Random: Domino's Is Trying To Lure In New Workers With The Chance Of Winning A Nintendo Switch

Only one thing would make me work at Domino's: The return of Yo Noid!

You misspelled wage shortage.

Add a copy of Hatsune Miku Project Diva to it and then we'll be all set

If it was a PS5 maybe.

worker shortage??
*wage shortage, *benefits shortage, and *fair distribution of work hours shortage

I love the Switch and I like dominoes pizza, but sorry I would not work for any company that does not pay a living wage or treats workers with respect, that is why so many people refuse to go back to work, poor wages and poor treatment from rich corporate employers and workers have just had enough. A video game system is not going to make me want to work at a crappy job with crappy pay and getting treated like dirt. No sorry, pay people money to where they can actually live and show them respect, and I guarantee you people will start coming back to work.
And for those who say people will be replaced by machines if they raise wages, then why haven't more auto services of machines been popping up? Businesses use this as a scare tactic, they want workers they just don't want to pay for them. Do not mean to get political, just telling the truth.

@mariopartyfan68 There's been stories of restaurants giving workers more hours, more pay, and basic benefits, and those restaurants have seen worker loyalty grow exponentially as well as an increase in profit (no doubt due to the goodwill word of mouth).
but sure, I guess giving new hires a year of free pizza is just as good 🥴

Here in my part of the US, there's a worker shortage in general. People get hired, work a week, and then bounce. Be it for minimum wage labor like food, or for better paying office jobs or sales. Not sure what's got people so unwilling to put in an honest day's labor.

looks at the picture Finally, Mighty No 9 comes to Switch, with updated explosions!

@HammerGalladeBro IDK if you'll be happy or distraught to hear, but Domino's (at least the North America division) actually brought the Noid back earlier this year!

If I already work for your company. You can guarantee I'm taking home free pizza regardless. What a ***** deal.

@Browny sounds like awful jobs to me. Most people can't get unemployment if they quit and no one is leaving $30-40 an hour office jobs for the $15-20 an hour unemployment caps out at if they do manage to get it.

People do leave poorly run companies that lied about the pay and job, however...

@russellohh
As a resident of a city with a far lower standard of living, "low paying" jobs put wages in the $9-14 range, better paying at $15-25, and then of course everything above.

A poorly run company aside, it's subjective I suppose when it comes to determining if a job is truly a bad one (not a bad fit, mind you) after just a week or two of work.

In the end, the fact is there is still a shortage of workers, but not quite enough of a shortage that life doesn't go on. At worst you have a longer wait in line or business hours are trimmed a bit on both ends.

I read this as “Rich arrogant man completely disconnected with struggles of low paid workers offers junk food and cheap console to 1 in 7000 workers to solve a problem of his own creation by his own greed”…….

Domino's is offering to new employees in Australia.
Really everyone new employees. They better have more then enough on hand and probably only if you stay there a year employment will you get one. There's always a catch.

@Browny I still wouldn't consider that a shortage of workers, just a shortage of companies with good pay.

@Browny lmao. You have been so preprogrammed to believe that working lots of hours and no leave for low wages is honest. The billionaire owners of these companies should try a honest days work before coming to me and trying to blame the least wealthy in society.

If they arent on the moon messing about that is.

Crazy idea here, but instead of contests and prizes, they could try paying people an actual living wage?

The world population has grown from about 6.9 billion to about 7.7 billion in the last 10 years, so be assured there is no shortage of workers, just a shortage of competent executives willing to pay fair wages for reasonable hours.

@Stocksy
Seeing as how I mentioned nothing about "working lots of hours and no leave", only that people seemingly didn't want to put in an honest day's work. You're going to an extreme to make your point, whereas I tried to generalize using my own subjective viewpoint on the matter.

You won't find me arguing that those at the top deserve those crazy millions or billions; however, I do understand and accept that if you want to earn a living, you'd best have a marketable skill that is well paid. Expecting higher pay for the sake of higher pay, when you have no skills to speak of outside a desire to work is the foolish part; there's always tons of unskilled labor available.

