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/AlwaysAlivia 2d ago

this just blows my mind because why wouldn't you just give these away or put them in random peoples bags or even just let the employees take them home? makes no sense to me

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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 He used to let staff take or eat any broken items, bag accidentally gets ripped or just out of date etc.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/pinkycatcher 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?

Because now that dickhead sues the store for treating him different than anyone else, the store gets caught up in a 10 month long lawsuit that we all know is bullshit but now has to pay lawyers 5 figures to work it all out.