Domino's Pizza Japan To Pay $31,000 For One Hour Of Work

Domino's Pizza Japan, Inc. is offering a part-time job to one lucky applicant this December. The pay? A cool 2.5 million yen, or roughly $31,000 -- for just one hour's worth of work.

According to the Associated Press, the Tokyo-based gig requires neither experience nor education, though applicants must be over 18. The job is said to be part of an ongoing campaign to commemorate the company's 25th anniversary in Japan. A second promotion offers a free pizza to anyone born on Sept. 30, the company's actual anniversary, on their birthday until the year they turn 25.

Though hourly pay for most part-time work in Japan averages at about 1,000 yen (or $12.41), a company spokesman told Reuters, "We're actually a little surprised by how much of a response it's getting."

Comments

[No1 ILoveLucyFan]

03:24 PM on 11/08/2010

What - do you have to eat the pizza and keep it down for an hour? Yeah, that'd be worth that much.

[Sans Octavian]

12:41 AM on 11/08/2010

I want pizza. Now!

[fairwayhill]

04:17 PM on 11/07/2010

Is this paid advertisement in the form of an HP article?

[Venicelady]

01:31 PM on 11/06/2010

Offering this kind of money to someone- what kind of reaction did they think they would get?

Surprised? Puh...leeeze......

[Hajnal]

01:28 PM on 11/06/2010

Great PR stunt, really. 2,5 million yens only, instead of hundreds of millions to pay for a full-blown ad campaign.

The winner will be happy with his/her soft-earned money, the company will appear as generous and improve its corporate image, and it will have cost them virtually nothing since all the other media will have done their ad campaign for them through articles like this one.

Good job, Domino's Pizza, really, good job.

[Aldo Rodriguez]

12:56 PM on 11/05/2010

WHAT? No tip? Whatta gyp!

[Max Shaw]

12:00 PM on 11/05/2010

Really wanna know what the catch is here...Im starting to think it has almost nothing to do with making pizza.

[Garioch]

11:56 AM on 11/05/2010

I'm not dropping my rate even for free pizza.

[CologneCitizen]

10:04 AM on 11/05/2010

Look gross, tastes gross. When I saw garlic butter coming from a tube in one of their places I know I had do leave. Artificial stuff, food for animals not for humans.

[StAlphonso]

08:38 AM on 11/05/2010

That's just enough time for them to deliver one cold pizza.

[Barrett Archer]

02:56 AM on 11/05/2010

What's Pizza Hut offering--31,000 gallons of free grease?

[cincinnati]

12:55 AM on 11/05/2010

The owner of Domino's gives ton's of money to right wing political
and related organizations. Another corporate big shot
trying to buy elections.

[JessWonderin]

03:40 AM on 11/05/2010

yep . . think about THAT when you make that "pizza decision" . . . . heavy Anti-choice as well.

[rich3324]

03:30 PM on 11/05/2010

Thomas Monaghan does not own it anymore. He sold it to the investment group Bain Capital.

[LiberalBuzz]

11:50 PM on 11/04/2010

"A company spokesman told Reuters, "We're actually a little surprised by how much of a response it's getting."

Seriously? HE'S SURPRISED?

Great idea for a promotion but to say he's SURPRISED?

Oh puhleeze.

[keepemguessing]

11:28 PM on 11/04/2010

They just have to deliver the pizza to some dude in Yemen.

[Demidan]

09:24 AM on 11/05/2010

naked.

[Jeremy Urbach]

11:21 PM on 11/04/2010

Horrible Pizza if you ask me...dominos, papa johns, pizza hut do not hold a candle to Jersey shore pizza or NYC pizza.

[persianadvocate]

11:24 PM on 11/04/2010

Jersey pizza or NYC pizza forever.

[Jeremy Urbach]

11:30 PM on 11/04/2010

Holy crap..we agree on something...the world must be going into another ice age.