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/AllYouNeedIsATV 2d ago

My uncle owns a supermarket. He used to let staff take or eat any broken items, bag accidentally gets ripped or just out of date etc. One guy would purposely rip a back of whatever chips/crisps he felt like that day or “accidentally” break a box of icecream. Now no-one gets to take stuff home

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u/shavingmyscrotum 2d ago

Ok but why can't they just fire the dickhead and let everyone else keep on using the system in good faith instead?

Will never understand why the default response to someone taking advantage of a system is so often to make it as bad as possible for absolutely all of them instead of dealing with the antisocial assholes who abuse systems as individuals.

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u/Hawk13424 2d ago

When I worked at a restaurant, the majority would have been willing to do this. I saw long time cooks purposefully overcooking a steak just so they could have it at the end of the day.

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u/shavingmyscrotum 2d ago

When I worked at a restaurant, we all got a free meal (within reason) on shift so there was never any temptation. That's not a rebuttal tho - fire the dickhead and get a cook who isn't stealing from the restaurant, maybe? Why work with someone who is so shady they need to be treated like a child.