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21st December 2017
05:37pm GMT

The joke: "What do a pizza delivery driver and a gynocologist (sic) have in common?"
The punchline, if you don't know, is "They both get to smell it but can't eat it." You can sort of see why the driver chose that joke - it is a pizza delivery after all - but something as crass and mildly misogynistic as that is clearly not appropriate.
Speaking to ABC7, the customer said: "I was really shocked and floored that Pizza Hut would send that type of joke out. The employee even called and I told her that I hope she doesn't lose her job over this."
Despite calling the customer to apologise, the driver was sacked from their job.
The sacking has caused something of an uproar, with people saying that it was a disproportionately harsh response for what was ultimately just a joke.
"How about a warning, instead of firing people over trivial things," one Twitter user wrote.
"She needs to complain to her kids who used the special request section to ask for the joke.That’s not what it’s for. Stupid stuff like that is why so many businesses say it’s not worth it and do away with special requests," another commented.
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