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The planet’s dying, people are starving, and I have to cook pounds of food just to throw it away so I can pay rent (self.antiwork)

submitted 4 years ago by VictoryGoth

I’m a closer at a grocery store deli. Aside from the “fresh” salads (AKA pre-made, pre-packaged garbage we just dump in a tray to put under display) and the hand-sliced cold cuts and cheese, you can also come to the deli for our hot food case and a self-serve hot soup case. And, my god… the amount of waste this one department makes in a single day is harrowing. Especially if you’re on closing shift since that’s when we have to throw away the most amount of food.

First, there’s the self-serve soup case: already a terrible idea during a pandemic. They closed the self-serve case for a couple months before reopening it because corporate is stupid. And every night that’s no less than seven pounds of cooked soup to throw away.

Then there’s our main hot case, the one where we have a huge assortment of all types of cooked foods: Chicken tenders, chicken wings, baked chicken, fried chicken, potato fries, Mac and cheese, etc.

Technically we’re supposed to throw out anything that gets put in the hot case and replace it every four hours. We usually don’t, though, because fuck hustle and grind culture, and I at least try to cook as little as possible because I know most of it is going to be wasted. Still, we need to make sure there’s at least enough cooked food out and that none of it is too old or dried out, because otherwise customers are going to complain, or one of the higher-ups at the store will complain.

I shit you not, one time the store director had us cook way too much fried chicken because the store was doing a big sale event. The store director wanted to get a picture of a huge pile of fried chicken so he could send it to the big corporate overlords. Well guess what? Even though it was a big sale day (8-piece fried chicken for only $5!) we were still left with like forty pieces of fried chicken to throw away by day’s end. But hey, at least the CEO got to jerk off to a pic of a fried chicken tower!

And I hate how entitled customers are. These people either don’t know or don’t care about the ramifications of this fucked up, “Keep fresh, hot food on display all day” system. People complaining when we don’t have enough ready-to-eat hot food because they need their god damn chimkin tendies RIGHT NOW dammit! One time our hot case broke down; we literally COULD NOT have any hot food on display for almost a week, and while most customers were understanding, we had one fucking Karen come in and throw a fucking tantrum because we couldn’t have any fried chicken out, and “I only came here for the fried chicken!” Bitch was acting like we broke our hot case on purpose just to spite her specifically. I despise that “gimme gimme right now!” bullshit. You’re in a fucking grocery store in a shopping center! Either find something else to eat, or If you need fried chicken that fucking badly, there’s a fucking KFC and a Popeyes just around the god damn corner!

All of this just forces me into a negative feedback loop. If I don’t cook a disgusting amount of food for the hot case someone might complain about it. But if I do cook a lot of food it’s guaranteed that all of a sudden we’ll have a drop in customers, and then all the extra shit I cooked won’t sell and has to be thrown away.

And of course, being a big chain grocery store, we can’t give food to anyone for free. So all the food that needs to be tossed goes in the dumpster with a padlock and a compactor inside it. I would LOVE to find a way to sneak out with all the cooked food that’s still safe to eat and give it to anyone who needs it, but of course I can’t because if I get caught (and I will coz grocery stores have security cameras everywhere) I’ll get fired and then I won’t be able to pay rent.

Oh and, naturally, our prices keep going up, since the planet is dying and all, and I hate that I have to bite my tongue every time a customer asks me why our chicken tenders cost more now, or worse, complains about it. Like, I’m just a clerk, I’m not in charge of shit. The only response I can give is, “we’re in the middle of a global pandemic as well as total ecological and economic collapse. Of course everything’s getting more expensive and will only keep getting more expensive.” But obviously I’m not going to say that to customers so I just have to smile and say, “I’m sorry, I don’t know why prices are going up/it’s up to our vendors.”

I’m writing this because I’m almost finished with my shift and I had to throw out maybe THIRTY POUNDS of cooked chicken alone. And that’s par for the course here. And that’s just the cooked chicken; there’s plenty of other perfectly edible food that gets wasted on a daily basis at this department, which is still only a fraction of the total daily waste produced by the entire store. It’s fucking unreal. Who the fuck came up with this model for grocery store delis? There are a lot of things I hate about my job, but the sheer amount of waste produced by our hot case alone is just… so depressing.

This system is fucked and I hate participating in it, but I need to in order to afford the privilege of being alive. Ugh.

