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halvarreply
lemy.lol

honestly at this point the entertainment value makes it acceptable for me

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mander.xyz

I’m certainly not going to eat shitty pizza bc of this violent story.

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lemmy.world

That's what I think about literally every ad I see, and yet real data and studies show that advertisements really are worth the billions invested into them each year. We're not immune.

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xylolreply
leminal.space

Sounds like something a marketing guy would say, you astroturfing for marketers?

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The mention of pizza makes me want pizza.. but not Little Caesars. It's Big Pizza, working together to up pizza sales in general.

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Lumisalreply
lemmy.world

Well it's called LITTLE Caesars, not Big Ceasers.

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Clentreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

These are franchise run stores, not corporate run stores. This sort of behavior exists across all fast food franchises.

Every fast food place I've ever worked, the owners are trash. They dont work in their own stores except for extreme circumstances. They pay the lowest possible wages and churn through workers all so they can become millionaires. Their personalities were all so toxic that the actual workers prefer them not to be around.

Just one a thousand reasons to only dine at locally owned businesses where the owner is literally working alongside happy staff everyday.

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Clentreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

At what point did I say it did?

Franchising makes is all the worse because the corporate brand can claim ignorance.

The problem occurs so often that it's clear that the brand is culpable at the societal level.. If the brands actually cared, this sort of shit would end their franchise. Since the legal system won't fix it, we need to step up and say, "no more" and boycott all franchises.

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lemmy.world

If you explain bad behavior around here readers take it to mean you're defending that behavior.

For example; I can usually explain why conservatives think and act the way they do but I don't because I'll just get beat up.

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Clentreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

Yep. Not my first experience with it here or elsewhere.

I miss the internet that existed before smart phones because of the intellectual dilution they allowed.

Kids today have no idea what it's like to be in an internet discussion that is majority phds and having to up your game to participate.

The vast majority of commenters today would be dismissed as trolls; that bar has disappeared.

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You seem to be taking my comment as an attack or rebuttal on what you're saying by cherry picking a specific phrase. It's weird and reactionary.

My comment is attempting to expand on what you're are saying by pointing out that those are examples of a problem that is systemic. I am expanding upon the layers involved.

It's not just Little Caesar bad, it's also their thousand franchises. It's a massive problem to keep in check a business model that attracts rent seekers.

At this point the assumption must be that all franchises are committing wage theft and exploiting child labor.

As far as I'm concerned, the only acceptable response is to end the corporate entities that engage in this behavior and criminally charge everyone in the chain. This includes the overseer corporations, if they can control the pepperonis involved in the product they can sure as hell control the treatment of the humans involved.

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cdf12345reply
lemmy.zip

TIL Little Caesars is probably on the Epistein list

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I doubt that. The Illitch family behave like relatively down to earth billionaires. At least as far as what they do in Detroit.

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mrgoosmoosreply
lemmy.ca

yeah but it's okay if it's funny enough

this is weak for me, but I think enough people find it funny and I also think enough people recognize the ad. I hope so anyways

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xylolreply
leminal.space

I didn't think of it as an ad, just someone's story they made while on the toilet or something

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I just figured they were emphasizing the bad pizza to be funny or something, like in writing class they tell you to add little details, or comedians

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lemmy.world

tHiS iS An AD!

Never worked in a corporation? Imagine the marketing people approving a viral ad where violence is the central point and an employee cusses at a customer. Decision makers are typically cowards because they've risen to their level of incompetence, Peter Principled.

This is a dude making a joke. Probably waiting for his pizza, laughing to himself about some road rage he encountered on the way in, thinking, "Be funny if..."

Sometimes y'all too cynical to think things through.

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Sometimes y'all too cynical to think things through.

Ugh, no, thats not cynicism. If you constantly end up in biased results which are like "there's nothing to do", that's cynicism.

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lemmy.world

That's not possible. Einstein famously only worked for, and exclusively ate Quiznos.

You need to check your facts. Do better.

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cdf12345reply
lemmy.zip

He loved those subs, cuz they were good to him.

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lemmy.world

I was a dollar tree store manager and took different route

"Sir! Sir, you have beautiful eyes don't risk that. Let it go"

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otterreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

Plot twist: "Sir" was one of your staff. On-brand WTF for Dullard Tree, 100% 😅

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Aeaoreply
lemmy.world

Close. The other fighter was staff. A man named Phillip. The person who started the fight had nice eyes tho

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otterreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

^jesus^ You took his eyes as payment? 😶‍🌫️ I knew there was a catch. There's always a catch.

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Aeaoreply
lemmy.world

Turn around bright eyes Every now and then I fall apart!

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otterreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

It's that where Little Caesar ended up? Calling role in Ferris Buellers?

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lemmy.ml

To explain, this is a Kelly emote from Hexbear I stole. A shitty liberal cartoonist named ward sutton draws some interesting political cartoons, and have been meme'd quite a bit. See the "sickos" image in another comment below, same guy.

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Right? I'm not any more inclined to go to Little Caesar's, but I chuckles at a stupid story and that's that.

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Speaking as someone who delivered a lot of pizza in a previous life, I can confirm that after being exposed to enough bullshit from customers plus the constant threat of getting jumped and robbed (even from idiots who claimed they were "just joking around"), us delivery drivers absolutely were ready to throw down at any instant, for just about any reason. The counter staff probably less so.

Two dipshits arguing with each other in my lobby (i.e. not arguing with us) wouldn't be one of them, though. That's how you can tell this is fake. I'd have just tossed both of them out on their asses and ate whoever's pizza it was that just got canceled. Deliverator don't give a fuck what your problem is.

I could write a book on the ways people found out after fucking around in the various restaurants I worked at. The statute of limitations has probably come up by now...

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lemmy.world

TIL people think they're going to Little Caesar's to get "pizza"

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