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cheezhead · 04-15-2009, 07:29 AM

sick people.

YouTube - Disgusting Dominos People

shakran · 04-15-2009, 07:36 AM

these idiots are getting it with both barrels. Consumerist.com has a fun thread about it. Someone posted the vid there and within a couple of hours, readers of the blog had identified the store, and reported it to Domino's head of security, who has gotten them fired, and is working to have them prosecuted criminally, and sued civilly for damage to the Domino's brand name.

Cynthetiq · 04-15-2009, 08:38 AM

just goes to show you how dumb people really are.

didn't they learn from the BK tub incident?

World's King · 04-15-2009, 09:18 AM

I couldn't even finish watching it.

This is why the general public doesn't trust people in the service industry. What they don't understand that people like this are the minority. And that's a very small minority.

shakran · 04-15-2009, 09:47 AM

Yes, but it's always the minority that fucks everything up for the majority. The 3 cops that like to beat on suspects make all cops bad. A few ambulance chasers make all lawyers sleazy.

And then you get websites like stainedapron.com in which waiters brag about what they do to the food, and the perception is set. Not really sure how we can do anything about it, either, short of upping the penalties to tampering with food to something just barely short of death so that even the assholish minority won't dare to do it.

fresnelly · 04-15-2009, 10:07 AM

I'm honestly more shocked that these idiots decided to post the video online. Unbelievable.

shakran · 04-15-2009, 10:09 AM

Hell I'm not. Society is getting dumber. Kids sending naked pictures of themselves to the internet and then getting upset that they're on the internet. . .Stuff like this. . . Teachers sleeping with their students. . . These are all activities at which you /will/ be caught and the consequences /will/ suck, and yet people do it every day. When society is stupid, stuff like this is hardly shocking.

fresnelly · 04-15-2009, 10:19 AM

It's just that "not getting caught" has always been such a driving force in my life. These kids are not just being reckless but blindingly arrogant and self-centered.

Cynosure · 04-15-2009, 10:37 AM

When these teenagers (?) made this video, they probably figured, "What's the worse that can happen? We get fired? So, what! It's a part-time, minimum-wage job."

That's why there needs to be far more dire consequences for these malcontents than just being fired. And when those consequences are handed down by a judge and enforced upon them, I want to see a YouTube video of that.

Cynthetiq · 04-15-2009, 10:41 AM

maybe, but also maybe people will recognize them and they will be someone that I get to not hire or summarily dismiss because I find some small thing to fire them for....

shakran · 04-15-2009, 10:48 AM

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Originally Posted by fresnelly

It's just that "not getting caught" has always been such a driving force in my life. These kids are not just being reckless but blindingly arrogant and self-centered.

I think this kinda points to the "are kids turning into assholes" thread that just cropped up. Kids today have been taught from day 1 that they are wonderful, perfect, brilliant little Einsteins who can do no wrong, and if they do wrong it's OK because (insert dumbass reason here).

Kids feel put upon by being asked to work, and so they retaliate in idiot ways like this, and then they also feel invincible because their whole lives their parents have fought any time they get in trouble at school, or with the cops, and so they figure they'll get away with it because they always have before.

SSJTWIZTA · 04-15-2009, 11:31 AM

*face-palms*

the thing that pisses me off, their attitude.

her voice..makes my brain not feel right. his happiness doing what hes doing, makes my fist feel all tingly and punchy.

how could one get such simple joy from doing such a stupid thing?

on the other hand, i now understand why my salami taste like farts.

Daniel_ · 04-15-2009, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by SSJTWIZTA

*face-palms*

the thing that pisses me off, their attitude.

her voice..makes my brain not feel right. his happiness doing what hes doing, makes my fist feel all tingly and punchy.

how could one get such simple joy from doing such a stupid thing?

on the other hand, i now understand why my salami taste like farts.

The real problem is that nobody's ever been able to explain why my farts taste of salami...

Cynosure · 04-16-2009, 05:24 AM

UPDATE...

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Not on the menu: Pizza workers charged in pranks

2 hrs 59 mins ago

CONOVER, N.C. – A gross video posted on YouTube showing a Domino's Pizza worker stuffing cheese up his nostril and waving salami under his rear end as he is making sandwiches has led to charges against him and a co-worker who recorded him, authorities said Wednesday.

Kristy Lynn Hammonds, 31, of Taylorsville and Michael Anthony Setzer, 32, of Conover are each charged with distributing prohibited foods. Police chief Gary Lafone says it is the same North Carolina statute that forbids any tampering with Halloween candy.

In the video, Setzer is making sandwiches while a giggling Hammonds narrates and urges him to "do it again, do it again" in putting the cheese up his nose. It appears he threw some of the cheese in the garbage but some went on a sandwich.