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[–][deleted] 127 points128 points129 points 4 years ago (5 children)

This goes on all over the world every day. That doesn’t even account for ugly foods pre and post cultivation, spoilage, etc. I gotta imagine we waste 70% of every lb of food we grow and produce.

I worked at a huge Canadian grocery chain and saw the same practices.

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[–]StareIntoIt 77 points78 points79 points 4 years ago (0 children)

Because we'd rather toss food away than give it to poor people. Pretty insane

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[–]HeLikeTree 10 points11 points12 points 4 years ago (0 children)

I work at a wholesaler and the food waste I see every day literally destroys me.

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[–]justmeandyamam 12 points13 points14 points 4 years ago (0 children)

You're a knob.

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[–]ChikhaiBardo 0 points1 point2 points 4 years ago (0 children)

Lol

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[–]Dongalor 59 points60 points61 points 4 years ago (10 children)

The prepared food section of a big box market is 100% loss leader. It's there because they want people to smell food cooking and buy other stuff. That's about it.

Smaller delis focused on fresh food may make that profitable, but it's not making money at a place like Walmart.

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[–]DeNir8 25 points26 points27 points 4 years ago (9 children)

Yes! Without that section it would just be an industrial warehouse with overprized foodboxes.

Which it definitly is.

Almost looking forward to a collapse and a return to local farmers markets. Except not much is grown here besides potatoes and cabbage.

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[–]freedom_from_factism 23 points24 points25 points 4 years ago (3 children)

After collapse, there isn't going to be a return to anything. Time to stop romanticizing what is coming.

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[–]hightidewitch 10 points11 points12 points 4 years ago (1 child)

It's also time to stop romanticizing... *gestures wildly* ... this.

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[–]rockbottomqueen 5 points6 points7 points 4 years ago (0 children)

This made me giggle. Thanks.

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[–]UnspeakablePudding 2 points3 points4 points 4 years ago (0 children)

This.
There's no reason to imagine what's coming will somehow be better

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[–]Sidhotur 0 points1 point2 points 4 years ago (4 children)

Then you can open up a storehouse where you import other produce from other locales.

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[–]A_Grinning_Demon 1 point2 points3 points 4 years ago (3 children)

And then expand your locations because you've got the best variety in your post apocalyptic town. Maybe hire a few associates to help manage things.....wait a minute

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[–]Sidhotur 6 points7 points8 points 4 years ago (2 children)

Omg.

I think I solved it.

If currency were made of perishable goods Billionaires would never be a problem.

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[–]DeNir8 5 points6 points7 points 4 years ago (1 child)

"This dollar-bill will selfdestruct - unless spent - in 5.. 4.. 3.."

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[–]Sidhotur 4 points5 points6 points 4 years ago (0 children)

"honey our potato hundred-weights go bad this month, let's take that vacation to Aruba"

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[–]DeeHolliday 26 points27 points28 points 4 years ago* (2 children)

If it makes you feel even remotely better, the planet isn't actually dying. It's just running a fever to burn us out like a sickness, because we've treated it like we are one. The planet will be fine! It's just everything living on it that's fucked.

And, yeah, as someone who worked in a grocery store in a major city for years... I know this feeling. The amount of food we threw away in a single day could have fed a small town. There are more than enough resources to care for every person on the planet, but it's not being distributed evenly or intelligently, and so much is just being wasted for no good reason. Capitalism thrives on this state of overproduction which requires us to produce an ungodly amount of crap, just so we can dispose of the majority of it, in order to justify its existence. Profits over sense. Your store didn't make the money back that it spent acquiring all that chicken, but that's apparently okay because that money already made it back to the factory farm the chickens came from, so they'll keep growing chickens like they're crops waiting for a harvest.

Nightmare fuel, all of it. What a fucked up society we've built for ourselves, eh?

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[–]Far_Pianist2707 2 points3 points4 points 4 years ago (1 child)

Yea

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[–]Vorkaz 2 points3 points4 points 4 years ago (0 children)

Yep

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[–]PanthalassaShore 36 points37 points38 points 4 years ago (2 children)

And then add to all that the fact that each of those chickens almost certainly lived a short, painful life, crammed into a barn with hundreds of others, unable to do any of her instinctual behaviours, and for what? So that her corpse can be cooked and then thrown in the trash. Regardless of what you think about the ethics of eating meat, it's barbaric that we make these beings suffer and die for no reason other than to satisfy the managerial whims of the higher-ups.

