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Yup. Worked a 7-11 for a few years; anything not sold is written off and thrown out. If you're caught taking it home, or giving it away; immediate termination, with cause.
The reason I was given is 'conflict of interest'. The employees decide how much to make; if they're allowed to take it/give it away, they may choose to make extra to ensure they/their friends get freebies. Bullshit.
Also things supermarkets consider "damaged goods".
4-pack of coke, but 1 can is missing.
Cans "cannot be sold separately", therefore it's trash now.
???
In the UK I have seen quite a few shops will just heavily discount it in that case.
Aldi sells wonky carrots. Costs fuck all and you get a huge amount. Oh no the carrot has a slight bend in it. Buy them at £0.53 per kg. It shows that a lot of people really don't care about their veg looking pristine. The idea that produce must be perfect to sell is a lie.
Then why is there always so much fucking waste
Because their 'weekly forcast' software is garbage and the employees aren't paid enough to GAF.
Because people WERE stealing too much and taking advantage. Like I get it your the edge case you'll never do that, but most people in the roles do. File that under"why we can't have nice things". Small businesses have to implement this all the time. It's a huge loss of income and makes inventory a royal pain in the ass with sudden shortages because employees don't record what they're stealing.
Small restaurants are more likely to allow employees to grab food at the end of the day or even implement family meals. It helps with team cohesion, morale, and when normalized means it doesn't fuck with inventory counts because employees do record what they take. The 12 years I was with my ex spouse they worked in restaurants and were constantly coming home with food half the time it was the owners actively giving it to employees. The people working those places knew not to take advantage of it otherwise they'd lose that trust and the perks.
We could live in a world where big corps decide to let a little control go and treat their employees like humans and us and the corps would be fine. Instead of locking everything down we can just normalize human behavior and a base level of decency and people will respond positively. "Never take anything or you're fired" leads to people being sneaky and now the books are all fucked plus morale is trashed, "you can grab a reasonable amount but write it down and don't take anything that's high demand or hard to replace" and now the books and employees are happy and you can roll it into business expenses
A family meal is an accounted for expense. Restaurants are already ruthlessly low margins. This costs real money 🤷♂️.
My brother came home with a ten(or more I dont remember) pound bag of bacon one time from the resturant he worked at...15 years ago, the place is still open today.
They guy stealing liquor got fired, but my brother and ex both worked there and would come home nightly with leftover pizza and all kinds of things the owners would let the employees take. Its one of the best and most popular resturants in my state. Had another roommate at another pizza joint (also still open 15 years later) who would bring us home white pies nearly every night. This practice seems pretty fuckin common with small owned companies, for corpo trash, yeah, they throw it out. Mom and pop take care though.
Less uh, legal example:
Hell when I worked at the Travel Center, there was a gas station, a resturant, and a Burgerking. I worked in the gas station where the manager himself encouraged fhe five finger discount, and we'd trade the resturant cooks energy drinks for meals. Same With BK, though less often. We couldnt trade with the Dunkin in there. I was young, but it was a whole thing, "we cant trade with them" I forgot why. All these places are still there. I became homeless while working there and was sleeping in a coworkers car on the night shift. I'll never forget the night he brought me out a giant plate of mashed potatoes and greenbeans for dinner. fucking blessed yo
The correct solution is to log it and adjust purchasing quantities based on the data. Allow giving it away, but log it as if it was wasted.
I agree. You can do both. Have the rules and build a meal into each night. Two separate actions.
Even if you weren't spouting bullshit, who cares? Fuck those people, who cares, let them have the food.
I absolutely reject your viewpoint, and I'm tired of pretending its okay to think this way, fuck you.
Keeping people desperate is by design.
Makeshit0p is a very spot on username for you.