By Anonymous - 19/10/2009 08:46 - United States

Today, I started my first day at work, I've been unemployed for a while and am in college, so naturally I have no money. At the end of my shift, I ask what we do with the extra bread, and they tell me to throw it away. Being poor and hungry, I decide to take the bread home. I got fired for stealing. FML
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Giskard 0

You should have just asked if you could have it.

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Chibi_fml 9

You should've asked first. Some places have very strict policies about things like that, but they may have said yes if you had asked. Technically, you WERE stealing.

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lahp 0

as far as i am aware.. if they give food to there employees they are taxed for it.. so throwing it away is to avoid tax.. u need to actually throw it in the bins then once it is out side take it from the bins as once its on the street it is public property :)

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bigcrazymike 6

That's a good idea. But why not just say it has been thrown away to avoid having to take it out of the garbage?

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lahp 0

this is true ... just pointing out the only way there is no way to get in trouble for it... you could put it in to an air tight back and put it in the bin... or a box

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ChunAsperEndao 0

This is why I absolutely despise retail in America. Profit trumps ethics every time. I was once made to throw away dozens and dozens of perfectly good winter coats because they had gotten soot on them from a small fire elsewhere in the store.

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FarSide 22

Because it is not YOUR trash douchebag.

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FarSide 22

And while I am at it, STFU or get the hell out of the USA. You are in Buffalo.... go across the border and renounce your US citizen ship. You will never own a business... you are destined to always "work for the man".... so if you are going to be miserable anyway... just go be miserable anyway.... before the rest of the honest and charitable Americans have to pay YOUR welfare check. What an incomprehensible, selfish, Michael-Moore loving, son of a bi*ch.

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dijitaruhana 0

I can understand your distaste for retail, #73. I used to work at a bookstore, and when some of the paperback books (usually cheaper/mass market paperbacks, like romance novels, fantasy, thrillers, or sci-fi) didn't get sold, we tore the covers off and threw them away. Even though I might not have read them normally, it killed a part of my soul to watch all those books get chucked.

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bbi5291 0

#85, the intolerance of some people never ceases to amaze me. I have a few questions for you to consider... * Why have you made the assumption that #73 lives on welfare? * Aren't you glad that the Constitution grants #73 the right to express his discontent with some aspect of American society? Does it occur to you at all that his opinions are just as valuable as yours? Do you think it would be justified if he told _you_ to "STFU or get the hell out of the USA"? If you answered "no" to any of these questions, I think you're the one who should live somewhere else (but definitely not in Canada). Not because I think you're unworthy to live in the USA (this is how you seemed to mean it to #73), but because your ideals are obviously undemocratic. * Do you think that a true charitable American, or any charitable person, would really mind if someone took food that was destined to be thrown away anyway? * Do you think that your comments do anything to dispel the stereotype that Americans tend to be intolerant?

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uallsuckatlife16 0

WOW you are a ******. You wrote all of that because he is undemocratic? suck a dick

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LemonFairy 0

110 - I've just cringed in complete and utter horror. Not even donate, but cover-rip and throw them out? *cringes in her corner of lit-cringing*

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ChunAsperEndao 0

FarSide, I could debate you point-to-point on all of your thoughtful contributions, but I don't feel like wasting that much time. I'm busy trying to be a productive member of society. Instead, I'll just ask you this: What the hell happened in your life to make you such a self-righteous, insecure prick? Does it really help your self-esteem to make baseless, asinine assumptions about everybody whose social views you disagree with? Or are you genuinely that pissed off and personally threatened by the fact that not everybody shares your highly developed sense of chauvinistic greed?

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WonderBlunder 0

You're wrong for taking without asking. But a warning should suffice. I've worked at fast food before and I've seen people got off with worse offence.

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claritin 0

Um, I'm a senior in college and I've never even heard of "career development" class, let alone been required to take that or anything having to do with work ethics. However, it's common sense to ask before you just take it and the OP definitely deserves it.

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Panther_fml 0

YDI for grand theft loaf

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blastvortex 3

Why not just ask if you can have it instead? They had every right to fire you. YDI. On the other hand, I hate it when people needlessly waste things. At the very least, they could've donated the leftovers to a worthwhile cause (i.e. let someone take them home, give them to a local food bank, etc.) since they're write-offs anyway. I hope your your boss(es) starve to death - the irony would serve them right.

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kellydee1056 0

Would you fire a kid who worked for your restaurant 'cause, instead of the bread rotting in the dumpster, he took it home and it is now sitting in his stomach? That makes no sense. It's not stealing if you DON'T WANT THE DAMN STALE BREAD. THIS IS WHY I HATE HUMANKIND

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poison29 0

what a strange comment. you can get free internet a lot of places, like at school since he's a student.

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kd2232 0

lol do you work at Panera Bread Company by chance? Cuz i work there and we take the bread home all the time at the end of the night....its like a free for all lol even the managers dig in!

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freudianego 0

Where the **** do you work? I once saw a manufacturing plant in China where people folded cardboard boxed and they treated their employees better than that.

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