Refused and labeled "That's MZ for you"... Sighs over bosses dumping work on employees leaving for the day

"'Regular Customer's Delivery Request on the Way Home' Story
Frustrated by Unappreciated Effort and Taken-for-Granted Attitude
\"Clear Labor Exploitation... Delivery Allowance Should Be Paid\""

A part-time worker's story about struggling with a boss who asks for deliveries on the way home from work is heating up online.

On the 25th, a post titled "My boss tells me to deliver on my way home. Can you relate?" was uploaded to an online community.

The author, A, wrote, "There is a regular customer who orders every week on the same day and around the same time. Their home is about a 5 to 7-minute walk from the store, and the boss, wanting to save the customer's delivery fee, told me to bring the food on my way home."

A part-time worker's story about struggling with a boss who asks for deliveries on the way home is heating up online. The article is not related to the specific content of the photo.
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The first time, I agreed with good intentions, but the problem was that the delivery errands kept repeating. The boss even stopped me when I was about to leave on the days that customer regularly ordered and said, 'Wait a bit because an order might come in.'

A said, "They say it's on the way home anyway, but to deliver to that person's house, I have to take a slight detour, and I don't want to carry heavy food while leaving work. I also hate having to walk fast so the food doesn't get cold."

A added, "Why is it called quitting time? Once I finish work, I'm not a part-timer anymore, so I don't understand why I have to work. When I said no, they treated me like the MZ generation that people often criticize these days."

On the 25th, a post titled "The boss told me to deliver on the way home. Do you understand?" was uploaded on an online community. The photo is not related to the specific content of the article. [Photo by Pixabay]

What upset A the most was the boss's attitude of not recognizing their hard work. "That customer leaves comments on the app saying it's a grateful place that saves delivery fees and sends hearts, and the boss boasts that it's natural because it's a short distance. Meanwhile, I am forced to deliver without any extra pay or delivery allowance," A complained.

They continued, "It's only once a week, and I could just hand it over on the way home, but they said young people these days only want to do what they're told and even talked behind my back to other part-timers on different shifts. I work hard during my shift, get paid minimum wage, and even come 10 to 30 minutes early every day to prepare ingredients, so I feel unfairly treated."

Netizens who read the story responded with comments like, "Why exploit part-timers' time and labor to save the customer's money?", "It's so harsh to carry heavy things with your hands out of your pockets in this cold weather," "They should definitely pay delivery allowance," "You can say you’ll deliver on the way, but you don’t want to work past quitting time," and "Delivering on the way home is fine, but waiting around so you can't leave work is crossing the line."

Meanwhile, a survey conducted by the part-time job portal Albamon with 3,385 part-timers found that the most important factor for a good part-time job was "having a boss and coworkers who are decent human beings" (31.6%). The top reason for being able to work a long time at a part-time job was also "having a decent and good boss" (37.1%).