So if you've figured out who I am by now, you might remember that I work as a driver for a catering restaurant. I just have to rant here because I am so pissed I'm seeing red, and I need to vent it out. Perhaps writing it out will be cathartic.
So today I had two caterings, so I took them together to make one trip. I dropped the first order off and when I got back to my car there was a message from work saying I forgot a sandwich tray. So I called and tell my manager, we'll call her "S", that I am on my way back to work to get them. It may have made me about 5-10 minutes late to the catering, no biggie. S informs me that without even asking if I wanted her to, she has taken it upon herself to send another driver out with the tray to meet me. Fine, a little irked but fine.
I get there just as the other driver arrives. She drops off the tray and leaves, end of story. I set up the catering, settle the bill, and come back to the restaurant.
S asks how it was and how much they tipped. I say fine, they tipped me $40 on an $180 order. She says I should kick some of that back to the other driver for "saving my ass" (notice I didn't ask for any ass saving?). But I say sure and get ready to take out another delivery. While I'm getting drinks for it S comes over to me and says "you agree right?" and I said yes, that I was deciding how much to give the other driver. S says to give her $15. I kind of look at her and she goes "that's fair". I look at her and say "Um...." she says "Oh you didn't have much of a setup anyways" and I said "Um, yes I did...." and leave to take my next delivery.
So I come back and she snottily says "Why don't you hand over your bank". I had only been there 2 hours! I say fine and hand it over and go to the kitchen to do some prep work. She comes back with my tips 5 minutes later and says she needs to speak with me.
She hands the money over and says "Here's all of your money, I think you're done" and then starts to talk again, getting ready to fire me. I says "That's Ok, I quit. Thank you." and walk out. I'd rather quit than let her fire me over this bullshit.
Here's my problem with this:
- Cuts my day because she didn't like that I didn't agree with her "fairness".
-Tries to either force me to spend MY money HER way or it's my job.
Fuck. I don't even get gas compensation likes the rest of this city's delivery drivers do. It's not even full time. We get a $1 a delivery. Big whoop. Now I was going to give the other driver $10. That's 25% when I wasn't required to give her anything. I think that's fair seeing as I didn't ask for the help. I mean, I've ran parts of orders other drivers missed for them and never seen any kick back from their tips, yet all of a sudden I'm supposed to give another driver almost half of my tips because she dropped a tray off and didn't have to set it up? WTF????
So now I have 3 weeks until I move and bills to pay. I will have no moving money. Blah. It's not fucking right. It all comes down to favorites. I busted my ass for that job, but I was never going to have the same rights as S's favorite drivers![]()


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