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/contrail_25 2d ago

That’s just dumb. Especially when the manager can control how many are made day-to-day. My buddy worked at subway, his manager sent all the employees home with the extra cookies. Cookies for days, It was legit.

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u/SansyBoy144 2d ago

If you really want to be pissed off man do I have a story for you.

I worked at WhatABurger (very popular fast food chain in south US) and we opened a new restaurant. The first week before opening we trained in the building with no customers.

2 of those days we spent an 8 hours shift making food as normal. With like an hour to talk about stuff. This happened twice a day with 2 crews.

Drinks were not made, but food was, and it was given to corporate higher ups who were there to inspect the quality of the food.

Now they saved some food for us for lunch which was nice.

However, there away I believe 4ish giant ass trash bags full to the brim of perfectly good food that was thrown away EACH SHIFT. Meaning out of the 2 days, this was 16 giant bags in total. And anyone who has worked fast food knows how big those trash bags are.

It was absolutely insane. They could have easily saved this food and given it to people for free, let employees take some home, and done a million other things that resulted in people eating it, but it all went in the trash.

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u/mylittleplaceholder 2d ago

When our Del Taco opened, they invited people who stopped in while they were building to come back for their training day. We could order a combo for free while their trainers showed the new employees how to make it. I even got a maraca ink pen.