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[–]Far_Pianist2707 7 points8 points9 points 4 years ago (0 children)

Agreed. Colonizers like these higher-ups lack respect for the animals that give them life.

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[–]Dougallearth 5 points6 points7 points 4 years ago (0 children)

I know there‘s such a thing as a three course meal, I propose an idea to make a recourse meal

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[–][deleted] 17 points18 points19 points 4 years ago (1 child)

That is wrong to throw away food. Giving food to people or animals is Holy.

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[–]Far_Pianist2707 3 points4 points5 points 4 years ago (0 children)

Agreed

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[–]ronin-of-the-5-rings 32 points33 points34 points 4 years ago (2 children)

yea, this is why Japanese restaurants have fake food on display.

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[–]nidrach 7 points8 points9 points 4 years ago (1 child)

This is about having the food ready to take away not displaying it.

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[–]rockbottomqueen 4 points5 points6 points 4 years ago (0 children)

There is still food ready or cooked fresh to be taken away, though, is the point. People can still see it on display, and the real shit is packed for take away upon order.

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[–]whoocanitbenow 29 points30 points31 points 4 years ago (2 children)

"But hey, at least the CEO got to jerk off to a pic of a fried chicken tower!"

😂😂😂

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[–]routha 7 points8 points9 points 4 years ago (0 children)

I would give $95 to hear OP say that to the manager. It'd make my entire year.

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[–]Sindmadthesaikor 4 points5 points6 points 4 years ago (0 children)

Ah yes. Nothing says erotic feelings like a tower of scorched animal carcasses.

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[–]Dull_Midnight8049 11 points12 points13 points 4 years ago (5 children)

Just a suggestion but there are shelters that might take the food. I know guys who used to dumpster dive grocery stores to feed the homeless. Might be worth calling some in your area and see if they take prepared food.

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[–]VictoryGoth[S] 8 points9 points10 points 4 years ago (2 children)

Good to know. Wouldn’t hurt to look it up.

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[–]Snapdragon_fish 2 points3 points4 points 4 years ago (0 children)

If you can get your store manager on board, Feeding America can connect you with a local food bank to pick up that sort of extra food. There is usually a tax benefit that your corporate office will be happy about.

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[–]Ok-Macaroon-7819 1 point2 points3 points 4 years ago (0 children)

Don't be surprised if they don't let you. I tried at the store I worked for. Chains are always terrified of litigation.

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[–]Mrdiamond3x6 7 points8 points9 points 4 years ago (1 child)

I was in a shelter years ago, it was thanksgiving time. The shelter (Jesus saves-denver rescue mission) and In the middle of the night people started to complain of food poisoning and they had to bring dozens of ambulances to rush everybody to the hospital. I was at the other shelter emergency overflow, Samaritan house. Both shelter had to rush over a hundred people to the er. Not sure the number, but it was alot. So now they don't accept precooked donations anymore.

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[–]Far_Pianist2707 2 points3 points4 points 4 years ago (0 children)

0_0

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[–]acidpopulist 21 points22 points23 points 4 years ago (2 children)

I think we should have gourmet cafeterias after the revolution where people just show up and eat free in every neighborhood we can stick it right next to the psychedelic center.

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[–]freedom_from_factism 4 points5 points6 points 4 years ago (0 children)

Ah, a dreamer.

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[–]ThatdudeAPEX 2 points3 points4 points 4 years ago (0 children)

Hell yeah

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[–][deleted] 8 points9 points10 points 4 years ago (4 children)

They don’t even met you guys bring back anything you want? I know I work at places where it was technically against policies but managers were always letting us take however much we wanted.

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[–]VictoryGoth[S] 20 points21 points22 points 4 years ago* (3 children)

Sadly, no. We’re allowed to take the occasional sample for ourselves but that’s about it.
If anyone got caught taking home a noticeable amount of food that hasn’t been paid for, we’d get in huge trouble. It of course wouldn’t be hard to grab something and run in to the break room without someone noticing, but there are still security cameras everywhere. I know the security footage only ever gets looked at if there’s been an incident, but I’m not too keen on playing with that kind of fire.

I’ve already tested what I can get away with at this store; I take overly-long breaks, hide in the storage room to go on my phone, take large “samples” of food that are really just big snacks, and I often pretend to clock out for lunch and then hang out in the break room for over an hour while I’m actually still on the clock. I feel like I’m at my limit, though, like if I get too cocky getting away with this kinda shit I may end up going overboard and blowing it.

