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heaven05

(18,124 posts)
152. feed a hungry
Sat Aug 31, 2013, 10:51 PM
Aug 2013

person and ask them to ask next time. If not you'd have to do what you feel is necessary....too many managers/supervisors take their responsibilities overboard. I had one on the shift after me with more grievances than the pages in the old and new testament. Just talk to employees, they are human just like you. Extenuating circumstances are usually at work. In 18 years, I fired one person. Just would not try to do better. Bent over backwards, just didn't care. Found out later the individual was going through bad marriage and finally divorce. Too proud to talk about it but definitely made the individual a danger to all and their self. One of the worst days of my working career. Even the union stood down. Don't get me wrong they filed the proper paperwork to save this individual, but nothing could be done after so many chances. But many others straightened out after some heart to hearts. And some of the life situations some of these people were going through made me very sad. Human was my way, not robot.

how is it stealing if they were going to trash it? noiretextatique Aug 2013 #1
Ask McDonalds. Or any fast food restaurant that tosses perfectly good shit out . . . HughBeaumont Aug 2013 #6
Well I will try rurallib Aug 2013 #21
thst is why he wss terminated Niceguy1 Aug 2013 #30
It's a reasonable policy. CrispyQ Aug 2013 #104
So maybe... OldEurope Aug 2013 #111
ding, ding, ding heaven05 Aug 2013 #119
This was back in the 70s. We were union with good wages & benefits. CrispyQ Aug 2013 #122
this kid stole because he was hungry noiretextatique Sep 2013 #161
Pfft. That was never the policy at the store I worked at. progressoid Aug 2013 #121
Yes one of the ways employees do this is to over-produce intentionally DebJ Aug 2013 #137
all fast food places have this policy iamthebandfanman Aug 2013 #49
Boycott Starbucks Rockyj Aug 2013 #110
Insanity. Earth_First Aug 2013 #2
I do too. Delphinus Aug 2013 #25
Greatest Country On Earth! n2doc Aug 2013 #3
wtf? Locrian Aug 2013 #4
typical obedience to authority. nt Incitatus Aug 2013 #13
Just following orders... eom LiberalElite Aug 2013 #24
Sounds like Walmart warrant46 Aug 2013 #78
Workers are expendible parts, not people Scootaloo Aug 2013 #54
I believe the proper term is "fungible assets." calimary Aug 2013 #120
Buckin' for district manager. Hassin Bin Sober Aug 2013 #84
The one who needs their paycheck to feed their family. DebJ Aug 2013 #138
not how I read it Locrian Aug 2013 #146
Really, they should ask their employees if they want the left overs. nt kelliekat44 Aug 2013 #5
The reason they don't is probably a liability issue. X_Digger Aug 2013 #9
Have them sign a wavier...just that easy. Rex Aug 2013 #16
Those 'liability waivers' don't have as much force as you'd imagine, reading them. X_Digger Aug 2013 #20
can't wave rights Niceguy1 Aug 2013 #32
Feeding employees expired food is one thing - LiberalElite Aug 2013 #26
*nod* Good point. n/t X_Digger Aug 2013 #27
Good point. Rex Aug 2013 #29
My boss at Quiznos did that all the time NickB79 Aug 2013 #101
this happens at restaurants and grocery stores a lot lunasun Aug 2013 #156
How very Third World FiveGoodMen Aug 2013 #7
actually this is very first world. nt La Lioness Priyanka Aug 2013 #10
Yep. I have a feeling this would have played out differently freeplessinseattle Aug 2013 #73
yeah for many reasons. some good and some not so good La Lioness Priyanka Aug 2013 #82
Howard Schultz needs to fire the store manager and replace WestSeattle2 Aug 2013 #8
Did he have nothing to do with writing his company's policy? nt Incitatus Aug 2013 #12
Almost certainly not. Corporations have "legal departments" for a reason. nt DRoseDARs Aug 2013 #71
Okay, then I will withhold judgement for the moment. nt Incitatus Aug 2013 #80
