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In reply to the discussion: Starbucks Fires Employee on Food Stamps for Eating a Sandwich from the Garbage [View all]MrModerate
(9,753 posts)128. Ooh, snap, 'carrying water for the ownership class' . . .
Boy am I schooled.
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Starbucks Fires Employee on Food Stamps for Eating a Sandwich from the Garbage [View all]
Joe Shlabotnik
Aug 2013
OP
Ask McDonalds. Or any fast food restaurant that tosses perfectly good shit out . . .
HughBeaumont
Aug 2013
#6
Those 'liability waivers' don't have as much force as you'd imagine, reading them.
X_Digger
Aug 2013
#20
"who says he couldn’t get enough hours to pay his bills and survives partly on his food stamps",
KamaAina
Aug 2013
#11
How about paying the employee enough so that the employee can afford lunch, or
bluestate10
Aug 2013
#46
What gets thrown away at an average store or worse, bigbox would make people pass out in shock.
Safetykitten
Aug 2013
#18
Round here some stores pour bleach over the meat when they put it in the dumpster
lunasun
Aug 2013
#160
How many health and safety laws were violated at the factory that makes what Starbucks sells?
AdHocSolver
Aug 2013
#83
I guess you never saw the film "Supersize Me" or read the books about unhealthy food.
AdHocSolver
Aug 2013
#97
Food additives (not to mention hormones in meat, etc.) are hard to avoid . . .
MrModerate
Aug 2013
#98
How can anyone work around food while starving? Starbucks management is blind.
bluestate10
Aug 2013
#39
After a fair bit of sleuthing on my part, I've discovered that a couple mutual funds in my
HardTimes99
Aug 2013
#154
I know what I would have done. "I heard about you eating the sandwich" "One of your ..
BlueJazz
Aug 2013
#51
You steal a trillion tax payer dollars on Wall Street and you get a huge bonus
Snake Plissken
Aug 2013
#62
This is for all of you that have never worked in the food industry or retail:
kentauros
Aug 2013
#74
What empathy. Oh, the humanity so many corporate giants show their underpaid and
indepat
Aug 2013
#79
what also bothers me is that a co-worker apparently informed on him. When I applied for a job
KittyWampus
Aug 2013
#85