No, this was a robbery scouting. I've had the boss's cell phone stolen from under a newspaper on my passenger seat by LITTLE KIDS before...while I was no more than thirty feet away, so I'm not as forgiving when people act suspicious around my stuff than, say, Spiderman would be.
New story!
Today was another fine example. This jerk prank called the store seven times. The first time, I answered. Cell phone call and his volume dropped out to the point where I asked him if he could speak louder. Then silence. Then *click* Ticked at his prank call, I hung up the phone.
The phone rang again. I refused to answer. A coworker answered and as soon as she did, the guy hung up. Five more times of this, hanging up as soon as somebody starts with the "Thanks for choosing..."
Then, the manager decided to call him back. She was all talk saying "I'll block him!" and such. So she called and asked him to stop calling us. Suddenly, I realized she was taking his order...FOR DELIVERY!
I protested, saying there was no way in hell I'd deliver to the guy, after he prank called us seven times.
She said when she called back, he said his cell phone wasn't working. Funny, I protested, that he'd hang up as soon as we answered claiming phone problems (dying battery maybe?) but then when she called him back, his connection never dropped for the entire time it took to put an order in. Wtf!?!
She's a jerk, since it wasn't her that was going out there. She said I HAD to deliver his order, and I refused. She finally called the owner, and he just ignored me and said I had to deliver.
Bah!
So I "security called" the guy back and asked if he'd be there for the delivery, and asked him to have his porch light on. He said his porch light was busted, but he'd have his door open.
Bah!
Found out later his being a new customer, and the busted porch light were suspicious enough to have totally refused a delivery, but of course, anymore protest on my part at the time would only have looked like whining. I even found out later from the owner that he ignored my protest because he thought I was acting like "a big baby." (his actual words)
Excuse me? The guy prank calls, gives a fake excuse of phone problems, and has a supposedly busted light? And I'm somehow being a baby about the situation. I'm to deliver pizza to this jerk?
So I did, as ordered, and used my car's lights to spotlight his front yard and doorway. He seemed a little bit like a jerk during the exchange of pizza and money, but he did tip two bucks.
I still protested, and will protest, such a situation. The bosses don't care. In fact, the manager who originally told me to deliver is really hostile towards me. She even told a few lies to the owner about me which he totally believed. Fun times.
I realize right now I'm just whining about how crappy my job is. But its related to this thread, anyway, in the "I continue to lose faith in humanity because of my job" vein.
