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In reply to the discussion: Starbucks Fires Employee on Food Stamps for Eating a Sandwich from the Garbage [View all]Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)133. I agree with this
I worked at a place where employees could eat the food when we closed, since we would be throwing it away, but we had problems with employees making food 1 hour before close, when we clearly didn't need it, just so they could eat it, so we had to make changes. We just ended up talking to the employees, and held the managers feet to the fire if it continued, so we didn't change the policy, but if it didn't improve, we were ready to change the policy that employees do not eat the food at close.
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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