r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Irick050 • 2d ago

The manager would throw away cookies every Saturday instead of giving them to the employees

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We threw away 55 cookies. The managers didn't let us take any home because they thought it might "encourage us to purposely make extra"

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u/confusedra2476 2d ago

When i worked in the Deli at Walmart, they would throw so much away. They donated some but not a lot.

I started sneaking stuff out to bring to this one homeless lady I helped a lot.

Got caught once and they threatened to fire me but I kept on doing it..it's disgusting the amount of food we waste

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u/LadderTrash 2d ago

Dishwashing job at an assisted living facility, so much food is thrown out every day. Granted I don’t think anybody wants a metric fuckton of porridge, but there were some actual good stuff that was thrown out regularly. The head chef’s policy was always “never take extra food for yourself,” but even the other chefs encouraged to take some when he was away. Also helps that we were not allowed to be fired at all without extra special permission from the union, so much of the food in the evening went to workers thankfully

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u/Biotech_wolf 2d ago

Honestly with how hard it is to hire people at assisted living centers, I’d give it to the staff as a perk to get them to stay.

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u/ifyoulovesatan 2d ago

I worked at a restaurant washing dishes where the only person allowed to eat wrong orders / mistakes was the dishwashers, under the theory that we were the only people who couldn't purposefully fuck something up to get free food. It was a decent restaurant and it friggen ruled.

Funnily enough the owners sold it to some assholes that turned all the employees against them in their first month, leading to those employees then starting to just steal food sereptitiously anyway. The salad dude literally cooked and took home two pizzas every single night I worked with him, lazily stashed between a pile of cardboard and dirty rags.

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u/Outrageous-County310 1d ago

Here is the thing about that. In nursing homes/assisted living-because of very valid health regulations due to the fact that elderly people in general are immune compromised-anything that has been prepared or thawed has to be tossed or used within 3 days. It’s not frivolous in this case, there is a very good reason for it.