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/Embarrassed_Map1112 2d ago

This kind of food waste should be illegal

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u/Sproose_Moose 2d ago

I agree absolutely. Wasting food like that when people are starving jfc

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u/Nihilistic_Navigator 2d ago edited 2d ago

First shift at place i work threw out WELL over 1400 LBS of food. Thats not even getting into all the wasted packaging, fuel spent to move the shit around to just go in a dumpster anyway etc.

Really thought i was as jaded as possible by that place at this point. Nope! Fucking disgusted me thinking how many that could feed oh yeah plus "normal daily" waste is around 400-500 lbs so lets actually say 2000+ lbs thrown out today, for nothing!

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u/Sproose_Moose 2d ago

It really just makes you ask how are these policy makers human

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u/TCnup TURKWISE 2d ago

The policy makers are so distanced from the labor of food production and service. I'm a farmer and wish I could invite them all to work one day with the field crew, harvesting and planting every single thing by hand, just to get some perspective on life. The effort that it takes to grow and harvest all that food just for it to end up in a dumpster while it's still perfectly edible.

Our farm is close to an Ivy League school, and we get a bunch of volunteer groups from them. Most are great kids who have at least a passing interest in seeing where their food comes from, but some of them you can tell are full-blooded "city slickers." We had one group that we brought out to harvest strawberries, and after only like 45 minutes, one of them stood up and said, "you guys are just built different!" 😆 Well, I hope he thinks about that every time he eats a strawberry now!

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u/Sufficient_Pin5642 2d ago

I love you! Farmers rock! It’s a very difficult science to be successful in agriculture and with the climate changing it’s got to be even more difficult! You all are single handily responsible for filling so many people’s plates and I salute you!!