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One of the reasons for disallowing employees from taking home food is that they will lose their motivation to sell food if they get to keep the unsold food afte

One of the reasons for disallowing employees from taking home food is that they will lose their motivation to sell food if they get to keep the unsold food after business hours. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the deli employees hide expensive food from customers and take it home after work because it's "unsold". My cousin worked at Walmart during Black Friday sales and he has told me that his coworkers hide popular sale items in the back-shelf for themselves to buy it when they are off the clock.

angersock 9y ago
That's the dumbest goddamn thing I've ever heard, least of all because a TV on sale on Black Friday is pretty far from a nice sandwich. This sort of selfish reasoning--"but but but what about the poors that might somehow abuse the system"--is cancerous, and you sir or madam are a shitty person for suggesting it.
- sushid 9y ago
  Have you ever worked in food services or retail? If not, you don't know what you're talking about, because this kind of thing happens all the time because people abuse the system. The parent commenter is not even the one making up the reason. She/he is simply explaining the reason why such a policy commonly exists. FWIW, most places also allow the workers to eat the food before/during/after they work there.
  - door 9y ago
    people abuse the system bc the system fucks them
  - angersock 9y ago
    The idea was "herp derp they'll save all the good sandwiches for themselves". Which is dumb. Your observation even confirms as much--and friends who've worked at places like Panera and Starbucks (bringing home extra baked goods) somehow manaage to not hoard everything to the detriment of the business.
    - ardyjay 9y ago
      have worked at Panera in highschool, and you're wrong. 1. there are rules about how much stuff you can take home at close to prevent abuse 2. people still abused it
- perfectstorm 9y ago
  what made you think that I suggested this ? I worked at a major retail chain that has a deli while in college and this was the reason my manager told me. i'm just passing that info here.
  - angersock 9y ago
    Thanks for the clarification--your post I was responding to didn't represent it as such.
- purple-again 9y ago
  Woah calm down buddy. He's not suggesting anything. He's explaining the reason these policies are in place across the nation. Poor people's number one pasttime is abusing the system for personal gain. Wouldn't you in their situation? If you say no to that you might actually be the first person that "check your privledge" would non ironically apply to that I have met.
  - angersock 9y ago
    > Poor people's number one pasttime is abusing the system for personal gain. Wow. Just wow.
- SteveGerencser 9y ago
  We used to allow employees to take home any food left over at the end of the day. Worked great for about 4 months. Then the food cost started creeping up, then it nearly exploded. Seems that the late shift discovered that if they simply made a lot of food right before closing they could take it home so it wouldn't be "wasted". You know it has gotten bad when people are starting to argue about who gets to work the closing shift. Does everyone do this? No. Do enough people do it to force these sorts of rules to be put in place? Yes.
  - angersock 9y ago
    So, how much were you paying your employees? Were you giving them enough hours? Were they getting tipped-out appropriately? People aren't shitty just to be shitty--there's usually a reason they find themselves taking advantage of a system.
    - 0xffff2 9y ago
      >People aren't shitty just to be shitty Eh, especially in the service industry I have found this untrue. Nowhere near a majority of people are shitty just to be shitty, but it really only takes a few.
    - talmand 9y ago
      Or, they're just taking advantage of a system for their own benefit. It's been known to happen.
    - jonas21 9y ago
      If people can take advantage of the system, some percentage of them will, regardless of what they're getting paid. Random example: at my previous job, people would book more expensive travel options (on the company's dime) so that they could accumulate (personal) frequent flyer miles on their preferred airline. And they were all making 6-figure salaries.
  - literallycancer 9y ago
    Sounds like a management issue. This is like designing public benches so that people can't sleep there - a passive-aggressive "solution" that really just avoids the problem. Why not let people buy the "waste" food at the purchase cost? Or just you know, fire the people who waste it on purpose for misconduct?

angersock 9y ago

That's the dumbest goddamn thing I've ever heard, least of all because a TV on sale on Black Friday is pretty far from a nice sandwich. This sort of selfish reasoning--"but but but what about the poors that might somehow abuse the system"--is cancerous, and you sir or madam are a shitty person for suggesting it.

sushid 9y ago
Have you ever worked in food services or retail? If not, you don't know what you're talking about, because this kind of thing happens all the time because people abuse the system. The parent commenter is not even the one making up the reason. She/he is simply explaining the reason why such a policy commonly exists. FWIW, most places also allow the workers to eat the food before/during/after they work there.
- door 9y ago
  people abuse the system bc the system fucks them
- angersock 9y ago
  The idea was "herp derp they'll save all the good sandwiches for themselves". Which is dumb. Your observation even confirms as much--and friends who've worked at places like Panera and Starbucks (bringing home extra baked goods) somehow manaage to not hoard everything to the detriment of the business.
  - ardyjay 9y ago
    have worked at Panera in highschool, and you're wrong. 1. there are rules about how much stuff you can take home at close to prevent abuse 2. people still abused it
perfectstorm 9y ago
what made you think that I suggested this ? I worked at a major retail chain that has a deli while in college and this was the reason my manager told me. i'm just passing that info here.
- angersock 9y ago
  Thanks for the clarification--your post I was responding to didn't represent it as such.
purple-again 9y ago
Woah calm down buddy. He's not suggesting anything. He's explaining the reason these policies are in place across the nation. Poor people's number one pasttime is abusing the system for personal gain. Wouldn't you in their situation? If you say no to that you might actually be the first person that "check your privledge" would non ironically apply to that I have met.
- angersock 9y ago
  > Poor people's number one pasttime is abusing the system for personal gain. Wow. Just wow.
SteveGerencser 9y ago
We used to allow employees to take home any food left over at the end of the day. Worked great for about 4 months. Then the food cost started creeping up, then it nearly exploded. Seems that the late shift discovered that if they simply made a lot of food right before closing they could take it home so it wouldn't be "wasted". You know it has gotten bad when people are starting to argue about who gets to work the closing shift. Does everyone do this? No. Do enough people do it to force these sorts of rules to be put in place? Yes.
- angersock 9y ago
  So, how much were you paying your employees? Were you giving them enough hours? Were they getting tipped-out appropriately? People aren't shitty just to be shitty--there's usually a reason they find themselves taking advantage of a system.
  - 0xffff2 9y ago
    >People aren't shitty just to be shitty Eh, especially in the service industry I have found this untrue. Nowhere near a majority of people are shitty just to be shitty, but it really only takes a few.
  - talmand 9y ago
    Or, they're just taking advantage of a system for their own benefit. It's been known to happen.
  - jonas21 9y ago
    If people can take advantage of the system, some percentage of them will, regardless of what they're getting paid. Random example: at my previous job, people would book more expensive travel options (on the company's dime) so that they could accumulate (personal) frequent flyer miles on their preferred airline. And they were all making 6-figure salaries.
- literallycancer 9y ago
  Sounds like a management issue. This is like designing public benches so that people can't sleep there - a passive-aggressive "solution" that really just avoids the problem. Why not let people buy the "waste" food at the purchase cost? Or just you know, fire the people who waste it on purpose for misconduct?