The food being given out IN the business would not be the smartest move in some places. The sign is pretty shitty vs pointed and witty though.
The companies that toss a lot of fresh prepared food that will still be good for a few days could help more by simply offering it for food banks to pick up. If they don't show; away it goes
It thought it should be obvious that if you have a management that makes sure the only leftovers are legitimate mistakes or just the regular expected percentage per day, and not cooks abusing you then you don’t need a stupid sign or even a rule about not giving away leftovers.
1) My family owns a grocery store don't tell us how we are supposed to manage it.
2) generally 15 people work at any time and no it is not possible for management to keep track of everyone at all times. Considering they have other things they need to be doing during the day that take up much more time.
The correct response to having to much food is not to give it for free to staff or costumers. This gives an insentive for staff to create to much and costumers the insentive to wait for the good to be free. What is the correct response, which most stores already do, is to give useable food(slightly damaged, a couple days out of date) to charity such as shelters or food kitchens. This solution ensures that less food is waisted while not giving an insentive to create an exess of food or discourage the normal buying of food
Let me guess. Your employees don’t make enough money to live off of and no benefits while your family lives comfortably. While also telling your employees something like “this is a family”
No we live in Canada and minimum wage is almost 16 dollars, the community we live in is cheep. Our full time single mom with 3 children just bought a house a couple years ago. No one here is struggling to live
It literally is good enough to live off of. City's are expensive small towns are cheap. Idk the exact amount my parents take for themselves but I think it's only a coue times more than a regular employee, but I make regular supervisor pay at 40 house a week
It's a precaution. Schools never expect to burst into flames but the plan and prepare just in case. We have had employees steel from us before, and we see that this exact thing has happened to others(just reed this more comments in this thread) so rather than waiting for it to happen to us we do the industry standard and just give anything uses able to charity and try to reduce waist on things that would not keep for charity
If employee A is tasked with making food X, and Manager B is tasked with making sure employee A uses exactly Y amount of ingredient, then yes, that's micromanagement.
They could try reasoning with the employees, if that didnt work and i didnt know who it was then id put up a sign, then lay out other ways to discipline ending with firing, hope for a snitch, hone in on guilty parties, fire whoever is stealing whenever found at at that point in the process, this hopefully can be done without needing to examine inventory as thats done weekly and would take far too long. . . . for a good manager at least
Youve obviously never worked in the industry . . . . Or any industry by the looks of it. Employee theft is a major problem, and your excuse is they needed it, well what if there are more people out there living at the same wage, in similar circumstances, who dont steal because its not only ethically wrong and they simply are not struggling enough to justify it. Are they wrong? Is the thief wrong? At what point is stealing justifiable, especially when this thread has proven that extra product is given to charity all the time. GTFOH with your nonsense
I don't see the problem here. Workers gotta eat too. It saddens me how capitalism has twisted us into actually having this discussion. The introduction of a profit incentive has literally made us view workers feeding themselves as an issue and throwing away perfectly good food as a viable solution.
That's the fucking problem my dude, we're so concerned about money we're forgetting the people. This system has twisted us into justifying throwing food in the trash lest people will eat it without our permission. Is this really the society we want to live in? Throwing away food is just a microcosm of the effects this system has both on the planet and the people who live on it. We're so obsessed over profit margins and money we're terrified even thinking of small acts of kindness.
You're also blowing this issue way out of proportion. We're talking tiny profit margins here, if you correctly assess how much of each ingredient you have to buy for fit your estimated amount of sales, there should be relatively little left for the employers to take home. Of course there will be something as you always have to overestimate for those days where there's suddenly more traffic than usual, but still those margins are tiny and if that's enough to break down your business you're doing something terribly wrong.
I do legitimately believe there is no other logical explanation for this sign existing except for management having fully penetrated their own anus with their heads in a back-breaking display of both physical and mental acrobatics.
The word "theft" is rendered meaningless in a capitalist system. Anything which goes the greedy desires of the elite few is always labelled "theft", in the most illogical of ways. I download a song for free on the internet? THEFT! I get my local bakery to hand me a loaf of bread they weren't planning on selling anyway? THEFT! I need a research paper for my thesis so I ask my professor to print me a copy instead of paying some greedy publication who had no part in neither funding nor do the actual research required to make the paper? THEFT! Theft, in the mind of a sane rational human being, is depriving someone of their personal property against their will. Notice how that isn't even remotely what's happening in any of these examples. "Theft" in the twisted mind of the greedy capitalist is anything which can in their wildest imaginations lead to profit but which hasn't because someone got something for free.
The profit the business owner makes is a direct result of the exploitation of workers, the workers are consenting to being exploited, to have a part of the value they generate through their labor be taken by the business owner. If they choose to withhold some of their productivity for themselves rather than to give it to the business, that's not stealing. In fact, if any of this is to be labelled theft, it should be the business owner whose stealing by taking a profit margin from the labor entirely generated from his workers.
Yet the employer chooses to hire employees. Say he spends $1000 on food, and through hiring employees who processes and sell the food manages to earn back $3000, that leaves him with a profit of $2000. Those $2000 is the value that the employees added to the food, the value of their labor is $2000, yet they don't get $2000 do they? If they did, the business would break even and the owner wouldn't turn a profit, so he has to take a slice of the pie, and give the workers less than what their labor is worth. Is that not theft?
When you throw food in the trash, that is a clear sign you no longer want the food, you are implying your resignation of ownership from that food. Why not instead give that food to someone who needs it instead of throwing in the trash? Besides, the owner bought the food, of course he has to buy a certain amount of food, and the food that isn't sold gets thrown in the trash. The problem doesn't lie with the workers taking the food that doesn't get sold, the problem is that the owner clearly bought too much food to begin with. That excess food can either be processed and eaten or thrown in the trash, either scenario doesn't make a difference for the owner. It does however make a difference for the people who could potentially eating the food, so why would the owner care?
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