[Gunax]

My dad tells a story that happened in 198X while the 30-minute guarantee still existed. He was living in DC and traffic in his neighbourhood was absolutely abysmal at peak hours when gov employees were leaving work. Apparently it could take 20 minutes just to get drive a few blocks.

So he ordered pizza with the delivery time carefully planned to coincide right when traffic was greatest.

Yet somehow the drive was able to get it to his house in 28 minutes. He tried to ask the driver how this was possible, but the driver was allready rushing back to his car.

[forgetfreeman]

I drove delivery in the period shortly after 30-minutes-or-N guarantees went away and customer expectations hadn't really caught up to the change. From cutting through park access trails at 60 miles an hour to using an elementary school soccer field as a shortcut between neighborhoods, nothing and I mean nothing was off the table if it shaved minutes off your drive time.

[cm2012]

What your dad did is not cool. Stressing out some delivery worker to try to scam a free pizza is gross.

[boomboomsubban]

"They're offering a free pizza if it takes over 30 minutes, I wonder if they can manage that during rush hour?" Seems like a fairly normal response.

[cm2012]

Some basic empathy shows that his intellectual curiosity is not worth putting stress on some dude. That worker clearly is under a lot of pressure to deliver pizzas quickly, that's why he was out the door immediately with no small talk. Think about that delivery guy's state of mind when he realizes he just received an order at rush hour at an address that's hard to reach, and if he misses it he will probably get penalized.

[boomboomsubban]

Inspiring people to order pizza that they wouldn't otherwise was the entire point of the campaign.

While I agree it made things unreasonably shitty for drivers, the customer can't really be blamed and shouldn't have to sit at home thinking "am I being a prick by making this person do their job?"

[cm2012]

I agree the campaign was foolish overall, and dominos agreed. But there is a big difference from happening to order at a difficult time to purposely choosing the most difficult time. Multiply it by a billion and all that.

[FeepingCreature]

There are people who see a system and wonder how it can be broken or misused, or whether there's corner cases where the guarantees the system offers don't hold up. These people sometimes take actions that inconvenience or harm others, but we value them nonetheless because we acknowledge that these systems must be fixed, and this cannot happen if nobody draws attention to it.

If some hacker notices that a website has sequential id's and no session cookies and you can use this to dump their entire database, you think this doesn't cause any stress for the employees?

[cm2012]

You think his dad really did it to draw attention to the plight of delivery workers, and not out of desire to be clever, "beat the system" and get a free pizza?

[sva_]

Yeah it is objectively not cool, but I have to say that I'd have tried it too.