Pizza Hut Allegedly Refused To Fix Wrong Number Ad, End Up Closed When The Family Decide To Take Revenge
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Reddit user /u/MundaneSeesaw shared a post recently, claiming that a local Pizza Hut had once overloaded their family’s phone line. According to them, the company declined numerous attempts to reason with them, so they did the only thing they could. They took their time executing their carefully crafted revenge plan, making sure the business received what it deserved. Some, however, argued that maybe the punishment was too harsh, to which /u/MundaneSeesaw replied, “[You] clearly never been to some of the smaller towns in the south with populations that are primarily rednecks.” Scroll down to read the entire thing, and if it doesn’t satisfy your thirst for blood, fire up these 91 Revenge Stories That Will Make You Think Twice Before Being An Asshole To Other People.
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Although this is a fun read, I wonder how much time this family wasted. Even in the months with "only" 3-5 calls I had already simply changed my phone number. Even if the fee would have been 50 $, the time lost on the first few calls with idiots would already have been worth it!
It's not a waste if you are getting a kick out of it.
it started out 3-5 but became 100-200 because of the typo in the ad they refused to change.
is it a waste when you watch a show for entertainment? That is what this was
So you and your family were too lazy to talk to your phone company and get your own number changed? How is this PH's fault that you have a similar number? The poster I can understand, but the OP goes on about expecting free shit for the inconvenience the phone company caused by the similarity in numbers. Why keep picking up the phone? Why not block all these random numbers? Why not talk to your phone company? Why not change your own number? OP caused all sorts of trouble over something that wasn't even Pizza Huts fault to begin with. I laughed at the irony of him saying the manager has an ego problem and not him or his family. I hate spoilt little millennials.
I agree with just about everything you said except your assumption that this took place recently. He mentions technology that is much older, and he was 17 at the time. He writes that this was before cell phones, that they later acquired caller id and a phone with a transfer option. That screams early 1980s. I find it ironic that the dad refused to pay the $10 to change his phone number but he is willing to shell out much more than that for both caller id and a new phone with a transfer switch, both of which would have been unnecessary if he just changed his phone number. But noooo he wants PH to pay for it....
Unless they cough up the date and location - safe to assume this is nothing but a nice little BP made up story. Corp Pizza Hut would have his ass for pretending to be THEIR BRAND even though it was a phone number mixup. Do you really think Pizza Hut would allow a franchise to go under because some redneck dick won't change their phone number? Of course I doubt it would get that far, Pizza Hut Corp would easily pay to change a residential number to stop the confusion. I love how people that are clueless how the corporate world works make up all these little power struggle fantasies.
So are you saying that if you had a number for a while and a business comes along like this with a number close to yours causing this problem. You would change YOUR number? I wouldnt change mine. I have had my number near on 15 years now, 100s of people have it. family, old friends, old customers. NOPE!!
Yeah but THOUSANDS of people have the pizza hut number.
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Pizza Hut's mistake, Pizza Hut should fix it. The rest is just having fun while waiting for them to learn their lesson. Story says that Corporate didn't understand the problem any better than the franchisee, which is why they didn't pay for the switch. But if Corporate was really under the impression that they were "stealing calls", they would've brought lawyers in quickly, and if the lawyers wouldn't listen to the problem, it would go before a judge, who would have to listen and tell them they're being ridiculous.
While this started out as fun and games, MundaneSeeSaw lost my sympathy after people were getting roughed up because of his family's tomfoolery. 1. The family never told the restaurant manager that he'd made a mistake in the advertisement? That was a mistake. The ad itself would have been your trump card in any negotiation or legal charge against the business. 2. The family RECORDED conversations. Back in the day before cell phones, that would likely have constituted a federal crime, if done without consent. FCC violation and domestic espionage come to mind. 3. Even in 1977, 10 dollars is about 40 dollars in today's money. Doable even for a father with kids in the house. My family had a phone number that was similar to a local business. We'd get mistaken callers from time to time and we sometimes teased them too, but had anybody gotten hurt because of what we had done, my parents would have stopped it right there.
I up voted this just because you used the word "tomfoolery".
Dear naive and gullible people - this NEVER happened - it's fiction. Where are the news articles about people getting beat up for not having a pizza delivered? Where are the news articles about a pizzahut going under because of a phone number mixup? Where are the news articles about Pizzahut hiring thugs to beat some sense into a phone vandal? BP is a leader in Fake News, yet people continue to vote up the same stupid stories time and time again.
