HOA Doesn't Tip On Massive Pizza Order, Gets Whole Neighborhood Blacklisted

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    Font - r) r/ft KHOA - Posted by u/kytulu 11 months ago HOA got entire subdivision banned from pizza delivery Disclaimer: I did not live in this HOA, but I did live down the street. Ok, so, we're gonna set the way-back machine to circa 2000 on this one...gas is cheap, cell phones were small, and my Ford Escort got amazing gas mileage. As the (now) ex-wife and I were struggling with our bills, she decided that the easiest thing (for her) was for me to get a 2nd job to try to catch up and then get
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    Font - Fast-forward a couple of months, and I have settled into my mind-numbing routine of working 60-70 hours a week at two jobs. On this particular day, I was scheduled to work on Saturday, which was hit-or-miss for tips. You see, our delivery area was very nouveau riche, combined with scattered groups of Florida rednecks. You would have a gated community with McMansions and BMWS right next to a trailer park. Oddly enough, the smaller the house and cheaper the car, the bigger the tip...which f
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    Font - being sold, or moving the HOA from the developer to the board, or something. Anyway, they ordered a TON of pizza. So much so that the manager had scheduled extra kitchen staff and had them show up an hour early just for this one order. He even gave them a discount on the pizza, since they ordered so much. There were so many pies that it took myself and another driver two trips apiece to deliver it all. When we got the last boxes of pizza delivered, the manager wrote a check for the total.
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    Font - So, I left, and went back to the store. The manager asked me how much of a tip that I got, to which I replied "87 cents". He didn't believe me, so I showed him the check. He then asked me if I was messing with him, and if they had given me a cash tip. "Nope!" He. Went. OFF! He walked over to the phone, called the manager of the HOA, cussed her out for not tipping his drivers, AFTER he had discounted the order and scheduled extra staff just for her order, and told her that he was entering
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    Font - Fanciestpony · 11 mo. ago I used to work at a cash only, fancy, sit down pizzeria and so many people would order bottles of wine and dessert and then be like "sorry, didn't bring enough cash" as their excuse to not tip. Glad your boss helped course correct!
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    Font - dreznu · 11 mo. ago I know this is a dead horse on here, but as someone from a non-tipping-culture country, this is so weird. "How dare you not pay my employees for me?!" - and then he's the good guy for paying $40 as a one- time exception.
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    Human body - trey74 · 11 mo. ago I love it when you get to fire a customer, or a whole neighborhood of them in this example. :-)
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    Font - MidsommarSolution - 11 mo. ago My mom isn't crazy rich but she's doing all right. Worst. Tipper. Ever. She's legit asked if a $2 is okay on a $100+ meal with 7 people at the table.

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