Jarrid Tansey is an
employee at Palace Pizza and was delivering a pizza to a car dealership. The
expense came out to be 42 dollars and the gentlemen paying for the pizza handed
Jarrid 50 dollars. Jarrid specifically asked if they wanted to give him all 50
and says that it was confirmed so he thought that the extra 7 dollars was just
a tip. Later Jarrid was forced to return back to F&R auto sales, when he
arrived he was verbally abused and humiliated by all of the employees that were
around at the time. They even called into Palace Pizza and reported what he had
done trying to get him fired from his job. They were using very crude language.
The manager at the dealership finally issued a statement apologizing for what
happened, the dealer received negative comments and their website was disabled
as a result, so the manager was just trying to make things right so that there wouldn’t
be a bad name for the F&R auto sales company. From what the video showed,
even while the dealership employees were treating the pizza delivery man very
poorly with a lot of disrespect, Jarrid handled it well and was very respectful
to them. That is something that really stood out to me and something that I
want to start applying in my personal life, because it is very hard to treat
someone with respect and be nice to them when they aren’t doing the same. That
is the difference though between a likeable person with self-control rather
than acting in a negative way. The more we treat others the way we want to be
treated no matter the circumstances, the more likely we can avoid negative confrontation.
The internet then banded
together and raised 22,000 for this pizza driver that was stood up, humiliated
and in the end was not given a tip at all. “Amanda Marie Rogers was on the
internet and came across this video and was so upset about what had happened
and felt extremely bad for Jarrid so she decided to set up a campaign to raise
some funds for Jarrid. She raised $31,693 in just two days.” The whole reason
why Amanda did this for Jarrid was to reward him for having to deal with these
horrible people.
I feel that it was a good
thing that this video went viral and that it has been talked about throughout
the media because this happens too often. Customers are extremely rude to
people that deliver different items to them and that needs to stop because they
are just doing their job and don’t deserve that kind of treatment. I also thought
that it was cool that people were willing to donate money even though they don’t
even know Jarrid.
Even though the employees
at F&R auto sales were really mean to this young man, I don’t agree with
the fact that people are blowing up their website with negative/offensive
comments. That is making this company look really bad and could easily push
away customers from working with them. The company shouldn’t be punished for
the actions of their employees, but then again business’s should really
consider doing background checks and making sure that their employees
understand that the company they are working for is imprinted on their back and
that their actions don’t only have an effect on themselves but as well with the
company. Business’s need to teach their employees the importance of treating
everyone with respect, (not only customers), but everyone because it helps give
a good name to the business and helps to sell your product when you treat
people right.
Just from this video, it
has shown me how social media can explode and bring different subjects to the
attention of others. Social media is a great way to let things go viral but it
is very interesting to see why some things get a lot of attention while others don’t.
I think that it is important to engage
yourself in social media to see what really is going on in the world and to
also participate and truly give your opinion on whatever is happening on the
internet.
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