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Two Domino's Employees Fired Over YouTube Prank

Posted Tue, 2009/04/14 - 20:39 by Don Sniegowski
Michael, Domino's ex-employee

Two Domino's employees of a North Carolina franchise were fired today after posting a video on YouTube last night, showing one employee putting food items up his nose and then serving it on a toasted sub sandwich.

In showing the power and swiftness of social media, the online video (below) was posted by the employees Monday night and quickly reported on The Consumerist, a web site for consumers to report. Within hours viewers reported the offense to Domino's corporate office. Tim McIntyre, Vice President of Communications for Domino's Pizza, wrote an email back at 6:45am EDT this morning.

In the email, the woman filming the video, Kristy, replies to the corporate office, "It was all a prank and me nor Michael expected to have this much attention from the videos that were uploaded! No food was ever sent out to any customer."

The original video was taken down by the female employee but by that time copies already existed and were reposted by viewers.

The Conover, North Carolina franchise owner today terminated the employment of both pranksters. The chain is considering filing charges against them.

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The prankster's joke is not a joke by Lito | TheFilipinoEntrepreneur.Com
Submitted by Lito | TheFilipinoEntrepreneur.Com on Fri, 2009/05/22 - 04:38.
I pity those employees but it still serves them right. I won't eat pizza with boogers as toppings.
Domino's: Capturing After Food Contamination by Don Sniegowski
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Submitted by Don Sniegowski on Fri, 2009/04/17 - 05:43.
Most likely Domino's has CCTV, where they can follow the exact moment of when the subs were contaminated and whether it was served or thrown away as the employees said they did with the sandwiches. QUESTION: If the franchise has the video, do you think Domino's would put its best foot forward if it posted the video of the sub sandwiches being thrown away? Or should it just let this news story now lay low?
That question of course just by Rich Piotrowski
Submitted by Rich Piotrowski on Fri, 2009/04/17 - 10:32.

That question of course just tends to get me even more skeezed out! What if they did watch the video and well, you know...

Well, enough of that unpleasant thought.

Since seeing this story the other day, I've been meaning to ask some of the lawyers types out there... what would happen if a franchisee, or in my case an independent business, as part of the employment process, had new employees sign an document outlining that they are not under any circumstances permitted to film, record, any video or audio using any kinds of film or electronic method, anything within the business property? We all know there has to be such documents out there for sensitive types of jobs where trade secrets or government classified stuff exists. So could we use the same thing in our type of place? Even if it wasn't something that would legally hold up, maybe it could just be written to scare little shitheads like these two.