Bin Bags
The last hospo job I held was at a pretentious (yet delicious) bakery, run by a pretentious (and horrible) woman. Having her as my boss was like working for a petty and spiteful teenager; such were her maturity and competence levels.

She failed in so many ways at being a decent human being, however the incident most appropriate for this QOTW was:

At the end of each closing day we would chuck all the unsold loaves into black bin bags and leave them to be hauled off the next morning by the rubbish collectors. Every loaf, despite the fact that they last roughly four days and therefore could still be sold on a second day; making their disposal a great financial loss to the company, all in the name of top quality product. Hang on, that's not very miserly...

Twice a week, volunteers from the City Mission were allowed come and collect these unwanted loaves and transport them to various 'soup kitchen' type places to help feed the homeless. Hmmm, still not sounding like a tightwad...

A few weeks into my employment my boss decided that (despite the fact we would use the bin bags to throw out the bread anyway) that City Mission was not to use our bags and must bring their own if they wanted to pick up any bread.

That's right, this woman, who was throwing away hundreds of dollars worth of perfectly sellable bread every day, was essentially trying to make money out of a charitable organisation.

Oh, and she also informed them that they couldn't keep their bags on site at the bakery, as 'We don't need other people's sh*t cluttering the place up.'

If you're going to help out a charity and accept all the public praise that comes with it, do it properly. You miserly old twunt.
(Mr._F is not actually a man- this username is a lie!, Sat 25 Oct 2008, 23:35, 2 replies)

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has been pissing me off only today. I currently work in a restaurant/bakery that throws away huge bags of perfectly good bread, scones, sandwiches etc EVERY DAY - and we can't even give it away because apparently, someone could get food poisoning (from a day-old croissant??) from the free food, and sue us.

It's a fucking disgusting shame and a waste and another example of how the fear of litigation just screws things up. Arg. I hate it.
(jennymnemonic, Sun 26 Oct 2008, 0:56, closed)

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really gets me; there's these adverts on buses telling us how much food we waste due to our paranoia about food quality etc. Why doesn't the fat cunt in No10 get off his fat arse and DO SOMETHING about it. I mean really, why not just either inform people that its OK to give away food, or chnage the legislation so that it is that way.
(kitescreech still here, Sun 26 Oct 2008, 7:50, closed)