"who says he couldn’t get enough hours to pay his bills and survives partly on his food stamps", KamaAina Aug 2013 #11
"I admit it! I'm Jean Valjean!" KamaAina Aug 2013 #14
Look down! Look down! You're standing in your grave! elehhhhna Aug 2013 #48
Rec KamaAina's post! nt Ilsa Aug 2013 #67
How about marions ghost Aug 2013 #15
Exactly! nt adirondacker Aug 2013 #34
How about paying the employee enough so that the employee can afford lunch, or bluestate10 Aug 2013 #46
A lot of restaurants will provide marions ghost Aug 2013 #75
oh, but how they love to squueze every cent they can from employees freeplessinseattle Aug 2013 #76
I shop at the Grocery Outlet a lot, mainly short-dated foods there freeplessinseattle Aug 2013 #81
you're talking heaven05 Aug 2013 #153
Fuck Starbucks. The Wal Mart of coffee houses. Rex Aug 2013 #17
What gets thrown away at an average store or worse, bigbox would make people pass out in shock. Safetykitten Aug 2013 #18
As a seasoned dumpster diver.... I agree 1000 percent. TalkingDog Aug 2013 #28
These new dumpsters are terrible aren't they? WCLinolVir Aug 2013 #102
The couple of places I frequent still have the small ground level ones. TalkingDog Aug 2013 #108
Round here some stores pour bleach over the meat when they put it in the dumpster lunasun Aug 2013 #160
The employee violated about a million health and safety laws . . . MrModerate Aug 2013 #19
Well, then, we'd better not just fire him - how about some flogging? hatrack Aug 2013 #23
And if he spends a day in the stocks, Art_from_Ark Aug 2013 #31
And counseling is equivalent to flogging how? n/t MrModerate Aug 2013 #86
Was counseling involved? I thought it was a straight-up firing . . . hatrack Aug 2013 #93
Yeah, you missed reading the post you responded to. MrModerate Aug 2013 #94
and just ask me for a day old sandwich heaven05 Aug 2013 #151
I'd say day-old might be pressing your luck . . . MrModerate Aug 2013 #159
???? heaven05 Aug 2013 #36
Gee. I think health and safety laws should be followed. MrModerate Aug 2013 #87
Yeah, hunger and poverty are a 'chip on the shoulder' Cal Carpenter Aug 2013 #103
Ooh, snap, 'carrying water for the ownership class' . . . MrModerate Aug 2013 #128
truth will set you free heaven05 Aug 2013 #141
And fatuous piffle will make you fall on your face. n/t MrModerate Aug 2013 #147
Yep heaven05 Aug 2013 #107
I 'sense' a childish lack of discernment in you . . . MrModerate Aug 2013 #129
I actually heaven05 Aug 2013 #142
[Makes twirling motion with forefinger in vicinity of temple] n/t MrModerate Aug 2013 #148
Did the employee tell the manager he was hungry or ask for the food? rl6214 Aug 2013 #113
did the heaven05 Aug 2013 #117
Unknown if the manager was approachable or not. rl6214 Aug 2013 #124
oh ell yeah at least a million elehhhhna Aug 2013 #45
At least? Are you sure that's not a conservative number? nt Incitatus Aug 2013 #53
Hyperbole. Mea culpa. MrModerate Aug 2013 #88
Feel the warmth. WCLinolVir Aug 2013 #126
Can you cite any health and safety laws he broke? Incitatus Aug 2013 #52
Well, it's been years since I worked in Seattle . . . MrModerate Aug 2013 #90
hunger ofter supersedes regulations... LanternWaste Aug 2013 #55
And actions have consequences, regardless of motivation . . . MrModerate Aug 2013 #91
Ten HUT!!!! heaven05 Aug 2013 #118
Being an optimist, I'm going to take this as a teachable moment . . . MrModerate Aug 2013 #130
Some rules heaven05 Aug 2013 #145
So, as an experienced supervisor . . . MrModerate Aug 2013 #149
million? too much heaven05 Aug 2013 #150
How many health and safety laws were violated at the factory that makes what Starbucks sells? AdHocSolver Aug 2013 #83
Well, I don't know. And neither do you. MrModerate Aug 2013 #92
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
Have you worked in a restaurant? WCLinolVir Aug 2013 #125
I have, and I know what you're talking about . . . MrModerate Aug 2013 #132
