You’re probably one of those people who gave a weak smile to the delivery driver before tipping him seventy-five cents “keep the change” for driving through rain and lightning to bring you a hot pie. Why? Good chance that you don’t see that pizza guy as truly human, after all, he’s lower class. And you’re afraid of him because you know, in justice, you’ve wounded him by making him prey to thugs, and by not properly compensating him, and so you know, you deserve to receive punishment.
Maybe I misjudge you, but how in the name of kindness can you accept sending some poor fellow out into bad neighborhoods where the locals long to rob without protection? What about him, the poor fellow driving? Do you care about him at all?
I think it is true that Pizza Hut is worried about liability. They also know they have relatively little to fear from their drivers suing them as the drivers have few economic resources to sustain such a battle. And most of them are the self-reliant, suing is stupid sort of person.
While ‘at will’ employment is no doubt legally valid for this, I do not think we, as Americans, should accept it. It should be illegal for PH to infringe on my gun-carrying rights. Maybe once PH acknowledges that its drivers are citizens by its actions, rather than drones, it might also treat them better.
And yes, I used to drive. Many decent people, a few good people, and more scary situations than I like to recall. So, I carried, and mostly shrugged off corporate policy because if the suits didn’t care about me, why should I care about them?
Its been a long time, but you dredge up bad memories of black, wet streets, and dimly lit houses.
