Starbucks Fires Employee on Food Stamps for Eating a Sandwich from the Garbage

[hunter]

96. Long time ago I was living in my car in a church parking lot.

The manager of a nearby fast food place sometimes gave me food. No reason, just to be human. It wasn't a good neighborhood, you could hardly tell the homeless folks from the paying customers so it wasn't a big problem. (In the city where I grew up homeless people were rounded up and taken away like stray animals. Anyone caught feeding homeless people would get in trouble because they were lowering property values derp, derp, derp...)

Her boss, the owner and licensee, didn't care. I think he used the place to launder money he made, um, growing medicinal herbs.

Frankly the world before computers and giant corporations tracking every last French fry was often a more gentle place.

I haven't worked in a food place for a long time, but I've never worked in one that wouldn't give food to hungry employees. And it wasn't a big loss for the employers either. If you work in a place long enough you get tired of the food anyways.

I don't get the "by the book" people here. What changes about food a minute past the expiration date? Nothing.