Setzer says: "This is Michael's special Italian sandwich."

Hammonds says the sandwiches were meant to be delivered soon to customers and that "little did they know that the cheese was in his nose."

Domino's spokesman Tim McIntyre said the workers were fired and there is no evidence any of the tampered foods were served to customers. He said the company also may pursue a lawsuit.

Company CEO Patrick Doyle posted another video in response, saying the store had been sanitized "top to bottom."

"We're re-examining all of our hiring practices to make sure that people like this don't make it into our stores," he said.

Setzer was released from the Catawba County jail on $7,500 bond, while Hammonds remained in custody late Wednesday night. A deputy at the jail couldn't say if the two had retained attorneys, but they were scheduled to appear in court on Thursday.

A man identifying himself on the phone as Setzer's father said the family is not commenting.

I'm surprised. These two are in their early 30's? Way old enough to have known better!

Poppinjay · 04-16-2009, 05:37 AM

They look dumber than a fern. If your pizza guy is in his 30's, go to another place. They either really love crappy chain pizza, or they're basically unemployable.

Cynosure · 04-16-2009, 06:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Poppinjay

If your pizza guy is in his 30's, go to another place. They either really love crappy chain pizza, or they're basically unemployable.

To be fair: In this crappy economy, with high unemployment, it's not so unusual to find a person in their 30's working at a fast-food chain.

But I'm guessing these particular 30-something-year-old's are basically unemployable. Especially now.

telekinetic · 04-16-2009, 06:08 AM

I love Dominos. I can do a repeat order in two clicks on their website, and their online order status screen is unmatched anywhere else in the industry.

I hopped on the website and ordered a pizza and a sandwich yesterday, click 'submit', the progress bar starts going and says "Jennifer has received your order!" Not 10 seconds later, my cell rings, and it's "Jen from Dominos" apologizing that they are out of one of the meats for the Italian, and would I like to substitute or pick a different sandwich?

A++, will continue to order again and again!

SecretMethod70 · 04-16-2009, 04:31 PM

This just keeps getting worse. Turns out the woman is a sex offender.

Domino's Prankster A Sex Offender - April 16, 2009

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Domino's Prankster A Sex Offender

Woman in shocking video pleaded guilty to illicit act with girl, 14

APRIL 16--The woman who filmed herself and a co-worker as they joked about contaminating food at a Domino's Pizza in North Carolina is a registered sex offender who last year pleaded guilty to engaging in an illicit act with a 14-year-old girl. Kristy Hammonds, 31, and Michael Setzer, 32, were arrested yesterday and charged with delivering prohibited foods after a video surfaced showing Setzer preparing sandwiches while putting cheese up his nose, passing gas on salami slices, and appearing to blow his nose on the food. While this was occurring, Hammonds filmed Setzer and provided commentary such as, "In about five minutes it'll be sent out on delivery where somebody will be eating these, yes, eating them, and little did they know that cheese was in his nose and that there was some lethal gas that ended up on their salami." She added, "Now that's how we roll at Domino's." Court records show that Hammonds, pictured in the mug shot at right, was charged in 2006 with three counts of statutory rape and pleaded guilty last June to a reduced count of misdemeanor sexual battery. According to a Superior Court indictment, a copy of which you'll find below, Hammonds (who was charged under her married name), sexually abused the teenage girl over a four-month period. Investigators with the Alexander County Sheriff's Office, which arrested Hammonds in the sex case, declined to provide further details about their probe, citing the need to protect the minor victim. As part of her plea deal, Hammonds was required to register as a sex offender and ordered "not to be alone with anyone 16 or under, with the exception of her own children." She was also placed on probation for two years, hit with a 60-day suspended jail sentence, and fined $1941.

LoganSnake · 04-16-2009, 05:47 PM

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By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD
Published: April 15, 2009

When two Domino’s Pizza employees filmed a prank in the restaurant’s kitchen, they decided to post it online. In a few days, thanks to the power of social media, they ended up with felony charges, more than a million disgusted viewers, and a major company facing a public relations crisis.

In videos posted on YouTube and elsewhere this week, a Domino’s employee in Conover, N.C., prepared sandwiches for delivery while putting cheese up his nose, nasal mucus on the sandwiches, and violating other health-code standards while a fellow employee provided narration.

The two were charged with delivering prohibited foods.

By Wednesday afternoon, the video had been viewed more than a million times on YouTube. References to it were in five of the 12 results on the first page of Google search for “Dominos,” and discussions about Domino’s had spread throughout Twitter.

As Domino’s is realizing, social media has the reach and speed to turn tiny incidents into marketing crises. In November, Motrin posted an ad suggesting that carrying babies in slings was a painful new fad. Unhappy mothers posted Twitter complaints about it, and bloggers followed; within days, Motrin had removed the ad and apologized.

