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[–] [email protected] 121 points 10 months ago (3 children)

kevlar body armor was developed by a pizza delivery guy

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago

Well yeah, but he was also an ex marine lol

Though he did get the idea after successfully defending himself in an armed robbery attempt while delivering pizza.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes it was

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Indeed

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Have you heard of the High Elves?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I saw a mud crab the other day, horrible creatures

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

well now, how about that

[–] [email protected] 95 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[+] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Including the manager's watch one?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

blue cheese, pineapple, and pepperoni

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Pepperoni, pineapple, and jalapeno.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

pizza delivery guys don’t get qualified immunity

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

"here is 6 months access to my onlyfans"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 61 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I. C. Weiner?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Here's to another lousy millennium.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Fuck if he wasn't right too

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

Crud.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 50 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And it really does contribute to society

[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was robbed a lot when I delivered pizza.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

May be you should have tried not getting robbed?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Superintendent? Don't you mean janitor? Custodian?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Custodian more like it, janitors just clean up. Many people call them building supers

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (7 children)

And soon to be you will find them employed by the Mafia betting their own whole life upon the success of a 30 minute delivery.