Supermarket delivery driver - do you tip or not?

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MartinSmythe wrote: »

You're on a forum which exists in order for people to converse about saving money.

You choose to give your money away when you don't have to.

I think this is the wrong forum for you.

Most riduculous post of the year...
You have wrong idea about forums, or you are trolling.

Tiddlywinks

FATBALLZ wrote: »

Delivery driver is hardly comparable, you just drive a var/car for a bit and park near someones house and give them the stuff. Sounds pretty relaxing as far as jobs go.

Running round after demanding hungry customers for several consecutive hours sounds like a crap job.

Relaxing? Keeping to a delivery schedule where customers will shout and complain if you are early or late?

Sitting in traffic, in some of what may be the busiest roads in the country possibly in rush hour - always clock watching?

Ocado drivers don't just dump the shopping and ru either - they offer to carry it into the kitchen and, if asked, will help unpack too and some customers can be very demanding.

Doesn't sound too relaxing to me.

Person_one

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

Relaxing? Keeping to a delivery schedule where customers will shout and complain if you are early or late?

Sitting in traffic, in some of what may be the busiest roads in the country possibly in rush hour - always clock watching?

Ocado drivers don't just dump the shopping and ru either - they offer to carry it into the kitchen and, if asked, will help unpack too and some customers can be very demanding.

Doesn't sound too relaxing to me.

They do get paid though. Most people's jobs aren't especially relaxing but hardly anybody gets tipped. Its clearly not about the actual job.

bestpud

Wow! It's never even crossed my mind to give them a tip!

Why would you???

Brighton_belle

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

Ocado drivers don't just dump the shopping and ru either - they offer to carry it into the kitchen and, if asked, will help unpack too .

That's because that is the service Waitrose advertise and train their drivers to do.

I'm a non demanding, appreciative and friendly customer who lives near the store on a road that is easy to pull up in, on alow income. There is no way I will ever be tipping for someone who is doing the job they are paid to do, just as I am paid to do dull things for other people in my job who sometimes get demanding.

I am also not going to subsidise the multi million £ profit making supermarkets... they should pay a proper wage in the first place. If we all start tipping, they will deliberately keep the wages low.

I think it also depends on your income: if you are comfortably off, choosing to tip is a luxury you can afford to indulge in without to much thought.
If you have very little spare, then it's just out of the question for someone just doing their job: an appreciative thank you is enough.

skivenov

FATBALLZ wrote: »

Delivery driver is hardly comparable, you just drive a var/car for a bit and park near someones house and give them the stuff. Sounds pretty relaxing as far as jobs go.

You'd think. I'd say it was by far the most stressful job I ever had the misfortune to do.

6 minutes to park up, unload the van onto the trolley, drag it up the drive, ring the bell, talk to the customer, explain any subs, sort out taking them back, unload the shopping, get signed off, get the trays back on the van, work out where you're going next. Then a computer-defined average of 30mph to the next job. No satnavs either back when I used to do it.

Every crap day at work I ever have is measured against doing that for a living again :eek:

Person_one

skivenov wrote: »

You'd think. I'd say it was by far the most stressful job I ever had the misfortune to do.

6 minutes to park up, unload the van onto the trolley, drag it up the drive, ring the bell, talk to the customer, explain any subs, sort out taking them back, unload the shopping, get signed off, get the trays back on the van, work out where you're going next. Then a computer-defined average of 30mph to the next job. No satnavs either back when I used to do it.

Every crap day at work I ever have is measured against doing that for a living again :eek:

Thank god you're not an air traffic controller!

Mrshalliwell

For those of you who say being a delivery driver is a relaxing job, I can assure you it isn't. Sometimes we have 10 or so drops in a 2 hour time slot and it can be anything upto 15-20 miles between drops on some of our more rural drops. then you have to find a suitable place to park, sometimes dicing with death trying to unload the side loading vans on a main road when you can only park with the side into the main road. That's if you can actually find the place your looking for because it ain't always easy and the sat navs aren't brilliant.

Also Bear in mind that if you put on your own car insurance that your a delivery driver it puts it up a hell of a lot ( mine goes up £250 a year just by changing that one thing).

I have only one customer who tips on my round, I have tried to refuse but she gets very offended and says she wants me to get some breakfast with it. I don't expect tips at all though, I like my job, getting out and about and speaking to new people but Before I started the job I thought it would be really easy, how wrong was I! sometimes we have to make sure we leave store early and do the first few customers early to make sure we manage to fit the ones in further down the list before the end of their time slots and I very rarely get to take the legal breaks I'm entitled to these days, most of the time I have a bottle of water with me and you'll find me eating a sandwich while I'm loading my van to go out as I literally don't have the time to sit down and eat it.

andygb

MartinSmythe wrote: »

You're on a forum which exists in order for people to converse about saving money.

You choose to give your money away when you don't have to.

I think this is the wrong forum for you.

You are not "moneysaving", you are a selfish git!

skivenov

Person_one wrote: »

Thank god you're not an air traffic controller!

Fair point. Don't know how you guys do it! I've done transport planning and it's bad enough.