We are not as nearly naive or gullible as you would like to believe. Most of us don't give a rat's patootie whether it is true or not. The points we make are still valid regardless of whether the story is fact or fiction. You want to get to the truth? This was 1980s. Every newspaper was stored on microfiche or microfilm in those days. Knock yourself out.
Although this is a fun read, I wonder how much time this family wasted. Even in the months with "only" 3-5 calls I had already simply changed my phone number. Even if the fee would have been 50 $, the time lost on the first few calls with idiots would already have been worth it!
It's not a waste if you are getting a kick out of it.
it started out 3-5 but became 100-200 because of the typo in the ad they refused to change.
is it a waste when you watch a show for entertainment? That is what this was
So you and your family were too lazy to talk to your phone company and get your own number changed? How is this PH's fault that you have a similar number? The poster I can understand, but the OP goes on about expecting free shit for the inconvenience the phone company caused by the similarity in numbers. Why keep picking up the phone? Why not block all these random numbers? Why not talk to your phone company? Why not change your own number? OP caused all sorts of trouble over something that wasn't even Pizza Huts fault to begin with. I laughed at the irony of him saying the manager has an ego problem and not him or his family. I hate spoilt little millennials.
I agree with just about everything you said except your assumption that this took place recently. He mentions technology that is much older, and he was 17 at the time. He writes that this was before cell phones, that they later acquired caller id and a phone with a transfer option. That screams early 1980s. I find it ironic that the dad refused to pay the $10 to change his phone number but he is willing to shell out much more than that for both caller id and a new phone with a transfer switch, both of which would have been unnecessary if he just changed his phone number. But noooo he wants PH to pay for it....
Unless they cough up the date and location - safe to assume this is nothing but a nice little BP made up story. Corp Pizza Hut would have his ass for pretending to be THEIR BRAND even though it was a phone number mixup. Do you really think Pizza Hut would allow a franchise to go under because some redneck dick won't change their phone number? Of course I doubt it would get that far, Pizza Hut Corp would easily pay to change a residential number to stop the confusion. I love how people that are clueless how the corporate world works make up all these little power struggle fantasies.
So are you saying that if you had a number for a while and a business comes along like this with a number close to yours causing this problem. You would change YOUR number? I wouldnt change mine. I have had my number near on 15 years now, 100s of people have it. family, old friends, old customers. NOPE!!
Yeah but THOUSANDS of people have the pizza hut number.
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Pizza Hut's mistake, Pizza Hut should fix it. The rest is just having fun while waiting for them to learn their lesson. Story says that Corporate didn't understand the problem any better than the franchisee, which is why they didn't pay for the switch. But if Corporate was really under the impression that they were "stealing calls", they would've brought lawyers in quickly, and if the lawyers wouldn't listen to the problem, it would go before a judge, who would have to listen and tell them they're being ridiculous.
While this started out as fun and games, MundaneSeeSaw lost my sympathy after people were getting roughed up because of his family's tomfoolery. 1. The family never told the restaurant manager that he'd made a mistake in the advertisement? That was a mistake. The ad itself would have been your trump card in any negotiation or legal charge against the business. 2. The family RECORDED conversations. Back in the day before cell phones, that would likely have constituted a federal crime, if done without consent. FCC violation and domestic espionage come to mind. 3. Even in 1977, 10 dollars is about 40 dollars in today's money. Doable even for a father with kids in the house. My family had a phone number that was similar to a local business. We'd get mistaken callers from time to time and we sometimes teased them too, but had anybody gotten hurt because of what we had done, my parents would have stopped it right there.
I up voted this just because you used the word "tomfoolery".
Dear naive and gullible people - this NEVER happened - it's fiction. Where are the news articles about people getting beat up for not having a pizza delivered? Where are the news articles about a pizzahut going under because of a phone number mixup? Where are the news articles about Pizzahut hiring thugs to beat some sense into a phone vandal? BP is a leader in Fake News, yet people continue to vote up the same stupid stories time and time again.
We are not as nearly naive or gullible as you would like to believe. Most of us don't give a rat's patootie whether it is true or not. The points we make are still valid regardless of whether the story is fact or fiction. You want to get to the truth? This was 1980s. Every newspaper was stored on microfiche or microfilm in those days. Knock yourself out.