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[–]Embarrassed_Echo_375 7 points8 points9 points 4 years ago (0 children)

That's terrible. Some friends of mine worked fast food when we were in uni and they loved closing shifts coz the staff can bring home whatever they want from the leftovers. One of them even started calling his friends to offer the leftovers.

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[–]Sidhotur 6 points7 points8 points 4 years ago* (0 children)

Well the labour market is in your favour buddy!
You don't need a reference from these pricks. lol. Just put down your friends' numbers when it comes to references.

I've totally made up job history & pay rates to land me a better deal. I'll text a designated friend (I've got like three) and tell him the name of the "company" and what dates I worked there, and that if they ask anything else, tell them that would be a violation of the law. lol.

Don't let them butter you up too much. Just confirm dates of employment.

Edit: because I've seen time and again it's too much hassle to hire ANOTHER guy a couple months in should they discover the ruse and by then I generally have an idea as to how to be functional...plus my inefficient labour lowers the standard of labour & thus raises the wage per calorie expended by the other employees. ;)

The couple of times I've gotten kinda funny looks from more experienced coworkers I hit 'em with a "oh, well any time I start at a new company I like to keep a beginner's mindset, and learn as much as I can from everyone to be as productive as possible: past present and future.

The interview is the hard part if you get asked technical questions, but a bit of google-fu before hand about the job goes a long ways... and I wouldn't advise applying to something you're totally oblivious to.

Maybe we can cut the whole expensive degree middle man out of the equation by having lots of "experience." :)

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[–]wanna-be-wise 1 point2 points3 points 4 years ago (0 children)

Ughh...you know...they could just advertise free cooked food from the deli as a perk. It is going to get thrown away anyway...

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[–]Tyl3rt 19 points20 points21 points 4 years ago (5 children)

I get your points about food waste, but there’s no technically about requirements to throw out certain hot foods every four hours. It’s not about the food being dried out, it’s a food safety standard and could cause food borne illnesses/food poisoning. In many states it can actually get you shut down if people report that.

I had food safety certifications once upon a time as a requirement for a job I had. This is exactly why we don’t buy food cooked at our grocery store it’s too easy for them to ignore food safety.

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[–]VictoryGoth[S] 10 points11 points12 points 4 years ago (4 children)

Yeah, fair enough. I wouldn’t want to give anyone food poisoning, but at my store we simply can’t keep up with following a lot of safety standards, and that’s a huge failing on the store’s part and another reason I hate this whole system.

We’re simply way too understaffed to cook and toss everything in the hot case every four hours; with all the other tasks we have to do in the deli it’s just impossible. Even if we did “the grind” bullshit and ran around the department pushing ourselves beyond 200% (which we’re not paid enough to do and no one should ever have to do) we still wouldn’t be able to keep up.

So let’s add that to the list of bullshit I have to put up with to get paid a below-livable wage just to be alive: Not only do I have to waste pounds of food all day, I’m also potentially giving customers food that isn’t safe to eat because there’s too much work to do at the deli and not enough people to do it all.

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[–]Tyl3rt 11 points12 points13 points 4 years ago (1 child)

Yeah it’s overall a failing of the business model not you. I’d be willing to bet it was understaffed well before the pandemic too. Companies who fail to have enough staff to keep up safety standards should be fined to start and shit down if it continues. I’ve never trusted the hot food sections at any grocery store and this is a prime example of the suspicions that lead to this mistrust.

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[–]trapped_in_a_box 0 points1 point2 points 4 years ago (0 children)

We wouldn't have any hospitals left, that's for sure.

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[–][deleted] 7 points8 points9 points 4 years ago (0 children)

It would be a shame if someone(s) anonymously notified the local health boards that these grocery store deli counters are so understaffed they are selling unsafe food on the regular.

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[–]not_lurking_this_tim 2 points3 points4 points 4 years ago (0 children)

I think you're obligated to report that, lest someone get sick and you're held accountable

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[–]DaTree3 4 points5 points6 points 4 years ago (0 children)

I used to work in a hot food area for my grocery store. I always had my backpack from school and would fill that shit up big gallon ziploc bags and fill those with chicken, fries and Mac and cheese so I could eat. Did that every time I worked in the kitchen (1-2times a week) it’s how I was able to eat.

