Gouty
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Awesome analogy except for the part where the pizza workers did their jobs and that ordering delivery is a choice and not life threatening. But other than that spot on.
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Rude Note On Dominos Box Scolds Customer For Late Order
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Awesome analogy except for the part where the pizza workers did their jobs and that ordering delivery is a choice and not life threatening. But other than that spot on.
lastplayed
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Except they might no longer be customers. You're there to sell a product and make money. Why would you treat your customers like shit for giving you money?
Stop taking orders at a certain time. Give yourself time to clean up and close down. It's not the customer's job to know when or how that happens.
Coffee Dog
Banned
Fulfilling an order is not an equivalent to a dropped deuce.
It's the job. The job is to fulfill orders during the hours of operation.
My job would be a whole lot easier and i would go home a whole lot earlier if nobody showed up the entire day, but that doesn't mean I blame the people who do show up during the hours of operation like it's anyone's fault but my employer's.
Aarglefarg
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Apparently they ordered through the app which doesn't list the closing times of particular stores. Pizzas are often ordered late at night so ordering from a pizza delivery chain at 11:55pm doesn't register as unreasonable.
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
99% of customers are never a problem. But there's always one douche who gets off on their "customer is always right" fantasy.
I'm not blaming the customer, I'm blaming whoever came up with this clickbait article. That note is not rude....not that I'm condoning the employee who wrote the note either. It was a very dumb move on their part considering they work for a large conglomerate.
Writing the note was dumb, posting the note online while going "aw poor nurses" was dumb, coming in minutes before closing is dumb.
A Link to the Past
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If you're not the Domino's CEO, you absolutely do not have unfettered authority to close early. A single complaint from a customer will lead to your boss hearing about it.
The point is that customers are given carte blanche to do whatever they want - customer is always right, "the time says [x]", people who have misgivings about people who take advantage are lazy whiners, etc. Are you arguing then that there is absolutely nothing wrong with ordering at the last minute?
Just as you argue that dropping a deuce =/= fulfilling an order (while also reducing it in order to make it seem like an even more unreasonable comparison), ordering at 11:59 pm is not the same thing as ordering at 6:30 pm.
Fair enough, app should be updated to fix that.
TheDrizzlerJ11
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If you are open you are open. I dont understand whats so complicated about that. These people signed up for this. Do your job Im hungry.
John Kowalski
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Damn, way more people itt being more rude than the rude note.
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Yep, retail is so shitty. Like people going to GameStop 5 minutes before closing with a giant sack of trade-ins. Or going to the credit union to open up two accounts for your kids 5 minutes before closing. Ugh.
Like I said, you don't understand how not to be inconsiderate.
Yes, it is okay to order. The business is open. If they're open, they are there to serve the public. If they had a sign up stating what time last order is, it would be a different story, but they didn't. The nurses were well within their rights to order. Dominos were well out of their rights to write such a petty note due to them having to do their job. I'm struggling to see why you can't understand how retail works.
Simon Belmont
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There's absolutely nothing wrong with ordering even a minute before close. If you're open, you're open. That's what you get paid to do.
This is a case of employees going off on an "I'm entitled to have an easy night" fantasy.
Coffee Dog
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With this mentality it would be most considerate for nobody to order pizza at all. Less burden for the employees that at way.
Yeah, the employee is fucked now. Next raise will probably include like half the stock options they were given last year.
Maybe some of you have never worked in the restaurant business but sometimes a order placed right before closing can cause a staff to have to stay an additional half hour, maybe even 45 minutes in some cases depending on what type of food it is. I don't know about the pizza business myself, so no idea how much time it cost them.
And while I would suggest the manager closing up shop early if the staff needs to get home to family or other matters, it sounds like in this case they have that corporate app so they are fucked. They just are going to have to deal with it in this case.
And while I would suggest the manager closing up shop early if the staff needs to get home to family or other matters, it sounds like in this case they have that corporate app so they are fucked. They just are going to have to deal with it in this case.
Dominos employees are in the wrong here. You don't do that passive aggressive bullshit to customers.
I've been there. I used to work at a pizza restaurant, and it sucks when people do this, but you just deal with it. It's a take out order, it's not like they ordered for dine-in.
I've been there. I used to work at a pizza restaurant, and it sucks when people do this, but you just deal with it. It's a take out order, it's not like they ordered for dine-in.
I agree with this, they could have said it but in my opinion the odds of offense or getting riled would have been higher.
If I got that box I would have been like "Oh, cool no worries" but to be honest I know better.
When you order like that you are placing yourself at risk of your food being fucked with.
Plus it is just polite, I have been closing a store and had someone walk in like that.
When I used to work at the grocery, five mins before close you would have some dumb flaw who would come in and grab a cart.
We would have someone give a five minute warning over the PA, that registers would be closing and then another at the close time.
As a delivery driver myself you want orders your entire shift. That's how we make money. If they didn't tip that's shitty but you want all of the orders you can get. Bad attitude to have, it's basically saying "I don't want money".
Good way to lose customers. And hey guess what, money.
Good way to lose customers. And hey guess what, money.