On Monday, Amazon.com apologized for a “ham-fisted” error after Twitter members complained that the sales rankings for gay and lesbian books seemed to have disappeared — and, since Amazon took more than a day to respond, the social-media world criticized it for being uncommunicative.

According to Domino’s, the employees told executives that they had never actually delivered the tainted food. Still, Domino’s fired the two employees on Tuesday, and they were in the custody of the Conover police department on Wednesday evening, facing felony charges.

But the crisis was not over for Domino’s.

“We got blindsided by two idiots with a video camera and an awful idea,” said a Domino’s spokesman, Tim McIntyre, who added that the company was preparing a civil lawsuit. “Even people who’ve been with us as loyal customers for 10, 15, 20 years, people are second-guessing their relationship with Domino’s, and that’s not fair.”

In just a few days, Domino’s reputation was damaged. The perception of its quality among consumers went from positive to negative since Monday, according to the research firm YouGov, which holds online surveys of about 1,000 consumers every day regarding hundreds of brands.

“It’s graphic enough in the video, and it’s created enough of a stir, that it gives people a little bit of pause,” said Ted Marzilli, global managing director for YouGov’s BrandIndex.

The Domino’s experience “is a nightmare,” said Paul Gallagher, managing director and a head of the United States crisis practice at the public relations firm Burson-Marsteller. “It’s the toughest situation for a company to face in terms of a digital crisis.”

Mr. McIntyre was alerted to the videos on Monday evening by a blogger who had seen them. In the most popular video, a woman who identifies herself as Kristy films a co-worker, Michael, preparing the unsanitary sandwiches.

“In about five minutes it’ll be sent out on delivery where somebody will be eating these, yes, eating them, and little did they know that cheese was in his nose and that there was some lethal gas that ended up on their salami,” Kristy said. “Now that’s how we roll at Domino’s.”

On Monday, commenters at the site Consumerist.com used clues in the video to find the franchise location in Conover, and told Mr. McIntyre about the videos. On Tuesday, the Domino’s franchise owner fired the employees, identified by Domino’s as Kristy Hammonds, 31 and Michael Setzer, 32. The franchisee brought in the local health department, which advised him to discard all open containers of food, which cost hundreds of dollars, Mr. McIntyre said.

Ms. Hammonds apologized to the company in an e-mail message Tuesday morning. “It was fake and I wish that everyone knew that!!!!” she wrote. “I AM SOO SORRY!”

By Wednesday evening, the video had been removed from YouTube because of a copyright claim from Ms. Hammonds. Neither Ms. Hammonds nor Mr. Setzer were available for comment on Wednesday evening, said Conover’s chief of police, Gary W. Lafone.

As the company learned about the video on Tuesday, Mr. McIntyre said, executives decided not to respond aggressively, hoping the controversy would quiet down. “What we missed was the perpetual mushroom effect of viral sensations,” he said.

In social media, “if you think it’s not going to spread, that’s when it gets bigger,” said Scott Hoffman, the chief marketing officer of the social-media marketing firm Lotame. “We realized that when many of the comments and questions in Twitter were, ‘What is Domino’s doing about it’ ” Mr. McIntyre said. “Well, we were doing and saying things, but they weren’t being covered in Twitter.”

By Wednesday afternoon, Domino’s had created a Twitter account, @dpzinfo, to address the comments, and it had presented its chief executive in a video on YouTube by evening.

“It elevated to a point where just responding isn’t good enough,” Mr. McIntyre said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/bu...ref=technology

FuglyStick · 04-16-2009, 06:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Poppinjay

They look dumber than a fern. If your pizza guy is in his 30's, go to another place. They either really love crappy chain pizza, or they're basically unemployable.

Not nearly this dumb.

04-15-2009, 08:38 AM	#3 (permalink)
Cynthetiq Tilted Cat Head Administrator Location: Manhattan, NY	just goes to show you how dumb people really are. didn't they learn from the BK tub incident? __________________ I don't care if you are black, white, purple, green, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, hippie, cop, bum, admin, user, English, Irish, French, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, indian, cowboy, tall, short, fat, skinny, emo, punk, mod, rocker, straight, gay, lesbian, jock, nerd, geek, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Independent, driver, pedestrian, or bicyclist, either you're an asshole or you're not. What's the best nation in the world? DO-NATION!

