[gremlinsinc]

Saw a post on reddit today that basically had a restaurant laying down the law:

Absolutely no food shall be taken home at the end of the shift this includes: Messed up food, no-shows, and PAID food that you buy yourself. (Probably because of the employee discount)...

For restaurant workers who probably struggle putting food on the table, this is just a slap on the face. They can definitely afford to feed their workers dinner and even their whole family back at home nightly and not lose much. I used to run a restaurant back in 2010 and would let my staff at least take home some food a few nights per week, esp when we had a good week and good profit returns. We were on a tight budget but they were happy working there!

[moltar]

The reason these rules exist is because otherwise there will be abuse.

I worked at a large retail store before. And they also forbid taking anything home even if it’s broken. Because there are of course cases of people purposely breaking things to take home.

[c0nducktr]

I also worked at a large retail store before, which also forbid taking things home if they were broken.

We had a that was damaged from being a display item, but only cosmetically. They wanted us to throw it in the trash compactor, instead of donating it to a coworker had a kid at 19, single mother, and made 7.50/h.

We snuck that crib out the back and hid it behind a dumpster while my buddy came to pick it up for her.

Possible abuse isn't a reason to have shitty policies.