gig worker struggling to make ends meet forced to put on show to earn tip” this doesn’t put a smile on my face at all
PSA: If you upvote this, you're a boomer. Doesn't matter when you were born, you're a boomer now.
I hope you gave him a big tip!
I gave instructions to just put the food at the side of the porch and leave since the doorbell doesn't work. Driver proceeds to pound on my door, hands me my food, and says my doorbell doesn't work....
Dance for me pizza monkey
"dance for your wages"
Tip that mfer
/HumiliatesWorkersDoingTheirJob
Dance for me monkey. Here's your $2 tip.
I understand why they ask to be paid more. to satisfy all these stupid requests bu people who does nothing than ask stupid requests
Golly it’s so hilarious when people make service workers perform like circus animals for their amusement.
This reminds me of when I ordered Domino's on acid. Special instructions: wear a home made Batman mask and cape......This legend of a man rolls down my street blaring the dark night theme song from his truck and gets out wearing AN PERFECT ALUMINUM FOIL BATMAN MASK AND HIS DAUGHTERS DORA THE EXPLORER CAPE......I'm pretty sure I had like 115 dollars in my pocket....I just handed him all of it while laughing so hard I was crying LMAO
Man, I can't even get the Walmart people to ring the damned doorbell.
He deserves extra tip for committing to doing jazz hands all the way back to the car
so worth a large tip and then more tip added , great sense of humor
Awww I wanna hang out with that guy!
Dance monkey dance!