So you could win a Switch, but have no time to play it because Jim down the road wants his stuffed crust pizzas?

What a deal!

@HedgehogEngine i honestly dont see it that much as due to speculation, but more people being forced to look for new jobs- and being shocked to find out what's out there. I remember working a junk job for a few weeks that paid $8 an hour, and i left it for an identical job that paid 24 an hour, which is what that job actually should pay.

Some people had worked their for years thinking "hey its $1 an hour more than retail and i dont have to deal with customers!"

now those same people are forced to find new jobs- and suddenly realizing they were being taken advantage of the entire time.

@Browny expecting $20 an hour is expecting the bare minimum. If you have a highly marketable skill, start at 30-50 an hour and go from there. $9 an hour is a joke wage by a corrupt business owner

@russellohh
If that is what you believe, get out there and do your part to have the system updated to reflect that.

However, the reality is there will always be resistance to change. I accept this, and as such accept that the system will change... slowly.

Geez, you don't already get free pizza working for Dominos? Obviously this is cheaper than paying well.

Without workers Domino’s could topple.

@Purgatorium I'm going to speculate pretty wildly here, but I imagine the person or people behind this decision are aiming this at younger workers, likely ones still living with their parents and not needing to pay rent. You know how older people look at teenagers "just give them some free pizza and a game and that's all they need" - except when you need to pay rent and food and utilities, you realize you can't pay the bills with free pizza.

I remember trying to get my first job and not only was it extremely difficult, all the job interviews I had were paying peanuts and offering constantly changing hours, but I was just trying to get my foot in the door - and they knew that all too well. At the time it worked for me because I was living with family, but entry level jobs are some of the hardest jobs I've ever done and probably ever will do - I have nothing but respect for entry level jobs, especially those in the food industry and dealing with customers. I was lucky to have family to stay with until I got a proper job, but not everyone is this fortunate. This would have been a "fun" marketing incentive 5-10 years ago, but in the current climate, it's just painfully tone deaf.

@HedgehogEngine ahh that makes sense. i own my home and school was awhile ago, so the only thing thats really gone up for me is grocery prices. that was a good summary, thank you!

@Browny i do my part by working at a company that starts everyone at 22 an hour, and by getting rid of our unpaid intern program at my last job. Even our full time student workers deserve at least twice minimum wage, and get it.

@CharlieGirl How much do you expect a fast food company to pay its workers for unskilled labor?

@mariopartyfan68 And that's why robots are taking over more and more unskilled labor jobs. If fast food paid well, the prices would become too high for customers and businesses would close. Of course, there are way too many fast food chains anyway so that might not be a bad thing, but a business owner is not going to lose their profit margins so robotics and self ordering kiosks are taking over.

@Browny Here's more of the same replies I would expect from lobbyist of the industry. If you want people to get good pay you should also ask them to support and properly fund the Education system for all economical society levels. Then you can come back and we have a meaningful discussion about Education and Work Skill and One's Job Potential. Until that happens don't assume that you know all there is to know about people economical situation isn't all their fault.

@TheBeardiest I could accept that a McDonalds meal is now costing nearly $10 if that means the employees are getting paid decently, but I imagine that probably isn't happening.

@Astral-Grain

Funny how things don't change. 5-10 years ago (which is not that long ago really), I was an adult, the movement for a living wage was strong. This promotion would have been just as insulting then as it is now. But yeah, I can see thinking this was a fun promotion when I was a teenager too. It was probably insulting then too. Insulting now, insulting 10 years ago, 20 years ago. Goes all the way back, comrades.

@psychoBrew Well, if only one positive thing, COVID made the self-ordering kiosks unavailable.

There is no such thing as unskilled labour. You think they don't train their employees? You think you could get an edible pizza if labour wasn't skilled?

@Purgatorium Hmm, maybe that's what it is - 10 years ago I was more independent, but still living with family and paying less than I should have for rent, so offers like these didn't bother me. Now that I know all the costs of living without support, it's definitely insulting.