04-15-2009, 09:18 AM	#4 (permalink)
World's King Here Location: Denver City Denver	I couldn't even finish watching it. This is why the general public doesn't trust people in the service industry. What they don't understand that people like this are the minority. And that's a very small minority. __________________ heavy is the head that wears the crown

04-15-2009, 10:07 AM	#6 (permalink)
fresnelly Functionally Appropriate Location: Toronto	I'm honestly more shocked that these idiots decided to post the video online. Unbelievable. __________________ Building an artificial intelligence that appreciates Mozart is easy. Building an A.I. that appreciates a theme restaurant is the real challenge - Kit Roebuck - Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life

04-15-2009, 10:19 AM	#8 (permalink)
fresnelly Functionally Appropriate Location: Toronto	It's just that "not getting caught" has always been such a driving force in my life. These kids are not just being reckless but blindingly arrogant and self-centered. __________________ Building an artificial intelligence that appreciates Mozart is easy. Building an A.I. that appreciates a theme restaurant is the real challenge - Kit Roebuck - Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life

04-15-2009, 10:41 AM	#10 (permalink)
Cynthetiq Tilted Cat Head Administrator Location: Manhattan, NY	maybe, but also maybe people will recognize them and they will be someone that I get to not hire or summarily dismiss because I find some small thing to fire them for.... __________________ I don't care if you are black, white, purple, green, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, hippie, cop, bum, admin, user, English, Irish, French, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, indian, cowboy, tall, short, fat, skinny, emo, punk, mod, rocker, straight, gay, lesbian, jock, nerd, geek, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Independent, driver, pedestrian, or bicyclist, either you're an asshole or you're not. What's the best nation in the world? DO-NATION!

04-15-2009, 07:36 AM	#2 (permalink)
shakran Tone.	these idiots are getting it with both barrels. Consumerist.com has a fun thread about it. Someone posted the vid there and within a couple of hours, readers of the blog had identified the store, and reported it to Domino's head of security, who has gotten them fired, and is working to have them prosecuted criminally, and sued civilly for damage to the Domino's brand name.

04-15-2009, 09:47 AM	#5 (permalink)
shakran Tone.	Yes, but it's always the minority that fucks everything up for the majority. The 3 cops that like to beat on suspects make all cops bad. A few ambulance chasers make all lawyers sleazy. And then you get websites like stainedapron.com in which waiters brag about what they do to the food, and the perception is set. Not really sure how we can do anything about it, either, short of upping the penalties to tampering with food to something just barely short of death so that even the assholish minority won't dare to do it.

04-15-2009, 10:09 AM	#7 (permalink)
shakran Tone.	Hell I'm not. Society is getting dumber. Kids sending naked pictures of themselves to the internet and then getting upset that they're on the internet. . .Stuff like this. . . Teachers sleeping with their students. . . These are all activities at which you /will/ be caught and the consequences /will/ suck, and yet people do it every day. When society is stupid, stuff like this is hardly shocking.

04-15-2009, 10:37 AM	#9 (permalink)
Cynosure Psycho Location: the center of the multiverse	When these teenagers (?) made this video, they probably figured, "What's the worse that can happen? We get fired? So, what! It's a part-time, minimum-wage job." That's why there needs to be far more dire consequences for these malcontents than just being fired. And when those consequences are handed down by a judge and enforced upon them, I want to see a YouTube video of that.

04-15-2009, 11:31 AM	#12 (permalink)
SSJTWIZTA Master Thief. Master Criminal. Masturbator. Location: Windiwana	face-palms the thing that pisses me off, their attitude. her voice..makes my brain not feel right. his happiness doing what hes doing, makes my fist feel all tingly and punchy. how could one get such simple joy from doing such a stupid thing? on the other hand, i now understand why my salami taste like farts. __________________ First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the communists and I did not speak out because I was not a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist Then they came for me And there was no one left to speak out for me. -Pastor Martin Niemoller

04-16-2009, 05:37 AM	#15 (permalink)
Poppinjay You had me at hello Location: DC/Coastal VA	They look dumber than a fern. If your pizza guy is in his 30's, go to another place. They either really love crappy chain pizza, or they're basically unemployable. __________________ I think the Apocalypse is happening all around us. We go on eating desserts and watching TV. I know I do. I wish we were more capable of sustained passion and sustained resistance. We should be screaming and what we do is gossip. -Lydia Millet

04-16-2009, 06:08 AM	#17 (permalink)
telekinetic zomgomgomgomgomgomg Location: Fauxenix, Azerona	I love Dominos. I can do a repeat order in two clicks on their website, and their online order status screen is unmatched anywhere else in the industry. I hopped on the website and ordered a pizza and a sandwich yesterday, click 'submit', the progress bar starts going and says "Jennifer has received your order!" Not 10 seconds later, my cell rings, and it's "Jen from Dominos" apologizing that they are out of one of the meats for the Italian, and would I like to substitute or pick a different sandwich? A++, will continue to order again and again! __________________ twisted no more