amarretto-cowboy:

rational-discourse:

amarretto-cowboy:

averyfentasticblog:

voiceofkiki:

cloverclark:

It’s ironic.

When I worked in fast food for minimum wage, they would yell at us and lecture us about “stealing” fries and burgers (while we had to throw out TONS of food every day) as though the giant billion-dollar corporations of McDonald’s and Sonic couldn’t afford to give their employees something to eat (while not even paying us a living wage).

Now I work at an upscale restaurant (it’s fancy, like celebrities eat there fairly often) and not only do I make WAY better money but they give us 2 free meals a day (eaten on the clock) and they’re GOOD. Today I got baked cod, spring rolls, rice pilaf, stir fry, and mashed potatoes and eggplant. Oh, and free espresso and juice. From this restaurant owned by a local man who is in no way a billionaire.

Obviously money is not the issue, valuing your employees as people is.

This needs all of the reblogs.  All of them.

I work at a small, family owned restaurant and everyone gets a free meal for their shift. If it’s not busy the cooks will make stuff off menu, if there’s pie or rolls left at the end of the day we can take some home. My bosses are very generous about all of it. I don’t see why huge corporations can’t extend any sort of kindness like that to their employees.

It’s not about kindness. It’s about structure. It’s to avoid issues with liability and lawsuits. It used to be the norm for McDonalds employees to get free meals.

Things happen, it gets abused and new rules are put in place..

As they say, one person usually ruins it for everyone.

Here’s an example: I used to be a cashier in ShopRite. Throughout the day, groceries that were sent back from register were placed in a cart and if they weren’t restocked by the end of the day, she were often just marked down to half price. Same with baked goods.. around 9pm everything went to half price.

I would take advantage of this and grab a few donuts here and some canned good there and what may have you. Then it stopped. I was agitated and wanted to call out corporate..

It turned out some employees and customers were intentionally hiding things they wanted in the cart and the baked goods away from customers so they could get the half price deals.

Now any grocery rejected at the register needs to be brought back to the shelf within minutes and the baked goods are usually tossed.

Another example of a person exploiting the system and the system getting taken away for the majority of people – in food service if you make an order wrong, you can’t serve it to anyone so sometimes employees can have it. Some employees start messing up on purpose just so they can have free food – if you allow it then everyone will catch on and you lose tons of revenue so you have to ban the practice entirely to stop it.

Also, large corporations face a lot more scrutiny from corporate and have to preempt lawsuits – e.g. You can eat most food products a while after they “expire” (don’t try it with chicken or milk plz), but you can’t sell them. Small shops can let employees eat them – but corporations don’t because if an employee does get sick they can sue the company for negligence. Small shops bank on people not being assholes, but corporations are large enough there’s a more than likely chance someone WILL be that asshole at one of their locations sometime in the lifetime of the company.

Yes. Someone gets it. It’s not like there’s a monopoly guy in a tower above the McDonald’s sucking on a cigar with his feet on the desk and relishing in the notion of tons of food being thrown out. That’s what far too many believe.

It’s solely to protect themselves.

harcules:

Full shade but some of you just hate on things and mistake it for an interesting personality. You’re not ‘just being real’ nor are you half as deep or thought-provoking as you think. You’re just negative and it’s soooooo boring. The world is already apathetic enough so miss me with your bullshit pls

Wow: what a simplistic world-view.

Some things are worth speaking up for, I say without shame. To believe in something, anything, must mean that you discount contrary beliefs and opinions as false. Therefore to say that we can’t have disagreements is ludicrous. There are plenty of things that are worthy of hatred: should we give up on despising what must be despised for the sake of “getting along?”

I usually do my best to spread positivity and good feelings among the people I am in contact with, as a matter of course. But do you know where that takes you? It takes you to a place where you lose yourself in other people; where you try so hard to get along and make everyone happy that you lose your identity. You forget what you believe and why you believe and become an empty, vacuous shell who only says or does things for other people. Having come back from that, I’ve come to the decision that while I will still do my best to be pleasant, agreeable, and kind to those around me, there comes a time, a place, and a point, where I must put my foot down and stand up for what I believe in, even if it hurts someone’s feelings.