He was hungry JustAnotherGen Aug 2013 #22
He should have just asked for it. rl6214 Aug 2013 #115
They wouldn't have given it to him JustAnotherGen Aug 2013 #116
I managed a restaurant for 25 years and we had the same rules rl6214 Aug 2013 #123
Could be a shame issue. I don't think I'd fire a value employee. WCLinolVir Aug 2013 #127
A bit too much? rl6214 Aug 2013 #136
Ahhh JustAnotherGen Aug 2013 #140
Yes is is one of the largest casual dining chains out there. rl6214 Aug 2013 #143
feed a hungry heaven05 Aug 2013 #152
mean spirited heaven05 Aug 2013 #33
Its the Republican way... AsahinaKimi Aug 2013 #38
probably wasn't smiling hard enough either. elehhhhna Aug 2013 #44
Why can't Starbuck's Politicalboi Aug 2013 #35
Yeah Plucketeer Aug 2013 #43
Like many service jobs, most are part time TexasBushwhacker Aug 2013 #60
"a crime here that goes beyond denunciation" Gidney N Cloyd Aug 2013 #65
Exactly. Let them take a fresh sandwich! reformist2 Aug 2013 #68
"Don't muzzle the ox who treads out the grain." BillyRibs Aug 2013 #37
I was just gearing up to post this Sentath Aug 2013 #135
Every Single Privately owned Restaurant, BillyRibs Aug 2013 #139
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
Go to their website and complain....I did Uben Aug 2013 #40
They Don't Care About Gun Complaints otohara Aug 2013 #50
If the manager "found out" TexasBushwhacker Aug 2013 #41
I'd imagine that hunger does not recognize uniforms. LanternWaste Aug 2013 #57
Stuck Farbucks. Lizzie Poppet Aug 2013 #59
in 76 my first job (pt, high school) was bussing tables at HoJo's elehhhhna Aug 2013 #42
My guess is that this was the brainchild of some profit-maximizing analyst. reformist2 Aug 2013 #69
My Mom waited tables for years BuelahWitch Aug 2013 #89
yea the good ole days questionseverything Aug 2013 #109
Horrible. Jeebus Christ. nt msanthrope Aug 2013 #47
I know what I would have done. "I heard about you eating the sandwich" "One of your .. BlueJazz Aug 2013 #51
friends don't let friends drink Starbucks.... mike_c Aug 2013 #56
It was hovering. Orrex Aug 2013 #58
I don't need their products THAT much. defacto7 Aug 2013 #61
We need to start unionizing all these fast-food & coffee shop workers. reformist2 Aug 2013 #70
You steal a trillion tax payer dollars on Wall Street and you get a huge bonus Snake Plissken Aug 2013 #62
Got to wonder dickensknitter Aug 2013 #63
A friend's daughter worked in the cafe LibDemAlways Aug 2013 #64
I would love to vomit a sandwich up on that manager. nt Ilsa Aug 2013 #66
Well if there is a DD and a SB, I go to the DD..... Historic NY Aug 2013 #72
This is for all of you that have never worked in the food industry or retail: kentauros Aug 2013 #74
les miserables... WCGreen Aug 2013 #77
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
Yes I have words for the rat and the boss -@$$)*&*%$ !! lunasun Aug 2013 #158
A Home Depot store throws away an amount that would stun. Safetykitten Aug 2013 #95
+100 lunasun Aug 2013 #157
Long time ago I was living in my car in a church parking lot. hunter Aug 2013 #96
Seems awful, but I understand the policy michigandem58 Aug 2013 #99
FFS. nt TBF Aug 2013 #105
They should have given him a raise instead. eShirl Aug 2013 #100
I used to like Starbucks. Oh well. There are other coffee shops. nt TBF Aug 2013 #106
I managed a restaurant for 25 years and I can see why this happened rl6214 Aug 2013 #112
Fair and sensible - if done right. But employees gotta follow the system, or too much shit happens. Mopar151 Aug 2013 #131
I agree with this Travis_0004 Aug 2013 #133
I find the rationalizations here fucking hilarious. n/t Egalitarian Thug Aug 2013 #114
Didn't someone write a book about how Starbucks saved his life. Melynn Aug 2013 #134
Not Much Probably - The Man Was Making 6 Figures otohara Aug 2013 #144
At least there was no prison time ! lunasun Aug 2013 #155
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