Evil Manager Reprimands Hungry Employee For Eating Out of the Trash

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
Mar 27, 2023 8:00 PM EDT

Working at a restaurant has some benefits and a lot of downsides. One of the best things about working at a chain Chinese food place is if somebody messes up an order, you can take it home! When I was a hostess at a restaurant only slightly better than Panda Express, I brought home so many portions of honey-seared chicken to my family because somebody ordered it without veggies, and one of the cooks accidentally included veggies. Unfortunately, not all jobs are so chill that they let employees take home food that would've been thrown away otherwise. 

There have been so many viral videos of Dunkin Donuts employees throwing vast amounts of donuts into the trash. They waste all of this food because they're selfish and don't want anyone eating their product for free, even after it has become worthless. One Redditor dealing with food insecurity got reprimanded by his manager for taking home bread from his job that would have been thrown out otherwise. 

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    Font - r/antiwork u/heartsofdownfall 21h i.redd.it Just trying to get enough to eat and my manager sends me this
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    Screenshot - did you pull out several loafs of Friday's bread from the back of house garbage can?? I did at the end of my shift, they weren't stale and instead of just throwing them away I was just going to eat/freeze some of them - this is completely unacceptable. If a customer saw you picking thru the garbage for food could you imagine what they would think? This behavior is not allowed. Okay I won't do it again but I'm just saying there's a huge amount of good food that we waste. You know I'v
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    Font - AshWilliamsBoomstick • 19h could you imagine what the customers would think? Yeah. That you don't pay a livable wage. Reply 9.1k
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    Font - MittenstheGlove . 7h "The employees there have to eat out of the trash because they aren't paid enough." I know I personally wouldn't eat there. ... 3.1k
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    Font - Meandering Missive. 7h My partner used to work at a gas station, and one day he told me that a girl got fired for "theft" because a guy whose job it was to review store security footage (employee spy cameras) all day caught a girl eating a pepperoni off a pizza she had to throw away per store policy because it had been in the warmer too long. 41k ↓
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    Font - TheOneTrueChuck. 5h Here's a slightly nicer story: I used to live near a 7-11 and go there for coffee a couple of times a day. One day, I went there and saw the manager getting into it with a homeless guy who'd been digging through their dumpster for food. Initially, my assumption was that she was going to call the police, because there was definitely a lot of forceful body language going on between both of them.
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    Font - Instead, however, she finally got the guy to come into the store, and she gave him several tacquitos and said "Look, I don't want you to get sick. Don't dig through our dumpster. If you're that hungry, come inside. If I'm working, I will GIVE YOU FOOD."
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    Font - Apparently a few months later, the owner found out, and lost his shit on her about it, and she handed him her keys. He quickly apologized and caved in, and up until the day I left that city, she was still willing to give literally any person a couple free tacquitos or other food items on the roller for free. All you had to do was tell her that you were hungry and couldn't afford to eat. 720
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    Font - Actual-Manager-4814 • 3h Shows how valuable a good employee is. Your story also reminds me of my first attempt to get a job when I was 14, I believe it was at Rite Aid. There was an automated phone screening where they asked you yes or no questions. One of them asked if you would turn in a shoplifter if you knew they were stealing to provide for their starving kids, or something like that. I answered "no", and that's as far as I got with a career in retail. It also taught me a valuable le
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    Font - RevolutionaryTell668. 20h I'd begin applying elsewhere as the boss treats workers as less than human, and not giving soon to be discarded food to needy workers is a red flag by itself. ... Reply 2.3k
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    Font - Landon1m. 19h Then go back regularly and pick through their trash because you know it's still good. G 527
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    Font - Solid Palpitation_12. 20h My manager allowed us to take the food at the end of the shift meant to be thrown away. We always share... he knows we try to sell it till the last minute before closure. We all hate wastage of such good food. If we don't want it, we carefully wrap them and let them in a box next to the bin. And you know what? It doesn't cause any problem. Sometimes homeless take it and share between them (and as a thank you, tidy up our garbages or put thank you notes), sometime
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    Font - Pump_Up_The_Yam. 19h Gee it's almost like helping people helps people to be helpful. What a concept! 42.6K
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    Font - StopReading MyUser • 17h idle NO, IT LOSES MONEY BECAUSE 'NO BUY = NO MUNY' THEREFORE BAD. There's so little gray thinking in favor of black/white within modern America it makes me sad. 41.1k
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    Font - FullmoonMaple 18h I don't understand either. I'm guessing it's the US. I've never seen this. It's one thing to be wasteful and throw away edible food, it's another to want to punish someone for wanting to use it. Where's the logic here, do the managers get extra pay from the garbage facility if there's edible food in their dumpsters every day? Do they count the extra produce so they can fill their dumpster quota and OP was ruining their numbers so they must be punished? Ha! It's so wastef
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    Font - ImbambiBitch 14h This is the logic: If you allow employees to take excess food home after work they will creat "food waste" knowing they can take it home. However any one that's worked in a restaurant knows there's going be waste, that's just what it is. My buddy owns a nice restuarant in Seattle and how he said he handles it is:
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    Font - . ● He knows what avg waste looks like. As long as his waste stays within a certain % he doesn't care. He also pushes it as a benefit to working for him vs other establishments which don't allow it. And they serve nice food, very good food. Hell half the time if they are doing good he'll tell folks before clean up starts if anyone wants to cook up a meal feel free and the cook will do it. He said his food waste isn't any higher or lower then anywhere else. But he has gotten people to work
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    Font - place A: Pays $20 an hour and says you are punished if you take food waste home place B: Pays $20 an hour and says you are more then free to take that prime rib that customer refused 191 191
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    Rectangle - Unnoble_Savage . 21h "Imagine our customers seeing you digging through the trash and thinking that we don't pay our employees enough to eat." Reply 19.9k
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    Rectangle - Sutekiwazurai • 20h I would think "what a shitty employer. At least donate it." .. 6.2k
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    Font - _Joe_Momma_ • 20h For-profit institutions are actively disincentivized from donating to their excess stock because that cuts into the store's potential consumer base. Feeding people makes it harder to sell food. The more you meet demand for your product, the less demand there is for your product. It is one of capitalism's most bizarre and naked contradictions. G 3.8k
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    Font - MayorofKingstown • 19h For-profit institutions are actively disincentivized from donating to their excess stock because that cuts into the store's potential consumer base. Feeding people makes it harder to sell food. in my city, we tried to set up a free wifi network in the downtown area and other commercial zones and the big telecoms sued my city to stop it. Their argument was that if we give away wi-fi no one will use their service. Thankfully they were laughed out of court but I know t
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    Font - Reasonable_Ad8991 - 20h Please note they never addressed your food insecurity. Get out before they dock your pay for drinking water. Reply 6.4k
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    Human body - Secure-Warning4408 - 19h How much air are you using that should be saved for paying customers?! 1.1k
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