I’ll tell you what — As a Penn State alum, this type of stuff is what pisses me off. The lingering scar of Sandusky (and the university’s cover-up) is bad enough and will never go away, especially when he’s claiming he deserves a retrial (editor’s note: fuck off, Jerry). Then you have a bunch of football players allegedly ordering a SHIT TON of Jimmy John’s and boning the driver with zero tip. Leave it to the damn football team — the most high-profile sport on campus — to (allegedly) disgrace the good people that call that fine academic institution home.
According to TFM, a disgruntled delivery driver took to Twitter to fire shots at the football team about not tipping him. As Sports Grid notes, a proper 15% on the order would be $180, a fair price for lugging all those damn things around in a timely fashion. He’s deleted the tweets, but the Internet is written in ink, not pencil:
Shouts out to Penn State Football for ordering $1,200 worth of Jimmy Johns for delivery and leaving a $0 tip. Hope you lose every game.
He adds:
nope but I made and packaged their 120 box lunch order. Tax-exempt order.
You should know how to properly tip by the time you’re 18 – 21 years old. But since some people there have a hard time with that, can life skills be a pass-fail GenEd in the Forum at Penn State? Seems to be needed.
If true, just another reason why the “may no act of ours bring shame” clause in the alma mater feels like a crock of b.s. sometimes, from a PR perspective. Sure it’s the actions of a few, but no alumnus wants to say “I went to the school with the most cringe-worthy reputation in the BIG.” I was a delivery driver for a competing sandwich shop my junior year at Penn State. It was a great job (got to cruise around listening to crunchy jams on The Lion 90.7 FM), but super weird hours. I FEEL THIS DRIVER’S PAIN. I can’t tell you about how many thankless asshats would drunkenly order cheesesteaks on LionMenu’s at 3am then cheapskate out of adding $2 in LionCash (paid by mommy and daddy) to tip the driver. It’d make my blood boil. ESPECIALLY if it was a delivery out to The Pointe or Nittany Crossing.
Look: I like Saquon Barkley. I want to like James Franklin. I want to give a donation to a school I care about when Lion Line calls four or five times a year. But things like this hold me back. Holy hell instill the value of tipping your delivery drivers to your team. If you can’t instill human decency like that, what’s the point? Their egos are already big enough in the insulated pressure cooker of State College, Pennsylvania. More Key and Peele, less embarrassments, please.
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Watch: SI Swimsuit Model Sam Hoopes went to Penn State, like me. She wanted to be a gym teacher and always tipped her delivery drivers. Be more like her, PSU football: