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Post by
ElhonnaDS
I don't understand stores that do that. We only throw out food if it is past date, and if any employee or anyone else wanted to take them instead, they're welcome to them. We don't bleach it, or anything. And if we have food we can't use for another reason (like the frosting came out wrong, or something), we'll give it to the food pantry. Why would stores intentionally destroy good food?
Even if the point is to keep homeless people from congregating near the store, you can always just send it to the food pantry, or a church, or something. They'll usually come pick it up and everything.
Post by
Ashelia
I don't understand stores that do that. We only throw out food if it is past date, and if any employee or anyone else wanted to take them instead, they're welcome to them. We don't bleach it, or anything. And if we have food we can't use for another reason (like the frosting came out wrong, or something), we'll give it to the food pantry. Why would stores intentionally destroy good food?
Even if the point is to keep homeless people from congregating near the store, you can always just send it to the food pantry, or a church, or something. They'll usually come pick it up and everything.
Yep. I will always remember walking with the guy as we threw it out. He was an older man, I forgot a lot about him, but I won't remember how sad he was throwing it all out. He wanted to bring it home to his family because it was good food and he had kids and he was struggling--most of it had been sitting in the heat lamps all day, sure, but it was still edible and normally cost a lot. Imagine how awesome it would be if he could have just carried it home...
We threw out an entire giant bowl (easily 12+ containers, which are like $7 each) of pasta salads... gelatins... and more. It was store policy and if you broke it, you got fired. Our manager was strict about it too, even doublechecking at night that it was indeed all thrown out. It was a huge eyeopener for how messed up jobs can be, I was only twenty and it really stood out in my mind.
The funny thing is we had to pay for our own lunch or bring it. It's like, well, if you guys know you're throwing out about 20 eggrolls and 2 gallons of various pasta salads, why can't your employees get a free meal if nothing else. We never were close to selling all of our deli goods by closing time in the few days I worked there.(##RESPBREAK##)2##DELIM##Ashelia##DELIM##
Post by
donnymurph
I've had a lot of bad jobs.
Worked at Red Rooster (Australian fast food chain) for 3 years. I had a lot of fun working there and made some of my best friends. I started there when I was 15 as a night/weekend casual and after I finished school I went full-time there for about a year, so I spent some of my most important years working there.
But the job itself... So much hard work, and so much
pressure
, for an absolutely pitiful sum. As an 18-year-old full-time worker, I was earning $385 per week
before tax
. To put that into perspective, I currently pay $400 per week rent for a tiny 2 bedroom apartment in Brisbane.
Red Rooster was not a cruise like McDonalds is, where they use 5 staff to make a burger. There were plenty of busy lunch rushes where I was the only kitchenhand on, and I'd be pumping out 100-120 orders per hour. I had to manage stock levels of 7 different deep-fried chicken products, plus 3 different deep-fried seafood products, plus the barbecued chicken, plus the chips, plus salads. While working in stinking heat. I had to manage cross-contamination of raw chicken. I had to make burgers and wraps, cut up chicken for chicken & chips packs, serve up chips, and manage modified orders tightly (tomato allergies can be deadly).
To make matters worse, almost all of our big deliveries came during the lunch rush. Our salad delivery came twice a week - typically around 10 boxes that needed to be stacked in the coolroom. Our frozens delivery came once a week - typically 40 boxes weighing around 15-20kg each, that had to be stacked in a freezer at -18°C. Remember I've just been in a hot kitchen and I've still got customer orders coming in. Each of those orders is expected to be completed with the food in the customer's hand within 90 seconds. Do I now leave the frozens at room temperature, shortening their shelf-life, while I attend to these customer orders? Or stack them away as quickly as possible while the orders bank up beyond control?
Outside of lunch rush hours, I spent a lot of time handling raw chicken, scrubbing ovens, being a dish pig, handling rubbish, ordering stock, and always had to be ready for the area manager to walk in the back door without warning to audit us, which happened once a week.
Really tough way to earn just enough to rent a room in shared accommodation and live off tinned baked beans and tuna.
Post by
Rankkor
What's a deli? is that another fast food chain? Because if it is, then it further empathizes my previous points that Fast Food chains are EVIL.
