Posted on 02/19/2024 12:37:24 PM PST by nickcarraway
I’m so done eating pizza now, but in my single days, I went with the 12 hour rule.
My mom was fired for buying with her own money a cake for a colleague who was leaving to take a new non-competitive job.
Her idiot boss didn’t know that the husband of one of my mom’s friend WAS their largest customer. Oops.
There’s nothing in the average pizza that’s going to spoil in a day.
(How do people think we survived before refrigeration?)
Sealed tuna sandwich
With the wrapper glued
Agree 💯
I think they just went to restaurants then.
“I got through residency eating patient’s leftover food.”
Yep, not a residency but two runs through nursing school and psych nursing. Kinda liked hospital food and it was free.
It IS petty. I used to arrange and organize receptions at an institution. I had to let maintenance know what time to come and clean the room and empty the trash cans afterwards. I always left them the remaining food on the table with a note thanking the janitors for their assistance and to please help themselves to the leftovers. They were not very well paid and many of them took it home for their evening meal.
I did meetings and events for years as well.
Did I care what the caterers or venue did with the leftovers? Heck no.
The fact that this even came on someone’s radar tells me either they were not done with the platter or, as you indicated,
this was a convenient excuse.
Another person suggested the liability angle, wherein if they got sick from the food and wanted to sue, the company could be exposed (even fighting a nuisance suit is expensive).
It’s interesting that the staff (read secretaries, interns, or clerks) could come in and eat what was left after the big-wigs had finished, but not the janitor that cleaned the meeting room.
years ago, worked as a janitor...minimum wage. most cleaning staff are constantly taking items that are thrown out at work. The reason that it’s done for survival when living on the margins you do this to make finances work. someone eating an abandoned tuna sandwich is doing it because they are hungry and don’t consistently have money to feed themselves. getting upset and firing someone over it is the prerogative of the company but is also an example of the banality of evil...there was a choice that the owners or manager had, and it was not one of compassion.
The Brontoburgers Restaurant?
If the Flintstones is to be believed.
I’d agree. What time was this? Daytime during normal hours or after hours when everyone had gone. If during the daytime and even left out, she should have been cleaning and there was the potential that the food was left out for office employees.
If an employee will steal some things, they will steal other things too - she should be fired.
Probably a Christian.
Cleaning during the night shift - overnight. Sandwich headed toward stale . . . then trash.
Fired for being Christian while eating a sandwich.
‘Tis England, where they do that: Find an excuse to make life difficult for Christians.
I agree.
Usually, leftover food, if it‘s on a plate - not in a Tupper box and/or in the fridge- is supposed to be there for the taking by any comer. This is also what another participant in this debate has already pointed out.
That‘s the way it‘s supposed to be (in my country at least, don’t know about British customs in this regard), and the custom I was raised with😊
You are right, there is some information missing from this whodunnit.
Please also see my comment above this one🙂
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