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Am I wrong for this?

K

krunchykrome

Lifer
I work at a restuaraunt as a waiter. This resturaunt also delivers. Now, I love working at this place because it's just 5 minutes from my house, and I dont have to travel far to get there. This is important to me because my daily driver is an old 4spd manual toyota pickup with no air conditioning and over 250K miles. It is horrible to drive and could die anyday. And with this hot summer heat, I dont want to spend anytime in that truck that is not necessary. So this restuarunt always asks me to go make some deliveries when they get really busy and their usual drivers are busy. They just called me this morning and I flat out told them no and one of the owners (some bitchy lady) just said "ok" and hung up. Am I in the wrong here and they should be more understanding or should I just do it?
 
Is it part of your usual job descriptoin? Do the usual drivers get reimbursed mileage and such? If so, do they offer the same courtesy to you?

Honestly, if you were doing them a favor, you saying no is fine by all means.
 
Tell them your insurance doesn't cover you if the vehicle is used for commercial purposes like resteraunt delivery.
Which is probably true. I'm pretty sure I saw a disclaimer to that effect in my policy.
 
Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
Is it part of your usual job descriptoin? Do the usual drivers get reimbursed mileage and such? If so, do they offer the same courtesy to you?

Honestly, if you were doing them a favor, you saying no is fine by all means.
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Actually, they compensate me very well. Say I go make 2 small deliveries. Besides the tips, they'll give me $6 an hour and they usually round up the hours. But my car cant handle the miles. If it could, I would have became a delivery driver when I first started. And the heat is ridiculous with no a/c.
 
I would really just explain the situation with your car. Just tell em you have a POS car that may not make it to the next day as it is, but you'll be happy to drive theirs.
 
Originally posted by: krunchykrome
Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
Is it part of your usual job descriptoin? Do the usual drivers get reimbursed mileage and such? If so, do they offer the same courtesy to you?

Honestly, if you were doing them a favor, you saying no is fine by all means.
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Actually, they compensate me very well. Say I go make 2 small deliveries. Besides the tips, they'll give me $6 an hour and they usually round up the hours. But my car cant handle the miles. If it could, I would have became a delivery driver when I first started. And the heat is ridiculous with no a/c.
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well if she asked explain this to her.
 
Originally posted by: krunchykrome
Actually, they compensate me very well. Say I go make 2 small deliveries. Besides the tips, they'll give me $6 an hour and they usually round up the hours. But my car cant handle the miles. If it could, I would have became a delivery driver when I first started. And the heat is ridiculous with no a/c.
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So just tell them that - tell them you'd like to help and you appreciate them throwing the $ your way, but you are afraid that your car is going to fall apart at any minute, and you don't want to risk having the $$$ repair bills from all the extra driving... that's a very understandable reason. Just saying "no" makes you sound like kind of a dick...
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Originally posted by: krunchykrome
Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
Is it part of your usual job descriptoin? Do the usual drivers get reimbursed mileage and such? If so, do they offer the same courtesy to you?

Honestly, if you were doing them a favor, you saying no is fine by all means.
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Actually, they compensate me very well. Say I go make 2 small deliveries. Besides the tips, they'll give me $6 an hour and they usually round up the hours. But my car cant handle the miles. If it could, I would have became a delivery driver when I first started. And the heat is ridiculous with no a/c.
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Like others have said - which I didn't think of - say your insurance probably doesn't cover such deliveries, and that your car is on it's deathbed. They can't force you to do that anyway.
 
just tell them that your truck is about to die and need it for emergencies. But you would be happy to make the delivery if you could use one of the owners cars.

When you say no to something for work, ALWAYS follow up with an alternative solution.
 
Originally posted by: Yo_Ma-Ma
Would driving the one of the owner's cars for deliveries be a possibility?
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yeah, my first thing about driving for any company is to find out what car they think im driving.
unless they are willing to give me cash back for gas and any expenses that may occur...im not interested.
of course, insurance is also a big concern. (as mentioned above)
 
Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
Is it part of your usual job descriptoin? Do the usual drivers get reimbursed mileage and such? If so, do they offer the same courtesy to you?

Honestly, if you were doing them a favor, you saying no is fine by all means.
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Originally posted by: Armitage
Tell them your insurance doesn't cover you if the vehicle is used for commercial purposes like resteraunt delivery.
Which is probably true. I'm pretty sure I saw a disclaimer to that effect in my policy.
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Both of these sound about right. Unless you're getting compensated for mileage (specifically, not just an hourly), I would say it's not worth the wear and tear on the vehicle and the risk you take by being on the road for commercial purposes.
 
Originally posted by: Citrix
just tell them that your truck is about to die and need it for emergencies. But you would be happy to make the delivery if you could use one of the owners cars.

When you say no to something for work, ALWAYS follow up with an alternative solution.
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Well said.
 
Originally posted by: Citrix
just tell them that your truck is about to die and need it for emergencies. But you would be happy to make the delivery if you could use one of the owners cars.

When you say no to something for work, ALWAYS follow up with an alternative solution.
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🙂
 
Originally posted by: flot
Originally posted by: krunchykrome
Actually, they compensate me very well. Say I go make 2 small deliveries. Besides the tips, they'll give me $6 an hour and they usually round up the hours. But my car cant handle the miles. If it could, I would have became a delivery driver when I first started. And the heat is ridiculous with no a/c.
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So just tell them that - tell them you'd like to help and you appreciate them throwing the $ your way, but you are afraid that your car is going to fall apart at any minute, and you don't want to risk having the $$$ repair bills from all the extra driving... that's a very understandable reason. Just saying "no" makes you sound like kind of a dick...
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Precisely what I was thinking. Let them know that you are jeopardizing your job period if you overstress your high mileage vehicle and you don't want to be unemployed with no transportation. Unless she's a relative of Sadaam's she should understand.
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