So I just ordered a pizza and hour ago...

[Agschmid]

And the driver has called me multiple times asking where I live. I am house sitting I do not know how to get to where I am without Googling it. It is not within my ability to direct him to me. I asked him to forget it...

I am hungry, I have no recourse.

I am not angry just frustrated.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Im surprised that he can't find the house number and street.

That's his job, not yours.

[HERVEPA]

2. Surprised he has no GPS in that job

[NYC_SKP]

3. It's on him or the company to map it out before the run...

...or have GPS or a smartphone on hand.

Shit, at least give him a paper map with an index!

[Agschmid]

5. +1

[Agschmid]

4. I feel the same way...

But I can see how they might not provide it, and how he is not paid enough to buy it?

[Chan790]

6. Pay not really an issue usually in that field if you have any idea how to work it.

My kid brother used to deliver pizzas and Italian cuisine (under CT state law they can and do also deliver bottled beer and wine so that raised his tabs fairly substantially as the markup is about 100% over retail)...fairly decent shop so bit nicer than the average pizza shack.

Standard pay was around $9/hr plus tips plus mileage. He'd make $300-$400 on an average Friday (Correction: He just corrected me, average weekend Friday night and Saturday afternoon.) In addition, the yearly subscription for his GPS and the cost of the unit is fully tax-deductible as a business expense. The IRS will allow you to write off a new GPS every 24 months.

[angstlessk]

7. Try living in Detroit...they do not deliver ...even if they CAN find your home

We came here from Norfolk..and was taken aback when we ordered our first pizza..and they said they do not deliver...EVER to an address in Detroit...

[Denninmi]

9. In the City of Detroit it's too dangerous

Alas.

Meanwhile out here, pizza guys are a PITA, go way too fast on hilly and curving suburban streets. If they every find my mangled bike and corpse covers in Cheese and Pepperoni, don't act shocked.

[struggle4progress]

8. I once called a taxi for a ride to the airport. An hour and a half later, when they hadn't come,

I called back

"Oh, we decided not to do that, because we don't really know that part of town so well"

They had my phone number

How hard could it have been to call back and "Um, dude, we decided not to drive you"?

[Agschmid]

10. Wow.

Yes and the pizza place never called me back either... They had my number.

I eventually just went over and ordered there, turns out I could walk to it so I did. I had to be real stealthy about it though so they didn't do anything to my food!

Oye.

[DebJ]

11. Did you tell the store manager what happened? He owes you a free pizza. n/t

[Agschmid]

12. I was going to pay cash for the delivery...

Since it never got delivered, I never paid so I did not press the issue.

[struggle4progress]

13. !

They didn't need you to tell them where YOU were --- they needed you to tell them where THEY were

[OriginalGeek]

14. That's a bad driver.

I delivered pizza for a long time in my youth - way before google, smart-phones, GPS...We had a map on the wall that covered our area and I never left the shop without knowing where I was going. On the rare occasion I couldn't find an address I had to stop at a pay phone and call the customer. In the SNOW! Up a HILL! TEN MILES!...wait, no, that's a different "you kids got it easy today" rant...