Methodshop.com has a story on the “Domino’s Disgusting Employees Video.”  First off the original video can be seen on this page. And the response video on this page.

In a nutshell, if you haven’t heard, two idiots at a Domino’s Pizza in Conover, North Carolina filmed themselves goofing off which included a guy sticking stuff up his nose and putting it on a sandwich. Whether they actually served it or not is up for debate, but they sure look like the type of people that would.

Instead of Domino’s trying to censor the video, they played it smart. They put out a response video which made the employee perpetrators look like morons we would not want to associate with. I mean really, who are they making fun of–customers who eat pizza. That’s all of us!

I despise dumbass teenagers who spit in food, I saw it happen when I worked at Burgerville in Oregon when I was nineteen. It doesn’t matter how much of an A-hole the customer is, that’s above and beyond what is acceptable retaliation. Get their Visa card number instead and order some music downloads or something.

My only complaint is the host of the response video, Patrick Doyle who is the president of Domino’s, doesn’t make eye contact with the camera. He’s obviously reading off some quickly made cue cards. For a guy who’s the president of a major pizza franchise he might want to get some speaking lessons. At least dart your eyes back and forth–we’ll know you’re reading but that’s okay as long as you look into the camera every once in awhile.

It’s interesting that most cultural critics, usually on the religious conservative side, have decried the internet generation as crude, self-involved, and socially inept (simply because they communicate through blogs, chatrooms and discussion boards), but it looks like the opposite is true. The YouTube community railed against these Domino’s employees with response videos of their own. Going through a handful of them I basically see the same opinion: that those Domino’s employees were gross and what they did was uncalled for.

Pizza is an American dish that should not be trifled with. Do we really have to worry about someone putting boogers on the pepperoni? Have some respect so we can all continue to enjoy a slice.

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