Posted on 12/19/2007 9:23:20 AM PST by Proverbs 3-5
British Airways have suspended a cabin crew steward for eating a muffin that was discarded on a passenger's meal tray, it was reported today.
(Excerpt) Read more at thisislondon.co.uk ...
(George opens trash bin, sees an éclair at the top with one bite taken out of it. After looking around to make sure no one is watching, he picks up the éclair and takes a bite just as Mrs. Enright enters the kitchen.)
MRS. ENRIGHT: (wide-eyed) Oh...
GEORGE: (spits out mouthful of food): Mrs. Enright! Mrs. Enright!
[snip]
[Monk's Diner]
JERRY: So lemme get this straight: you find yourself in the kitchen. You see an éclair, in the receptacle. And you think to yourself, "What the hell, I'll just eat some trash."
GEORGE: No, no. No, no, no. It was not trash!
JERRY: Was it in the trash?
GEORGE: Yes.
JERRY: Then it was trash.
GEORGE: It wasn't down in, it was sort of on top.
JERRY: But it was in the cylinder!
GEORGE: Above the rim.
JERRY: Adjacent to refuse, is refuse.
GEORGE: It was on a magazine! And it still had the doily on.
JERRY: Was it eaten?
GEORGE: One little bite.
JERRY: Well, that's garbage.
GEORGE: But I know who took the bite. It was her aunt!
JERRY: Well, you, my friend, have crossed the line that divides Man and Bum. You are now a Bum.
Pinging the usual suspects. Apologies if I forgot anyone.
Alas, we must probe even deeper: did she eat the entire muffin or just the muffin top?
When I was young I got fired from my waiter job at an all-you-can-eat seafood restaurant. My offense was eating a shrimp when employees were only allowed to eat French fries and hush puppies.
They accused him of theft, not garbage eating, although now they seem to be adjusting their story.
Have the Labour Government and Political Correctness broken the unions? Ironic. These are the moments when you actually NEED a union.
agreed
Is that the whole story? That’s all? Does the airline have an explicit policy?
At a top rate restaurant here, the busser lady would clear emptied tables, and take plates with left-over food to her station and stuff it in her mouth. While still chewing someone’s left-over food, she would come out and clear off more tables - cheeks fat, still chewing. It was disgusting.
(She didn’t speak English - I tried.)
The restaurant manager ignored her, as he was in the bar stuffing his face with plates of food.
Yes. The Health Department was called.
United Airlines co shares with Lufthansa on some routes to Germany. I have often flown United one way and Lufthansa back. The work ethic of the Lufthansa attendants as compared to the laziness of the United attendants can, most likely, be attributed Union (in)activity.
I waited tables in college and remember one of the ways the help got to eat was bringing out the “wrong” salad which had to be taken back to the kitchen...
Losing the all-you-can-eat job turned out to be a blessing. I moved on to wait tables at a fancy hotel and ate like a king. Also got to take room service to Maureen Reagan (and there’s quite a story there) and served Jack Nicholas (his son was a jerk, but Jack gave me an autograph).
Proverbs 3-5: “The muffin stump availeth nothing to the poor and destitute, and those bearing sacks of muffin stumps fleeth from dump to dump, but the wise man arrangeth for the messenger of letters to consumeth unwanted muffin stumps.”
(That’s in the King Edward VIII version).
Just RB Ver 2.0. but I can understand because it took me seven months to remember his screen name.
Why? How is an employee eating leftovers a health risk to anybody but the person doing it? Maybe this non english speaking person was poor enough that eating leftover food off plates was an economic decision. Who is the stuff-shirt busybody that called the health department, and why doesn't this person have a life?
Thou who cureth, can maketh ill.
There are headlines that doom a thread to an ugly and untimely demise...
You can always ignore it and not read it.
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