I work at a pretty big pizza chain (better ingredients, better pizza) that offers delivery. My tips make up roughly 60% of my pay. The general manager works on salary and gets paid far more than any of us. Lately he’s been delivering because “he needs cash” that night (he’s told other managers that directly). He starts giving himself double and triple deliveries when it’s not necessary and taking runs (and tips) out of the other driver’s and I’s pockets.
He started doing it when we were understaffed and didn’t have enough drivers to get food to people on time. Now it’s become a daily thing. On Sunday we had three drivers scheduled and each of us were taking about two deliveries an hour because it was so slow. The GM then hopped in and started taking the good deliveries out from underneath us. He has access to the order information including the tip that no one else who isn’t a manager is able to see until they personally check out the order.
I’m so furious that a man who makes triple what I make is taking tips out from under me. I’ve noticed on the slower nights my tips being significantly less when he starts driving.
I don’t know what to do. I’m afraid to say or report anything because this is genuinely one of the only jobs that pays the bills for me and isn’t unbearable to be at.
All the other drivers and shift leads have noticed and are just as pissed about it as me but I think we’re all too afraid to do something.