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[–]BeerBat 3 points4 points5 points 4 years ago (1 child)

Every single hot item should be made to order or, at the very most, be replenished only once a day. I have heard about this before and it makes me furious...are there ever any conversations about donating unused portions?

I was able to donate my leftover wedding food to our local food bank and that was a one-off...how TF haven't these huge corporations figured this BS out yet!?

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[–]Crood_Oyl 2 points3 points4 points 4 years ago (0 children)

Doesn’t make them profit, so it won’t happen.

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[–]ntack9933 4 points5 points6 points 4 years ago (0 children)

The amount of food wasted at any given Walmart is apocalyptic.

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[–][deleted] 5 points6 points7 points 4 years ago (0 children)

Food shortages are already starting, it’ll go one of two ways, we get our shit together maybe some form of ration style WW2 style to ensure waste is minimised or the way more likely hunger games scenario cause at least that way a few people can benefit from everyone else’s suffering rather than we are all in it together! Fuck this world.

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[–]psychso86 4 points5 points6 points 4 years ago (0 children)

I work online grocery and the fucking bullshit cold chain shit we have to abide by is….. baffling, to say the least. Oh, something sat out of the fridge for ten minutes? Claims! Throw it out and get a new thing! Claims claims claims! Fuck that. And the issues we have with deli meat i stg. So many customers never actually pick up their orders, and what are we gonna do with a pound of deli meat? We can’t price that out to sell otherwise. My meager solution, when I can get away with it, is to ask around to my coworkers if they want it. Usually someone does, and I just give it to them. If the store was just gonna throw it away, then someone who actually wants to eat it can have it for free

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[–]TechenCDN 3 points4 points5 points 4 years ago (0 children)

We are slaughtering chickens, cooking them, then just throwing it away. Wtf?

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[–][deleted] 3 points4 points5 points 4 years ago (1 child)

And later those same corporations (with government’s help) try to make us feel guilty for our waste and our environmental impact. What a fucking sad joke we’re living in

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[–]Far_Pianist2707 1 point2 points3 points 4 years ago (0 children)

Right?? The most wasteful things i do is use a shower and air conditioner and if i don't i could get sick and die.

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[–]Far_Pianist2707 1 point2 points3 points 4 years ago (0 children)

I've been at conferences like that, they always look at you weird if you don't take a tiny portion.

Like they judge you for eating too much like you're being selfish and then they throw away what you don't eat. They don't throw it away themselves though, someone else cleans up for them.

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[–]Magda_Gessler 2 points3 points4 points 4 years ago (1 child)

This is just seriously scary... It made me really sad.

What are the ways to ensure more ecological lifestyle? One thing that comes to my mind is cooking at home and not eat in places like you describe. Another is trying not to throw away food and buying and cooking just right amounts of it. What else?

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[–][deleted] 2 points3 points4 points 4 years ago (0 children)

Meal planning for the week ahead is helpful. Make coffee at home and take it in a flask.

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[–][deleted] 4 points5 points6 points 4 years ago* (0 children)

I literally went to school for Environmental Science and it bugs the ever living hell out of me when I learned how wasteful major companies are. It's endless and some days I even wonder how I manage to stay optimistic...

My first ever real job was at a major pet store in college and since working there I refuse to shop with them.

Anyhow, whenever bags of dog food were torn open they would trash the entire fucking bag and count it as a total loss. Every week before the truck came back they would pile all defective or ruined merchandise and I would count well over 8-15 bags of food ranging from 5lb bags to 20+lb bags. That's one week!

I finally asked my manager if we could just donate the bags to charity organizations or shelters that are low on funding. Seeing as how this specific pet store "prides itself" on donating to pets in need, they didn't seem to give a shit.

Both the manager and the district lead told me "things can't just work like that" which pissed me off because everywhere all over their store, on their commercials, on their stupid FB ads they talk about how much they love to help and care for the community. Yet donating even 1 bag a week, to them, was worse than committing war crimes.

Instead I was told "that's what our donation events and boxes are for" which isn't even THEM donating! It's just cashier's asking the customers to donate which the company then gives to charity under the guise that they did something.

Meanwhile they toss pounds of food for no reason other than "it's mine and I say we trash it!!" For a store that is meant for smart pets, they sure don't have smart owners.

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[–]vikingweapon 3 points4 points5 points 4 years ago (0 children)

It’s disgusting and it goes on all over the world, also is often debated in my country (how much food waste we have) - but in the end nobody does anything about it (politicians promise to do something but never does). There are both political and legal reasons a lot of food is thrown out as well as economic reasons. Everyone agrees food waste is bad, but every day is status quo.

