Savvy Son-in-law by VKBoy

Rebecca dropped him at the Rye’s Pizzas, a cluster of vintage pizza huts, and left without saying at least a cursory bye. Only Benjamin waved his hand, expecting her to look back. Though she didn’t look back, she did notice his efforts through the mirror and faintly smiled.

“I wish I knew fashion designing as well,” Benjamin thought. “Then I would have joined her company.” He sighed and got to work.

Right after entering the cluster of huts, Benjamin had to take out all of his possessions and put them in the employee’s storage box before getting into the blue uniform. Rings, lockets, and bracelets especially were not allowed inside the food center after all.

Normal deliveries must be made within 30 minutes to any part of the city, and the customers would give anywhere from 1 to 5 stars of rating.

Express deliveries must be made within 15 minutes only, and the customers would give anywhere from 1 to seven stars.

Benjamin’s average rating now reached 4.8 after over 12,000 successful deliveries, and he was long eligible to do express deliveries. He even held the highest record of delivering 183 parcels in a single day, but the manager didn’t allow him to do the express deliveries just because of one reason. Every evening, a Porsche came to pick up Benjamin, and it made him extremely envious. He believed that such a guy wouldn’t need to become a seven-star deliverer as there were others who would be glad to earn a bigger salary compared to Benjamin.

However, unaware of the manager’s intentions, Benjamin kept asking for promotion. After all, express delivery would increase his salary by almost eighty percent, and his tips would bulk up as well.

Before 10 o’clock, Benjamin inserted a second sim into his mobile, and he started receiving calls straight away. However, he answered only after the clock ticked to the ten hour mark.

The first call was a kid laughing and chuckling as he ordered ten pizzas. He wasn’t even smart enough to mask his voice. Benjamin kept asking for his name, but the kid didn’t reveal it and told Benjamin to bring the pizzas quickly to the address he blurted out. Benjamin cut the call and shook his head.

“A prank call to start the day. I have a bad feeling about this,” he sighed.

received another call in a matter of seconds. It was an order for a

on a company’s motorcycle. He used the shortcuts to avoid traffic and the troubling police and weaved his way through the city and

on the door. A fat dude walked out to receive him. “Took you

a one dollar tip, so he kept peering at the

fat

generally ranged around ten percent of the order price, so Benjamin expected to receive ten dollars. However, he only received a tenth of that.

Benjamin forced out a smile before leaving in a hurry. He didn’t have the time to waste. Since it was a large order, he didn’t bother about taking other orders simultaneously. Now, he regretted that as it would take him at least fifteen minutes to reach the pizza hut, and so it would mean that he earned only

returned, the manager quickly came to him and asked,

showed him the dollar

into laughter. He patted Benjamin’s shoulder. “You can keep it, but listen to me, and comb your hair properly and make yourself more presentable.

give advice so he’ll feel less guilty after

more than ten dollars per delivery. Any more, and he’d snatch it all. Of course, the delivery guys used all their wisdom to get around this,

times, but nobody responded. He just couldn’t wait there and so turned the ‘busy’ mode off in his mobile and received more customer calls. When their orders matched the current number of pizzas he had, he switched the busy mode on again so if another customer were to call him, they would hear his number was busy, and the call would get redirected to

as most employees ordered Rye’s Pizzas because they were popular and tasted so well compared to

afternoon. And by break, he wouldn’t get to sleep on a bed. He was allowed to go to the washroom and then eat whatever he wanted within fifteen minutes. And the remaining forty five minutes should be spent teaching or helping new

new employees, a girl who was almost ten years younger than Benjamin, began hitting on him. This was only her second day, and she was rubbing her elbow with his forearm when he helped her on how to fold the packages fast. She was

at her and said, “What’s