I agree. A teacher of mine used to manage a KFC and was telling us about how at the end of the day they were supposed to toss out all the food and sprinkle something on it to make it taste weird ( bitter or something, don't remember exactly) so that no one would try to eat it, and by no one, of course the poor. He didn't do that and said that all of the other managers he talked to said they didn't do that either. He also said he had an employee who was really poor and had trouble with food, so he would let him take the food home. Near closing time he would sometimes say, "I feel a wave coming, better toss some more chicken in the fryer" and the guy knew what he was doing, and appreciated it. Even though he would be eating the same thing repeatedly, if you gotta eat, you gotta eat.

fired does seem harsh. i honestly don't see why a warning wouldn't suffice. and it may be legal to hord your trash, but seriously, are americans THAT territorial now? if the workers aren't purposely over preparing, then i don't see the problem. can't it be marked as loss AND given away? and if the worker clearly cooks way too much/hides food, fired, but if its extra anyway, who cares? these corporations remind me of golemn (sp?) from lord of the rings, i hope they want their stupid rings so much that they like fall into lava. seriously. greedy greedy greedy. or you know what, at least the bosses should least keep it for themselves, better than the trash to rot forever.

what would have happend if this op had gotten sick from the food? would he have sued the company? that is why there are rules and regulations in place concerning food and the disposal of it. it may have only been bread but what next? working in retail i totally understand why this op was fired for this infraction and I to would have terminated him as well. protecting my company from a possible lawsuit (think McDonalds and hot coffee) and protecting my bottom line is what I as a manager do. seeing these posts that people who work for KFC and other corps would cook extra food to help someone out etc. only makes more waste and causes prices to go up. i understand being hungry, but there are other ways.

If it was going to get thrown away, how did they know you had it? Do they check the garbage in the morning to see if they can take it back out and use it?

That's so ridiculous! Maybe you should've asked…

Even though this does really suck, you did kind of deserve it. You never take stuff from work assuming they don't care. Even if it's something they told you to throw away, you should have asked if you could just keep it for yourself. Don't forget this in future work.

i do agree that you shouldn't have taken it, but come on....its leftover bread

asking never hurts

yu sooo work at subway =D das wot they all do. they rather throw away the bread than let yu take it home, wot a waste. its retarded too

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