• 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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        7411 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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            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
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        3011 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.

        • @[email protected]
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          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.”

          • Flying Squid
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            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.

      • @wreckedcarzz
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        611 months ago

        “here is 6 months access to my onlyfans”

      • @saltesc
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        311 months ago

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

  • @samus12345
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    5911 months ago

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

  • Flying Squid
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    5411 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.

  • @doingless
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    5011 months ago

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

    • @MrVilliam
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      4211 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.
  • @grayman
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    I was robbed a lot when I delivered pizza.

  • @Son_of_dad
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    2411 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.

    • @LemmyKnowsBest
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      Superintendent? Don’t you mean janitor? Custodian?

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

  • @[email protected]
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    911 months ago

    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.

    And don’t touch the Snow Crash.

    • @foyrkopp
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      Except at that point the Mafia are somehow supposedly the good guys?

      • skulblaka
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        111 months ago

        Uncle Enzo isn’t going to let you down unless you let him down first.

      • @[email protected]
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        011 months ago

        No one is “good” just “good at” anyone saying otherwise is literally using religion to lie to you about being the very delusion of anyone that is “good.”

        • @foyrkopp
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          111 months ago

          Found the morality relativist.

          • @[email protected]
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            011 months ago

            I am not a relativist. Though there is something specific to which I relate my development of skills towards.

  • @Tikiporch
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    Driving a car is why both are dangerous.

    Edit: look up the most dangerous jobs BLS stats, and most common cause of death for almost all jobs is transportation related.

    • @gnate
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      111 months ago

      Other people driving is the dangerous part, hence garbage collection and postal delivery being near the top of the list.

  • @RealFknNito
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    -3111 months ago

    Source: I made it the fuck up

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        Indeed. Iirc I contributed heavily to that thread with sources and it’s simply not true almost any way you slice it.

        The closest proximity is using accidental vehicle deaths but it completely discounts the fact delivery drivers mostly deliver in town where speeds are low.

        Unfortunately there’s no good data tracking for gig work yet which would be the nearest parable.

        E: I was not lazy and found my old comment for sauce.

        • @SuckMyWang
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          111 months ago

          I don’t appreciate your common sense/rationalisation or water pouring/fun dampening on the internet. Please leave.

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            And I’ll take my crusts with me!

            FWIW I was not lazy and found my old comment if anyone wants sauce. It’s absolutely 100% grade-A BS from a scummy lawyer group cherry-picking data that doesn’t include ‘Pizza delivery’ or any conventional ‘delivery driver’ that aren’t big rigs or siilar.

            https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/366256/Italians-are-literally-braver-than-cops#entry-comment-1815988

      • @voidMainVoid
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        Police were more likely to be killed by violence than most other positions (which are almost always accident/negligence related), although somewhat ironically their most likely cause of death in 2021 was covid

        Just…WOW. In case anyone was wondering about how fucked the US police are.

      • @RealFknNito
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        Yeah I’m just exhausted tolerating you cop hating retards. You’re so far gone you’re arguing in bad faith and using literally any bottom of the barrel numbers to say the dumbest bullshit.