'That's not even my job': Woman demands delivery guy shovel snow from her driveway, he decides to leave her a snowy message instead

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Feb 14, 2024 7:00 AM EST

As a working adult, there is one lesson about work you usually learn the hard way, which is to never let anyone push you into doing work that is not part of your job description. If you agree to even a small job that is something you are not getting paid to do, you will probably end up doing a lot more, without being rewarded for it.

This is why the OP in this Reddit story was probably not in a rush to do what a customer asked for. That and the fact that the customer was incredibly entitled and demanding. OP, a delivery guy, was delivering groceries in snowy weather to people's houses. When he got to the house of this specific entitled customer, she threw a shovel in his direction and ordered him to shovel her driveway, otherwise, she would not leave him a tip. 

Scroll down to read what OP continued to do, and spoiler alert - he did not shovel her driveway. After that, if you are in the mood for more stories like these, click here for a story of a job candidate who took petty revenge on a manager after a bad job interview.

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    "That's not even my job"
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    A delivery driver's petty revenge story
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    This happened to me last year. Someone reminded me of it today, so I thought I would share. I was working as a grocery shopper and delivery guy, you probably
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    know the app. I did a double order about 24hrs after a snow storm was over. Most people have their driveways shoveled by now. Order A of
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    the double was 5 items going to the trailer park 3 miles away. Order B was 20 items going 10 miles away. I've shopped for B a few times so I knew they were the good tipper.
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    I get done shopping and drive to customer A. Driveway not shoveled and it's a "hand to customer". FML so I park on the road and trudge through the
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    nearly a foot of snow to the front door and I knock. A woman in her late 20s / early 30s answers the door. I hand her the 2 bags and say have a nice day. She stops
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    me from leaving and proceeds to tell me that the tip she left me on the app was so I would shovel her driveway. Before I could say
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    anything she point to the shovel, says "get started or I will remove the tip", and closes the door. Her driveway is about big enough to fit 2 cars.
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    I stood there kind of dumbfounded by the audacity and entitlement of this woman. Then I remembered who I was delivering to for order B,
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    and instantly I knew that this person, customer A, was a low tipper, possibly no tip. So took the shovel and pretended like I was going to do it. I then went to the
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    side of the trailer and behind her car, where I was out of view, and proceeded to write in big YELLOW letters "FU!" and I left the shovel next to it.
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    As I'm driving away, I messaged her. "Sorry I can't shovel your driveway, I have another delivery to make. I left the shovel behind your car." She never messaged
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    me back, didn't gave me a bad review, and didn't take the tip away. So maybe she didn't see it, but I'm fully satisfied believing she did. If
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    your wondering how much the tip was for all that shoveling she wanted me to do....$5
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    TLDR: Woman tries to trick me into shoveling her driveway. I left her a message in the snow.
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    Grouchy-Ad4338 5 hr. ago Good one. OP did his numbers and probabilities and made a good call. In the end, even better since she didn't claw back the five dollars.
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    What got me all worked up about though is the part, where she just ordered OP to do it and then blackmailed him about taking the tip back.
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    If she was polite and really needed help then am sure at least some of us would have - but with that attitude she better had a loaded on in her hand to get anyone to help her out....
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    TeamJJ88 OP. 2 min. ago It's funny you say that cause I have help out 4 or 5 times. They were all elderly and looked like they live
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    alone. If I'm in a rush I'll just shovel a path to their car, around the car, and from the car to the road so they can get out.
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    EVERYONE of them offered me some cash, which I refused. Because, lets be honest, I really didn't do that much. Most took less than 20 min.
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    One elderly lady wouldn't take no for an answer and increased my tip in the app. I only accepted the cash once cause I shoveled the entire driveway.
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    CoderJoe1 7 hr. ago I would think, free shovel
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    TeamJJ88 OP. 7 hr. ago I had to leave the shovel next to my message, so that she would see it when she went to get the shovel.
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    harrywwc 7 hr. ago yeah, nah. do the shopping. do the delivery. nowhere in the job description is 'shovel snow'. probably a different app.
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    Angel Incognito 5 hr. ago It's the audacity for me. Wow.
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    Papazi-7 5 hr. ago I would have asked her 'so on the App there's a shovel the snow item under groceries that you purchased?'
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    saraphilipp 3 hr. ago Back in the day a whole strand of Christmas lights would go out if one light bulb was bad out of 100 Or 500 light strands.
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    I kept broken Christmas lights in my pocket. If you me on a tip, I'd pull out one good bulb on your light strand, toss it and replace it with a bad one.
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    You had to go light by light testing each one till you found the bad one or the whole strand was junk. It's not to bad if you only do one strand, I'd do 4 or 5 if i could.
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