No. I was bracing myself to read that there had been highly inappropriate use of salami and was just hoping that it wouldn’t turn out that the salami had been sold to unsuspecting customers afterwards. The fact that we’re only talking about a little snack pilfering renews my faith in the basic integrity and hygiene consciousness of grocery employees in general.
Working at a local cineplex in the mid-late 80s, normal privileges included free popcorn and fountain drinks as long as we used our own containers/cups. The cinema’s popcorn buckets, cups and other food items (hot dogs, nachos, candy, etc.) were counted as part of inventory.
A co-worker showed me a scheme to get free hot dogs. When a customer ordered a large drink ($3.50), he would ring it up at the register as a hot dog ($3.00). He wasn’t over-charging the customer, and most would not complain about the “accidental” cheaper price. So inventory at that point would have 1 missing cup (the cup the customer took) and 1 extra hot dog remaining on the grill (that was supposedly sold according to the register). Later in his shift, while cleaning up a theater hall, he would take an empty large cup left behind, rinse it out and stuff it back into the cups area of the concession stand to even out the cup inventory. Finally, he would take that extra hot dog on the grill for himself to the break room.
I worked for several years on 3ed shift for a local c-store chain. I ate all night long as long as it wasn’t prepackaged foods. Make my own sub? Yep! Hot Dogs, sausage, and uglies (burger dogs)? Sure! Chicken salad? Check! Nachos, ice cream, coffee, soda, corn dogs, cakes, breads, and even fudge. I probably ate 2/3 of my salary per week.
When I cooked in a restaurant I saw a busboy wheel his cart past the trash area where he’d scrape of the heavy stuff, then wheel his cart over to the dishwasher. He had a spot where he stopped and crammed food in his mouth.
He saw that I’d seen his routine and explained after work that he only ate untouched food. He ate one meal a day, at work. He came in to work starving and left after his shift bloated.
When I worked in food service in high school and college, I ate like a King! One place I worked specialized in very high-end steaks. Rib-Eyes, Porterhouse, New York’s.
Good eatin’, let me tell you!
Yes, I’ve got a religious opinion, and yes, I was brought up that way.
That’s a supervisor, not a worker. With great power goes great responsibility.
That’s a second-hand used item going back into stock. Companies get shut down for that kind of behavior.
We also had a staff member fired for stealing sandwich fillings. She was bringing in her own bread, making sandwiches with her own bread as well as company bread, selling the sandwiches made from her own bread for cash, and only reporting sandwich sales to match the amount of company bread supplied. And she’d been doing it for a while.
I fully understand that there are limits, and that stock shrinkage is a real cost. So are wages: when you hire employees you accept obligations to those employees, including paying wages and acceptable stock losses.
Ohhh! This reminds me of this place I used to have lunch at a shitty job. It was the deli inside a supermarket. I’d order a sandwich, and the gal would say, “What kind of bread?”, and I’d say, “Russian Rye”. They didn’t have that, so she said, “Just go grab some off the shelf”.
Same with the horseradish, Lowry’s seasoned salt, avocado, red onion- whatever I wanted, but it was all legit! The store inventory was on the menu!
Totally custom-made sandwich, far cheaper and better than anything else around. Loved that place for lunch, but hated that job. Didn’t eat as well after quitting.
I have no opinion on this particular issue, but I disagree with this way of looking at this. We don’t take an issue and imagine that every single person does it; we estimate regarding how many people are likely to do it.
For example if we set a 70mph speed limit on the interstate, we don’t imagine what would happen if every single car in the United States decided to drive on that stretch of road at a particular time and decide that 70mph is far too fast.
We determine the likely number of cars on the road at a particular time and try to arrive at a limit that way.
Likewise, we should not assume that every deli employee would eat ham, let alone even likes ham, and eat it every hour of every shift.
You really think he would have kept his job if he hadn’t returned the lighter to the package? :dubious:
Have you ever looked at a deli employee; I mean, really looked?
I have, and it’s ham all the way down.
What exactly are you trying to say here??
Deli is short for Delicatessen.
huh?
precisely
I used to work Produce at Safeway. I never grazed on the product; I knew where it had been. 
I think that’s a rude and stupid comment
I agree.
Many of the restaurant owners I know actually offer free meals for employees as a way to deter theft. The same menu gets boring fast for a lot of people.
that’s what they count on ……sure sees candy has an all ya wanna eat policy but after a month …you wanna barf at the smell of chocolate because you’ve eaten everything 30 times …….
I used to get a 5 pound box of orange creams every year because they were seasonal and by the time I finished that box in a about 3 days I didn’t want anymore until about a month before they came back out ….
now imagine that feeling for every flavor in the store ………