I think there's a big assumption that teenagers will live with their parents until their mid 20s, and that's why they get away with minimum wage and cruel hours for entry level jobs. But if people were paid for the difficulty of the jobs instead of the desperation of the worker, our fast food and customer service jobs should be paying something like 40-50k a year easily. They don't measure it that way though, they measure it by what they can get away with.

If every job gets $20 an hour you can bet that other products, services, and necessities will get way more expensive to cover those wages. Then $20 will be too little and the cycle repeats itself.

@shining_nexus I think it would take an extremely gradual and extremely drastic change in our culture for this to happen.

The problem is some people can't pay rent, despite working 2-3 jobs, while others working one cushy job are more concerned about obtaining luxuries of life. What if we never manufactured personal vehicles? What if as we developed trains and steam engines, we decided on community travel and the concept of owning your own personal vehicle is unheard of? That's just not the way it happened, we're used to having our own car, house, tv, pool, etc. And if those people making $50/hr suddenly made only $20/hr, their quality of life would change drastically. It's the same reason people get alimony in a divorce - they got used to that kind of lifestyle and can't adapt with losing their luxuries because they mistake them for necessities.

@Astral-Grain They get away with it because labour isn't organized.

@shining_nexus Wages are already covered in the price. Prices will go up to protect and increase profits, as they always do.

@psychoBrew No manual labor is "unskilled" and every worker in every industry deserves a full living wage.

@Purgatorium

I used to believe there was no such thing as unskilled labor too, until I was given a cheeseburger with no meat. Literally just cheese.

"There's no such thing as unskilled labor... except for you."

This has been all too common. Workers have been quitting service jobs because they realize they're being treated like ***** and businesses are using cheap incentives like this to lure them back.

Maybe this could all be avoided if you know... they'd actually get paid a livable wage? $10 an hour is not enough to survive on anymore, housing alone costs more than half that much (although I really think we should be looking into rent hikes more than we are wages, but still).

@BLD Must have been a very trying time for you.

@Purgatorium That's one way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it is businesses have too much power and get too much support from the government to the point where they become reliant on it and pass none of that support down to the employees of the company, so when they fail they need bailouts - but if the business was run poorly, it needs to fail. There needs to be failure in order for other - better businesses to succeed.

We give too much credit to businesses, we need to let bad businesses die - the employees can move on to other better businesses. We have this culture where we say spending money is good and it stimulates the economy, but why force this? If I only buy $100 worth of groceries, I shouldn't be made to feel bad that I couldn't support the business more. They are out to make money which I exchange for their goods - we're even. If they fail as a business, they need to fail and get no support or bailouts.

Would organized labor help with this? I think it would certainly help, but other changes would need to happen as well.

You have me at free pizza.

@shining_nexus So we need to enact price gouging laws. Prevent necessities from becoming too expensive by imposing a limit on how much they can charge. I think the best way would be to enact price gouging laws based on a % of minimum wage (or vice versa). Then it doesn't matter how much it all changes, you can still afford your living expenses.

I think housing especially needs to be subjected to something like this. Rent has become ludicrously expensive and even the minimum rent prices are far too expensive for anyone on minimum wage to afford. And then when the minimum wage is raised to make it more affordable, they just raise rent and jump back ahead. The whole point of minimum wage is to give workers a minimum standard of living, but if that minimum standard of living isn't enough because businesses just raise their prices, then the price increases need to be accounted for as well.

Worker shortage huh? Is that because the government is paying their citizens to be lazy, or is it because companies can’t afford to new people because of unsustainable wages?

Simply put uf they paid better, and gave decent benefits, alot of jobs wouldnt have an issue filling positions. In and out burger pays well and has good benefits, and so does costco you dont here of those places having problems.

I worked fast food while in college and its awful. The pay isnt worth it.

Gotta do something on the can when you get the Dominoes runs

@Screen the US government is too busy giving away our taxes to the 600 or more billionaires. The additional funds for unemployment ended in September. Not everyone is sitting on their hands either, some people went to work for themselves as contractors or gig workers.

