Topic: Mingebags

[Henry Gale]

Is this because everyone just pays by card these days? The only cash I've got right now is a couple of quid in the car for shopping trolleys and about £4 in my work bag for coffees from the machine in case I forget my flask.

Yeah it's true that is, I only keep a bit of cash in my wallet purely because the chippy by me doesn't except card. And I do love a chippy tea.

[paulrazor]

Can only dream of that! I tend to do Tuesday & Friday evenings, with Friday being considerably busier. I'd usually expect to do between 4-8 deliveries on a Tuesday and 14-20 on a Saturday, so I tend to predict 5 & 15 and set my expectations for the week at £120 (two £50 shifts plus 20 deliveries).

Tips are few & far between really - I'd say it works out to an average or 25-33p per delivery, so say an extra £5-8 for the week.

those figures I gave are from 20 years ago as well

Mind you I know what its like working tuesday as I did them every week for 4 years, was nights I only had 6, night before istanbul 2005 I was hoping to get a nice wedge of beer money. I had 3 deliveries all night, was in from 530-1130pm. I had nothing at all after 8pm

Is this because everyone just pays by card these days? The only cash I've got right now is a couple of quid in the car for shopping trolleys and about £4 in my work bag for coffees from the machine in case I forget my flask.

I would say so, I never took card payments back then, different times obv

[AlphaDelta]

Always love reading this thread, so would be interested to hear the thoughts of my fellow RAWKites on this, and whether its a case of A, mingebaggery, B, general arsehole behaviour or C, me reading too much into it.

Basically it was my birthday last week (46, knocking on now!), and one of my dear girl mates bought me a cracking bottle of vanilla rum. The bottle was in a bag in work and on the night of the Chelsea game, two of my mates came to meet me from work and then drive to a pub to watch the match.

I put the bottle on the back seat of his car and gets in, meanwhile he's got a squeegee blade and proceeds to wipe every window on his car, cos its lashing down. He does no more than open the back door of his car to put the squeegee away and my bottle of rum rolls out and smashes on the floor.
His response was a nonchalant 'oops!', followed by a 'oh well these things happen'.

To be honest I wasn't expecting tears and hand wringing, but if it was me who had opened the door, I would have definitely offered to replace it.

[Barneylfc∗]

Yeah, that's not his fault.
If you've set the bottle on the back seat and it has rolled out of a parked car, then it must've been leaning against the door.

[jackh]

Mind you I know what its like working tuesday as I did them every week for 4 years, was nights I only had 6, night before istanbul 2005 I was hoping to get a nice wedge of beer money. I had 3 deliveries all night, was in from 530-1130pm. I had nothing at all after 8pm

I don't necessarily mind whether it's super busy or absolutely dead, as long as it's in some way predictable - frustrating when you're expecting to just sit off for a Tuesday evening and you randomly get 11 deliveries, but equally when you expect to be rushing round on Friday and very little happens

Some of the quiet ones have been a bugger recently, with the car going stone cold again between the few deliveries I've had.

[SamLad]

yeah - only place for a bottle is on the floor behind the front seats.

my vote is a big fat "C", mate.

[paulrazor]

I don't necessarily mind whether it's super busy or absolutely dead, as long as it's in some way predictable - frustrating when you're expecting to just sit off for a Tuesday evening and you randomly get 11 deliveries, but equally when you expect to be rushing round on Friday and very little happens

Some of the quiet ones have been a bugger recently, with the car going stone cold again between the few deliveries I've had.

I didnt mind being busy once I had a chance to catch my breath.

Worked one friday before xmas, was called in at last min at 530, that late I didnt have time to go for a piss first, I didnt have the said piss for over 3 hours.

Was another week I was mental busy to the point where I could hardly stand, I genuinely had suicidal thoughts, one of the worst days of my life, I had another job as well and that was flat out too. Day in question, was exhausted from the minute I got up out of bed. Never got a second to myself all day, barely had time to eat a dinner.

8pm was about to take a ten minute break, phone rang. 815, same thing, repeat every 15 minutes until 1145pm. Ended up having no break.

Not paid enough for that level of work

[jackh]

I didnt mind being busy once I had a chance to catch my breath.

Worked one friday before xmas, was called in at last min at 530, that late I didnt have time to go for a piss first, I didnt have the said piss for over 3 hours.

Was another week I was mental busy to the point where I could hardly stand, I genuinely had suicidal thoughts, one of the worst days of my life, I had another job as well and that was flat out too. Day in question, was exhausted from the minute I got up out of bed. Never got a second to myself all day, barely had time to eat a dinner.

8pm was about to take a ten minute break, phone rang. 815, same thing, repeat every 15 minutes until 1145pm. Ended up having no break.

Not paid enough for that level of work

90% of the time I don't mind being on shift - we've got a good base of regular customers and so the interactions are generally friendly, which goes a long way to it being fine. If it's busy too, you can just dive into a couple of albums or a podcast or whatever (or a book if it's dead!). It's when I'm not on and there's a shift upcoming that it gets me - knowing it's a Friday night taken up, or (this particular week) both tonight & tomorrow...as I said above, halfway between resenting having to do it and being grateful that I have the opportunity to do so given that I do feel I need to.

[PaulF]

Is this because everyone just pays by card these days? The only cash I've got right now is a couple of quid in the car for shopping trolleys and about £4 in my work bag for coffees from the machine in case I forget my flask.

I've noticed some bars, and I think coffee shops, have a separate contactless point for tips.

[AlphaDelta]

yeah - only place for a bottle is on the floor behind the front seats.

my vote is a big fat "C", mate.

Cheers SamLad, that'll do for me, the common sense of RAWK has spoken.

[Crosby Nick]

Don't piss on your chips lad.

Sure fire way to get sacked from a takeaway delivery job.

[only6times]

Sure fire way to get sacked from a takeaway delivery job.

Would be an improvement for some gaffs I've encountered