Cool Clown Ground - Pizza Delivery Driver Tips and the State of the Economy

[lockruff]

Customer: "Be careful delivering in that snow. Keep the change."

Me: Are you sure you don't need this 16 cents back?"

[SteezyOtis]

you get payed just fine. i dont get any delivery fee at one job for delivering and only 95 cents at my other. 10 hour day is only about 50 in tips

[floridabowhunter]

@SteezyOtis thats bullshit, i work at pizza hut and get 40 dollar tips all the time with a 4 hour shift.

[SteezyOtis]

this person is "breaking down" has he actually watched this?

[fuckass354]

awesome topic and way of interview... but honestly... cut the hair and show the side of clean (maybe harder for us metal nukkas) i get it...fuck em...but when you do you will see a huge increase on tips...just sayin...keep that chin up my dawg

[DontTreadOnMePrepper]

tard

[donnyWIN85]

Let me tell all of you pizza patrons a "tip", little or especially no tips usually results in your pizza being delivered last, gonna get fucked up or tampered w/ on purpose, or both! Not tipping cost everybody.

[donnyWIN85]

i deliver pizza and why the fuck dont black people tip?!! I like to think of it as maybe being a community kinda thing.. I can understand if the pizza place makes a mistake that justifies little or usually NO tip but fuck man! Tips is how we make a fucking living.. not being paid below minimum wage by the hour.

[quicklikeabunny666]

@donnyWIN85 Dude I totally agree. There is a disproportionate amount of black people that don't tip. Like 70% of black people i deliver to don't tip or tip a flat rate( usually a dollar), and btw the left over change on a dollar is not a fucking tip. It's not a racist thing its a fact thing. Black drivers agree with me.

[pmaltube]

damnit Thymme!! you never answered the question about the best non-money tips! the people must know.

[jonvanflan]

Bwaaa ha ha! Mastodon is on the Slayer-Accident radio station. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it's PROG METAL dude. So are you getting Brendan O'Brien to produce your next record? Or Rick Rubin? That would actually kick ass... All things considered, I love Crack the Skye, I love to crack open a bottle of Skyy, and I love crack, and I am going to enjoy Mastodon next week. What a great fucking show!!! It's been years since I've had such anticipation!

[jonvanflan]

Hey, Cheer-Accident is as old as Slayer -- both bands started in 1981. I also notice that, much like Slayer, Cheer-Accident has an affinity for wearing football jerseys. I also notice that I have worn polo shirts at times, yet I have never played polo. Someone told me that Thymme wears Speedos instead of underwear. Gross!

[blanche805]

I really wish they could at least make enough money to tour and also so Thymme wouldn't have to deliver pizzas for a living. And selfishly, I assume if their following grows, they'll play out west (and everywhere else) more... It's sort of a catch-22 with these guys. They don't make enough money to tour much, and because they don't tour much, not many people have heard of them...

[jonvanflan]

Did you know that Dave Lombardo used to deliver pizzas too? I think they're the same band. Have you ever noticed that Slayer and Cheer-Accident never play at the same time? I think they're the same people. It's just make-up. Thymme just dyes his hair black and puts on some shades. Jeff just puts on some weight, a blonde wig, some shades, and a Raiders jersey, and voila -- Slayer-Accident. In 2012, this will be revealed and the apocalypse will begin. Really, it will be worse than Y2K!!!

[jonvanflan]

Well, one way to save a shit load of money would be to do their own production (to a certain degree, this was done on VOAGDOM). For $4000, one could get a Mac Pro, delta 1010 and ProTools or Logic, record in 24/96. I always hear they spend so much time mixing broken bottles and this or that. Or you can get a band member who has a good paying job and is willing to finance. Tom Araya funded Slayer in their early years on his income as a respiratory therapist. Thymme Lombardo knows all about it...

[RoadWarrior008]

oh and I only get 1.00 per delivery 1.25 if it's out of town.

[RoadWarrior008]

tips have been getting worse and worse....nothing I hate more then going to a two story brick house in the best part of town and a freakin' jag in the driveway, and in addition to not tipping they try to exsplaine that it's because of the economy....WTF If you can't afford to tip then take your ass down to HEB and buy you some of the ramen noodles and bag of chips I'll be eating tonight.

[jonvanflan]

I tip everyone more these days, because of the economy. This is exactly why Reaganomics won't work, and when people bring it up, they need to be slayed. Tax breaks for the rich NEVER trickle down. At least in this country. They'll trickle down in China and India as they offshore jobs. In Germany, they started recovering faster than us, because they can create jobs quickly. Iceland wasn't so lucky... there's no shortage of shithead bankers in Europe who got boners over credit default swaps.

