toobfreak
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- Apr 29, 2017
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A sign of the times. I've never had a pizza from Dominos so I saw them advertise on TV they were selling all pizzas half off this week, so I decided to try them.
I looked at their site and picked a couple pizzas but I was not sure which if any store would deliver to my home, so it came down to two stores near me.
I called the first store and got a recording. Be right with you! So I sat there for 5 minutes listening to excited ad after ad.
Finally giving up, I just HUNG UP. If you can't even answer your phone within 5 minutes, you really don't want my business and I don't want you handling my food. So I tried the other store, which had a local number. Dude answered right away and I told him why I was calling and whether they could deliver? Right off he asked for my phone number which I knew was because his screen was telling him that first to place an order, so I corrected him asking him if he even came to my address!
When I gave him the address, he got the house number wrong and the street name wrong. As I went through the THIRD time repeating ever-more clearly the house number and street number, I realized this guy barely understood English. I mean, my number and street are very simple, easy things and I even gave him an example to clarify, then I SPELLED IT.
He still was having trouble. That is when I realized that many kids today have no people skills or interpersonal skills and all they know is pushing buttons on a screen. Probably because they've spent the past 20 years of their life with their nose in a cellphone app.
That is when I said F-it, and just hung up, realizing WHY Dominos was selling pizzas half off! I then called my regular pizza store and ordered what I really wanted. Dominos is now off my list forever, right along with every other farging super pizza chain I've tried from Pizza Hut (yech), to Papa Johns (blech).
If you really want good pizza, go find yourself a privately owned store. Run like hell from the big chains.
I looked at their site and picked a couple pizzas but I was not sure which if any store would deliver to my home, so it came down to two stores near me.
I called the first store and got a recording. Be right with you! So I sat there for 5 minutes listening to excited ad after ad.
Finally giving up, I just HUNG UP. If you can't even answer your phone within 5 minutes, you really don't want my business and I don't want you handling my food. So I tried the other store, which had a local number. Dude answered right away and I told him why I was calling and whether they could deliver? Right off he asked for my phone number which I knew was because his screen was telling him that first to place an order, so I corrected him asking him if he even came to my address!
When I gave him the address, he got the house number wrong and the street name wrong. As I went through the THIRD time repeating ever-more clearly the house number and street number, I realized this guy barely understood English. I mean, my number and street are very simple, easy things and I even gave him an example to clarify, then I SPELLED IT.
He still was having trouble. That is when I realized that many kids today have no people skills or interpersonal skills and all they know is pushing buttons on a screen. Probably because they've spent the past 20 years of their life with their nose in a cellphone app.
That is when I said F-it, and just hung up, realizing WHY Dominos was selling pizzas half off! I then called my regular pizza store and ordered what I really wanted. Dominos is now off my list forever, right along with every other farging super pizza chain I've tried from Pizza Hut (yech), to Papa Johns (blech).
If you really want good pizza, go find yourself a privately owned store. Run like hell from the big chains.