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[–][deleted] 2 points3 points4 points 4 years ago (0 children)

i used to work at a deli too. we usually throw out all the bread used to make our subs. One time i tried taking the leftover bread home so i could donate it and i wasn't allowed to?? 😬

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[–][deleted] 2 points3 points4 points 4 years ago* (0 children)

It should be mandatory for grocery stores to donate ALL left over food at close out to "soup kitchens ".

The stores should be heavily fined per pound of food that ends up in the garbage.

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[–][deleted] 2 points3 points4 points 4 years ago (0 children)

I wish leftover food could be giving to homeless staving adults and kids who desperately need some relief, what a shame how much we waste and take for granted.

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[–]AdministrativeEnd140 2 points3 points4 points 4 years ago (0 children)

If I were you I’d bag up all 30 pounds and hand it out to people. But then again, thinking this way is probably why I couldn’t ever keep a job.

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[–]rockbottomqueen 2 points3 points4 points 4 years ago (0 children)

This is so depressing. I'm so sorry you have to force yourself to go against your intuitin and do the wrong thing everyday to stay housed. It's fucking sad. I hope you find some peace soon.

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[–]leeblissy 2 points3 points4 points 4 years ago (0 children)

I used to work at pizza hut and I had some similar experiences (though probably not as egregious tbh cuz that sounds INSANE).

sometimes if we made a pizza wrong or if a customer canceled their order and we already made the pizza one of the managers would put it on top of the oven so the employees could grab a bit every so often, but most of the time that pizza gets thrown out completely.

one time someone canceled an order with three pizzas and I was holding them and asked my manager what I was supposed to do with them, hoping the answer would be "wow, that's a lot of pizza! y'all can dig in" but instead she looked me right in the eye and told me to throw them all away. and when I hesitated and went like "wh-?" she acted like I was being ridiculous for not wanting to throw three perfectly good full sized pizzas away. I did, but I was really this close to crying on the spot.

I was making $8/hr and throwing those pizzas away felt like a meal being ripped out of my poor and starving hands, and the hands of the rest of my poor coworkers. I was only 18 at the time, but you would be surprised how many senior coworkers I had. one of them had to work three jobs in order to support his daughter who kept spending all his money on herself, and he eventually had to quit because working that many jobs was killing him, he was like 70+. I GUARANTEE no one in that pizza hut was making more than $9/hr.

I fucking hate such egregious food waste, especially in the face of employees who are barely paid enough to even AFFORD to buy the food they make. what a terrible fucking job.

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[–]notdog1996 1 point2 points3 points 4 years ago (0 children)

Honestly, I know how you feel. Thinking about the huge food waste every single place who serves food does is maddening.

Hell, I was a dishwasher in a residential home at the start of the pandemic. I wasn't even a cook, and I had to throw out a lot of perfectly good food, freshly made for the day. All the soup that remained + all the desserts. I would usually eat as much as I wanted before dumping the soup down the drain... I hated doing it so much, because that food was perfectly good to eat, I knew it. On top of that, they charge the residents sooo much to eat (and they charge the employees too!) and give so portions so god damn small. Like, I never had enough when I had dinner there. The portions might be ok for an elderly person, but for me? Nah, I eat more than that.

It was just insulting to ask for money for the damn food when otherwise, they just throw it away. Btw, residential homes should never be for profit. They pay like what, 2000-4000$ per month and still need to pay for food, care, cleaning etc.? This is maddening.

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[–][deleted] 1 point2 points3 points 4 years ago (0 children)

Our. Planet. Is. Dying.

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[–]Dentarthurdent73 1 point2 points3 points 4 years ago (0 children)

And on top of all the ecological stuff, these are all tortured, factory farmed chickens. It's disgusting the lack of respect for another living creature. Force it to live like that so gross people can eat their 'chicken tenders', and then just throw half of them out anyway.

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[–]Vorkaz 0 points1 point2 points 4 years ago (0 children)

I feel the same. Can't wait to die and be done with this dumb shit. I'm grateful none of human history or ambition will matter when our star explodes.

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[–]RectalScrote 0 points1 point2 points 4 years ago (1 child)

do you work for a grocery store chain in western part of New York state?

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[–]VictoryGoth[S] 0 points1 point2 points 4 years ago (0 children)

No; other side of the country

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