@Browny "unskilled" I really hate these types of arguments.

1) Do you know how many managers are out there that are completely lacking in skill for the role that they do and the money that they get?.

Talk to any low rung worker and they've worked with at least half a dozen.

2) Cleaning is unskilled, but completely necessary. And if a job provides value to society, it should rewarded fairly.

3) just because a job isn't skilled, doesn't mean it's easy, and again, if someone is putting in the time and effort to do it, they should be fairly compensated.

4) And maybe if the US had easier, cheaper, avenues to obtaining skills, more people would have one.

Shifting blame to the workers doesn't really solve the problem.

That picture made me think the people behind that 10 dollar clock uhh app/game made another pointless thing to clutter up the eShop.

This has to be the oddest and weakest way to get people into the pizza mines though. Who really wants to eat the pizza they make everyday for a year?! I'd assume the winner will be selling these pizzas on the side half off to friends within 2 weeks.

@Screen I don't buy for one second the wages people are asking for is unsustainable. They just don't want to pay them because the system pushes for personal profit over sustainability. Business owners, especially large business owners, could easily pay their employees decent wages but they don't want to because the system encourages lowballing their employees to maximize their personal paychecks. That's the part of this that needs to go, they're siphoning money from their customers and employees like a mosquito and hoarding it. And in fact not only is it not fair to the lower classes, but that in fact is what's unsustainable, once they've taken everyone's money, who's going to buy their products?

@Richnj
Except I was not shifting blame, because there is nothing to be gained by assigning blame. But it sure would be cool if more people rose to challenges and hardships instead of trying to blame people or entities for everything,

After all, no one ever said life was fair.

@psychoBrew no they are not. If robots are taking over. Then why are so many businesses wanting people to come back to work. Prices sky rocketing is also A Lie, Amazon pays 15 bucks an hour and their groceries are still the same prices, I know, I shop on line there every month. so there goes that. Conservative talking points are wrong and do not follow logic, end of discussion , this is not a political website, so I will not debate this with you.

@CharlieGirl amen. In my time, back in the day, I’ve done a few “unskilled” jobs and they are the ones that are the hardest to do and need the most discipline… it’s why on programmes like undercover boss the boss is always rubbish at everything she/he/they try. The phrase is under to keep people down and keep their expectations and ambitions in check. Same as phrases like “people are scared of a honest days work” it’s all nonsense. The wealth divide is not linked to skilled or unskilled at all.

@Browny but you are shifting the blame. You are blaming people (low paid and less fortunate) for not wanting “to help themselves” and “not wanting to do an honest days work” - it’s attitudes like that which have allowed those with money to take advantage and make more money than they could ever spend.

And as for life being fair. It could be. So many simple actions would result in more of the population being happy, healthy and productive. Blindly believing zero hour contracts and lowest page is “honest days work” is shifting the blame for the issues in society.

@Stocksy
I just see the world as it is, not how I wish it to be. 🙂

Lucky me, I just happened to live in Australia! 😎

@Browny You are literally shifting blame right after the sentence in which you say you aren't shifting blame.

No one said life was fair, but we are saying it is unfair. And since society should benefit the human race, and we are the ones who get to decide what society looks like, maybe, we could make society fair, even if life isn't.

@Richnj
Good luck with that. Let me know how it goes for you. 🙂

Free pizza from domino's if I work there? No thank you. Their pizza is lousy.

@Browny Well it's not bad so far. We've had workers rights, women's rights, civil rights, gay rights and people are working on tran's rights right now. It's slow progress, but still progress.

It's amazing how far society has come to make life just that little but fairer, you know? It's good we have dreamers who push for this sort of thing and not just "Hey that's how life is" - ers.

@CharlieGirl
Are you saying that there isn't a worker shortage? Or that the phrase "worker shortage" is wrong?
I'm sure the worker shortage is the result of a wage shortage, but that doesn't negate the fact that there's a worker shortage.

