Giant Eagle stores are unionized. Her firing will last about a month before some arbitrator rules that she be rehired.
This story is tailor-made for a Liz Warren campaign ad claiming that if Giant Eagle paid their employees a “living wage” they wouldn’t have to sneak ham from the deli.
Hamming it up?
Every time I buy meats the worker slices a piece and offers it me. I’ll see ten to twenty slices given away at a crowded deli .
Working as a burger flipper, I feasted on a lot of food that was unfit to sell. I would imagine that working at a deli, you could snack on the ends of all of those meat bricks.
“a tipster had reported that the employee ate three to five slices of deli meat daily”
even organized crime considers that an acceptable skim ...
charges won’t stand:
1. statute of limitations
2. each deli sandwich is an individual crime ... i don’t think they can lump them together like that an claim felony theft
I am sure this happens everywhere daily.
Ever since George Orwell ate those wonderful grapes.
I once reported a guy who was eating the little scraps of pastrami that were left on the cutting board, because it was unsanitary, not because of theft.
Whenever I inform a restaurateur or other business owner of a fault, I always make sure to say that I am not looking for any kind of freebie. That way they are more inclined to take you seriously.
When I worked in places that served food a meal was part of the deal. Not sure when that changed, but to go after her on someone’s claim after several years just makes the owner look petty.
I’d guess the store has cameras, though maybe they don’t catch every corner or cooler in deli back room.
I worked grocery and a new hire stole out of produce department, wrapped it in a bag in back room. I saw him walk out the door without paying happened to tell store mangaer he went out after the guy and guy was terminated - for 1 salad, much less than years of sliced deli.
this was years back before store workers were told to let people steal rather than confron them.
Lots of employees steal in all sorts of jobs, pencils, making copies on work machines, time surfing internet on the job, all sorts of theft unfortunately.
Another article says 8 years instead of 5 as in this article.
Either way it’s a lot of ham. But in any case a lot of meat.