“However, Hutson added that a violation like this would not warrant a termination unless it was “the culmination of broader, ongoing performance issues.”
Duh!! How about you just tell the guy not to eat out of the trash and why and move on? He’s probably already barely scraping by on a crappy 30 hour per week job. I would say you have to be pretty hungry to pull semi expired food out of the trash and eat it.
My niece worked for Starbucks in Boston and she told me that they were allowed to eat the food that had not sold by the end of the day like sandwiches and scones etc.
Honestly the lack of Christian charity on this supposedly christian site baffles me. You sound like a bunch of nanny state converts.
My niece worked for Starbucks in Boston and she told me that they were allowed to eat the food that had not sold by the end of the day like sandwiches and scones etc.
Honestly the lack of Christian charity on this supposedly christian site baffles me. You sound like a bunch of nanny state converts.
Probably a policy depending on the local manager/franchise owner. The best managers are “good shepards” they know how to tend to their flock and make sure that are a well taken care of employee. I usually find that the Nanny state control freak liberals are some of the worst SOBs to work under as they will impose rules on people as a form of domination over them. They use the rules as an excuse to hide behind as they need cover because they are basterds.
I don’t run a business myself but I grew up on a farm and running a small business, franchise or not is kinda liek running a family, you have to enforce the rules, but if you become an overcontrolling nanny state freak your workers will rebel and leave and you will be left with the dredges as the good employees are sually scared away by unreasonable behavior onthe part of a boss. Same as in a family, I have know some super strict families that have their chil;dren run away in high school because they cannnot take any more, conversely being too lax just invites chaos into the mix.
A good boss/father knows how to be strict but kind, adheres to the rules, but reasonable in their implementation and understanding of appropriate exceptions.
Sadly the statists are a bunch of control freak power mad morons.
I know that at my local Starbucks, all food that will not be fit for sale the next day goes home with the employees. They used to donate it to a local charity, but the legal hounds chased them out of that, and the donation to local schools was also curtailed after some teachers complained that there wasn't enough disclosure about food allergens.
However, every local food establishment I know of in my area has the same requirements: Once something is thrown away, it is thrown away. Any employee caught taking something out of the trash may lose their job. Suppose it is part of the Southern California mentality that people will throw away, on the job, what they want, so they can fish it out soon after.
And it is extremely uniform that any food or drinks from the place of business must have the receipt attached to it. The signs for this are probably too blatant since I've noticed them so many times.
I'm sure that there was more to this sacking than simply eating something that was tossed, but if you do something like that around here, you're going to get fired, and typically, for cause.