As I said, I worked in one (Burger King), and didn't lasted long, I just bolted out of there, before it broke me too. (Then again, I was 16, I didn't needed the money, I just wanted to save to get a bike =P)
But that job woke me up to the harsh, grim, gritty reality of just how evil those places are. From the horrible managers that treat their people like dirt, to the absolutely disgusting sanitary conditions of where the food is prepared (I'll spare you the icky details, but I'll say this: I swear to god I'm NEVER eating in a burger king as long as I have pulse, I'd rather lick the pavement, I think I'd get less germs doing that) and how incredibly wasteful they were with their food.
Throwing away stuff that was still useful, and not allowing the employees to eat them, or give them away.
Its why I miss so much my job at the Cookie Factory, now those were the exact other way around. Not only they treated their employees like family (our boss was a saint, there is no other way to describe her) but they never did such a horrible waste with the spare cookies. Any cookie that didn't passed quality control (For being misshapen, bent, cracked, or otherwise unpresentable) was placed on the Discarded Cookies section.
At the end of the week, they'd fill bags of 3 kilos with these cookies, and would sell them to the employees at a ridiculously low price. I'm talking about 3000 bolivares (it was about a dollar and a half back on those days) for 3 kilos of cookies, that's a bargain.
When not all of the bags were sold, they'd do a small-scale sell in the nearby region where the factory was located, and sell them at a really low price (not as low as the employee price though) to the poor.
That's what I call altruism, but seriously, throwing all the discarded food into a container and then bleach it is just cruel, considering how many starving people are out there.
Post by
Patty
Nope, delicatessen is where you'll get things like ham and cheese and things like that.
Post by
ElhonnaDS
@Rankor- A deli isn't a fast food place. It's either part of a super market, or a small free-standing store. The vast majority of free-standing deli's are actually independent, and often family owned. They sell sandwiches, and sandwich meats, various cold salads that go well with sandwiches, and usually a small selection of hot foods as well. Generally hot foods would be like breakfast stuff- eggs, bacon, sausages, hashbrowns, etc.- and burgers, kinishes, chicken finger, fries, etc. The free-standing ones also tend to double as a convenience store, and sell boxes of donuts, milk, juice, soda, snacks, etc. It's a much different feel than a fast food place.
Post by
donnymurph
Delicatessen in many parts of the world often sell their foods by weight such as cured meats, head cheese, sausages, ham, liverwurst, salami and other cold cuts, fried chicken, spare ribs, cold salads, pickled vegetables, dips, breads and olives. A supermarket may provide its own "deli" food, or even operate a delicatessen on-site. Like a supermarket, a delicatessen may also offer a selection of shelved food, often of the type that is not likely to be kept for more than a day.
Large Delicatessen stores or Deli shops sell cold cuts and meats, but the luxury food division includes confectionery, fine spirits, wines, exclusive cheeses, truffled pâté, caviar, foie gras, high quality coffee beans, fruit, spices, herbs, specialty breads, exclusive sweets, cookies, honey, tea and luxury handmade chocolate.
The second paragraph is not true of Australia, but the first paragraph certainly is.
Post by
Rankkor
ahhh, well, I still maintain that fast food places are
EVIL!
>_<
Post by
donnymurph
ahhh, well, I still maintain that fast food places are
EVIL!
>_<
Agreed. Although the one I worked at had fairly high food hygiene standards. I have heard some horror stories though - a KFC about 10 minutes down the road from us found a dead rat in their deep fryer once when they were changing the oil.
Post by
ElhonnaDS
ahhh, well, I still maintain that fast food places are
EVIL!
>_<
I don't know about evil. Definitely not good for you. But so easy when you're running around all day and you have about 4 minutes to eat- lol.
I've been trying to be good lately though- bringing Amy's Organic Meals, or ordering a salad from the deli, for lunch. I'm on my "wedding dress diet."
