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I do alot of hospital deliveries, which has its ups and downs. It's almost always a hassle for some reason. Sometimes, 5 people order and i have to wait while all 5 are found, which takes up my time. Sometimes the person who paid for the order by credit card won't be there, and someone else will sign for it, and leave no tip. Sometimes we get a rush call for like 10 pizzas in half an hour.
There are three I usually go to. One is the VA hospital, which is pretty ghetto. I really don't have a problem with them, most of the people who order meet me at the entrance. There's a private hospital, Christus Schumpert - and it's a fucking maze. I've literally spent half an hour trying to leave, walking around.
Then there's a... medical university/hospital? I dunno, it's the LSU Health and Sciences center. It's a public hospital, attached to a medical school. This place is the fucking worst. For one, it's HUGE. There are like 3 buildings with and a few entrances. Pharmaceutical reps are often calling (in advance) to make orders of like 20-30 pizzas. Like, where I have to go to and from the store multiple times... and get tipped like five bucks. At least they dont call an hour beforehand and ask for that sort of thing.
Two months after I started working there, I had a pretty normal delivery - a few personal pizzas and their drinks/salads/breadsticks/etc) for some nurses, on the 4th floor of the main building. I walked in through the main entrance, and as I walked through the lobby to get to main hallway, a few cops stopped me. I did the quick mental check - doilookhighwhatdididoisthislegal? - but they just told me to "hold on for a second". Still kinda confused, I stood there... and down the hall, the elevator opened and a bunch of doctors/surgeons were running with a patient on a surgical bed. He looked kinda fucked up physically, not bleeding but... i dunno, I didn't look to long because I looked away, but I do remember he had a beerbelly. They were coming from the elevator (there's a heli pad) to the ER, I think. I just remember his belly start to contract, and I heard the flatline, and then he sort of stopped moving, and then they were through the door. I have no idea if he survived.
Sometime after that, I was doing another delivery at LSUHC. (I deliver pizzas to that place everytime i work, it's just a matter of who.) For awhile I would get pretty freaked walking in there, but that sort of thing isn't the norm, I guess, because I've never encountered something like that again... except on this particular day. The public elevators are right across the hall from the service elevators. To cut to the chase, I got to not see what the dude looked like because I heard his screams like 10 seconds before the elevator door opened. Jesus fucking christ. I just remember hearing a few shouted words by the staff and it was obviously a burn victim.
I dunno, the thing is I often get sweeet tips from doctors, so it's sort of like gambling. I love going there. The phone rings ten minutes before we're about to close up for the night, i hear "hey do you want to take this delivery?" and i have to run the odds in my head - will I make money? will I not? will i watch someone die?" and sometimes I do it, sometimes I don't.
the VA hospital sucks though, because there's no gambling there. there are always severely crippled dudes asking if the pizza is for them, haha, and wtf am i supposed to do there? everytime i go the odds of seeing something that sucks is 100%.
There are three I usually go to. One is the VA hospital, which is pretty ghetto. I really don't have a problem with them, most of the people who order meet me at the entrance. There's a private hospital, Christus Schumpert - and it's a fucking maze. I've literally spent half an hour trying to leave, walking around.
Then there's a... medical university/hospital? I dunno, it's the LSU Health and Sciences center. It's a public hospital, attached to a medical school. This place is the fucking worst. For one, it's HUGE. There are like 3 buildings with and a few entrances. Pharmaceutical reps are often calling (in advance) to make orders of like 20-30 pizzas. Like, where I have to go to and from the store multiple times... and get tipped like five bucks. At least they dont call an hour beforehand and ask for that sort of thing.
Two months after I started working there, I had a pretty normal delivery - a few personal pizzas and their drinks/salads/breadsticks/etc) for some nurses, on the 4th floor of the main building. I walked in through the main entrance, and as I walked through the lobby to get to main hallway, a few cops stopped me. I did the quick mental check - doilookhighwhatdididoisthislegal? - but they just told me to "hold on for a second". Still kinda confused, I stood there... and down the hall, the elevator opened and a bunch of doctors/surgeons were running with a patient on a surgical bed. He looked kinda fucked up physically, not bleeding but... i dunno, I didn't look to long because I looked away, but I do remember he had a beerbelly. They were coming from the elevator (there's a heli pad) to the ER, I think. I just remember his belly start to contract, and I heard the flatline, and then he sort of stopped moving, and then they were through the door. I have no idea if he survived.
Sometime after that, I was doing another delivery at LSUHC. (I deliver pizzas to that place everytime i work, it's just a matter of who.) For awhile I would get pretty freaked walking in there, but that sort of thing isn't the norm, I guess, because I've never encountered something like that again... except on this particular day. The public elevators are right across the hall from the service elevators. To cut to the chase, I got to not see what the dude looked like because I heard his screams like 10 seconds before the elevator door opened. Jesus fucking christ. I just remember hearing a few shouted words by the staff and it was obviously a burn victim.
I dunno, the thing is I often get sweeet tips from doctors, so it's sort of like gambling. I love going there. The phone rings ten minutes before we're about to close up for the night, i hear "hey do you want to take this delivery?" and i have to run the odds in my head - will I make money? will I not? will i watch someone die?" and sometimes I do it, sometimes I don't.
the VA hospital sucks though, because there's no gambling there. there are always severely crippled dudes asking if the pizza is for them, haha, and wtf am i supposed to do there? everytime i go the odds of seeing something that sucks is 100%.
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