by using a paper map like some sort of mystical land pirate
Oof, I remember going to people’s homes to install phone and Internet links using paper maps because we didn’t have maps on our phones back then and the GPS were mostly shit and out of date.
Some of the smaller villages were barely there on the regional maps, aside from maybe a dot near a main road with none of their actual streets.
For these, we’d call or stop by city hall, sometimes they’d have a shitty map or just directions.
I’m getting old…
Nougat@fedia.io 1 month ago
I drove for Domino's when that policy was still in place. Here's why that policy was such a problem.
As a pizza driver, you were supposed to come in, look at the runs that were ready to go, and take the oldest one (maybe two, very occasionally three). The driver's decided which runs to take. So if you saw a run that you knew was going to be late, you just didn't take it, and left it for the next schmuck.
But why would you do that? What did it matter to the driver whether the corporate policy was "30 minutes or it's free"? Because if it was late, the driver had to pay for it.
I never had a late run, but I drove very dangerously sometimes to ensure that never happened.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Snowcrash intensifies
Nougat@fedia.io 1 month ago
Probably not legal, but who was going to fight it? The teenage pizza drivers?
ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one 1 month ago
Uncle Enzo does not like to apologize.
TIN@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Snowcrash was my first thought too! Love being in the sort of community where people have heard of it!
NaoPb@eviltoast.org 1 month ago
What is this snowcrash you’re referring to?
Belgdore@lemm.ee 1 month ago
The Deliverator’s car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt. Unlike a bimbo box or a Burb beater, the Deliverator’s car unloads that power through gaping, gleaming, polished sphincters. When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens. You want to talk contact patches? Your car’s tires have tiny contact patches, talk to the asphalt in four places the size of your tongue. The Deliverator’s car has big sticky tires with contact patches the size of a fat lady’s thighs. The Deliverator is in touch with the road, starts like a bad day, stops on a peseta.
ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one 1 month ago
Honestly there should be a whole book based on that one chapter, that was such a cool concept
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There’s only so many ways you can deliver pizza.
Nougat@fedia.io 1 month ago
I did have some used 245/60s on stock steelies in the back of my 70 Oldsmobile at that time.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Funnily enough dangerous driving is what led to the 30 minutes or its free policy being banned by the government in the 90s.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Pretty sure the driver paying for it is illegal too.
I remember there was also a landmark court case where the companies, especially domino’s, had to pay for drivers getting into accidents, and class them as employees instead of contractors.
Pizza places did a lot of shady shit back in the day.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
so nothing really changed. i know a few app delivery people doing this.