@Tempestryke
So true! I think Domino's is the worst pizza I've ever tried. Actually it's tied with Papa John's. I don't know why people go to American fast-food pizza chains when they can get real pizza at independent pizzerias for just a slightly higher price.

@Browny Or split the difference and people should just stand up and demand better treatment from employers instead of just taking whatever paltry wage they're given. Too many people are just rolling over as the wealthy take more and more from them and you really have to wonder just how bad does it have to get before people say enough is enough.

@TheWingedAvenger i don't like Papa John's either

LVING IN Illinois means Dominos is NOT pizza.. at best pizza like substance.. it's horrendous. Also there is a HUGE work shortage even in areas that have a LOT of people in. Get this, a BURGER KING on a VERY busy street closed down because they couldn't find enough people to work there. Also my wife has gone to many other fast food places and they are all low on employees and even some places now have a lack of food selection. A Panda express by us had super limited selection of food. It's really bad right now, it costs people to much money to roll out of bed and work for low wage jobs. Gas alone is reaching $5 a gallon. How can they afford this even if it's $3.75?? Crazy...

I was in food service for six years. I woke up at 3:50 AM to filter hot oil, scrub hot fryers and grill, clean walls, hoods, floors, run laundry, take out garbage, shovel snow, pick weeds, maintain the stock areas, order all the inventory, handle the stock deliveries, and run the kitchen through the middle of the day. I never had two days off in a row unless I requested it a month ahead. I had to buy my own health insurance, and they bounced me because I left a meeting where people weren’t wearing masks in the dead of winter, before vaccines were available.

Now I work in a clean, safe warehouse for a surprisingly benevolent retail giant. My regular schedule is three days a week, 5:30A-5:30P, with two paid breaks per shift and optional overtime during the week. The work is easy and the leadership is encouraging. The production goals are totally reasonable, and pretty much everyone who works there is happy with it. I already have a switch of course but if I wanted one I could buy it after less than one day of work, with my employee discount. My sign on bonus was $2k and referred a friend, which will met both of us $3k this March.

Never ever will I return to food service.

I live 45 minutes from NYC. They could be giving out free Oled Switches that I would never set foot on that %#^*^%hole city.

Why is there a worker shortage again?? You guys should know that the unemployment benefits are gone, have been gone since last month or 2 months ago. People are so used to laziness within this past 2 years. You can't just keep relying on the government to do your jobs. That isn't how life works! Sorry to act all salty here

Two years ago: "Let's fear monger about a virus with a better than 99% survival rate and convince people that they should avoid human contact like it's the zombie apocalypse and give them generous unemployment benefits so that they lose any incentive to find work. What could go wrong?"

Two year later: Employers become increasingly desperate to find employees.

@TheBeardiest "Crazy idea here, but instead of contests and prizes, they could try paying people an actual living wage?"

Crazy idea here, but instead of trying to make a career out of entry level jobs that require little in the way of skill, experience, or education, people could use them as a stepping stone to earn their way into better paying jobs. Seriously, people should stop expecting to be paid top dollar to do menial work that is so simple even a trained monkey could do it. You want better pay? Then prove to an employer that you're worth it.

@Purgatorium "There is no such thing as unskilled labour. You think they don't train their employees? You think you could get an edible pizza if labour wasn't skilled?"

Anything you can learn to do with a couple of hours of on-the-job training does not qualify as skilled labor. Look at it this way: the more easily you can be replaced by the next random guy who walks in off the street, the less skilled the labor.

@Mountain_Man Thank you Thank you Thank you for your perspective. As someone who has worked for various software companies for 20 years and for 5 of those managed a small QA team, it was always aggravating hearing applicants demanding more pay than I was making, when their only prior experience was taking a CS class in college and flipping burgers.

I'm not knocking burger flipping at all, since I worked my butt off in restaurants for years as a teen, but is not nearly the same thing as other jobs, and the pay should not be comparable. I knew it wasn't a career and so I worked a lot, and got marketable skills on the side until I could get my foot in the door and I could prove I deserved to be there.