The guys at my local 7-11 treat my nephew like their little brother and will give him a bunch of extra food if he goes there towards the evening. “Here take an extra hot dog” kind of thing.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
This is very much wrong, and something I’ve always disagreed with.
The reasoning behind it, is ‘conflict of interest’ (I’m just passing on the reason I was told when I worked for 7-11). The employees in the store look at a ‘product forcast’, decide how many cookies to make (heat up some pre-made dough) and package for sale. If they are permitted to keep or donate expiring product: they may intentionally make more than needed, ensuring they get free stuff.
I get that viewpoint; but I think they should punish abuse of the system, not outright prohibit saving perfectly good food, if nearly expiring/expired, for good causes like the needy/homeless.
cybervseas@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Nice :)
Some of the managers are very nice amd are happy to bend obviously stupid rules, others have a massive stick jammed deeep up inside their rectum…
The manager that hired me, re-wrote my employment contract and forged my signature on the new one, to put me as part-time instead of full time. Didn’t find out until 3mo later when I asked about my benefits package to the manager that replaced her and got confused looks/responses.
HubertManne@piefed.social 2 days ago
I even see that as bs. My friend worked for BK back in the 80’s when they were still decent and tacitly the manager would stop over making of food but he erred on the side of over and they took stuff home and it was a nice little perk. Now granted if its abused to the point they are like reselling the stuff then yeah you gotta nail them. It just blows me away how bad minimum wage jobs have gotten and how many regular jobs have been pushed closer and closer to min wage.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
It’s not too hard to look at stores and see that there’s a consistent overproduction. Instead they punish people.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Yeah; the current system is a bit of an overreaction. Some people abuse and tracking it is work; so everyone gets punished and food gets wasted entirely instead. Stupid.
Zirconium@lemmy.world 3 days ago
At my gas station we were required to put out a certain amount of hot dogs and hothold items but not allowed to eat it even after it’s expiration (4 hours) unless we paid for it