Post by
Rystrave
My worst job was working at a locally owned restaurant where I live. Granted, it was excellent food but it was ridiculously over priced ($6 for a burger roughy the size of a McDonald's burger for example.) As an employee, we still had to pay for our food (we got 25% off all our order, woopie). We had to split our tips among the waitresses working that day as well, and we'd be lucky if we left with 75c at the end of the shift. We also were getting $4 an hour. Our bosses would go gambling all the time and were never there. Luckily I was still living at home when I worked there, otherwise I would have been struggling to make ends meet. Eventually, all the employees walked out. 4 months later the restaurant shut down.
Post by
Rankkor
I don't know about evil. Definitely not good for you. But so easy when you're running around all day and you have about 4 minutes to eat- lol.
Meh, I only have a lunch break of 30 min at my job, and rather than drive to a fast food place, I just eat some
empanadas
or
Tequeños
Both are relatively cheap (about 0.7 dollars each) filling, and not too fattening, though I also eat some burgers at one of those hot-dog/burger mobile places like
these
. I don't usually eat in those, but I make an exception for one that stays 5 blocks away from my job for 3 reasons.
1: the owner and I go way back, we were buddies in high-school.
2: since I know him from highschool, I also know he's a neat-freak, so sanitary conditions are acceptable.
3: We go so way back, that he lets me prepare my own burgers :P I Just give pay him the price of a whooper (20000 bolivares) and he lets me prepare mine by myself.
I've been trying to be good lately though- bringing Amy's Organic Meals, or ordering a salad from the deli, for lunch.
I'm on my "wedding dress diet."
auch xD, my condolences sister =P I know reina went through the same thing for her wedding dress. Ahh don't you just love how the tux WE wear doesn't require losing so much weight? XD I didn't had to go on a diet, just had to jog for 2 hours in the morning and 2 in the afternoon to lose a few kilos and fit in my tux.
Post by
MyTie
I worked construction for a week, in which time I had to pull insulation off the bottom of a manufactured home, due to water damage. It also had a rat infestation. I in a crawlspace on my back, pulling down sheets of waterlogged insulation, that had been the home for hundreds of rats that had #$%^ and pissed all over the insulation. I was getting paid minimum wage. I quit.
Post by
952951
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Post by
Interest
I don't really want to talk about it.
Let's just say the person right above me was deliberately a #$%^.
Post by
Orangutan
Worked for Dunkin Donuts back in the day, I was responsible for cleaning the back area, where all the baking and stuff happens.
Let me tell you folks. If you want to / need to lose weight, get yourself a job at one of these places. Seems counterintuitive, right? Especially since (as far as I know) they still have a pretty generous policy regarding on-the-job snacking and taking home of day-olds. But take my word for it, once you see the glaze tank and the mass pastry-production machines in action, you won't want to touch the things for a long, long time.
Post by
Patty
Worked for Dunkin Donuts back in the day, I was responsible for cleaning the back area, where all the baking and stuff happens.
Let me tell you folks. If you want to / need to lose weight, get yourself a job at one of these places. Seems counterintuitive, right? Especially since (as far as I know) they still have a pretty generous policy regarding on-the-job snacking and taking home of day-olds. But take my word for it, once you see the glaze tank and the mass pastry-production machines in action, you won't want to touch the things for a long, long time.
I don't know about that, lol. I saw how gummy bears were made (yaknow, with the gelatin from cow bones) and then when I saw the end result was really craving sweets. ;) But I can imagine it would put some people off.
Post by
ElhonnaDS
I work in a food- making company, and I could snack on all of this stuff still. Thank goodness we make popcorn- if not, I'd have nothing even remotely healthy to work with.
Post by
Rankkor
Worked for Dunkin Donuts back in the day, I was responsible for cleaning the back area, where all the baking and stuff happens.
Let me tell you folks. If you want to / need to lose weight, get yourself a job at one of these places. Seems counterintuitive, right? Especially since (as far as I know) they still have a pretty generous policy regarding on-the-job snacking and taking home of day-olds. But take my word for it, once you see the glaze tank and the mass pastry-production machines in action, you won't want to touch the things for a long, long time.
this isn't necesarily true, I worked at a cookie factory, and didn't diminished my love for cookies one iota.
Post by
Orangutan
I should have specified. My assertion was about Dunkin Donuts in particular, not sweet/snack food chains in general. :)
Seriously people, the glaze tank... *shudder*
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