[jonvanflan]

Have you ever considered working at the neighborhood Apple store? They tend to hire über-knobs.

[UnBalancedLoad]

You've left a trail of über-knobs all over the web...

[jonvanflan]

I didn't come up with that term. Someone else used it to refer to Slayer-Accident, and I thought it was funny and fitting, so I ran with it. I can't take credit for it. There's far worse than über-knobs... In fact, I would say I am often an über-knob myself. I even bought a Macintosh last month. How's that for über-knob? Now I annoy all my PC-owning friends, asking them how their blue screen of death is doing. I still use a PC-of-shit for work. Nice 9 year old XP OS - Window's time machine

[jonvanflan]

...and you will know me by the trail of the uberknobs. Jeeze, what a shitty band. One of the many reasons I don't even bother with indie. All the chops are in prog and metal these days. Even chronically drunk Norwegians who openly worship satan can make better music than these college rock turds who majored in douchonomics.

[jonvanflan]

I heard that the packer at Wayside quit because he was so overworked from packing order after order of "Fear Draws Misfortune". Now I hear you whining about pizza delivery tips? Oh, poor rock star... boo hoo.

[blanche805]

Also, they're fish out of water... They go from aggressive math rock to melodic soft rock ballads... I think NEARfesters would dig that, but a lot of the "too cool for school" post-punkers don't like that

[jonvanflan]

Mike Keneally (a NEARfest alum) is doing quite well these days, playings dildos guitars fors dems Dethkloks. I'm gonna go see 'em next week. It'll be weird to see prog dorks like Keneally and Beller playing melodic death metal at an arena show. But you know, they need someone who has chops, not some nu metal poseurs. Mike deserves it -- he's been working his ass off for years. I'm glad they didn't get some douche bag who looks all metal but can't play worth dick...

[blanche805]

Yeah. Or Buckethead!

[jonvanflan]

Yeah... it seems like a lot of the "successful" prog dudes (Nick D'Virgilio comes to mind) play drums for a lot of mainstream bands. He plays for Genesis and Tears for Fears. I've seen him at Calprog, and I don't think he makes that much doing those shows. It's a labor of love. He's the prog drummer that works with pretty much everyone. I thought he was great with Agents of Mercy and Karmakanic. I'm preaching to the choir, because "Thymme" Lombardo is touring with Slayer-Accident right now...

[jonvanflan]

Bwaaa ha! I am listening to Slayer-Accident radio on Pandora, and some prog metal band that sounds like Dream Theater came up (To-Mera)! Pandora tries to find similar artists based on characteristics of the music (music genome project). It started with Ruins, which makes sense. I also think the Dream Theater-esque prog metal band is quite similar to Slayer-Accident. All's I gots to say is that they were on the same label as Def Leppard, and were also signed to Def American. Played at a rap fest.

[jonvanflan]

Actually, this To-Mera shit rocks! It's like Dream Theater with a female singer. It's definitely prog metal -- I can feel myself become more obese and I am getting a compulsion to hoard merch... I hate to say it, but I like To-Mera better than Cheer-Accident. My tastes have changed, I still have love for the Cheerax, though... I think the fans should pitch in and buy Thymme a double kick pedal, or even better another kick drum (because the kick drum needs to breathe, man...)

[jonvanflan]

$35-40 for a pizza? I know y'all got them deep dish ones, but shit... No wonder people are so fucking fat in Chicago. Da bears... da beers...

[jonvanflan]

perhaps the people in your hood are hipsters and they don't tip because they're spending money on suits, ties, and synthesizers for their shitty 80's indie crap bands... hail satan and hail Norge black metal! I wipe my ass with their ties.

[jonvanflan]

"Get the fuck off the phone?" I love it! It's like HBO.

[jonvanflan]

That's pretty fucking lame people aren't tipping as much. I am tipping more because of the economy. The company I work for is tipping less (except for directors and above) despite record profits. It's just a fuckin' lame excuse for people to take advantage of the economy. You know these pizza munchers have jobs and money and they're using the economy as an excuse not to tip. They should just make the tip mandatory...

[jonvanflan]

I thought Barry fixed the economy by bailing out the banks and re-instating Bush's fed reserve chairman?

[jonvanflan]

Hey... how is burning man this year? Is it far out or just plain groovy?