• Snot Flickerman
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    9511 months ago

    It’s also really, really easy to lose your job as a pizza delivery person.

      • Transporter Room 3
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        7511 months ago

        Turnover is already high due to shitty work conditions and low pay, but most franchises will also look for reasons to fire so they can keep wages low.

        A few minutes later than the customer wants but still within reasonable time? Oooh sorry they called to complain so we have to give you a strike.

        Customer doesn’t want to pay? Tough shit, you shouldn’t have given them the pizza without getting paid and that’s two strikes.

        You were 30 seconds late according to the managers watch which is 3 minutes fast as proven by everyone’s cellphones and the wall clock? Too bad, fired.

        And I’m not exaggerating. I’m just giving a real-world example.

          • Transporter Room 3
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            2611 months ago

            Especially that one. Seriously.

            Ultimately I was just done and had already been looking for another job, so I just went ahead and dropped the shit on the floor and spent the rest of the day chilling at the park. I even had witnesses to the insane bullshit.

      • @MrVilliam@lemmy.world
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        3211 months ago

        It’s not so much about how pizza delivery drivers get easily fired. It’s more about how cops get away with literal murder. If a pizza dude killed somebody who called for them, they wouldn’t have a union and PR team fighting for them and showing that the murder victim was maybe kinda asking for it because they ordered pineapple on their pizza. That’s a metaphor for a light criminal record, yes.

        • @GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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          911 months ago

          I propose that pineapple on pizza is the equivalent of personal quantities of pot possession in the legal world. Sure, a lot of people who claim to have never done it sure spend a lot of time talking about how terrible it is on a personal and societal level, but the ones who are actually using it just shrug their shoulders and say “more for me.”