It's the corporation's muffin. The employee is a fuckup.
The issue is that homeless people talk, and next shift he could of had a line of them waiting for muffins. A bunch of homeless hanging around runs off paying customers.It is fucking depressing how cowed people are that they think that they need to defend a corporation over the loss OF A FUCKIN MUFFIN!!
The issue is that homeless people talk, and next shift he could of had a line of them waiting for muffins. A bunch of homeless hanging around runs off paying customers.
How is it different? Well, you've already said how it's different in your question - it's bigger.
If I take a pen home from work no-one really gives a shit. If I take an entire crate home with me then I may well get fired.
But you don't know how many times he's been doing it or how many times he'd continue to do it. What if he made a habit of giving to this same person all the time, or other people? Why would he not? It could add up to a lot of stuff he wasn't supposed to give out.
If this were a single isolated incident and he promised not to do it again that'd be one thing. But it wasn't, he did stuff like this before and he defended it as being the moral obligation of the company so I don't see why he wouldn't keep doing it.
It's astonishing how many posters are whipping themselves up into a frenzy about this. The notion that restaurants are on the brink of financial collapse due to food being given away and that bankruptcy is only being held at bay thanks to the valiant efforts of control freak managers blindly sticking to each and every rule is absurd.
Source: 18 years in the restaurant business, including 3 in management.
Your move.
Sorry, am I supposed to be impressed by this statement?
If this were a single isolated incident and he promised not to do it again that'd be one thing. But it wasn't, he did stuff like this before and he defended it as being the moral obligation of the company so I don't see why he wouldn't keep doing it.
So you're seriously going to claim that restaurants across the nation are on the brink of collapse due to the actions of employees like those in the news story?
And your trump card against anyone who cares to disagree is "I was a restaurant manager".
So you're seriously going to claim that restaurants across the nation are on the brink of collapse due to the actions of employees like those in the news story?
And your trump card against anyone who cares to disagree is "I was a restaurant manager".
No, they WOULD collapse very, very quickly if people who did stupid shit like that didn't get fired. Which keeps other people from doing it, so the store can stay open. It's not about one muffin, it's about a million muffins.
Nobody gives an eighth of a fuck whether you agree. Your opinion is meaningless, because it's simply a matter of mathematics. Everything used or sold in a restaurant costs money (usually far more than the uninitiated would expect). If not enough food is sold compared to how much is bought, the restaurant closes. It's that fucking simple. And if you don't think it can get out of hand in a biiiiiig hurry, you've never done the numbers in a restaurant, and you should be doing more listening than talking.
So you're seriously going to claim that restaurants across the nation are on the brink of collapse due to the actions of employees like those in the news story?
And your trump card against anyone who cares to disagree is "I was a restaurant manager".
You do realize that restaurants are an extremely tough business and go under all the time, don't you?
I see we're back to baseless, angry scare mongering again.
Ah, the smell of bullshit just gets stronger and stronger!
The only bullshit is that this guy thought it was a good idea to go to the press with this.
If I am a future employer I will associate that guy with theft and he won't even get an interview from me.
That's a nice list but I don't see what it's got to do with the news story or your continued insistence that restaurants are closing down because their staff are handing out free muffins all the time.
That's a nice list but I don't see what it's got to do with the news story or your continued insistence that restaurants are closing down because their staff are handing out free muffins all the time.