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Thought re: Pizza Hunt
I've noted cases before where a Pizza Hut employee is fired after defending himself. The company policy appears to be that they will send delivery people into danger (if you stop to think about it, no one is in more peril of robbery than someone doing that job -- like a taxi driver, you have money and a criminal can summon you to any location, but with the pizza you have to walk up to the front door, too), but that if they dare do anything to protect themselves they will be canned.
Here's a story about one delivery fellow who was tied up, robbed, and stabbed to death -- but in full accord with company policy. Pizza Hut responded in true bureaucratic form, with a meaningless statement: "Pizza Hut issued a statement that stated driver safety is a top priority and is taken seriously among co-workers."
If anyone wants to let them know what they think, their customer satisfaction number is 1-800-948-8488, and here's their feedback page (but who knows if anyone but the webmaster reads it).
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This is reminiscent of a recent similar situation in San Francisco where taxi drivers didn't want to go to Hunter's Point, one of the ummmm, darker areas, fearing for their lives was deemed racism by the wise and benevolent authority figures. You can objectively tell if you're in one of those areas if the employees talk by microphone from behind two inch thick plexiglass. An intelligent company would provide their employees with an adequately armored delivery vehicle, raise prices to cover costs citing safety concerns. We are already in the science fiction dystopian future right now, folks.
I worked for what is now Metro North RR in Conn. At the time, the company required employes "to defend company property if threatened...." Conn. case law was that this meant, with a pistol permit, you could be armed on duty...Martin Looney, the aptly named Conn. Legislator, took care of that, so I moved to Alabama, where everyone, including the Pizza Guys is armed.
I have called Pizza Slut and told them to forget about me every ordering again, and why. They are not happy about this getting around, epecially in States where gun carrying is a "Sacrament"...I suspect they might be nervous about this issue now.
Dale
I had blogged concerning this fella awhile back,as well as notifing Pizza Hut they had lost my business until they change the policy. Cause if safety is their greatest concern, then let the drivers carry a weapon to protect themselves.