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Disclaimer: This story is hearsay ... My husband told it to me because it happened at his work to one of his co-workers.
At a well-known pizza restaurant that my husband works at (he works as a waiter), he told me of a horrific story of one of his co-workers losing his job ... over 30 cents...
His co-worker is a delivery driver and, apparently, was on a delivery. This was on the poorer side of town, mind you... Everything about the delivery was normal, she didn't mutilate any of the specials they had, didn't have any obscure requests, didn't have a gargantuan bill and even paid with cash.
She gave the driver the money and said, "here," he handed her the pizza and walked away. She went into the house with her dinner.
And somehow, somehow, the driver got fired over this just because he didn't offer to give her the change back (which was a little over 30 cents). He just assumed that "here" meant, "here" as in, 'take it and go away'.
Now, for some odd reason, she didn't call out "hey, what about my change?" when he was leaving. Nor, did she call the store back and say, "the @#%*& driver didn't give me back my change!" Usually, a store credit will be given or the driver will go back to the house and give the change to the customer ...
But oh no. That would be the easy schmuck way of doing it.
Instead, she called CORPORATE. Yes, she called CORPORATE.
And took it. ALL. THE. WAY.
May I remind once again, that this is over 30¢.
She somehow managed to get her complaint extremely high up on corporate ladder - I was told that she spoke with the Corporate President just to get this poor fellow fired.
In which he was.
Not only did it piss him off, it also upset his co-workers.
In the end, this whole thing resulted in her home address getting passed around by the employees ...
At a well-known pizza restaurant that my husband works at (he works as a waiter), he told me of a horrific story of one of his co-workers losing his job ... over 30 cents...
His co-worker is a delivery driver and, apparently, was on a delivery. This was on the poorer side of town, mind you... Everything about the delivery was normal, she didn't mutilate any of the specials they had, didn't have any obscure requests, didn't have a gargantuan bill and even paid with cash.
She gave the driver the money and said, "here," he handed her the pizza and walked away. She went into the house with her dinner.
And somehow, somehow, the driver got fired over this just because he didn't offer to give her the change back (which was a little over 30 cents). He just assumed that "here" meant, "here" as in, 'take it and go away'.
Now, for some odd reason, she didn't call out "hey, what about my change?" when he was leaving. Nor, did she call the store back and say, "the @#%*& driver didn't give me back my change!" Usually, a store credit will be given or the driver will go back to the house and give the change to the customer ...
But oh no. That would be the easy schmuck way of doing it.
Instead, she called CORPORATE. Yes, she called CORPORATE.
And took it. ALL. THE. WAY.
May I remind once again, that this is over 30¢.
She somehow managed to get her complaint extremely high up on corporate ladder - I was told that she spoke with the Corporate President just to get this poor fellow fired.
In which he was.
Not only did it piss him off, it also upset his co-workers.
In the end, this whole thing resulted in her home address getting passed around by the employees ...
Did she figure going straight to Corporate, would get her a year's worth of free pizza, instead of perhaps one pizza, by complaining at Store level? 
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