Crowdfunding Page Seeking Tips For Pizza Delivery Guy Hits $20K In Donations

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He didn’t get the $7 tip he was forced to return for delivering pizzas, but now it seems a pizzeria worker who was stiffed the first time around by a Massachusetts car dealership will be doing just fine: A GoFundMe campaign set up by a stranger who saw the video and was outraged has hit $20,600 (as of Friday afternoon) in donations in just two days.

With a $50,000 goal and around 1,840 donations (again, as of this moment), the page created Jan. 14 has been seeing a steady flow of money coming in.

To recap, if you don’t feel like clicking to the original post: A video apparently shot by workers at car dealership shows employees demand that the pizza guy hand over change for the $42 and some change pizza order, after handing him two $20 bills and two $5 bills as payment. Why give someone two fives only to ask for a full bill back?

The Internet wasn’t pleased, leading to an outpouring of support from those who believed he was treated poorly.

“I believe Jarrid should be rewarded for dealing with such crappy people,” the woman who started the page writes. “Please watch the video and donate. Even if it is $1, it will make up (maybe a little) for him having to deal with idiots like this.”

Since then, the sales manager at the dealership has issued a statement and apologized for the workers’ actions, though he says the video wasn’t released by the staff at the dealership.

“We will [sic] like to apologize for the actions that led to this situation, this embarrassing video gone viral on the Internet, was not released by any employee [of the dealership],” he said in a oddly worded statement via CNN.

by Mary Beth Quirk via Consumerist