This is absurd. The restaraunt is open, they're open. What restaraunt worker, or anyone that works that sort of job, expects to walk out the door at closing time?
You serve until you're closed, then clean up. If you don't want people ordering that late, change your closing time.
You serve until you're closed, then clean up. If you don't want people ordering that late, change your closing time.
note isnt even that rude , although its unnecessary - do you really think that will get them to not order?
Surely next time they will think " Oh no it's 5 minutes to close , we better not order because the person who makes the pizza will be upset"
Id honestly be more worried what they did to the pizza , if they wrote that ... who knows
Surely next time they will think " Oh no it's 5 minutes to close , we better not order because the person who makes the pizza will be upset"
Id honestly be more worried what they did to the pizza , if they wrote that ... who knows
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
Disgusting.
That's why you usually close the kitchen several minutes before closing time, no? The owner of the Japanese restaurant I usually go to, always asks customers if they'll order something else about 30 mins before 11 pm (which is when they close), since they're closing the kitchen.
Don't take me on buddy boy.
No it's called closing, where surprise surprise, things get wrapped up. If the place is open, doors open to get last orders which are ready to go. Not to place something at the last moment and make exceptions cause well you decide to come in last minute when the drawer is probably already empty, things are being turned off, etc etc.
Use common sense. If it was a liquor store, best buy, who cares you can buy something off the shelf and get rang up but it's not a store it's a restaurant.
Unfortunately thats not the world we live in anymore. Everyone wants their 15 minutes, even if it's for something as stupid as a note they got from Dominos.
lastplayed
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Yeah, it's as if Domino's is a public service or something. Treating your customers like they're the enemy is a fast track to unemployment.
If the place is open for business, clearly the owners want business to be done. If you're an employee working that shift, shut up and do your damn job. The issue you should have isn't with the customer, who is paying your paycheck by patronizing the business -- your issue is with the manager/owner who doesn't shut down ordering at the proper time to allow the business to close properly.
Vent your anger the right direction or you'll come off like a douche -- like the driver does here. If this had been an abusive customer, I'd be on the other side -- but this is someone in the middle of their own shift at hospital that doesn't deserve to deal with the driver's shit when all they did is order an f'ing pizza.
Vent your anger the right direction or you'll come off like a douche -- like the driver does here. If this had been an abusive customer, I'd be on the other side -- but this is someone in the middle of their own shift at hospital that doesn't deserve to deal with the driver's shit when all they did is order an f'ing pizza.
A Link to the Past
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That is an incredibly simple perspective, that basically comes to the conclusion that customers have no obligations to be decent people. For instance, a customer CAN be rude or curt with an employee. How often do you see it happen that people behave this way, often likely to people who did nothing with their order, and have them treated as the victim of the situation?
Yes, a person can order at 11:55 pm, but it does not at any point become something that is considerate or decent.
RaySpencer
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Would the store be open when the pizza was done?
Agree with you on this. They are corporate and they are burnt and have to deal with it.
Simon Belmont
Banned
I would not hire you.
I didn't at any point advocate being rude to employees. It's not rude to order something before the business closes. Otherwise they would not be taking orders.
I'm inconsiderate because if I see that a restaurant is about to close in 5 minutes I know that it will be a huge hassle for them to make and deliver the pizza?
Because ordering 5 minutes before closing time is clearly the same as order whenever.
Colonel Mustard
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I did this to my local Domino's by accident one time. I thought it was 11:59, but was actually almost 1am. Right after placing the order online, the manager called and explained that they were closing in two minutes, so I told him to not worry about it and didn't want to keep them. I just ended up calling one of the other 20 pizza delivery places in the area that are open later--no big deal.
Basically, the note probably wasn't needed. The manager on duty should have just called and said they couldn't fulfill the order due to the time of closing.
Basically, the note probably wasn't needed. The manager on duty should have just called and said they couldn't fulfill the order due to the time of closing.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with that for the customer. What's last minute to you may not be last minute to others. Some might think 20 minutes before close is last minute. This is why businesses have opening and closing times. Not "well I'm tired so you should be able to read my mind" hours of operation.
Bony Manifesto
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To be fair, if you've ever worked in a minimum wage service industry job where you don't get tips, that's exactly what you think! You don't see any reward from busy days, and you have to work a hell of a lot harder, all the while knowing that your boss would pay you less if it wasn't illegal to do so.
At least some of them are being paid less than minimum wage.
The people complaining aren't the ones that have the power to set the hours or rules about closing.
A Link to the Past
Banned
If you read back, I said that he shouldn't have written the note. I've had my fair share of customers do this before, and the only time I ever gave any guff was when a close friend of mine (who was by himself) did it. Being a jerk to a customer isn't acceptable, but it is at the very least inconsiderate. You may not appreciate the situation, but it can be argued that not having considered that it may pose a problem inherently makes the action inconsiderate. It certainly reflects more poorly on the employee for having retaliated than it does the customer since the former is doing it out of "hate" and the latter is doing it out of ignorance, but I can definitely say that I am not comfortable that the nurse is escalating it so much.
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
I'm crushed, truly.
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