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Caffeinated
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 Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 10:38 pm Post subject: South Korea: Backlash After �30 Minute' Pizza Delivery |
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Click for link: South Korea: Backlash After �30 Minute' Pizza Delivery
Guess it's either get run over by a motorcycle while getting takeout from Pizza School or get a Domino's Pizza delivery guy killed. |
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geldedgoat
Joined: 05 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| the article wrote: |
| it pressurises delivery personnel to drive fast and dangerously, as they are given penalties or forced to pay for the cost of the order when the 30 minutes delivery deadline is not met. |
I guess then every single delivery restaurant in my area has a '30 minutes delivery deadline,' because they all drive like that. |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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| I agree, ban delivery time guarantees. Too dangerous. |
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Confused Canadian
Joined: 21 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Perhaps not wearing headphones, not smoking a cigarette, and not talking on a cell phone while driving would help. |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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More feeling for the fallen might be felt but for the fact that I had to dodge total douchebag pizza and non-pizza-delivery Korean autobike jockeys every two seconds while walking down their sidewalks.
I love Korea, but by-and-large they drive/ride like dopes. Let me know when a Korean wins Le Mans.
Still, it's a nice opportunity to blame foreigners for their own faults, and one which should not be passed up. |
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BoholDiver
Joined: 03 Oct 2009
Location: Canada
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| Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 4:59 am Post subject: |
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I don't accept the blame to Dminos, and neither should Dominos. Most drivers drive like maniancs anyways.
Koreans are some of most patient and most impatient people I have ever met. |
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Menino80
Joined: 10 Jun 2007
Location: Hodor?
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| Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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Typical statist leftist interventionists, sticking their nose in the beauty of the market.
Eventually the supply side will correct itself. Once enough substandard producers of a service are eliminated through the price mechanism, we will have equilibrium. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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| BoholDiver wrote: |
I don't accept the blame to Dminos, and neither should Dominos. Most drivers drive like maniancs anyways.
Koreans are some of most patient and most impatient people I have ever met. |
Agreed. Do they suddenly drive like angels when off duty?
I doubt it. |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm definitely not a fan of nanny state intervention but a business putting a short time limit on young minimum-wage deliverers at risk of pay loss is simply reckless. Canada did well to ban this practice of Domino's & I doubt it did much to hurt their bottom line. |
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geldedgoat
Joined: 05 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
| I'm definitely not a fan of nanny state intervention but a business putting a short time limit on young minimum-wage deliverers at risk of pay loss is simply reckless. Canada did well to ban this practice of Domino's & I doubt it did much to hurt their bottom line. |
How's the progress going on getting all these jobs eliminated? |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Not disputing that there are dangerous jobs that need to be done. Getting pizza a few minutes quicker to your door isnt one of them. |
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geldedgoat
Joined: 05 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
| Not disputing that there are dangerous jobs that need to be done. Getting pizza a few minutes quicker to your door isnt one of them. |
I guess it's a good thing no one's forced to do it. |
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Menino80
Joined: 10 Jun 2007
Location: Hodor?
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| Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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| geldedgoat wrote: |
| schwa wrote: |
| Not disputing that there are dangerous jobs that need to be done. Getting pizza a few minutes quicker to your door isnt one of them. |
I guess it's a good thing no one's forced to do it. |
I hear that! If workers are willing to lay down their lives to more efficiently chase prices, so be it!!!! No rent seeking here!!! |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Menino80 wrote: |
| geldedgoat wrote: |
| schwa wrote: |
| Not disputing that there are dangerous jobs that need to be done. Getting pizza a few minutes quicker to your door isnt one of them. |
I guess it's a good thing no one's forced to do it. |
I hear that! If workers are willing to lay down their lives to more efficiently chase prices, so be it!!!! No rent seeking here!!! |
You're forgetting about all the lives of those standing in their way. |
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Menino80
Joined: 10 Jun 2007
Location: Hodor?
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| Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Captain Corea wrote: |
| Menino80 wrote: |
| geldedgoat wrote: |
| schwa wrote: |
| Not disputing that there are dangerous jobs that need to be done. Getting pizza a few minutes quicker to your door isnt one of them. |
I guess it's a good thing no one's forced to do it. |
I hear that! If workers are willing to lay down their lives to more efficiently chase prices, so be it!!!! No rent seeking here!!! |
You're forgetting about all the lives of those standing in their way. |
The market will determine who stands in whose ways, prices will eventually reflect the fatality rate within apartment blocks and 구 offices. |
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