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.

[-] MrVilliam@lemmy.world 31 points 9 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 9 points 9 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."

[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 4 points 9 months ago

blue cheese, pineapple, and pepperoni

[-] aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

Pepperoni, pineapple, and jalapeno.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

but the ones who are actually using it just shrug their shoulders and say “more for me.”

Not more for me. And I have tried it. No thank you. You can have my slices.

[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 10 points 9 months ago

pizza delivery guys don’t get qualified immunity

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Fun fact: qualified immunity is illegal according to the law as passed by Congress. The 1982 SCOTUS unintentionally legislated from the bench in Harlow V Fitzgerald

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/us/politics/qualified-immunity-supreme-court.html

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

"here is 6 months access to my onlyfans"

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

Only if you have an order with extra meat. The same problem goes for plumbers.

[-] saltesc@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Know a guy whose friend murdered.a guy and didn't get paid leave or nothing. Straight up fired.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 61 points 9 months ago

Not to mention the risk of being frozen for a thousand years.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 35 points 9 months ago

I. C. Weiner?

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago

Here's to another lousy millennium.

[-] shani66@lemmy.comfysnug.space 5 points 9 months ago

Fuck if he wasn't right too

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

Crud.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 55 points 9 months ago

Pizza delivery people have to get out of their car in any weather. Cops only have to get out of their car if they feel like it. Also, cops don't have to buy their own gas.

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 50 points 9 months ago

And it really does contribute to society

[-] MrVilliam@lemmy.world 41 points 9 months ago

A pizza can feed a family of four. A cop could feed his family of four if his wife and kids hadn't left him for the domestic abuse reported amongst 40%* of all American cops.

40% is the self-reported figure. Unreported instances presumably would make the actual number much higher.

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 26 points 9 months ago

Eat a pizza and you're fed for a day. Be shot by a cop and you will never be hungry again

[-] doingless@lemmy.world 50 points 9 months ago

I feel like "The thin crust line" would work better than "The thin bread crust".

[-] grayman@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago

I was robbed a lot when I delivered pizza.

[-] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

May be you should have tried not getting robbed?

[-] MrBusiness@lemmy.zip 10 points 9 months ago

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

Tip your building superintendent this Christmas, they're actually on the top 10 list of dangerous jobs in North America, like 10 spots above cops. I've done the job and it's high risk of ergonomic injury, as well as accidents, and working alone makes it even more hazardous. You can get sick from the job, get crushed by garbage bins, electrocuted, poisoned, gased, burned, fall off a ladder or worse, and it's low pay.