Food Drive Thieves Suck

[Javarod]

I can name one worse than this, anyone remember the story around Christmas time a few years ago, where a store manager got caught taking stuff out of the charity bin and putting it back on the shelf? Now that is low.

[XCashier]

Stealing from a charity is the lowest of the low. I remember another story about a group that was doing gift wrapping for charity, $1.00 per package for the charity. One EW brought about 30 items to be wrapped, dissed the first wrapping job, made them re-wrap with different paper, then said she couldn't afford to pay for the wrapping, grabbed her gifts and vamoosed.

:sigh: And folks wonder why so many people are so jaded nowadays...

[bainsidhe]

What get's me about the OP's post is that it sounds like fellow coworkers are doing the stealing, not the general populace. I see coworkers stealing food for the same reason they would steal office supplies, they are cheap. Could they be needy and embarressed about asking for a handout? Sure, it's possible. But sadly, I've noticed the people who usually steal things aren't the people who need it most. Just my thoughts.

[Nyoibo]

I don;t get people being EW's about food parcels, I can get them if I wanted, hell I could go driving around places and probably never have to buy food all year, but I don't, there are people out there who really need it, and are damn greatful for it, I say if they bitch about it keep the food, tell them to get stuffed and give it to someone who appreciates it.

[thehippie777]

I have a friend who is "needy" and fully disabled. She is sooo picky. For the most part she is okay but she is a klepto sometimes for dollar items and often goes into places that give out cloths for free to the poor and homeless. She only goes to the cloths place to find expensive jackets she can pawn for money. I was getting to the point of telling her she acts like a meth user sometimes.

[JustADude]

But sadly, I've noticed the people who usually steal things aren't the people who need it most. Just my thoughts.

Or, to play 's advocate here, the ones you notice stealing aren't desperate enough to do a good job at it.

[ThePhoneGoddess]

bainsidhe is correct, it is employees stealing from the bins. This is a security company, we're tighter than Fort Knox about other people getting inside the building. The bin was in the break room, so people were probably taking stuff out of the bin to eat for lunch. Most of the canned veggies are still there---the soups and other quickly microwaved foods were mostly all gone.

[BroSCFischer]

Every once in a while I have to go to the locla Food Bank to make sure I eat. When I do, if there is something that I don't want (aka will go to waste) I don't get it. I just don't understand some people.

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[Buglady]

I look at it as an exercise in karma. I have needed to use food banks in the past, and now I donate when I can. I'd rather risk giving something to someone who doesn't need it (although I don't like that people cheat and steal, obviously) than risk denying help to someone who does need it...

(I grew up capital-P Poor. My family had an apple orchard in the 80s; we had less than $5000 cash income a year. We never went completely hungry, but I took bread-and-butter to school for lunch more than once. The Girl Guides made Christmas hampers one year and gave them to families of members; my mother was mortified but very grateful when we were given one. We got some of our own donations back that time, that was kind of funny . Oh, and I will be a Girl Guide member all my life because of that).

I have learned to be VERY good at cooking delicious food on the cheap... which reminds me, time to go fire up the slow cooker for dinner (scalloped taters with ham; I may put in some sliced boiled eggs for extra protein. They are yummy).

[MaggieTheCat]

Slight off-topic but on a similar note:

Every year my company holds a convention of sorts. It's an all-day thing so we make and sell lunch to the attendees who stay all day; last year it was hamburgers and hot dogs. At the end of the day, we had quite a bit of food leftover, so we announced to the employees who were actually working that day that if they wanted some lunch/dinner, they could take whatever was left, free of charge. Well, before any of the employees actually got to the food, the mother of one of the managers (who also happens to work for the company) took ALL the leftover food. From what I understand, she brought it home to "feed the bears." The employees who were told they could have a free meal had to walk all the way across the con grounds (it's a fairly large area) only to find that there was nothing left.

Another quick story:

Every year we also have a company picnic. The owners make/cater enough food for every employee (600+) to have a rather large meal. The company is open every day of the week, so we usually hold it on a Thursday or Friday and employees who are working get to take an hour paid lunch to eat. It starts around 10am and goes until about 6pm; we stagger the seating times so half the company doesn't show up at once. For several years now, the first shifters, who eat early in the day, tend to get really greedy and will take 2-3 heaping platefulls of food, and eat some of it and then save some of it to take home, so that by the time the second shifters come in, there's hardly anything left.

I just don't understand some people.