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### Adventures in Pettiness
Man I have gotten so petty with food delivery services lately.
Normally, pre-covid I always was happy with service, the occasional mistake, but for the most part it wasn't too bad. Happily gave a pre-paid generous tip every time and left it at that.
Since covid however, and really even a little before that service has went to shit. About 75% of the time, maybe more, significant portions of my order are missing or simply made completely different than described on the menu (like getting a meat pizza when you order veggie or something)... and about 98% of the time the delivery person doesnt follow the delivery instructions on where to leave the food, which is important since i live in the city and I dont want my food just out in the open.
Anyway the problem is so rampant im at the point where I tip 0$ up front and add the tip after and ONLY if the instructions are followed exactly, if they dont no tip for them. But with a catch, everytime I give 0 tip i added to a running tally and when someone actually delivers the food correct I go on the app and add the tip post delivery **plus** the running tally. It is usually a 4x bigger than usual tip but sometimes even more.
Moreover if even a single item is wrong, and assuming the restaurant didnt call first to confirm it was ok, I demand the item be redelivered and if they refuse I demand a refund. I do this even if its just something as simple as a bottled water. The idea is that restaurants, if they need to foot the bill for redelivery, will not keep making these mistakes.
Yesterday i had an order that was missing my drinks, 2 diet soda. I demanded a delivery and I only got 1 diet soda, so demanded a second redelivery and got my second drink. I can only imagine how grump the delivery guy was needing to make 3 round trips for free... But hey, do your damn job and you wont have to!
