Angry Papa John’s customer posts delivery man’s racist voicemail online

[MADem]

56. I appreciate a good delivery person, and like my brother in Sanford, I compensate them

well. I also live really, REALLY close to the places from where I order, so I'm not contributing to wear and tear on anyone's vehicles.

Delivery isn't easy, I agree (I have experienced lousy delivery, where my stuff went somewhere else, where a key part of the meal was left behind, where the beverage was completely wrong) but waiting on tables--if I had to pick one job over another -- is a harder job. There are no 'seated respites' plugging the address into the GPS and driving to one's destination. Servers are on their feet for their entire shift, carrying trays of food, listening not just to one (irate) customer at the door, but every one around the table, eating their meal, with a demand, a gripe or an opinion. In lots of places, the tips are split with the busboys (and busgirls) who provide beverage backup as well as the usual table-cleaning.

Neither job is in the Top Ten Most Glamorous Jobs, but at my age, if I got flung back into the workforce with those two choices, I'd rather be delivering, even though it is a more DANGEROUS job (you're more likely to be robbed delivering a pizza to a door than a table) and there's the car maintenance thing. I don't have the stamina to wait table anymore (though I did do it for a few years as a kid).